Drive-Thru Deliciousness: CSA California’s Co-Op Fruits & Veggies
Check out CSA (that stands for Community Supported Agriculture) California. Here in SoCal, their produce comes from the Ramirez Family Farm, and goes directly to drop-off/pick-up locations in Downtown, the Valley, Mar Vista, the Fairfax Trading Post, and Marina del Rey.
It’s pretty simple. You pay $25 for a bag of fruits & veggies, all locally grown and organic. All the info is here. This week’s bag o’ goodies includes Romaine lettuce, broccoli, parsley, yellow onion, garlic, corn, red bell pepper, yellow peaches, white nectarines, pluots, pricots, a choice of spinach or kale and a choice of celery or asparagus. Yum!
What’s particularly fun about their downtown location, in Little Tokyo, is that they’ve got a roundabout where you can just drive-thru and pick up your produce from your car. Easy peasy!
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Thanks for the post, been looking for one of these. Friends have it in san Diego.
FYI, there are multiple CSAs that service Southern California.
On the “Good Food” from two weeks ago, Evan Kleiman interviewed a farmer from the South Central Farmers Cooperative–these are the people that had the farm in South Central that were evicted, and are now farming in Bakersfield. They have a CSA that delivers to multiple spots in SoCal, and they are at a few farmers’ markets in the area. Thought people might be interested in hearing the interview:
http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/gf/gf090801urban_farming_pie_wi
Their website:
http://scfcoop.southcentralfarmers.com/
I’m not saying they’re better than the CSA mentioned by Lucinda–just support ANY local farmers!
If anyone knows of other CSAs, put links & info here in the comments. I’d like to do a roundup of local CSAs.
I look forward to the roundup!
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