Americans, why don’t you want to consume farm-fresh vegetables?

[Anonymous]

I absolutely do! I grew up in the country and we had a garden. Love fresh vegetables. Used to have a CSA produce box but it got too expensive.

As a rule, Americans don't know how to cook or prepare vegetables so that they taste great. Butter is your friend! So is roasting. Steaming or boiling to mush is not.

[Anonymous]

Americans don't eat veggies. Last 25 years in restaurant business tells me so. Some don't like the taste of earth, others don't like them cooked or raw.
Salads maybe, but heck not to beets and steamed carrots!

[Anonymous]

I would love to order farm fresh, pesticide free veggies - but every delivery service we have tried has had quality that is no better than the grocery store and a minimum weekly order that was too expensive. $40 a week just for produce may not sound like a lot to you, but it is to me - and, yes, I live in a UMC area.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s you. Not the vegetables.

Anonymous wrote:Because then they’d have to interact with nosy, judgmental, gossipy you. They are rightly gauging that you take notes on your neighbors, speculate and judge them, and even run to the Internet to try to drum up more speculation and gossip about them with total strangers.

I mean, yeah. In the space of six or seven sentences I already picked up that OP is over-invested and strange, and I don't want her having my contact information.

Can you imagine the email if you didn't order anything for a few weeks? Christ, no thanks. I have better options,a ll things considered.

I read the post differently. This isnt a commitment, more like on an impromptu basis. Sounds like a great setup to be honest.

Right. But she'd have my contact information one way or another -- email, phone number, address for delivery, something -- and eww, no.

I am willing to pay more not to have the instability of this kind of one-on-one interaction with people who smell a little "unhinged," in DCUM parlance.

Seriously, you sound like a Grinch. Nothing the OP said seems weird to me. It makes sense that the farm would prefer to deliver a larger order so what the OP is proposing sounds like a win-win for everyone.

Really? "If you don't procure vegetables in the way I suggest, I will assume you, and everyone else to whom I made the offer, doesn't like vegetables" doesn't sound weird to you?

OK, maybe not weird. Heart-stoppingly stupid, perhaps?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s you. Not the vegetables.

Anonymous wrote:Because then they’d have to interact with nosy, judgmental, gossipy you. They are rightly gauging that you take notes on your neighbors, speculate and judge them, and even run to the Internet to try to drum up more speculation and gossip about them with total strangers.

I mean, yeah. In the space of six or seven sentences I already picked up that OP is over-invested and strange, and I don't want her having my contact information.

Can you imagine the email if you didn't order anything for a few weeks? Christ, no thanks. I have better options,a ll things considered.

I read the post differently. This isnt a commitment, more like on an impromptu basis. Sounds like a great setup to be honest.

Right. But she'd have my contact information one way or another -- email, phone number, address for delivery, something -- and eww, no.

I am willing to pay more not to have the instability of this kind of one-on-one interaction with people who smell a little "unhinged," in DCUM parlance.

Seriously, you sound like a Grinch. Nothing the OP said seems weird to me. It makes sense that the farm would prefer to deliver a larger order so what the OP is proposing sounds like a win-win for everyone.

Really? "If you don't procure vegetables in the way I suggest, I will assume you, and everyone else to whom I made the offer, doesn't like vegetables" doesn't sound weird to you?

OK, maybe not weird. Heart-stoppingly stupid, perhaps?

"Nobody wants to be my friend. Why do Americans hate friends?"

[Anonymous]

Aren’t grocery store vegetables older than what you would get directly from a farm?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s you. Not the vegetables.

Anonymous wrote:Because then they’d have to interact with nosy, judgmental, gossipy you. They are rightly gauging that you take notes on your neighbors, speculate and judge them, and even run to the Internet to try to drum up more speculation and gossip about them with total strangers.

I mean, yeah. In the space of six or seven sentences I already picked up that OP is over-invested and strange, and I don't want her having my contact information.

Can you imagine the email if you didn't order anything for a few weeks? Christ, no thanks. I have better options,a ll things considered.

I read the post differently. This isnt a commitment, more like on an impromptu basis. Sounds like a great setup to be honest.

Right. But she'd have my contact information one way or another -- email, phone number, address for delivery, something -- and eww, no.

I am willing to pay more not to have the instability of this kind of one-on-one interaction with people who smell a little "unhinged," in DCUM parlance.

Seriously, you sound like a Grinch. Nothing the OP said seems weird to me. It makes sense that the farm would prefer to deliver a larger order so what the OP is proposing sounds like a win-win for everyone.

