Beachgreens

I LOVE beachgreens! I love the variety of fruits and vegetables of the family box and the surprises that show up. I enJOY trying vegetables and fruits I normally wouldn’t choose myself while at the farmer’s market or grocery store. I see it as a fun creative challenge to make something amazing for me and my little ones. I am a huge fan on the add-​ons too! My favorite add-​ons thus far have been the organic dates, Proper’s Pickle and the fresh pistachios. My family eats mostly fruits and vegetables so going to farmer’s markets is a part of our lifestyle and weekly routine but beachgreens is such a blessing because some week’s it so nice not to have to plan and just receive my favorite produce on my doorstep. I value the ease and high quality immensely. THANK YOU so much for offering these amazing services to the Greater Long Beach community!

We have enjoyed Beachgreens for a couple of years and always look forward to the shipment

We have been receiving weekly studio boxes from Beachgreens for several years. We love the variety of produce and it has encouraged us to be more creative in our cooking and to eat more «seasonally.» The customer service is outstanding. I cannot eat certain foods for medical reasons, and they are great about providing substitutes. On the rare occasions that an item is not right they have been very good about crediting our account. It is convenient to have the organic produce delivered to our front door. I would recommend them to anyone who wants to eat organic produce and who is willing to try new fruits and vegetables.

Just received my first box this week and WOW! We were so joyful as we opened it and discovered all of the goodies — I love the excitement and element of surprise.
We love the mix of veggies and fruits — perfect variety of things to prepare many meals. The strawberries and blueberries were so delicious straight out of the box. The heirloom tomatoes were gorgeous.
My partner said «This is great. Why haven’t we done this before?»
Right! Get on it, people! This service is AMAZING!

Just do it! Call them right now! Seriously!
If you’ve been curious about local produce delivery but you’re not exactly sure what a CSA is or how it works, don’t let that stop you. Beachgreens will help you get started and after the first delivery or two, you’ll be a pro.
It’s actually really easy. 1) Call them 2) Decide how much food you want 3) They give you fresh, local fruits/​veggies every week. You can even tell them not to include certain things (ie, «no chard,» etc.) or you can get a box of just veggies, or just fruit.
You will probably try new foods: Purple carrots. Giant green onions. The most incredibly fresh lettuce. Celery root. Spaghetti squash. But you’ll see familiar food too: oranges, kiwi, strawberries, celery, parsley, yams, avocado, grapefruit, etc. I think it’s a good mix of familiar and novel.
When you get that wacky new veggie, just Google the veggie name and «recipes» and take your pick… We tried a roasted fennel recipe last night. Wow!

My wife and I have been receiving BeachGreens deliveries for 4 or 5 months now, and we feel absolutely compelled to share our BeachGreens joy with the world. Probably the best way to do this is just list the reasons why it’s a great service:
(1) The produce is excellent quality: We used to buy our produce from grocery stores. That produce pales in comparison to BG fruits and veggies – we’ve simply never had produce this delicious before. Everything is very fresh and if you store each type of fruit and veggie properly, they easily last through the week.
(2) You get your money’s worth: We get the ⁵⁰⁄₅₀ fruits/​vegetables studio box for $ 30 each week, and it easily provides enough produce to last us the week. We even find we have to juice some of it to finish before our next box arrives.
(3) It increases the amount of fruits and vegetables we consume each week: We’re healthier now. Enough said.
(4) The business is extremely well-​run: We have had extremely professional and pleasant dealings with Aliye, the business owner. She responds promptly to e-​mails and is very kind and flexible.
(5) It expands your cooking/​eating repertoire: This week we received a Kabocha squash (Japanese pumpkin) that was incredibly fragrant and delicious. We didn’t know what to do with the massive green UFO when we first saw it, but it ended up being a savory part of our lunches and dinners that week! Other interesting fruits and vegetables include purple carrots, whole fennel (stalk, bulbs, and leaves), jicama, heirloom beets, amaranth, etc. We are having a great time learning each week from our box.
(6) It saves time: We don’t have to search out these great fruits and veggies ourselves!
(7) It supports local farmers: You can check on the website each week the source of everything in your box.
If you live in the area, we cannot recommend this service enough!

Beachgreens combines the best organic and local produce delivered to your door and awesome customer service! I heart them!!!

I was spending a lot of money each week on produce at Trader Joe’s and the local market. When a friend of mine told me about Beachgreens I was immediately down to at least give it a try, and thank gosh I did.
Every other week a huge crate of delicious goodies are delivered to me, and my favorite part is getting something I have never heard of. Take Kohlrabi for instance — I’d never seen or heard of it and learning how to cook with it was awesome. It’s more than yummy fruits and veggies, it’s a great educational experience.
The staff is lovely, the recipes are helpful and I could not recommend this enough.

