As part of the sustainability committee at my workplace, Berkee College of Music, I’ve started conducting interviews with employees who are doing something at home to try to make their lives more sustainable. The first was about biking to work and the most recent has to do with the Boston Organics delivery service.

Chelsea Sebastian was nice enough to share her Boston Organics experience with us.

It’s a very convenient service. The box is delivered right to your door, and always having fruit and vegetables on hand means that you eat more of them. And while Boston Organics focuses more on organic than local food—it’s in the name—its produce is usually at least more seasonal than the supermarket.

I’ve signed up for this twice. Both times, I cancelled mid-way through the winter because I was frustrated with the variety. (This is mostly my own fault, since I have an unreasonable dislike of root vegetables.) But during the summer, it’s a godsend. I consider it a “gateway” CSA, because it teaches you to be creative with food that’s given to you, rather than choosing it yourself, and it introduces you to weird new vegetables that you wouldn’t even consider at the store (hello, kohlrabi). Yet, at the same time, you still have the flexibility of changing it on a week-by-week basis. So if there’s something you absolutely cannot stand, it goes on your “do not send” list. Even if there’s something you’ve just had way too much of lately, you can put it on the no list and take it off later.

Once you get used to this, if you decide at some point that you want to take the next step and get a CSA with a local farm, it’s less of an adjustment to make.

Hmm… Maybe we should sign up with Boston Organics again once our CSA ends in October. Maybe we’ll actually make it through the winter this time.