From your CSA each week, you receive enough food to satisfy the entire population of the European Union. However, the net count of hungry people in your house, at any given time, is: 2. You resolve this issue by:
a) Looking in the back of a math book -- any math book -- for the answer
b) Mailing 10-pound packages of extra food anonymously to your out-of-town relatives, including some with the same last name who technically are NOT your relatives but COULD be
c) Leaving little care packages amongst your neighbors' bushes
d) What issue? Bring on the food!
At least one CSA we know of has come up with a choice e). Customers get an extra tub along with their abundance of food. At the end of the week or a couple of weeks, you pile all the food you have not been able to consume and that has gone bad into this tub, and return it to the CSA for them to add to their compost heap.
This seems like a sound and wise solution. In reality, I'll bet they don't get much for their compost heap, because most consumers are probably eager to avoid this scene:
Customer (carrying tub filled with rotted tomatoes, wilted spinach, etc.): Uh, here's your food back...it's not quite in the same shape it was when YOU gave it to US...(mumbles an apology, then turns and flees)
Farmer: Wait! You forgot this week's basket!
We personally would probably pick choice a), mainly because we tend to approach ALL problems by putting forth as little effort as possible and in a manner guaranteed to not give a satisfactory outcome. Only problem is, I've checked all the Hero's math books, and the answer to this conundrum does not appear in ANY of them. Sigh. Just like in math class.
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