We subscribe to a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) program, so we get fresh veggies every Tuesday, which we try to incorporate early in the week, before it goes bad. I first heard about CSAs through my friend Shawn, who runs a Sulphur Mountain Garden in Ojai, CA, and then we found ours through the website Ecovian. CSAs are a great way to force yourself to eat vegetables, plus you can support local agriculture and you know that everything is always in season! You subscribe for a period of time (ours is in quarters) and you receive a bounty of food every week. Our CSA is from Full Circle Farms and we love it! Full Circle is local, organic and very involved in the community (they offer a lot of volunteer opportunities and work with many local schools.) Each quarter costs $200 (we subscribe to a half share, I think a full share is $300) and that provides enough vegetables to pretty much last us through the week. We’ve tried other CSAs, but this one we have found to be the most bang for your buck (about $16/week vs. typical $18-20) and actually local. One of the CSAs we subscribed to, although convenient, was a little expensive and in one pickup we had a some apples that had stickers from New Mexico on them. We live in California. That is not local. Moral: make sure you research your CSA before you commit. That CSA was convenient because they let us choose what we wanted each week online, but, it’s kind of fun to just show up for pickup and be surprised at what you get!
Anyways, we fully endorse and recommend signing up for a CSA, or at least trying it out!
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