Boston Organics

We got our Boston Organics box yesterday, and as usual it is an eclectic mix of fruits and vegetables. It comes every Friday afternoon in its own plastic bin and includes whatever is available from organic farms, local, national and international. I learned about them from the medfordmass mailing list, and we've been subscribers now for about 6 months, maybe longer.

In today's box, we have:

• Arugula
• Avocado
• bananas
• Bell pepper
• blueberries
• green beans
• kiwi fruits (the girls are particularly wild about kiwi fruit!)
• green leaf lettuce
• 3 oranges
• plums
• acorn squash

So a pretty nice selection. It's hard to get a feel if it is "worth it". There are two different boxes, US$25 and US$35. We've been going with the $25 box and it works out pretty well. We usually manage to eat everything we get, and have been thinking of moving to the $35 box. You get it automatically delivered every week and the quality has been good (as you might expect from an organic source!). We are not, by and large, organic buyers, but we try to buy healthy stuff and to keep the girls' intake of sugar and salts to a minimum, so this has been a very happy experience.