Ours is dropped off at a depot about a ten-minute drive away. It's further than a grocery store but still close enough that I'm not spending much more gas to go get the stuff, and I stop and do my grocery shopping on the way home so I'm not spending more gas than necessary by making extra trips. I find it's too much stuff, though. I know they've experienced a huge increase in demand this year, so I may suggest to them that some people might be interested in quarter shares (I have a half share right now) so the produce can go further.

They started sending tomatoes this week - three huge beefsteak ones. I'm going to be swimming in tomatoes soon, theirs and mine.

I love the community garden with other hands idea. Really, I like any idea that means less lawn and people living closer to their food source - and it really doesn't get any closer than your own backyard. Do you pay the people who do the gardening, or is it volunteer on their part? Unfortunately, my backyard is so shady that I wouldn't be able to put a vegetable garden back there, much as I would like to.