I just read the excellent book In Defense of Food. So now I’m all energized to eat local, healthy, organic, sustainable food (again). We did an organic delivery box a few years ago, but we felt a little overwhelmed by the roots that came each week.So I started digging around, and I found Tierra Miguel Farm in Northern San Diego county. They bring boxes of food up to a whole slew of drop-off points all over Southern California (no home delivery, per se, but there should be a spot pretty close by you).The boxes end up costing about $40 each – a lot for this amount of produce, even good healthy organic stuff. But I still like the idea for a few reasons:

• I’m obligated, so it’s becoming a part of my routine. So more organic veggies are around to be used.
• I just get the veggies – no choosing. So I have to figure out ways to use veggies I might not otherwise buy (still hanging on to my daikon).
• It’s seasonal: what I get will change as it should with what’s ripe as the weeks go by.
• It supports a local, organic farm.
• I’m – theoretically, at least – eating local and saving the environment by not transporting food as far. Hard to know if that’s really true since I haven’t investigated supply chain, but it’s likely.

The first two weeks we’ve basically gotten: beets, onions, garlic, lettuce, spinach, arugula, rosemary, daikon, cauliflower, broccoli, potatoes, and carrots. If I can dig out my pictures, I’ll post them.