raspberries and cauliflower

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

San Marco Health Foods

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

onions and green peppers

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

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