Farm Fresh to You Produce Service

My First Produce Delivery Box

Saturday, my mom and I went to the Sunset magazine open house. The most exciting thing I found there was a CSA (community supported agriculture)/organic produce delivery service that might actually work for me.

Farm Fresh to You provides many, many options for what’s in and how you get your CSA box. You can choose if you want it delivered weekly, every two weeks, every three weeks, or every four weeks. You can choose if you want a small, regular, more, or monster sized box. You can choose if you want a mixed box, mostly fruit box, all fruit box, or all vegetable box. You can add any item you don’t like or want to an exclusion list at any time and they’re replace it with more of the other items they’re harvesting that week. You can pause, cancel, or make any changes to your service at any time. And they’ll pick up and reuse or recycle the actual box itself when they make their next delivery.

The produce isn’t all grown within 100 miles of me so I wouldn’t totally consider it local but it is all certified organic and grown in northern California or the central valley. The way they can offer such extensive flexibility in their services is by not only delivering produce from their own farm but from other organic farms in California as well.

I decided to start with the small fast fruit and vegetable box delivered every other week. This box is supposed to be all things you could eat plain or without much preparation. My deliveries will happen on Wednesday although I’ll be able to see what I’ll be getting on the Friday before, I’m not sure yet how that will affect my meal planning schedule. This week’s delivery includes:

• 5 count yellow peaches
• 2lb mixed heirloom tomatoes
• 1lb bing cherries
• 1lb broccoli
• 1 count green leaf lettuce
• 1 bunch carrots
• 0.5lb lipstick peppers

I’ll make a point to try everything at least once and if I don’t like it then I’ll add it to my exclusion list.

The box costs $23 per delivery (including delivery). At the grocery store, this same selection produce would have cost me $28.47 so it’s not a fantastic deal but is a reasonable price.

The service is available in the greater San Francisco Bay Area and the Sacramento metro area. If you’d like to try it out, go to www.farmfreshtoyou.com and use the promo code 6164 when you sign up for $5 off your first box.

Shared in Food Roots.

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