Is this too expensive?

Question

I'm in Canada and just found out my city has an organic grocery delivery service. I can get a small box of fruit and vegetables delivered to my home once a week for $35.00. They send as much local organic food as they can, and it is supposed to be enough for 2 people for the week. Is this a good deal? I know I am paying more for the organic food and the delivery, but I won't have to go to the store as often, so I will save on gas and this helps to prevent pesticides from polluting the water. Should I sign up for this? Would you?

Answer 1

qUite expensive ....... but as long as you wanna save the environment. sign up...

Answer 2

35 a week does not seem to be very much. But we do not know whether you will have enough to eat.

If you can go on the plan and off if it is not satisfactory, go for it.

There are some areas where it is appropriate to buy all ones food locally, some areas that will leave you nutrient deprived. Organic can not resolve that, and conventional farming does not really try.

I honestly doubt that this will reduce your own need to go grocery shopping. You may buy a lot less while there, but still make that trip each week.

I would not sigh up to buy 'local' produce this way because my area has too high pH soil, so we will have nutrient deficiency driven by that.

If the locality involved were a 100 km radius zone around us, that would be OK.

Answer 3

actually organic foods are bad for the environment just like pesticides are. the organic foods have to be shipped from much farther away because there aren't as many organic farms which is more co2 in the air. but that doesn't seem too expensive

Answer 4

It sounds like a good price, and it depends if you get what you need to use. you may also ask where the produce comes from as well, if it is grown locally by small farms and hobby growers it may be a good idea to pay a little more knowing that you money is going to the community rather than a head office in another town.

Cheers

Answer 5

$35 is a bit expensive and you might find a better deal via a true CSA (community Supported Agriculture) program run by a local farm. A real CSA should not be selling anything other than what they grow so not nearly as much petro is being used in shipping. And you get the added benefit of belonging to a farm that you can visit and re-connect with how YOUR food is grown.

check out http://www.localharvest.org

This website list a lot of CSA's in both Canada and the USA

Answer 6

I definitely would (if i could afford it at the moment). It seems like a great idea, as long as the fruit isn't c**p.