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March 2024 by Lisa C Wang
Always look forward to my weekly big box of veggies! The weekly boxes come with a great variety of vegetables and fruit. Perfect for my family.
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March 2024 by Alanna Ford
I’ve had CSAs all over the world for the last 15 years. Something Good Organic’s is truly the best I’ve ever had. A wonderful variety, incredibly fresh. Thank you, Something Good!
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March 2024 by Alex Pratt
Fresh, seasonal, local produce delivered weekly to our school. Can't beat it–the taste, convenience, and comfort knowing our food was grown organically "in our backyard." SGO provides a sweet blog each week with simple recipes to inspire weekly meals. I love it, my kids love it, hope you try them out!
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March 2024 by Nick Burwell
We’ve been getting their Farm Box on and off for years. It’s the best one in the area that we’ve tried. We feel lucky we’re able to access this local, freshly-picked fruit and veg.
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March 2024 by Spencer Moore
I <3 my farm box :)
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March 2024 by S. Lockwood-Childs
I am so grateful for this farm -- we've been subscribed for the weekly CSA boxes since 2017 and it has been amazing. I never knew "ordinary" vegetables like broccoli or lettuce could taste so good! Not to mention (oops I'm about to mention some of them...) the excellent out-of-the-ordinary produce like kohlrabi, romanesco, delicata squash, fresh basil, heirloom tomatoes, canary melons, sunflower sprouts.That is why one of our friends who is a cooking enthusiast comes from Carpinteria to SB every week to pick up his weekly CSA box.
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March 2024 by Laura Cogan
I have had the pleasure of picking up a Something Good Organics farm box for at least 6 years. I love that we can support our local farmers, eat healthier, and already have a head start when it comes to meal planning for the week. Their farm box has enabled us to try some new veggies, and we are so grateful to have in-season locally grown produce year-round.
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March 2024 by Jenn Skinner
We know first hand the challenges of farming and the will of mother nature from a past life which gives us an even greater appreciation of the goodness that goes into the CSA boxes we receive from Something Good Organics. It feels right to support a local farming family but believe me the benefits are ALL ours. Both the flavors and nutrients are far superior to other produce. I am so happy we made this commitment and encourage you to for your own health and the health of our world. I still supplement at farmer’s market but love having the bulk of my seasonal produce delivered in my share.
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July 2023 by Harriet E.
I've been an SGO subscriber for about 6 months and I love this organic produce service. I pick up my box on Wednesdays next to Lighthouse Coffee on the Mesa. I get the regular box with an add-on bag of mushrooms and every other week, a dozen eggs.There's kale almost weekly, which is the one veggie I don't really like, but it's still working for me. My neighbor, the vegan, loves kale and so every week, I redirect the kale to the vegan. In return, the vegan keeps gifting me wonderful things that she's growing, like passionfruit and celery. Yesterday, it was Santa Rosa plums! So, while I can't stand kale, it's still working for me to have it in the box!!!It's summer as I write and the SGO tomatoes have been spectacular. Tomatoes are my marooned-on-an-island food, and being from the south, I'm picky about my tomatoes. This week, there were 3 big yellow heirlooms in the box, which is perfect for my gerdy husband and his need for low-acid produce. In addition, there were about 25 medium to giant cherry tomatoes that were the sweetest, juiciest mouth-sized morsels ever. No salt needed. Hubby and I have been snacking on them straight outta the bowl for 2 days.Other notables in this week's organic box were beautiful broccoli, red leaf lettuce, onions, 3 gorgeous deep red peppers, 2 cukes, carrots, and a nice supply of sweet, juicy strawberries.I have to mention how wonderful it is to have unusual fresh mushrooms each week. I used to buy portobellos weekly, but now I'm using shitakes, maitakes, oysters, lion's mane, and other cool varieties in our soup. And come spring, I can't wait for a weekly stash of chanterelles to arrive again!It's also super easy to manage the SGO orders online. I've been out of town a few times since subscribing and it has been super easiy to login and stop my order for a week. And if you can't figure it out, it's easy to email Carolyn, who is incredibly responsivle and makes communication a breeze. Another thing I love about this service is that Carolyn writes a weekly blog about how things are going/growing at the Givens Farm. It was interesting, for example, to read about how the rains this year affected the strawberries and other produce. In the blog, she lists what each week's box will include, so you can be thinking ahead about what you're going to do with a spaghetti squash, leeks, fennel, or yams. Carolyn typically throws in a recipe with each blog for something in the box.I hope to be able to subscribe to SGO for a long time. Hubby and I are surely enjoying their combination of delicious organic produce and world-class service each week.
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September 2019 by PLINIO APULEYO DIAZ LEANDRO
The best organic vegetables.
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September 2018 by V
For the past two months, my friend and I have received a subscription of a large share box from Something Good Organics. We have the box sent to UCSB, to avoid paying extra for delivery fees (we're poor grad students). The quality of produce is consistently fresh and amazingly delicious. Every week, we receive a panoply of fresh veg and a comparatively smaller portion of fruit. A fruit expansion subscription is also an option. Common staples are carrots, kale, tangerines or apples, cabbage, and some sort of lettuce. The non-staple items are always a joy to behold when one opens the box---it's like Christmas and opening presents, except it happens every week! For example, this week we received avocados. Sometimes we get various types of squash, beets (don't chuck the leaves, you can eat them), or berries.I'll end this review with perhaps the most important point: subscribing to this farmshare has made me healthier, and helped reduce weekly grocery costs. By sharing with my friend, I pay 17.50 a week for a huge amount of fresh vegetables. And because I'm incapable of wasting food, I'm forced to eat a massive amount of fresh organic veggies every week before the next box arrives. Finally, it makes me feel so so so good to support local agriculture.I've attached a photo of a gigantic spaghetti squash I received from one of the boxes. I baked and stuffed it with cheese, carrots (also from the box), and some mushrooms. It was really really good.
