I bought a produce box for 42 dollars (2 heads Romain, 2 tiny bags sugar snap peas , 2 bunches Swiss chard, 2 bunches green onions, 8 carrots, 2 clam shells mint, 4 smallish sweet potato, 5 daikon radishes.) The carrots were broken and the pieces missing! If you're going to snap my carrots... at least include the other half! Romain was wilting on day 2 (no picture since I tore it up and soaked it in ice water hoping to bring it to life.). Green onions were flowering and fairly bland and slimy. The snap peas were near inedible: bland, yellowing, scarred and limp and harvested when they were overgrown, not tender sweet "baby". The Swiss chard has almost definitely been sitting around for days with its stems tough and browned. The radish greens (I usually cook up) look beat to hell (yellowed and bug eaten)...and may just go to the compost. I haven't tried the sweet potato, but they look well enough. And the mint is well.... but mint grows like a weed in my own yard. Also... this is supposed to be enough for 5 people? Perhaps I eat a lot of greens but this will be enough for 2 people in my house for maybe 5 days. I'm so thankful I bought the one box to try them out before I committed to more. On the plus side I picked up at Wild Harvest Bread Company and found a gem. Super disappointed in Agritopia though. I'll stick with schnepf, azure standard, some organic food from Frys and Produce on Wheels. I wanted to support local but I should have been warned this food wasn't fresh, and has been handled roughly. It's more of a "seconds quality".... like a misfits market at a higher price AND I had to drive 30 minutes to their closest drop while misfits is delivered to my door. Sorry!
(Edited to add photos... you decide.... is this worth 42 bucks and a 30...
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