I'm actually a bit annoyed by those pick-what-you-want box services. They parade around like CSAs, but often times the produce you're getting is coming from across the country if not across the globe. Organic, sure, but if it's not in season locally, it still travelled a long way to get to you. Not that there's anything wrong with that if you're in it more for the convenience and the organic than the local... I just wish they didn't look so similar.

As for CSAs, I have joined 2 and enjoyed them. The first was EatWell and the second was Riverdog. Both are in/near the Bay Area. I found them through www.localharvest.org/ I generally used stuff up before the next box came, and if I didn't, I'd make soup! My life is often too hectic to allow me to do much cooking at home, and then comes time to cancel the subscription or stuff sits around way too long. It's pretty amazing though, if you've never done a lot of farmers market shopping, to see just how much longer truly fresh produce lasts versus what you buy at the grocery store. Through these two CSAs, ate literally the best kiwis and strawberries I'd ever tasted, and learned that beets are not evil.

I have really wanted to do this, but I'm uncertain how it would work as I live in an apartment building and I just don't know where they would drop off the box when they deliver. I certainly wouldn't want it sitting outside of my apartment building....it can guarantee it wouldn't be there when I returned home at the end of the day.