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The New Boxes

Posted on June 3rd, 2022 by Pedro Aponte

For three years now, we have wrestled with the finding the best possible box to deliver your produce. We originally set with two different size waxed cardboard boxes, which worked relatively well. The problem with the boxes we were using was that they were either too big (1 1/9 bushel) or too small (1/2 bushel) for the average CSA share. For all this time we were just not able to find an adequate size box that was also relatively friendly to the environment.  Finally, this year we found a distributor that sells 3/4 bushel-size boxes made of recycled cardboard. They are beautiful, easy to handle, and very convenient for us to stack in the cooler and the van. This size box fits most of our CSA sizes and we don’t feel like we are packing your produce too tight or too loose anymore! The downside is that they are not as sturdy as the waxed ones we were using before. They are also almost twice as expensive as the previous ones. So, we would like to kindly ask two things from you: 1) please handle the boxes with care and 2) make sure to return them to us so that we can reuse them. Blessings from the homestead.