This is exactly the kind of thing I expected to be getting ... even to the sense of community. Here, all I do is climb the stairs once a week, pick up a box, leave a box, and that's it. There's a note about my account once a month but no one answers email, though they read it.
We're almost certainly going to abandon ours at the end of this month, unless something amazing happens. There is only so much spinach or chard one can deal with without respite and we have reached our limit.
It's not that I mind eating like a Kentish peasant, but I'm willing to bet that at this time of year Kentish peasants were enjoying a somewhat wider range of seasonal veg than we are. Certainly, a visit to Canterbury farmers' market bears this out. We, meanwhile, are on carrots, potatoes, onions, spinach or chard every week, with a lettuce and some salad veg (and not much variety in that), and then a 'treat' ... the handful of tiny tomatoes, the squash, a few green beans (once only, never to be repeated). And to be honest, I don't think it's really worth the money we're paying for it. The vegetables are more and more frequently of indifferent quality, after the first few glorious weeks, and the lack of variety is mind-sapping.
Alas, Riverford don't deliver to this area – I checked – so I'm back to foraging as best i can. I think there's a farm shop out near Dover so I'll check that out. But it was a nobel experiment.
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Date: 2004-09-15 03:30 am (UTC)We're almost certainly going to abandon ours at the end of this month, unless something amazing happens. There is only so much spinach or chard one can deal with without respite and we have reached our limit.
It's not that I mind eating like a Kentish peasant, but I'm willing to bet that at this time of year Kentish peasants were enjoying a somewhat wider range of seasonal veg than we are. Certainly, a visit to Canterbury farmers' market bears this out. We, meanwhile, are on carrots, potatoes, onions, spinach or chard every week, with a lettuce and some salad veg (and not much variety in that), and then a 'treat' ... the handful of tiny tomatoes, the squash, a few green beans (once only, never to be repeated). And to be honest, I don't think it's really worth the money we're paying for it. The vegetables are more and more frequently of indifferent quality, after the first few glorious weeks, and the lack of variety is mind-sapping.
Alas, Riverford don't deliver to this area – I checked – so I'm back to foraging as best i can. I think there's a farm shop out near Dover so I'll check that out. But it was a nobel experiment.