[AT] garden question; potatoes

[David Bruce]

A local supermarket is doing a similar thing here - only they have 
multiple suppliers.  Every Friday (officially Saturday) during the 
growing season there is a box of produce similar to what you describe. 
If I get enough chores done today I'll wander over this evening to 
collect my box and if not I go by there in the morning.

I buy for two reasons - first is a chance to try things I've never tried 
before and secondly to support NC agriculture.  These prices are a bit 
better than buying individual items at the market.

A nice supplement to what I grow in my little garden.

Personally I'm more about local grown than organic in most all cases.

David
NW NC

On 6/21/2013 10:34 AM, charlie hill wrote:
> Agreed Al.  I've been tempted to try it myself but at 63 (in a few days) I
> don't
> know if I'm up for it.  I've got the same equipment my daddy grew tobacco
> with
> and I have irrigation equipment and ponds.  All it will really take is
> getting my land
> back from the tenant farmer, a lot of labor and the money necessary for the
> seeds,
> fertilizers, etc.
>
> There is a guy over around Kinston who is selling his produce in an
> innovative way.
> He went to the Hospital where Lynn works and signed up over 100 people who
> pay
> him for either a 6 week or a 12 week program at $20 bucks a week.  Every
> Wed. he
> shows up with bushel size boxes full of produce from his farm.  We're in for
> the whole 12
> weeks and so far it's been great.  You never know what you are getting but
> it's all been
> fresh and good quality and a wide variety including some things I had never
> eaten before
> like Swiss Chard and Bok Choi.  It's not a bargain price but cheaper than it
> would be in
> a grocery store.  It's fresh and all you have to do is go by his stand when
> you leave work on
> Wed. to get your box.  I don't know where else he is doing it.  There are
> usually 8 or more
> different items in the box ranging from blueberries and strawberries to
> eggs.
>
> Charlie