My local CSA has extra veggie shares!

Hi Friends! 

My local CSA/Co-op has extra veggie shares available this week. The pick up is in Maplewood on Wednesday. Here's what's in the share: 

LOCAL ORGANIC yellow onions,

Yukon Gold potatoes

and LOCAL Ecologically Grown Stayman apples,

and FL red leaf lettuce,

CA broccoli,

broccoli rabe,
carrots, 

grapefruit,

strawberries,

Mexican sugar snap peas

and CAN slicing tomatoes and Ecuadorian bananas

This box of farm fresh veggies is $60. If interested, please call: 973-429-0391 or email database@PurpleDragon.com for more information.

Can you explain this a little? How does this work? I know nothing about this.

Just did a search and I'm reading about it.

Purple Dragon is a coop offering mainly organic, mainly local produce in season supplemented with products from elsewhere. When members can’t pick up orders (vacation for example), they are offered to nonmembers. PD is not a CSA. I think the value is excellent if you are good at planning. The produce offered is great. Give it a try if the list appeals to you! In this case you can buy a one-time share (box of produce) without committing to membership. 

Thank you @j_r. Wondering if the box is too big for one person. I'm trying to be more careful about letting produce go bad. That was a problem that I had when I shopped at Costco. Great deals until I realized that I couldn't cook or eat fast enough to avoid spoilage.  Looks good though and perfect for those of us on a plant based diet.

Morganna said:
Thank you @j_r. Wondering if the box is too big for one person. I'm trying to be more careful about letting produce go bad. That was a problem that I had when I shopped at Costco. Great deals until I realized that I couldn't cook or eat fast enough to avoid spoilage.  Looks good though and perfect for those of us on a plant based diet.

Purple Dragon might present you with the same issue. Our family of three (two adults and a teen boy, not on a plant-based diet) usually got through everything, but the produce wasn’t always at peak freshness. (Note, for the example, the local Staymans in the OP, which would’ve been stored over the winter.) The origins listed in the OP are typical of Purple Dragon, in our experience: It puts a priority on organic and sustainable farming, not on local sourcing, which was spotty.

The upsides for us were the prods to expand our recipes and palates by finding ways to cook some of the more unusual items, and to see our delightful neighbor every other week when she sorted and distributed the boxes.

Morganna said:
Thank you @j_r. Wondering if the box is too big for one person. I'm trying to be more careful about letting produce go bad. That was a problem that I had when I shopped at Costco. Great deals until I realized that I couldn't cook or eat fast enough to avoid spoilage.  Looks good though and perfect for those of us on a plant based diet.

 I cook for one, and chose a subscription for a half-share, which I found was about right for my vegetable-leaning tastes. Occasionally I found that the split resulted in not enough of something (one beet, for example), or a divided item (half a squash or melon) that I had to use right away. Overall, though, when I used the email to plan ahead, it was a fun cooking challenge.

Thanks @DaveSchmidt and @j_r.