Edible Alchemy

Ugh, I love you so much Edible Alchemy. The other reviewers hit it right on the money, you get TONS of food here, it’s all interesting, and it’s all good. I dread moving away from them.

EA is the spot to choose when looking for local, organic food/​produce options. Toll Foods? Trader Shmoe’s? No thanks. EA is where I go for pretty much all of my produce at this point. They also have high quality, free range eggs. My only complaint is that these eggs are like rocks, you can commit assault with them — nothing like cheap-​o eggs that shatter at the touch of a pinkie finger.
As an added bonus, if you volunteer you’ll be exposed to awesome music, lovely people, and Andrea or Dietrich usually bust out some crazy exotic fruit for you to sample.
O and the variety, so much variety. Celeriac… wtf is that? Who the hell knows but you toss it in broth and voilà! Watermelon radish… uh sure thing! cut it up and throw it in your salad bowl. If it’s greenish and grows in the dirt, it can’t NOT be good for you, right?

Edible Alchemy is everything good about CSAs without anything that’s bad about them. They’ve taken the share model, and stripped out everything problematic about the subscription model. You can buy your shares on a week by week basis. They have a $ 20 produce share and a $ 10 fruit share, as well as an amazing assortment of bulk dry goods and other groceries.
The produce is also purchased from different local farms each week, so the tendency in some CSAs to get into ruts as the same crops come in week after week isn’t a problem with Edible Alchemy. It’s an amazing model and I have really appreciated it.
The fact that it is a true old style coop with volunteers, and no hard and fast established store front in the traditional sense keeps the prices exceptionally reasonable. You get way more food for your money than you ought to, and the quality is higher than anything I’ve ever seen in the grocery or in whole foods.

I just got back from a jam workshop here — so much fun! They create a completely laid back atmosphere, and Andrea is extremely knowledgable and helpful. I highly recommend their workshops, and just everything they do overall — go visit!

My only complaint about this co-​op is that you get too much food! This is the coolest concept and I would highly recommend to anyone that wants to expand their vegetable/​ingredient repertoire. Every two weeks you can pay ahead for the shares, and you pick it up, and don’t pick what’s in it. You get all these organic and usually local fruits and veggies. I’ve gotten stuff that I’ve never used before, like turnips and rainbow chard and green onions (I know…). But it’s gotten me to look up new recipes and try new foods and that’s been awesome. You can also buy from their bulk items, like different legumes and beans, homemade breads and jams, and staples like eggs and butter.
I don’t come here a ton but it’s pretty awesome when I do make the effort. I think they’ve gotten bigger in the past year which is really great to see.

Pilsen Organic Oasis! great food — wonderful people!
Great sustainable food! and bulk prices on beans, rice, lentils, oils, and teas — they also have amazing locally made raw granola, handmade soaps, kombucha, pickles and bread from crumb bakery.
Edible Alchemy is a CSA (community supported Agriculture) Food Box Available every other Saturday. You get a variety of foods from local, sustainable and often organic farms.