Really? "If you don't procure vegetables in the way I suggest, I will assume you, and everyone else to whom I made the offer, doesn't like vegetables" doesn't sound weird to you?

OK, maybe not weird. Heart-stoppingly stupid, perhaps?

"Nobody wants to be my friend. Why do Americans hate friends?"

No need to get defensive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s you. Not the vegetables.

Anonymous wrote:Because then they’d have to interact with nosy, judgmental, gossipy you. They are rightly gauging that you take notes on your neighbors, speculate and judge them, and even run to the Internet to try to drum up more speculation and gossip about them with total strangers.

I mean, yeah. In the space of six or seven sentences I already picked up that OP is over-invested and strange, and I don't want her having my contact information.

Can you imagine the email if you didn't order anything for a few weeks? Christ, no thanks. I have better options,a ll things considered.

I read the post differently. This isnt a commitment, more like on an impromptu basis. Sounds like a great setup to be honest.

Right. But she'd have my contact information one way or another -- email, phone number, address for delivery, something -- and eww, no.

I am willing to pay more not to have the instability of this kind of one-on-one interaction with people who smell a little "unhinged," in DCUM parlance.

Seriously, you sound like a Grinch. Nothing the OP said seems weird to me. It makes sense that the farm would prefer to deliver a larger order so what the OP is proposing sounds like a win-win for everyone.

Really? "If you don't procure vegetables in the way I suggest, I will assume you, and everyone else to whom I made the offer, doesn't like vegetables" doesn't sound weird to you?

OK, maybe not weird. Heart-stoppingly stupid, perhaps?

"Nobody wants to be my friend. Why do Americans hate friends?"

No need to get defensive.

You are right. It is very defensive. People pick up on that and back away from it.

See how that works?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s you. Not the vegetables.

Anonymous wrote:Because then they’d have to interact with nosy, judgmental, gossipy you. They are rightly gauging that you take notes on your neighbors, speculate and judge them, and even run to the Internet to try to drum up more speculation and gossip about them with total strangers.

I mean, yeah. In the space of six or seven sentences I already picked up that OP is over-invested and strange, and I don't want her having my contact information.

Can you imagine the email if you didn't order anything for a few weeks? Christ, no thanks. I have better options,a ll things considered.

I read the post differently. This isnt a commitment, more like on an impromptu basis. Sounds like a great setup to be honest.

Right. But she'd have my contact information one way or another -- email, phone number, address for delivery, something -- and eww, no.

I am willing to pay more not to have the instability of this kind of one-on-one interaction with people who smell a little "unhinged," in DCUM parlance.

Seriously, you sound like a Grinch. Nothing the OP said seems weird to me. It makes sense that the farm would prefer to deliver a larger order so what the OP is proposing sounds like a win-win for everyone.

Really? "If you don't procure vegetables in the way I suggest, I will assume you, and everyone else to whom I made the offer, doesn't like vegetables" doesn't sound weird to you?

OK, maybe not weird. Heart-stoppingly stupid, perhaps?

"Nobody wants to be my friend. Why do Americans hate friends?"

No need to get defensive.

You are right. It is very defensive. People pick up on that and back away from it.

See how that works?

So don't play into it then.

[Anonymous]

This is your answer OP..

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7101a1.htm?s_cid=mm7101a1_w

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is your answer OP..

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7101a1.htm?s_cid=mm7101a1_w

And yet there is a market for fresh vegetables. Somehow people are willing to pay other people for vegetables, just not in this case. Hmm.

[Anonymous]

My family eats tons of veggies, but avoid logistics like the plague. We do a grocery order from Giant Foods nice a week that brings us all our food and non-perishables. That’s it. I don’t go to other grocery stores, I have no interest in a CSA or god help me, coordinating with a neighbor.

Easy, simple, fast. Done v

[Anonymous]

I don't want to eat that much kale.

I want to pick it up when it's convenient for me.

I want to choose my food and not have it chosen for me.

We eat a ton of vegetables.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is your answer OP..

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7101a1.htm?s_cid=mm7101a1_w

And yet there is a market for fresh vegetables. Somehow people are willing to pay other people for vegetables, just not in this case. Hmm.

Most people are very much meat and potatoes but there are a few who really are into vegetables. Find maybe a vegan or vegetarian community?

[Anonymous]

OP, I for one will say I would love to find a place like this locally. But I am a farmer myself and support local when I can.

For those of you saying that you don’t want only root veggies…now lots of seasonal produce is grown local in high tunnels that are climate-controlled. You can grow veggies year round in them. My brother has some and sells to local high-end farm to table restaurants.