Guest guest Posted March 28, 2004 Report Share Posted March 28, 2004 Hi Jeritta! I belong to both a food co-op and a CSA. Also am part of a little buying club thing out of VA that sells organic bulk things like nuts and amish products. The food co-op that I go to is the Common Market in Frederick. The CSA I belong to is called House in the Woods. You can read about them at http://www.houseinthewoods.com - I tried the Spiritual Food for the Millenium CSA in Bethesda and have also purchased a fruit share from Bull Run Farm which is out of VA but delivers to various parts of the DC metro area. They also do regualar veggies shares and flower shares as well. The CSAs actually are the best deal for me - the only thing is to keep to what they give you each week and not to supplement things. For example, some weeks I get a lot of tomatoes and maybe some cucumbers plus a bunch of other stuff. But maybe I won't get onions that week - so I just eat what is given to me and not make special recipes that would require me going to the store for additional stuff. Using the CSAs really is a wonderful way to learn about what is seasonal to your area - it supports the farmer directly with no middle man and if you get to work on the farm as part of your share, well that is truly an awesome experience. And just a little note about tomatoes: the tomatoes that you can get from the CSAs is worth the cost of the share, in my humble opinion. The selection is not anything that you'll find in stores and they are picked when ripe, not when green (so that they will survive the transit to the store.) I've seen heirloom tomatoes at Whole Foods at over $4.00/lb and they still didn't come close to the ripeness that I get at my CSA. I can't tell you enough about how delicious these tomatoes are. We get 15 variety of tomatoes and I've gotten so spoiled that I can't bear to buy tomatoes in the stores anymore. The other thing is that the produce lasts MUCH longer than when you buy in the store. You can't get any fresher unless you have your own garden. So that's my two cents! :-) Linda wrote: > >There is 1 message in this issue. > >Topics in this digest: > > 1. Re: Transitioning to Raw > " triciegirl " <triciegirl > > >______________________ >______________________ > >Message: 1 > Fri, 26 Mar 2004 22:29:20 -0000 > " triciegirl " <triciegirl >Re: Transitioning to Raw > >Sorry I forgot to tell you all my name, it is Jeritta. I really >appreciated all the good advise you all have given me. I really like >the blender as a juicer idea. I would have never thought of that. > >I was wondering do any of you belong to a food co-op or CSA(community >supported agriculture), and if so does it save you a lot of money? > >- Jeritta > > > > >______________________ >______________________ > > > >------ > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 28, 2004 Report Share Posted March 28, 2004 Thanks for the great resources. I'm in Manassas and I think we can access some of these places. Peace Pam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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