Every box is a new experience, but none with Peko has been 100% good so far. Will this week’s be any different?
Peko Produce Overview
Cost: $32.99 or $29.69 with subscription
Value: 10-12lbs of peculiar produce, 9-10+ varieties of produce
Frequency: Weekly, biweekly, or monthly. Option to skip deliveries.
Cancellation Policy: Cancel any time!
Payment: Thursday before delivery
Focus: “Western Canada’s first delivery service dedicated to “peculiar” & surplus groceries.”
Ships From: Vancouver?
Established in: ?
Inside the Box
This week we had:
8 bunches of green onion with slimy bits. (WHY SO MANY!?)
8 white mushrooms
1 long eggplant
1 bunch of yellowing kale
1 pile of yellowed brussels sprouts
4 parsnips
4 squishy avocados
1 bunch mouldy and slimy asparagus
1 bunch of cilantro
1 bag of arugula
1 poblano pepper
1 chayote squash
Take a closer look at the quality of this asparagus…
Overall Impression
We have yet to have one box without something mouldy in it. The asparagus is unabashedly and completely inedible. I can’t even feed it to my chickens. Tony is absolutely done with these boxes, but I keep having this undeserved hope that things will get better.
After some more thought I decided to cancel. If anyone knows of a similar program that doesn’t send rotten produce, let me know.
wanderingfawn 
I tried this box once in 2023 and never again, I pretty much had to throw out 100% as it was well beyond what was consumable…well maybe consumable but certainly not palatable, especially things normally eaten raw, like fruits.
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Isn’t it terrible? They definitely don’t deliver what they say they’re offering. I used to volunteer at a food bank kitchen, and Peko was on par or worse than what we received there for free, which is all past-prime food.
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