Ah! Where are you (I'm just curious on CSA pricing across the country/how big your share usually is). On LI/NYC area, shares are usually around $650+ per season, but I feel like you do get your money's worth since the season is usually around 25-weeks/pickups plus a bunch of extra stuff.
I'm in southern ME. The farm I get it through is a micro-farm, they grow on about an acre of land. It's 400$ for the "small share" with forage added on. It's enough veggies for 1-2 people. 25$/week. They are also organic but not certified. And all of her produce lasts so much longer than produce I've gotten in other CSAs or even at the farmers market.
Ah!!!! Maine! I wish I could move up there, so I'm not locked-in an island. I've tried a couple of CSAs out here, everyone is certified organic which might be why the prices are a little more? I'm interested in the one I'm most recently enrolled in; they have something where you're allowed to choose what is in your share. Maybe this means more of a veggie or something when they post what is harvested? Trading in parts of your share? Either way, I'm hoping this will force my family to eat more veggies (I've always done a half share or a every-other week share for me/single person, and it's a tonnnn of veggies. Lots of Bok Choy!)
I also get a 10% discount since I've been a CSA member before.
I think my breakdown is around $27/week if you do the whole season. Ah! That's an interesting method with the X dollars each week. I think my CSA is going to be like "You get BLANK amount of items, feel free to exchange and get 2 of one item" or something like that. As for kale and kohlrabi....I love both of those things so much, tbh. Kale chips/kale with eggs and kohlrabi sticks!!! yum!
It's going to be a challenge to get boyfriend to eat those...
He's 29. His dad owned a pizza shop when he was growing up and his mom died when he was 11 (cancer) so it was a lot of fried foods. He isn't anti-veg, he's just a major creature of habit. Like buys the exact same snacks every week (peanuts, green apples, green grapes) and makes the same like 4 things. And his ex wouldn't let him cook or grill. So IDFK lol
Nah, that totally makes sense. When you're not exposed to something growing up, it does make it kinda difficult to start trying/jumping into the deep end spending money on food that you may or may not like. The willingness to try is really good, as well as want to trying and cook! I didn't realize how much stuff I didn't know about cooking until I was living on my own and was like, "I want chili" and then realizing how much work technically went into it.
My mom kinda alluded to that when I gave it to her, she was like "Ah, yes, I have the perfect pot for these monsters" and then she kinda shook it and cackled while running into the backyard.
