Fucking tomato ban...

[LMNO]

I joined a farmer's co-op.  I now will get a crate of vegetables every week for about $5 total.


I will now mock you each Monday with my bountiful harvest.

[Darth Cupcake]

I joined a farmer's co-op.  I now will get a crate of vegetables every week for about $5 total.


I will now mock you each Monday with my bountiful harvest.

Whoa whoa whoa.

Details? Everything I've seen is like... $25 a week and way more veggies than I can use.

[Suu]

We have the farmer's market here in Providence now too. I should look into joining the co-op, but I have no idea how much it is...Now is the time to join too.

Do tell us of your secret, LMNO.

[LMNO]

I got a deal at Stillman's.

The secret is to sign up in the winter, when they're not selling anything, and need the cash.

[Darth Cupcake]

Egad. I must remember to do this in the winter.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

All the CSAs around here are hell of expensive... I was getting an organics box once a week, but half the shit wasn't even local so I stopped.

[Darth Cupcake]

Yeah, everything I've seen advertised is insanely expensive, and they rarely, if ever, have an option for a one person share, which I have a feeling would be mad popular in an area as young as metro Boston--there's a lot of us single folk who intend to stay that way, thanks, and aren't gonna change just to make getting a CSA share more practical.

[Nast]

All the produce sold here sucks.
It's been so frustrating, that I've been trying to grow some of my own vegetables. Currently I have a few tomato plants, peppers, and cucumbers growing on the patio. I'm also trying to grow eggplant, amaranth, and gourds to be ambitious.

But I guess I should try buying from the farmer's market here more. The supermarkets have been so consistently bad (and damn expensive), that it makes me want to raze the produce section in a fit of rage. 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I have a big garden which I have finally pulled myself together enough to mulch and plant this year; tomatoes, zucchini, peppers, corn, beans, cucumbers, carrots, spinach, mystery squash, herbs, and I don't know what all else. Also there are lots of fruit trees and shrubs; blueberries, strawberries, apples, raspberries, pears, cherries, nectarines, apricots, figs, pawpaws. Most of the fruit trees are still too small to be worth a damn, though. The apricot and apple bear like crazy, but the apricot is one of those every-other-year deals for some reason.

[Darth Cupcake]

 

I plan to go build a log cabin and live in Nigel's garden ITT

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Yay!

[Nast]

Nigel, you're garden sounds awesome!

My little apartment patio is only big enough grow a few things, but I was really impressed this year with how much a little space gets you. Luckily, my family got a community garden plot, and it'll be my new project for self-sufficiency.

There's a wonderful satisfaction you get from gardening. Not only in terms of better taste and freshness, but also a connection with the processes of the world. People have gotten used to mediocre supermarket food, and have lost a sense of appreciation for how much time, work, and care goes into producing a meal.

[Triple Zero]

i'm thinking of getting an organic veggie subscription as well .. i heard the supermarket veggies in NL actually hardly have any vitamins in them anymore

i'll check out what prices i can get, otherwise i might cut it in half with my flatmate or perhaps my upstairs neighbours, as my flatmate is away to india the next month (he's being outsourced or something, lol), and also dislikes fruits and vegetables (while being vegetarian--no don't ask)

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I love gardening! I mean, really, really love it. It makes me feel relaxed and at one with my little world, connected, secure, all those good things. I worked at a garden center and for a while I was apprenticing with a gardener friend of mine, which was really wonderful and awesomely educational, but when my husband started working away from home I had to stop because Little Orange only went to school half-days.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

damn it!
all we have here is too much sun and crappy sand that nothing will grow in. 

i want a five dollar bucket of veg each week!

i'm gonna have to check w/ "local farmers" if we have any to see what kind of deals they have. our produce at the grocery store is either always brown and yucky or made of plastic and/or wax.