How to Treat Your CSA Box for Re-Use
Shares are pre-packed and delivered in re-useable folding boxes. They are environmentally and economically friendly and your food won’t get crushed and can be kept reasonably separate.
Bread and the occasional item in a paper bag will NOT be put in the veggie box so they don’t get wet. You will need to be on alert to take that from a separate big plastic bin – usually we’ll use one with a blue cover and will stack it near the boxes. The weekly share list posted on the CSA listserve and also posted at your pick up site will tell you when to look for bread and what is in the share. BYO bag for the bread.
PLEASE watch this 2 minute Box folding video so the boxes don’t get torn.
VERY IMPORTANT – the boxes are to be re-used again and again. Your CSA invested in these waxy folding veggie boxes so please handle them properly and BRING THEM BACK EACH WEEK when you pick up your next share.
Avoid pulling open as that tears the flaps and the boxes have to be thrown out. Instead, bend the flaps on top and bottom and slide out
Make sure it’s clean and dry.
Flatten and return the following week when you pick up again.