We’ve been trying to find a good CSA to join in our area, but we’ve been put off by a couple of factors. First, it’s a large sum of money for us to cough up (between $400–$600 for the season) all at once. In addition, we would have to drive to pick up the boxes every week, which wouldn’t be so terrible, but for the ones we were considering, the pick-up points are rather far away and at inconvenient times.

So, imagine my glee when, while reading 5280, I discovered a service called Door to Door Organics! It’s a similar sort of service, where you pay a weekly subscription fee and receive a box of organic produce. But the pros are numerous: you can receive mixed boxes of fruits and veggies (most CSAs we’ve found are entirely, or majority vegetables), you pay by the week, with no obligation to continue (so no large up-front cost), the service is year-round (CSAs only tend to run from mid-May through October), and the box is DELIVERED to your door!

While the food is seasonal and MOSTLY local, the only real drawback (if you can even call it that) we could find is that some of the produce is from other states. For example, this week, the boxes contain bananas — definitely not a Colorado crop. But when we thought about it, we decided that we were pretty likely to buy bananas (or apples, or whatever) anyway.

Deliveries in our area are on Wednesdays. Since we’ve already done our weekly shopping, we will probably try out this service next week. Stay tuned for a review!