Great Service and GREAT local produce!
We love our studio box and love the option to add on special items every week.
I’ve loved everything I have gotten so far! The citrus has been so yummy I’m addicted.
It is so much better for our diet and our wallet to use beachgreens! Plus we use the recipies they send weely and they are fantastic.
The delivery guy and Aliye are fantastic to deal with. LOVE MY BEACHGREENS!

I love Beach Greens.
I get the smaller studio box every other week and it’s perfect for 1 or 2 people. I plan all my meals with whatever I get in the box and my weekly food bill has actually gone down.
I also love that your account and deliveries are all managed on their website. You also get to see what’s is in your box a couple of days ahead of time. This helps with meal planning.
Great service overall.

I found beachgreens while searching online for grocery delivery options and now that I’ve had them for a couple of months I can say they’re terrific! I chose to get a box delivered every other week and everytime it arrives it’s like Christmas. Or it would be, if Christmas included organic, locally farmed produce. I love the idea of supporting local business, it’s worth a few dollars extra to me.

To be honest I wasn’t a huge fan of the idea, but my girlfriend went ahead and got this anyways and im a HUGE fan. The vegetables are always super good, and the fruit is some of the best Ive ever had, im gonna continue with this.
Oh, in case anyone doesn’t know its around 40 bucks every 2 weeks. But well worth the money if you’re into this type of thing.

BeachGreens is Excellent!
My husband and I look forward to each bi-​weekly home delivery of ⁵⁰⁄₅₀ fruits & vegetables from Beachgreens. Their organic apples, oranges and strawberries are the sweetest and best tasting fruits we’ve ever tried. The apples they deliver taste like honey. I swear, my husband and I devour the entire delivery within a week. We really like all the organic produce they deliver to our home.
Some of the vegetables are foreign to my husband and I. We have never tried leek or seen vegetables of a different color, like the red carrots we received. It wasn’t until I used my peeler on these carrots that I discovered the orange skin.
Their is an element of surprise and discovery with each delivery of Beachgreens. I look forward to it. And since my household is embracing the organic, local foods and a healthier eating lifestyle more and more, we praise Beachgreens for their outstanding selection of produce they deliver to us. Thank you, «Food, Inc.» and writer, Michael Pollan for enlightening me and changing how my family eats.
Note: The Beachgreen newsletters, cooking classes and recipes are great resources. They teach you how to prepare dishes from the produce delivery you receive.

I am new to organic vegetable delivery so my view may be biased but I love my beachgreens. I hate grocery shopping and if I happen to force myself to go to the farmer’s market, I always get the same things. So when I heard about beachgreens, I jumped on the bandwagon.
I have been getting deliveries for a few months. I get the studio size every other week, which is about 2 grocery bags stuffed with produce. I live alone so for someone who doesn’t like to cook this lasts me two weeks, however, I think I am going to up the anti because I am enjoying the experience so much.
I have made homemade avocado salad dressing, baked fennel (1^st time), rapini (1^st time) and potato mash, chopped cauliflower salad, and on and on. The berries were the best I’ve ever had and everything comes fairly ripe, in great condition, and does not spoil too quickly.
The best part about beachgreens is the learning aspect. They tell you how to store the food and give you recipe ideas. I have learned so much, like not washing my lettuce until I’m ready to eat it. I haven’t had a limp lettuce leaf yet!

Beachgreens is a great delivery service for someone that loves to try new recipes with new ingredients every week, but not for the picky-​cheap chef.
I enjoyed the service Beachgreens provided but had to stop because it seemed a bit over priced and most of the fruits and vegetables were already ripe and didn’t last but 2 days. The surprise of what produce I would receive that week was fun, but rushing to eat them in 2 days was a bummer.
I found that going to the local farmers’ market (which LB has about 5 days out of the week), choosing my produce, interacting with the farmers, and buying flowers or granola with the money I saved from canceling Beachgreans was a much better choice for me.
If I had a higher paying job, with less hours to shop, and okay with the fact that I would have to throw out some of the produce, I would go with Beachgreens.
My suggestion: Bike, walk, bus to your local farmers’ market and get to know the farms that surround your neighborhood. You might learn a thing or two.

Seriously — purple carrots? Rapini? Never in a million years would I have eaten this stuff but thanks to beachgreens I’m actually broadening my horizons and getting healthier in the process! This service is fantastic and (I think) very reasonably priced. And the differnce between the quality of this produce and even the organic stuff you buy in the store is HUGE… the fruits and veggies may not be as perfectly shiny and shaped as store bought, but the taste is hands down better.
I love the various options they offer in terms of order size, frequency, etc… GREAT service — I highly recommend it!!!

