Local Harvest is an awesome site for learning about options for obtaining locally grown organic food just about anywhere in the United States. Well, except in Mississippi, where I grew up.
Sandra and I do a bi-weekly pickup of organic produce from Terra Firm Farm, a 99 acre CCOF certified organic farm in Winters, California. The drop-off point where we get our box is at a house 1-2 miles from our house. Last week’s box included romaine lettuce, navel oranges, cauliflower (ugh), escarole, potatoes, green garlic, oroblanco grapefruit, chard, broccoli, and carrots. The blood oranges from the previous box were amazing. Although the rind was was only slightly darker than that of a navel orange, the inside flesh was a deep, deep purple and had a noticeable berry taste.
In addition to great recipes for the contents of the box they accompany, Terra Firma Farm’s newsletters are pretty informative. The last one talked about their annual cycles for both finances and harvesting. It also described the impact of the 50 percent increase from last year that they have to cover in their worker’s compensation premium.