• What is a Food Box? back to top

The Growing Washington Local Choice Food Box is a box filled with organic food grown by local farmers.  Every week you choose food from over 50 crops we grow.  We harvest, wash and pack the items you choose into a box and get it to you the next day. 

• Is this a CSA? back to top

No, but our Food Box does share some similarities to a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture).  A CSA is an opportunity to buy shares in a farm.  By buying a share you help finance the farmer early in the season when a farmer incurs a large proportion of his or her expenses, but does not yet have food to sell to pay for those expenses.  Traditionally, in a CSA, the customers also share the risk of farming with the farmer.  If a crop fails, say tomatoes, the customer gets no tomatoes that season.  If a lot of crops fail, the customer may not get the amount of food for which they paid.  Finally, in a CSA, the customer has little or no choice in the types of food they receive.  The farmer fills the box with whatever happens to be fresh that week.  You may get rutabagas even if you dislike them. 

Our food box is similar in that the customer receives fresh, local, organic food.  Further, by paying for your food at the beginning of the season, you are financing the cost of that food at the time the costs are incurred by the farmer.  However, because the Growing Washington Food Box relies on a network of local farmers, there are two significant differences:  First, our customers get to choose what is in their boxes! Second, chances are extremely good we won’t have a total crop failure.  If bugs wipe out radishes at one farm, we have the ability to turn to another local farmer for radishes.

• Is this just another food delivery service? back to top

The difference between the Growing Washington Local Choice Food Box and a food delivery service is that ALL of our food comes from local farmers.  Other companies do a good job of providing organic food, but the majority of it comes from other states and countries.  Local food is fresh, supports local economies and, most importantly, reduces climate change by minimizing the amount of gas and oil used to get that food to your table. 

The tradeoff is that we only provide food that can be grown locally.  That means no bananas or other tropical fruits. 

However, from the more that 50 crops we grow, we allow our customers to choose exactly what is in their box.  No exclusions or swapping items out, not mostly what you want most of the time—you put just what you want in to your box each week. 

• How do I pay? back to top

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