My boyfriend and I did a 1/2 share last year and were really excited about it. We reviewed the spreadsheet of items that were planted and thought it seemed like an abundance of variety.
I'm not sure if we even got half of our promised deliveries. We did not get the first delivery (I had only known it was the first because of FB posts), so I contacted Matt and my paperwork had been misplaced so we were forgotten. We were promised that it would be made up for in the next delivery, but I can't say that it was. I was told when I initially paid that we wouldn't have to pay the delivery fee since there were many Hoboken deliveries, but mid-way through the season he told me I needed to pay him for each of the deliveries we had received. I left a check for him which ended up being returned to me later. ? We did not receive the variety of produce we were expecting and what we did receive was poor quality most of the time. We also had to throw away food. The late Thursday deliveries and texts saying 'no delivery this week' were also inconvenient. We would have gone to the farmer's market as well.
We were extremely disappointed and have decided that this year we prefer going to the uptown Hoboken farmer's market to get fresh produce. I really hate to write a bad review, but it was definitely not worth the money.
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This Member did not properly sign up, their Check was sent to wrong addres and wrong Name, and that is why 2 deliveries were missed ... delivery were left with their doorman on all delivery nights. This member signed up for August 1st season thru Octobet and recived 12 deliveries and they never paid Us the weekly Drop-off-Delivery fee . They was great variety of 18 diffrent kinds of veggies that was delivered during the end of the season to them too. we did have 37 CSA members this year and 3 weeks of wet August weather to contend with also were we still delivered .
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This Member did not properly sign up, their Check was sent to wrong addres and wrong Name, and that is why 2 deliveries were missed ... delivery were left with their doorman on all delivery nights. This member signed up for August 1st season thru Octobet and recived 12 deliveries and they never paid Us the weekly Drop-off-Delivery fee . They was great variety of 18 diffrent kinds of veggies that was delivered during the end of the season to them too. we did have 37 CSA members this year and 3 weeks of wet August weather to contend with also
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Sounds like lack of communication. I am sure that if dissatisfaction would have been communicated, the complaint would have been resolved. CSA's are not as easily managed because of weather situations...(last summer was certainly a difficult one with all the rain) one needs to be flexible with their expectations. I would have contacted the CSA and asked for a resolution to my situation.
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This is not true. I paid via paypal and emailed the registration documents. There was no mailing of anything on my part, so the check did not get sent to the wrong address. I'm not trying to attack anyone here. I just gave my feedback on my experience, which was very frustrating and did not meet my expectations for the program.