Rock Dove Farm

I’ve been doing CSAs for years, with great success in Massachusetts. After moving to Columbus, I was excited to find Rock Dove Farm, with their eclectic listing of vegetables on their website. However, the summer season is nearing a close and I have yet to be truly excited about my share any week. Most of the summer we have only received greens, which are tasty, but generally an early-​season vegetable. The broccoli I received was a joke — maybe 5 florets and 90% greens.
While other farms are selling zucchini, summer squash, heirloom tomatoes, potatoes, green beans, peppers, shallots, and garlic, I’m still getting greens and herbs and maybe 2 normal red tomatoes. Imagine my disappointment that after paying $ 325, I’m still having to pay for other vegetables to make it through the week, where previous CSAs were my entire subsistence during past summers. I grew up on a farm — I know that there should be more than this and this hasn’t been a bad summer for farming compared to the last two. I understand the shared risk in farmshares but this is very disappointing when I see other farms doing fine.
Most of the vegetables were high quality and delicious, just with very little variety compared to my previous experiences. I also found myself using the meager share very quickly, even just between two of us; previous CSA half shares have inundated my 2-​person household with enough vegetables to freeze or can for winter — not Rock Dove. I’ll be considering my other options next year. Maybe I’ll consider Rock Dove in the future after they have a bit more experience under their belt.