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CSA Veterans come in!
Thinking about joining one but am a total CSA virgin. Forgive me if these questions are stupid:
- Is there a specific time you're supposed to join? I know I'm more than fashionably late this year. Should I just look around for one next year?
- Are there 'better' ones to join in the area? I just have visions of getting 50 pounds of beets (or some other veggie) my DH considers unedible each month.
- Do any of them deliver (I'm guessing that was one of my dumb questions) or do you have to pick it up at one spot, one day. Any that would be closer to me (Calverton area)?
- Is it 'first come, first serve' in terms of getting the best of the batch?
Anything else I should be asking but am not thinking about? Thanks.
Re: CSA Veterans come in!
1. I want to say we signed up in Dec. or Jan. the year we did a CSA. Once you pick a farm, you'll have to check their enrollment period.
2. I've only done Great Country Farms and was overwhelmed with beets and chard the year we did it. I think to some extent it's the nature of the beast - you get whatever is in season and it's not always a good year for the things you like best.
3. Sure - some deliver to your home and some require you to pick up from a particular location in your city. You can search this site for farms that do CSAs and it seems to tell where they deliver.
4. With delivery, you get what you get. I don't know how the pickup options work.
Yeah, what she said.
My issue was beets and too much fruit. I love fruit, but it wasn't helping my dinner menus much. It was Great Farms.
I've heard of some letting you pick a la carte online, which seems cool.
A good feature is what happens when you are on vaycay. Many let you resched to double up another week.
I've decided just to use the $20/week that I was spending at the CSA to spend at the farmers market. I tell myself I have to buy $20 worth of produce so I don't just pick up some corn and think that's going to be all the veggies I should eat that week ;-)
1. all the csa's i looked into had sign up in jan or feb or something like that. i think there are a few that do fall csa's, but, honestly, i don't think fall is the best time to try out a csa. it's going to be squashes & greens & root veg for as far as the eye can see...
2. all csa's grow a variety of vegetables, but you do get whatever is ripe that week. sometimes, this will mean too much "x". if you're on the pickier side wrt veggies, you may want to see what various csa's typically grow. for example, I never got a beet in my csa but totally OD'd on basil.
3. some deliver, most have pick up points.
4. i always went at the beginning of my pick up time b/c that was what worked for my schedule. i have a feeling that those that went at the end of the pickup time actually ended up with more produce b/c when the board said "Handful of salad greens" some people would take the tiniest of handfuls even though the farmer said to take a giant man-sized handful.