[PLUG-TALK] Online local produce shopping?

[Galen Seitz]

On 3/17/20 9:07 PM, Galen Seitz wrote:
> On 3/17/20 8:40 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
>> We eat a lot of fresh produce, and usually buy it at New
>> Seasons, where the vegetables are on display and picked
>> through by customers who aren't gloved and masked.  If
>> coronavirus can survive days on a dry surface, it can
>> probably survive more than a few hours on moist lettuce.
>>
>> New Seasons will sell us produce through an delivery
>> service, which sends somebody to the retail store to
>> grab lettuce out of the same potentially contaminated
>> fondled- by-others display.  Not especially helpful.
>>
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>> Are there other services that deliver fresh produce
>> which has NOT been exposed to random customers?
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> 
> After the Belmont Zupans closed, we started getting produce deliveries 
> from Organics to You (<https://organicstoyou.org/>).  We are happy with 
> the quality of the produce, but I have no idea how it is selected.  It 
> might be worth a call to them if you are considering getting produce 
> delivered.

I should add that this is more like a farm share in that you don't 
choose what you want, they give you what they have.  Also, we get the 
veggie-only box, so I can't speak as to their fruits or other stuff.

galen
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Galen Seitz
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