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Have any of you guys looked into CSAs? It's basically a seasonal subscription to products from individual local farms.

We've done numerous CSAs, even a bean CSA. The issue that we had with most CSAs is that we didn't have choices in what vegetables we got. There were just some vegetables in our house, that no matter how you cooked them, they just wouldn't get eaten.

On the plus side though, you're exposed to a wide variety of stuff to choose from and it can be a great way to get more veggies in your life and support your local farmers.

Were the recipes not that good or was it more a lack of motivation to prepare and eat all those vegetables? Would it make a difference if you knew which varieties were coming ahead of time or is it more just a function of having choice?

It wasn't the recipes, my wife is an awesome cook.

The lack of choice was just irritating. There are only so many ways you can use garlic whistles.

They're pretty good for pickling and flame-grilling. I get your point though. I'm actually hacking on an idea I had 2 days ago that I think might address this issue of choice with CSA distributions.

I would be extremely interested in seeing what you come up with. Will it be on terra.farm?

Yes it will. I'll let you know when I put out a prototype.

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