This is my 100th review so I'm making it a good one. I wanted to do something special for this milestone and I couldn't figure out what to do . . . then I looked at my counter and saw the lovely white box that I picked up today. It's filled to the brim with amazing organic vegetables and fruits. Spiral Path is a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farm and every year (with a few exceptions like last year when we spent all summer in Kazakhstan) we write a big check in late winter/early spring and then enjoy many, many weeks of produce delivered to a location near our house.
This week's box includes: a watermelon, sweet corn, onions, heirloom tomatoes, regular tomatoes, purple bell peppers, green bell peppers, these smaller sweet orange peppers, cabbage, and summer squash.
The produce is processed soon before it hits the trucks for delivery. So, everything is fresh. You can actually get heirloom tomatoes because they don't have to travel far. The produce always tastes great and it's organic. You can definitely tell the difference with organic and non-organic. I was skeptical but I'm now a believer.
We missed the big picnic this year, but we hope to make at least one of their open farm days where you can pick up extra produce and even pick some out in the fields. Every week there is a printed, one page insert that usually includes a list of the items in the box, an note from the owners about what is going on in the fields (good and bad), a recipe or two, and announcements.
The box contents vary over the season . . . spring includes spring onions, small potatoes, herbs, lettuce, spinach, etc. Then you move into summer and the melons, squashes, onion, tomatoes, zucchini, etc. Finally, in the late summer and fall you have winter squashes, kale, cabbages, broccoli, etc.
Of course, you are warned . . . by buying-into the farm you take the ups and the downs. If there's a drought, you might end up without lettuce because it dies in the field. However, you also get the benefits of good growing seen in the amazing foods that are tucked into a sturdy white cardboard box, and then delivered to a location nearby. The kids love picking up the box and seeing what's inside.
So, happy 100th review to me and two thumbs up to Spiral Path Farm, the owners Mike & Terra Brownback, their families and workers who tend the fields and grow the produce, the people who pick/process/pack the items, the people who drive the trucks to deliver the boxes, and the many people who also buy-in to this CSA and make Spiral Path Farm possible. read more