Rent Apartment Paris France
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All the produce is my panier is organic. And if you've ever shopped for organic produce at the markets, the prices can make you gasp. (Last summer, organic cherries were €24 per kilo, #2.2, while their conventional counterparts were around €3 per kilo.) I'm more of a "local trumps organic" kind of guy, because I have a hunch that people farming small-scale in local communities are less-apt to douse their produce in pesticides. But I might be wrong.Still, it's my health and well-being I'm paying for, and my CSA box is certainly affordable.
The contents of this box, which was actually a bag (easier for us city-dwellers to handle) cost €13.50 ($20, although keep in mind that locals are paying their equivalent of $13.50, not $20). The inscription said the contents would feed "2 adults for 5 or 6 meals". I know that French people eat smaller portions than we Americans, but it doesn't seem like this would make 10 to 12 meals, even as side courses. But still, it was kind of a thrill to see what was in my first bag.
As I unpacked the heavy brown paper sack, I found one potimarron, a plump orange squash named so because it has a chestnut-like taste. There was a small bag of knobbly potatoes, two bulbs of fresh fennel, a head of Batavia lettuce, and a nifty mesh bag of lingots, dried white beans, which I think are destined to become soup this weekend.
There was also a larger bag of very ripe kiwifruit, each one no bigger than a walnut. There was also a note that said they should be eaten right away. (It probably wasn't a great idea for them to pack them at the bottom of the bag, under the volleyball-sized potimarron.) But it's difficult to find fault with farmers who get up very early every morning, dig holes, pull weeds, and work hard to grow all this food when I'm dozing comfortably. And it really is a great feeling to do something to support local farmers when, according to the New York Times, 30,000 farms are disappearing each year in France.
So I'm happy to spend a little extra, walk a little out of my way, and be in for a few surprises now and then, even if that means having kiwifruit for dinner—three nights in a row.
Paris & Regional CSA-Style Organizations
Les Paniers du Val de Loire
Campanier
Tous Primeurs
Bioculture Paris
Couleurs Bio
Bio Niya
Tous Primeurs
Paysans
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In the United States, you can find a CSA supplier through Local Harvest
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Paris is Degrading
La Cucina di Terresa (Organic vegetarian cooking classes in Paris)
WWOOF (Program to live & work on an organic Farm)
Food Beware: The French Organic Revolution (DVD)
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