Produce Group

Paige Beal belongs to a produce group in Provo where they buy in bulk every two weeks and split the food. Here is some information from Paige and Angie Nichols on starting a group in our neighborhood. If you are interested, please respond so we can get a good count.

"You have to have a minimum order of either $400 or $500. That's really not too bad. You have to have groups with multiples of 12, as much of the produce ships that way (ie, 12 cantaloupes or pineapples, 12 heads of lettuce, etc). We could just about get away with a group of just 12; even if the minimum is $500, we'd each pay about $42 for each order. We would order every 2 weeks, and take turns sorting the produce into laundry baskets. The way my group does it, everyone pays enough up front for 2 laundry baskets (one to take home, one to leave there), plus the amount of one order. That way there's some in reserve in case someone doesn't pay one time. ...
The one thing we'd have to think about is where to have it delivered--they don't like to do it in a residential area, but the Provo
group I'm in talked them into it because the house is on a main road.
And
whoever has it at their house has to be willing to let their garage be used for sorting (in the winter it's too cold, summer too hot to be outside), and be willing to store the laundry baskets at their house. "

Anyway. We would start with a group of 12 people. Let me know if you want to be part of it.
Angie