June 2nd 2010 – my 365 – Plan B Organic Farms

Today I received my first “share” of food from Plan B Organic Farm in Branchton, ON. We ordered the fruit share and a half veggie share. Here’s our order:

The Fruit share is everything to the left of the lettuce and asparagus. They included some apples in the vegetable share, which was cool. One thing I want you to understand is, you can’t think like you’re at …insert grocery store chain name here… you’re getting farm fresh foods. They don’t look perfect(well, almost). They look like real food taken from the soil. Not grown in perfection like most of the food you find at the grocery store. Some of the food sizes seem small, but remember, we are still at the very beginning of the season, almost nothing is growing yet. Also, you are buying into a true harvesting plan. If you buy this one time, you may be disappointed(not me though). You have to buy into the whole season to get the real value of this program. Your food will be bigger and the portions will be a little bigger as well.

I’m really impressed with what we got. The quality seems very high and I can’t wait to start eating some of the salads. I already had an apple and so did the kids. The pickup location was great too. It was someone’s house with a truck in their driveway. You sign your name to say you’ve receive your share and they give you a crate for your food. Next week, you bring the crate back and pick up your new share.

I’m giving these guys two thumbs up and I can’t wait to see what the rest of the season brings.

June 2, 2010 | Categories: 365 | Tags: 365, Alan Nielsen, Branchton, Community Shared Agriculture, food Share, Fruits, Hamilton, Nine Live Photography, Ontario, Organic, organic farms, Plan B Organic, Plan B Organic farm, plan b Organic Farms, planb, Share, Share in the Harvest, Vegetables,  2010 | Leave A Comment »