CSA Box – What’s in the Box #1
| September 21, 2012 | Posted by Carrie under CSA, food |
I’ve talked several times about how much I enjoy my CSA box. There’s a whole lot of bloggers who participate in CSA’s and there is also a weekly link up on In Her Chucks blog. So, I thought I’d share this week’s box and join in on the party. Go check out InHerChucks for What’s in the Box?.
I participate in the Farm Fresh to You CSA and receive a delivery of their medium sized mixed box every other Tuesday. The box is magically delivered during the wee hours of the morning and is there when I wake up (which is really early).
Here are the goodies in this week’s box:
Oranges, peppers, lettuce, green beans, kale, grapes, watermelon, carrots, plums, onion, garlic.
Notice the note at the top of the box, I toss the box out on my front porch the night before the next delivery and it gets picked up. Nice.
My favorite in the whole box. The grapes. They are perfect. Crunchy, juicy and while I snacked on a few, I threw the rest in the freezer since frozen grapes rule.
The watermelon was interesting. Once we cut it open, there wasn’t all that much that was edible. What we did cut out was yummy. For some reason, my kids think that watermelon with seeds is like some mutant creature. Seriously, the people who invented seedless watermelons suck. My kids have not learned the art of picking out watermelon seeds because they’ve never had to.
Besides, if the watermelon doesn’t have seeds, how do they grow new ones?
The green beans were a second runner up for best in the box. My daughter saw them in the fridge after school and actually asked me to cook them up (it was 3:30) as a random afternoon snack. She may be a picky eater, but she loves fresh green beans. It was such a huge bag, I’ve still got some.
Farm Fresh To You provides a little bit of information in each box. Here is a shot of the box insert. I love that my CSA is active in education about Prop 37.
There are always recipe ideas in the box. This one included two recipes to incorporate the grapes.
Here is the rest of the farm news. Including coupons at the bottom. Can you see the coupon code? If you’re in California and are interested in signing up, use the code 6164 for $10 off your first box and if you mention my name, I get a discount off my next box too 
Looks like a nice surprise!
How would I go about finding a local one?
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I found mine at a race expo. But, I think you can google one for your area. Where are you?
Detroit area.
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I found this one – don’t know if they deliver… http://www.threeroodsfarm.com
And go to this website – scroll way down the page to Michigan. There is a whole list. https://www.greenpeople.org/csa.htm
There’s another great group called Bountiful Baskets that you could look at. I did a quick search and don’t think there’s a location near you (there isn’t near me either), but it’s worth a shot. Maybe an email to them and they’ll know of something in your area.
Good luck!
Jennifer: if there are farmer’s markets in your area, go and chat with some of the farmers who bring their produce in to sell. They may run CSAs, either year-round, or during part of the year, and if they don’t, they may know of other farmers who do offer CSAs.
I’ve gotten a winter CSA share the past four winters, and they provide me with lots of nice root vegetables, potatoes, onions, garlic, and some late fall/early spring greens. During the spring and summer I frequent my town’s farmer’s market, and I have my own vegetable garden. I’ve never had a CSA that delivered…always gone to pick-up my box from the farm, which is one thing I love about them: visiting with the farmers who grew my food.
I’ve never done a meat CSA either. Out here a lot of meat is sold by whole, half, or quarter animals. So, whole birds, whole or half pigs and lambs, whole, half, or quarter cows. Works out pretty well, and then you’re set with good meat for a long time.
That would be so fun to pick up the CSA share at the farm. Our CSA has member events on the farms, but we haven’t gone. We participated in a different CSA from a closer farm a while back and did go to one of their farm events and it was really fun. We got to pick veggies and bbq them outside and eat right there. It was great and it made my son love baby bok choy.
Yummy! I regret not signing up for a CSA this year.
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Mine is year round, and we can join or cancel at any time. I guess they’re incorporating our culture’s need for flexibility with the farm program or something.
I’ve been meaning to join one. We have one in Boston that also delivers.
The delivery thing is huge!
Once you have experienced the deliciousness of CSA grapes…you can’t go back.
Thanks for linking up and participating in this week’s party! Such a pleasure to have you
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Thanks Heather! I’ll be back, I love seeing how different CSAs work and what people get.
That looks so amazing! I really wish we had a CSA around here, but I don’t know of one.
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There are CSAs all over the place. If you go to your local farmers market (do you have one?), I bet you can find something. Or follow the links I included in a different response on this post to help search for one.
It’s funny what you say about the watermelon. When I was a kid there were no seedless varieties! You had to spit them out, or eat the seeds! I also think that sometimes the uglier the fruit (aka not as much inside the watermelon) the better it tastes. The genetically modified ones may be pretty but they are not always the best tasting!
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I know! I think we doom ourselves when we tell our kids to be so careful of choking hazard stuff that they freak out at little black seeds. Sigh. It’s so fun to spit them anyway. Maybe I need to take that angle to my son and teach him how to spit the seeds and he’ll be in to it…
I am catching up on your blog. I am jealous of your CSA. I miss ours (which no longer delivers to the farmers market in our town and does not do home delivery).
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