Red Fire Farm

By: scarlet ryane (Oct 6, 2009)
I chose red fire farm this year because after doing my research this seemed to give the most and get the best ratings. But this year my husband and I have been underwhelmed. First, they charge much more than other CSAs and then charge for delivery, but they make us weigh everything and we have to stand in line while mothers allow their toddlers to weigh things and put them in the bag (i.e., s-l-o-w-l-y because their hands are tiny and they don't know what they're doing) when there are only 2 scales for sometimes 2 full tables of produce, all needing to be weighed. So, it takes forever to get out of there. Then, we're too far from the farm to go every week to pick produce that's available (which would make the high price worth it), but I've tried to find out what times/days this is possible and only get the answer "anytime" -- what does that mean? 8am on a weekday? 7pm on a Saturday? come on people, give us an answer. we have jobs. we need to know when to make the trip, which will be at least 4 hours driving! oh, and when we happened to be in the neighborhood around 5pm on a Saturday, I called and got no answer so we decided not to bother because the drive home would be so long if they weren't open. then, we had some produce that went rotten within a day. a DAY - that is impossible unless it had been picked a week ago and then stored badly. Not to mention that by volume, compared to costco, the fruit share has yet to amount to what we paid for it. I will say that the strawberries were exceptional. but i can go to their farmstand for those. And, we can get local organic greens at Stop n Shop, which might be better to do, support Stop n Shop's efforts to supply them. At any rate, we are most definitely looking for a new csa. if anyone has any suggestions, please comment.
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