I love Beachgreens!
This is a fantastic service that delivers fresh, locally grown, organic vegetables.
I opted to have my veggies delivered every other week and it is perfect for my husband and I. I am so excited to go home every other Thursday and see what the delivery has in store for me.
So many mysteries have been solved due to Beachgreens. I can now walk through a Farmer’s Market or grocery store and actually know what I am looking at. The great thing is, I don’t have to buy any vegetables at the store because I am already having them delivered.
The price is very reasonable for what you get. The experience and having to learn how to cook so many new things is priceless.
I have been telling everybody I can about Beachgreens.

I don’t make friends with salad, I don’t make friends with salad!
So what on earth would I be doing having fresh organic vegetables dropped off at my door? Let alone paying for this service? If you’d have asked me whether I’d ever do this years ago I would have laughed in your face, in between bites of my fast food. But, and it’s a big BUTT, there comes a day when you realize that eating crap turns you into a big pile of it. There’s that day when you go to take stairs and you GASP! And Wheez! And you think to yourself, «where the hell did my health and vitality go?».
I married a chef. He knows how to cook vegetables. He knows how to cook them to make them taste like CANDY and I never thought this was possible. I was actually Unilocaling the word «vegetable» (oh my gosh, that’s so funny to me!) and was only looking for a produce market. I love shopping at Trader Joe’s but I think the vegetables are not so good.
So I read that you can pay someone to bring you fruits & vegetables and that they’re organic and that you don’t have to go to the farmer’s market and you can stop making promises to yourself that you’ll do just that. I signed up. I got my crate. I ate things I wouldn’t have dreamed of eating in my former satch-​fat-​laden-​life. I even looked forward to today’s delivery!
I think $ 37 is very reasonable considering you can drop that without blinking at Ralph’s or Vons if you were to buy all organic. Plus nothing I ever bought at a regular grocery store ever smelled like the earth and looked so REAL.
I love what this company represents and I hope they prosper! I like veggies. Unbelievable.

Indeed, we too were sucked in by the entrancing Holly T review and signed up for BeachGreens.
We’ve been receiving some weirdo, off-​our-​normal-​grid of stuff, but I think it’s all good to try things you’ve never had before and of course just be eating more F&V overall.
We roasted up some beets last night, which were not my favorite, but I’m still grateful for the opportunity to try it all and know that it’s all natural and organic with no pesticides or that someone’s messed with its growth cycle.
Our kids are especially enjoying the fruits — oranges and strawberries are being consumed in bulk.
We look forward to our little delivery of gems every Thursday.

Beachgreens is a Long Beach-​based home delivery service for organic and sustainably grown fresh fruits and vegetables. It’s pretty much genius. The owner, Aliye, goes out every week and picks out the best fruit and vegetables from the farmers markets and local farms so that you don’t have to, and then delivers it straight to your doorstep. I’ve always been the type of person who thought going to the farmer’s market sounded like a great idea, but sorry, my weekends are for sleeping in.
We found out about Beachgreens because Aliye taught a Mediterranean cooking class at University by the Sea (
). Vince took the class and found out that Aliye and he and I were all former Jackrabbits, so we thought we’d support her and try out her delivery service and see if we liked it.
The delivery costs $ 35 per shipment, and you have a choice of once a week or once every other week. The best part is, Aliye includes recipes in every shipment as well as storage tips and other useful bits of information. You don’t get to pick and choose all the things you want, but you can exclude certain items you know you don’t want, and you can choose from the following proportions: all vegetables, all fruit, 50/​50, or more vegetables than fruit or more fruit than vegetables.
We’ve been getting a shipment every other week for several months now, and we are just in love with the service. It’s such a treat every other week to get our new crate and see what’s inside and try that week’s recipe (s). If I have no idea what to do with a certain fruit or vegetable, I often email Aliye and ask for recipe ideas and she gets back to me promptly. I’ve gotten to try fruits and vegetables that I never would have picked out on my own, including parsnips and pomegranates. I’ve learned that there are many more types of oranges in existence than I ever would have thought. I’ve learned what braising is. I’ve learned how to store herbs properly in the refrigerator. It forces me to stay in and eat healthy more than I usually would. It’s pretty much eliminated most frozen and pre-​packaged foods from my diet, because when I do eat in, I eat the fresh food from my shipment. It’s added an arsenal of recipes to my repertoire, some of which I’ve used to impress others at potlucks and dinners. It’s just the right amount of food for two people, and naturally all of the quality is fantastic. I’m probably not the ideal target customer for this business, since we do still eat out a lot, and I need more hand holding to figure out what to do with some of the food, but it’s still been a very positive contribution to our lives. I’m glad to be supporting local, sustainable farming in what small way that I can.
Please note that Beachgreens delivery service is only available in the greater Long Beach area. Yet another great perk of living in Long Beach!
10 billion stars!