Nature's Garden Delivered

A couple months ago, Nature's Garden delivered (naturesgardendelivered.com) was featured on Groupon. $19 for the small box, which normally goes for $40. I love CSAs and I love local food. At the time, we weren't yet going to a farmers market every weekend so it was really appealing. I've been waiting for a week when we are both in town and when the produce was starting to get good, so last week, I logged into their site and set up our delivery for this week.

This service is awesome.

First of all, I created a login for their website (easy) and entered my groupon info (easy) and then went in and set some preferences of things that I never wanted to receive. I chose to receive the small box (per my groupon) and I chose the "local only" box. Then I waited. Their cutoff for getting deliveries is the Saturday before.

On Sunday (or something), I got my email saying my box was confirmed for that week and I could log into their site to update my preferences. I didn't log in before the cut-off but I imagine that I could have said, no, don't give me x, I want y instead!

And so my box arrived today. It did sit out on the stoop in the rain. The box was beautifully packed. As you can see from the (a little blurry) pictures, we made out with:

1 Romano BEANS/lbs
2 Red Ruby GRAPEFRUIT/ea
1 Collard (bunch) GREENS/ea
1 Purple KALE/ea
1 Romaine LETTUCE/ea
1 Cantaloupe MELON/ea
1 Vidalia ONIONS/ea
2 Covington Sweet POTATOES/ea
3 Yellow SQUASH/ea
1 Grape (1 pint) TOMATOES/ea
1 Purple Top TURNIPS/lbs

I am really super pleased with this service. They consider local to be within 400 miles and everything we received today is organic. I'm not saying things have to be certified organic for us to buy it; we are all about naturally raised without antibiotics or pesticides.

They also have a tiny box for $28 (the small box is $38), and if you have a larger family, they have bigger boxes. They have veggie only, fruit only, mixed, and local only boxes. Obviously, we went local. You can set it up to deliver weekly and every other week. You can add other things to your delivery if you are more on top of stuff than I am.

This service rocks, rocks, rocks. Everything looks awesome. I am so happy.