I’m on the last week of this experiment. So I decided, since the bountiful baskets are possible primarily because of volunteers, that I would volunteer this week. The pick up time was 9:45am the volunteers have to show up an hour earlier at 8:45am. When I got there there were already 5 others there to volunteer. We unloaded the produce from the truck and then started putting them in baskets, 60 baskets to be exact. There were other volunteers who showed up after me and we ended up with about 10 people there. Everything went very smoothly. We were done putting all the produce in the baskets ready for pick up by 9:30 fifteen minutes before pick up time. Once everyone started showing up it went very quickly and I was home by 10:00am. However, this isn’t how it always goes. It is all dependent on how many people volunteer. Last week there were only a few volunteers and they didn’t finish until about 10:30. They had a line of people waiting for their baskets. When you volunteer you get an extra big item or 2 extra small items. I choose for my extra a bundle of spinach.
This week I feel is better than last because I feel we got a lot of produce. When I tallied everything and priced it out it ended up totaling $23.57. Really not what I expected. I expected that I would save a lot more this week but really this and last week savings are around the same.
This weeks basket contained:
1 pineapple 6 bananas 2 bundles of asparagus
2 zucchini 3 mangoes 3 tomatoes
2 grapefruit 6 apples 6 sweet potatoes
2 bundles of spinach 1lb carrots 1 head of green leaf lettuce
Just because I say this is the final week of the experiment doesn’t necessarily mean that I’ll stop getting the baskets just that I’ll hopefully form a conclusion and then stop blogging about it. This week is spring break and, in theory, I should be able to find a little more time to blog about what I have done with my items. I hope I can end this experiment with a bang.