Bryson Farms is an Organic Vegetables Home Delivery Service. My husband and I have been receiving…read morevegetables from them for 5 years. Their vegetables are fresh and tasty, and their customer service is excellent.
Full disclosure: I hate vegetables. I only eat them because they are healthy and good for me, and part of being an adult is doing things even if you don't like it because they are good or you. I generally don't like the taste of vegetables, but I have to admit that locally grown organic vegetables taste less objectionable to me than regular vegetables at the grocery store.
So there are different size baskets you can get (i.e. for 2 people, 4 people, etc.) and different frequencies for delivery (every week, every 2 weeks, etc.). When you sign up you tell them where on your property you will put your cooler and they will put the delivered vegetables in your cooler. If you forget to put out your cooler, they will use their best judgement as to where the safest place would be to put the vegetables and then they call your emergency contact number to tell you where the vegetables were placed. And hopefully you can make it home to collect your vegetables before the raccoons get to them, lol.
The day of the week of your delivery will depend on your postal code. They deliver to different parts of the NCR on different days. This day remains constant. When they deliver your basket, they usually ring the doorbell before they leave. So if you are home, you know that they've come.
What you get in your basket is a surprise every time. I actually like this because it's like Christmas (except it's vegetables, and I paid for them, so I guess not too much like Christmas, but you know what I mean). I love coming home to my basket of surprise vegetables. I also love getting things that I have no idea what the heck they are, and have to Google them to see how to prepare and eat them. This also forces me to try new vegetables. I had fiddleheads for the first time because they were in our basket.
Some examples of vegetables that we sometimes get in our basket: different types of squash (acorn, butternut, pattypan, etc.), carrots, tomatoes, different types of mushrooms (including exotic ones like oyster, lobster, chanterelle, morels, etc.) kale (green, red, Lacinato, etc.), collard greens, Swiss chard (different colours), cucumbers, bell peppers, fiddleheads, snow peas, garlic scapes, beets, turnips, strange greens (like Lamb's Quarters, Sorrel, etc.), bok choy, parsnips, corn, eggplant, potatoes, sweet potatoes, radishes, spinach, different types of lettuces, microgreens, and so much more!!
We sometimes get "prepared foods" like vegetarian chili and roasted tomatoes. We've also gotten garlic powder.
Since everything is grown in Shawville, QC, you only get what can be grown in this climate. Although they do have greenhouses, so you get greens year-round.
Prices are a bit on the high end, but you get quality foods (and local and organic). 2 person baskets are $60, 4 person baskets are $75, 6 person baskets are $100. They also have specialty baskets like all greens basket, all roots basket, etc.
And if you really don't like something, you can tell them that you don't want that item in your basket.
Customer service is excellent. They are very professional and accountable. Once they made a mistake and forgot to deliver our basket. When we contacted them, they apologized and said they would deliver it the next day and give us some extra vegetables for the inconvenience, which they did. They are quick to respond to correspondences and are very nice.
If you are looking for home delivered locally grown organic vegetables and you live in the NCR, I would definitely recommend Bryson Farms!!
