check this out: Nature's Garden Delivered!

Friends, I must share with all of you the wonderful Nature's Garden Delivered ) (link is also under my "other web goodness" gadget...

This is a delivery service of ORGANIC, LOCAL produce! I have done CSAs before, and they are only a bit cheaper but you do have to run out and pick up the food yourself. The CSA I was part of was about $21 a box for a 10 week season and it was less than half the size of what I get in my box.

My sister Lori found out about them from CNN - she works for Turner and ... well... here's our IM exchange about it from a few weeks back (thank you gmail for saving our chat):

10:54 AM me: woo hoo!
digging that Nature's Garden
10:55 AM Lori: are you loving nature's garden delivered???
me: yes
I am so going to do this
10:56 AM Lori: they are so good. they called me this morning to follow up on my order last night. awesome. i asked him about co-ops and if they were cheaper. he said they were cheaper but require you to go pick up your food at the co-op pick up site...not as flexible as delivery. so, you can always ask them if there is a co-op in your area and if it is cheaper....
so excited!!!
10:57 AM me: so they deliver to your house???
Lori: the menu for this weekend delivery comes out today around 10am. i will forward it to you.
yes- they deliver to your house!!!
me: oh my gosh.
I am so excited!
how did you hear about this
10:58 AM Lori: i was reading some testimonials of people surviving the economy and the guy who runs this in atlanta left a testimonial. i googled the company and signed up. i love the no commitment part. it's worth a try, you know?
his testimonial was on cnn.com.
me: awesome
10:59 AM me: thank you so much for sharing
Lori: i thought of you the minute i read it. i will show it to mom too. she might like it....
me: yeah!

So I've been doing this now for two weeks and I think I am going to switch to every other week because we get so much in the small box. Like I said - I get a small box (boxes come in tiny, small, medium or large) for $38 and it has TONS of BEAUTIFUL produce in it. And it's beautiful and fresh and a wonderful treat for the senses. Jason and I have been eating the heck out of the golden delicious apples and the oranges - absolutely the best oranges I've ever had.

Today I spent our post-house cleaning hours washing, sorting and cutting up the lion's share of our delivery, plus what was leftover from last week.

This week we got:
- Probably the biggest butternut squash I have ever seen
- TONS of sweet potatoes - I have so many sweet potatoes, y'all, I am gonna have to do something fancy with them!
- 4 golden delicious apples
- 4 YUMMY oranges (2 already gone!)
- 3 grapefruit
- 2 head of broccoli
- 1 head of green leaf lettuce (BEAUTIFUL)
- 4 bananas
- 1 head celery
- 2 lemons
- 1 box strawberries
- 4 or 5 roma tomatoes

Woohoo! I love fresh organic and LOCALLY GROWN food!