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| - Here is the part which took off two stars. In fact I debated about giving it only two stars.
This morning it was difficult to notice where the "beginning" point was I guess because of where I parked. I just got out, and walked up onto the sidewalk. I didn't notice that the truck next to me was the "beginning" where a lady was sitting in the back of the truck waiting for people to walk up. And it's early, and I'm only half awake. There is a certain protocol you are supposed to follow, and they are different at each site. They have an A week and a B week. So if I want to get produce each week, I have to go to two different sites because the site closest to me only comes every other week.
So, I did it wrong at the this particular site. I had only been there once or twice. It is very difficult sometimes to figure out who are the volunteers and who are the customers. I looked at different people who just stared at me blank so then somebody said, "over here". I followed their advice and went "over there". I loaded up my produce into my bags, then went to look for where to get the bread and granola I ordered. I saw a lady sitting in the back of the truck and figured out that's where I needed to go. This is when she checked my name off the list and told me to get my "organic" basket over there to the left. Uh-Oh! I messed up. No big deal. I'll put the other stuff back and go get the right one. Then the bread lady told me she was sorry to say that she had given my bread to someone else. I was very nice about it and said I would take whatever one she had left even though it was not the one I had ordered. No big deal. I'm not going to have a fit over bread.
Well, the volunteers at the produce stations were not so accommodating to me. When I tried to help put back the produce into the baskets, the lady was rude and told me I was giving her the produce in the wrong order. But then when I asked her if I should put certain things into certain baskets she was like, "yeah, duh!" She acted very annoyed with me.
Then when I went over to the organic produce station, a volunteer man began to reprimand me. My son was there as a witness to see me humiliated and embarrassed and talked down to like a child. He was telling me how I need to do it the right way from now on because I don't realize how much I mess up their system by not checking in. Next time I need to make sure I do it right. He went on at least 3 times rewording it differently each time to make sure I got his message. Finally I had to stop him and say, "Look, I'm sorry, I made a mistake. I'm new to this location and I didn't see where I was supposed to go first." I was so mad when I got to the car and realized that I had been so nice about the bread mix-up, only to be treated like an idiot at the end. I will not be buying a basket anymore on the weeks that I have to go to that location. I am even reconsidering buying from them at all. If I can find something better, I will not be back. I tried the farmer's market at Roadrunner Park, but I think it was way more expensive. I'll give it one more chance, then I'm done. I can handle everything else, but not the rude treatment. I didn't deserve that.
The produce is ok. It appears that what comes in the basket is usually the items that I find are on sale at Sprouts that week. Not as local as I was hoping for but they claim they are buying from smaller growers. I've been buying off and on for about a year. I've been pretty happy with most everything. I've never gotten anything that was spoiled. This week I don't feel like I really got a great deal for $25, here is what I got. 1 lb onions, small bag of baby carrots, small bag of green beans, romaine lettuce, 1- 4oz container blueberries, 1 small container of strawberries, 1 cantaloupe, small bunch of broccolini, some really hard small peaches, and about 3 really hard small mangos, and bunch of extremely green bananas. The conventional basket this week actually looked like the better deal. It was twice as much food for less. But I got "organic", so it must be better I guess.
I do hate how early in the morning I have to go. It is a real pain especially when I go to bed at 3 am. But that's my problem.
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