Online Food Co-ops in Utah

One of the few places I’m loyal to is the local produce market in Kaysville. It’s late opening this year which means it doesn’t feel like summer. With all the cold weather we gave up on gardening this year.

Recently there have been a lot of food co-ops crop up in Utah. You sign up and pay online and then go pick up your order at a designated time and place. Usually you get whatever they have. I’ve done Bountiful Baskets and the quality of fruits and vegetables is very high. The price is reasonable. The downside is you don’t have control over what or how much of something you get.

My husband Stephen still laughs about the summer I joined a CSA (community supported agriculture – you prepay for a summer’s worth of fruits & veggies then pick up deliveries of whatever is in season that week). I couldn’t bear to throw it out but I couldn’t keep up with it. So my fridge was overflowing. I couldn’t keep up but I kept trying to fit it in. He laughed. Since then I’ve been better at managing inventory.

With co-ops you pull together and order everything in bulk so it keeps the prices down. If you want to check out a food co-op, here are some in Utah:

Bountiful Baskets - one of my pickups is pictures (that’s not the full order – I also got strawberries, pineapple, the best lemons and limes, etc.) $15 for an order – weekly pick ups (one is at the DATC in Kaysville). www.bountifulbaskets.org

Click 2 Pick Produce – www.click-2-pick.com

Community Food Co-op of Utah – get food at wholesale prices http://foodco-op.net

Another summer favorite – Hawaiian Shaved Ice

What I’m still looking for – places to pick cherries and other fruit this summer. I found out about a place to get honey, amazing blackberries and fresh farm eggs – but I don’t have the exact addresses. I like fresh local food, so any chance I get…please share in the comments if you know any good sources.

Tagged as: Community-supported agriculture, fruit stand