Suzie's Farm
Suzie's Farm doesn't offer a "trial" period so the shortest subscription you can purchase is 6 weeks. Since there is no trial period, there is also no pesky "new joining/registration" fee that some others have.
Reading some reviews on Yelp, I saw that there were some complaints about the boxes containing too many vegetables and not enough fruit, but for me, this is probably a good thing. :) They also do not allow any substitution of items as Inland Empire did. However, their prices are cheaper. I was on a small box at the Inland Empire CSA for almost $35/box and the small box at Susie's is $18/box. Since the regular size box was only $25 (still less than Inland Empire's small box), I went ahead and signed up for the large box. It was $150 for 6 weeks ($25/box).
I picked up my first box yesterday at the Hillcrest Farmer's Market. The boxes are all in the back of a big truck and they expect you to bring your own bags, transfer the produce to your bags, and break down your box. I checked off my name and put all of the produce into my 2 bags. They were pretty heavy bags when I was done! One nice thing I noticed is that there is a printed list of everything in the box so I know exactly what I'm getting. Another nice thing is that a couple of recipes related to the box contents were also included:
Here is what week 1's box contained:
- 4 cucumber (2 lb 6.75 oz)
- 3 green peppers (11.25 oz)
- tomatoes (1 lb 3.5 oz)
- 2 brown onions (1 lb 14 oz)
- sweet pepper mix (7.25 oz)
- 1 butternut squash (1 lb 7.5 oz)
- 1 bunch mint (1.5 oz)
- 2 small heads of butter lettuce (9.25 oz)
- 1 bunch celery (10.5 oz)
- purple onions with the greens on (11.75 oz)
- 8 zucchinis (1 lb 11 oz)
- basket of jalapenos (8 oz)
- 1 green melon (don't know what kind) (7 lb .5 oz)
- dragon beans (8 oz)
The interesting items in the bunch were the dragon beans:
What am I going to do with these?
Otherwise, I'm thinking this box screams CHILI.
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