Great! The whole set up is awesome. You pay on Monday, get your produce on Saturday. That saves the hassle of checkout lines and dealing with money up front. Esp if you’ve ever been in that situation where you start putting stuff back because you realize you can’t afford everything! Lol(I may or may not know what that feels like…) They also have nice add ons if you choose to pay for those. Organic bread, mangos, trays of peaches, juice packs(those are great for the juicers and smoothie makers! I’m just bummed it didn’t come in organic) are some of the things they had this week. Helpful hint! If you are *only* picking up an organic basket, you don’t need to bring your own basket. It comes to them already pre-boxed and packaged. Mine had a few yummies like pears, green grapes, golden beets, cabbage, romaine lettuce, just to name a couple things. Beware, I thought golden beets would be delicious. I still thought they tasted really earthy(hint hint: dirt!) Even after washing them really well. I guess beets naturally taste that way??? Great thing going on here! If I could wake up early enough, I wouldn’t mind volunteering :) starts at nine and you get an extra piece of produce for your help! Plus the satisfaction of helping out others. I will order from here when I can :)
Quijana B.
Classificação do local: 5 Silver Spring, MD
In a perfect world I would be able to take and post a photo of each week’s basket. This would give people the best possible idea of what a mere $ 15 can buy with the Bountiful Baskets Food Co-op. Because this isn’t a perfect world, my basket has too often been pillaged by the time my table is clear enough to hold all of the fresh produce, and so I skip the photo and instead grab another piece of fruit. Bountiful Baskets works like this – On Monday, the baskets are offered online. Participants must opt in each week, and the basket’s contents are not known until Saturday morning, when they are picked up from your local collection point. The entire organization is run by volunteers, ensuring that the maximum amount of money can be spent on fresh produce. The only compensation that the volunteers receive is a thank you in the form of their choice of one extra piece of fruit or vegetable. Once they choose, the remainder of the extras are evenly distributed among the other baskets at the collection site. No money is exchanged on basket day, as it is all done ahead of time online. I order a basket from this site every week. I also try to arrive an hour before pick-up time to volunteer. I see the same faces week after week as people stock their kitchens with the freshest, most varied, and best priced selections of produce available. The site coordinators work hard to ensure a smooth flow of people through the line, and the participants smile and chat as they pack their bags with the contents of their baskets. A typical week’s basket will include 5 – 7 types of fruit, and 5 – 7 types of vegetable. You can count on bananas and celery appearing almost every week, along with apples, grapes, squash, and, lettuce. Most weeks also include an unusual item, such as persimmon, beets, or pomegranate. One of the best things about basket day is trading ideas back and forth with the other participants as baskets are collected. The next week usually includes discussions of ideas that worked well, and of ideas that fell flat. So nice to find a place where sharing pictures and food ideas is encouraged! Join us!
