San Marco Health Foods, organic groceries made simple
08/29/06 • Posted in: San Marco by Joey Marchy 7 Comments »
Raspberries and cauliflower from San Marco Health Foods
About a week ago, Mackenzie and I joined the San Marco Health Foods Organic Produce Club. It’s a small operation on Thacker Avenue in San Marco. Mackenzie brought home our first order of organic groceries yesterday. $45 dollars once a week gets you 20lbs of organic fruits and vegetables. We are splitting the goods with Mackenzie’s parents so it only cost us about $22 dollars.
The bag
Here is what our $22 landed us:
1 bunch of red grapes
1 cucumber
1/2 a cauliflower
1/2 a bag of green beans
2 large red onions
3 medium green peppers
3 peaches
1 6oz package of raspberries
Unpacking the bag
In terms of *pricing they offer small ($25 > 10lbs), medium ($45 > 20lbs) and large ($65 > 30lbs) orders. We are on a weekly plan and they do offer a bi-weekly option. *This is from what we remember, price > weight may vary a little.
The upside to being in “tha club” is you should save money on your produce bill because there’s no middle man. When it can, the club buys its produce from local farmers. You can can feel good knowing that more of you money is going to local farmers and less is going to big grocery chains. In addition, the club buys fruits and veggies in bulk, this should save you money too.
For us it’s nice because San Marco is closer to Springfield than the Publix in Riverside or the Native Sun in “GULP”, Mandarin or Baymeadows. We pretty much got our money’s worth just on the peaches. The last time I was at Publix, they were charging $6 for four organic peaches.
San Marco Health Foods Organic Produce Club
1609 Thacker Avenue
Jacksonville, Florida 32207
422-8085
sanmarcohealthfoods[at]yahoo[dot]com
thanks joey - i’d never heard of this. sign me up.
Yes! We’ve had flyers up at Inertia getting people involved with this. Stoked you posted about it!
I contacted them, and there is also a $50 nonrefundable membership fee to hold a space in the buying co-op.
I didn’t know that there were two of these in Jacksonville. There is a group based at the beach called Oceanside Organics. This is a huge step for Jacksonville.
Just joined San Marco and I have to say I am delighted. I priced out the same produce at Publix the same day as my pickup and I calculated my savings at 32% by going through Katy (although the quality of San Marco is MUCH higher than what I saw at Publix - sorry Publix…).
Does the co-op only offer fruits and vegetables? Or does it offer organic meats and dairy as well?
No meat, but they do offer dry goods. Grains, rice etc. They have a full menu if you want.