Kitchen

[HonnyBrown]

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@athenian wrote:

I love my CSA, been a member for 7 years.  Ours is organic produce, eggs, and beginning to raise cattle and pigs.  Fruit trees are planted but will take a few years.  The produce is so much better than I can buy at local stores.  We have too much shade to have a garden, so this works so well for us. There are a few times every year that there is more kale than I like, but I freeze things that we can't use right away.  The CSA owners started as a young couple on a rented farm, now own their own, with 2 kids and a few employees.  It's really great for me, and a great addition to our community.  They have never been out of produce, although some things might be short some years because of weather.

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Thanks athenian!

I did volunteer work at a farm one year. They gave me a half share of a CSA box.  It was heavy on leafy greens, which took up the space, and there were some root vegetables and eggs. 

[athenian]

With ours, it depends on the time of year.  You really do eat seasonally.  Ours runs from May through November, and now that there are greenhouses on the farm we get greens in the winter.  We decide from the selection what we want each week.  Rare that there aren't at least nine different choices.  In fall I stock up on potatoes and onions to store through the winter.  I don't can anymore, but he has specials on tomatoes, green beans, corn, etc., for those that do.

[tobes]

Have been a member for about 5 yrs. Love it.  The produce is always fresh and free of chemicals. You get the freshest seasonal products and it is creative to find a way to cook new things. My CSA also offers recipies each week on-line.  They also offer herbs that you can pick yourself, making them so fresh and flowers as well.  I can choose fresh garlic.  I live in Connecticut and here you are never more than 10 minutes from a farm.  I have also purchased yogurt and eggs from the farm.  Really good.  Highly recommend because they benefit the small farmers who are struggling to provide clean, good produce.

[HangingTen]

Though I didn't sign up, my employer started allowing a CSA to deliver their produce to my work location this year.  It's more of a co-op so if one farmer has a bad location, then hopefully another farm will be okay.  As a single person, I want to see how much produce  people get each week to decide if I'll try it next year

[HonnyBrown]

Ten, that is so cool!

There's a farmers market at my job on Thursday year round.  One CSA delivers to a local restaurant and others you can pick up from if they are nearby.  I think a few do home delivery.

[Mominohio]

So I'm guessing these are the newest version of a co op. 

We live rural, and grow our own large garden and have a small fruit orchard as well, so it isn't something we'd be interested in being a part of right now.

If we didn't grow our own,I think I would prefer to shop some of the many farmer's markets and roadside stands we have here, and have some choice, rather than have to take what was available from the CSA.

[willdob3]

I love the idea but the ones close to me did not offer much I would have been interested in getting so I never joined one.