First delivery from Tierra Santa

It's not easy, but not impossible, to find organic food in GDL. The health food stores are a loss, as they mostly stock large quantities of strange sesame and amaranth snacks but not a lot of real food, along with many supplements that one should be truly wary of trying, as there's virtually no regulation of such stuff here. Purorganiko stocks a larger variety of actual food, much of it imported and therefore sold at rather astronomical prices (for the consulate crowd, it just makes more economical sense to order most of this stuff online). The dry goods selection is decent and they do receive produce on Fridays, although the variety is limited. You can often find better produce, especially lettuce, celery, carrots and occasionally some other things at Costco.
I had heard through the grapevine that someone was delivering CSA boxes of organic produce in town. It took me a while to track down the website of Tierra Santa, and I started calling and emailing them just after Christmas, to no avail. After a couple a weeks, I went back to the friend of the friend who had sent me their website and she forwarded a bulletin with some different phone numbers and emails. After further persistence, I finally got a response. It took another two weeks to get them to actually set up the deal, but we finally got our first delivery yesterday. They are very nice and dedicated, but apparently lacking in some business sense. The poor guy told me that they had expanded from 20 clients to 80 in the past few months, and I just kept thinking that if it took me a good month and a half to finally make this happen, how many clients had they lost in the meantime? Anyway, we were very excited to get the box of goodies, and here's the breakdown of what we received:
Lots of citrus: limes, lemons, grapefruit and oranges
Two boxes of lettuce, one mixed and then one labeled spinach but more likely arugula
avocadoes
zucchini
onions
tomatoes
bananas
plain yogurt
two dozen eggs
tortillas
I'm not sure how reliable the certification of everything is, but they are certainly trying to provide legitimately organic or close to organic stuff, and to have all this delivered to my house for about US$35, well, I can't complain. We were hoping for a chicken, but they are apparently hard to get a hold of right now because of the cold spell in northern Mexico, and we might add some cheese or some other optional goodies from time to time. Each week they send out a list with additional items that you can choose for that delivery. If you're local and interested in trying it out, there's a 500 peso membership and then a 250 peso deposit to get things rolling. After that, you can make arrangements to either pay when they deliver or make a deposit at Banamex to cover your box each week. Try this number if you'd like to sign up (and if that doesn't work-let me know and I can dig up some others): 33.1111.0276.