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Coincidentally, I have been planning to arrange for my first delivery from Greenling next week, so it's great to hear another positive reivew. I visited their booth at the Green Living Expo a couple of weekends ago and was impressed. Several of my coworkers get weekly deliveries from them and seem very happy with the service. I'm often out of town on weekends and therefore miss the farmer's markets, so this would be a great way to get some of our local produce.

Not bad, I had been wondering about the Greenling local box before I finally got off the waiting list at Johnson's Backyard Garden. Last week I picked up my first box, with kale, collards, a small head of romanesco, carrots, green garlic, mint, parsley, radishes, grapefruit, avocado, mesclun, and oranges, for $30.

Greenling looks like a great option if you can't make the markets or get on a CSA. For now, I'm happy to cut out the middleman, but if this is a typical local box, I'll recommend it to others. It's kind of pricey.

I'm curious to see what the boxes look like in a couple of weeks. I'm supposed to get tomatoes tomorrow!

Never used Greenling. It struck me as a bit overpriced for stuff you could find at the farmer's market or at any of the nicer grocery stores around town (and Austin has a treasure trove of them).

I too am a member of Johnson's Backyard Garden and have been with them for nearly three years. They have their lean weeks (around late summer) but most of the time the box is pretty full. If you like tomatoes, you'll be giddy in a few months; they've been planting a lot more of them this year than before. $28.50 is high compared to other CSAs around the country, but it seems to be on par with the other groups in Austin.

San Antonio doesn't have the options Austin does for farmer's markets that offer organic produce. I have found Greenlings to be better priced than if I were to buy the same organic veggies/fruits at Whole Foods or HEB (most of which would not be from local farmers.) So I am way pleased with Greenlings as an option. Also as a very busy schoolteacher, it's rather nice to have the local box delivered to my doorstep each week.

that's a great looking box.
i cannot wait for strawberries being in season. i should start researching recipes right now! :)

Before my budget got really tight, I ordered from Greenling. Their summer months produced a lot of colors, and as can be expected their winter Local Boxes were almost all greens. That's great, but the giant packs of cilantro every week were a bit hard to get rid of (I'm a dish-soap cilantro hater). Loved it while I had it! The people who run the company are always super nice as well.

Oh geez, I've been wanting to hear about something like this in Texas! I'm still a little new to the food blog scene, and sometimes it seemed that the shopping and tips were a bit more coast-specific (I wasn't happy when I realized that there weren't Trader Joe's or an opportunity for me to buy or grow Meyer lemons here - luckily, my family knows people in California.)

I only wish I'd known about the CSA sooner - I'm graduating this year, and I don't really know where I'm going to be next year.

If I can, though, I'dlike to take a closer look at this.