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| - Try it!! The amount of produce you get for the price is a great value. Whenever I participate, I always feel like I've gotten much more than my $15 worth. You never know what will be in the basket each week. Some might see this as a negative, but I enjoy the surprise and variety each. Some items are always included like bananas and lettuce, but the rest are usually dependent on the growing season or deals that the BB buyers can get from suppliers. Some are really unexpected...like the week I first laid eyes on sun chokes in the basket and had no idea what I was looking at! :) There are optional "extras' you can buy for additional fees. They must be purchased online, at the same time of basket purchase. There are breads, cookies, bulk produce cases, granola, etc. It's different every week. Most all of the bakery goods are awesome. My fave is the sour dough bread. So good!
Some negatives: As mentioned before, you have no say in what is purchased each week. For non-morning persons, like myself, you have to drag yourself out early on Saturday mornings. Also, it's true that , though not too often, some veggies seem sandy or a bit dirty, like I found some spinach and celery a couple of times. I guess this depends on the farms who pack and process them. If you were in a grocery store, you might just pass over dirtier looking produce, but with BB you just get whatever lies in the basket they direct you to. Another con, would be that because of the nature of the basket prep (ie. the produce is trucked to each site, usually outdoors, and divided up by hand to each basket, spending close to an hour in the warm AZ elements before you pick it up) some produce, especially leafy produce, gets wilted from heat...but usually perks up again once in the fridge. Also, you cannot control how ripe/unripe your fruit is...again, you just get whatever is in the basket. But overall, these few cons should not deter you from trying BB. It's really a remarkable group of volunteers who bring it all together and help provide great value.
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