The coffeehouse offers a $10 Veggie Lovers box, four pounds of seasonal fruit and vegetables; the $20 Farmer's Delight with seasonal produce, plus a dozen brown eggs from pastured, vegetarian-fed hens, a half gallon of hormone-free milk, and a half pound of Lancaster Jack cheese; or the $30 Family Harvest box, which has the produce, eggs, milk, and cheese, plus a pound of ground turkey and a loaf of sliced multigrain bread.
Extras can be added at a la carte prices. There's sustainable seafood from Otolith (frozen); grass-fed beef; double-smoked bacon the regulars are accustomed to at Mug Shots; and cloudlike pastry flour from Daisy Organic that chef Valerie Erwin uses to make her fabulous biscuits at the Geechee Girl Rice Cafe in Germantown.
A la carte selections vary with the seasons too, but last week the list of offerings featured French breakfast radishes, long and thinner than the standard, but with an earthy crunch.
Orders must be placed online by 2 p.m. on any Tuesday and picked up after 4 p.m. the following Friday or before 2 p.m. Saturday.
The beauty of the club is that you don't have to order every week, says Carlos Walkup, who handles the buying club at Mug Shots.
"The club was started by the owner about six years ago, just as a convenience for customers. The owner, Angela Vendetti, was buying locally for the coffee-shop menu, so she decided to let customers piggyback on her farm orders.
"It's not a huge source of income for Mug Shots," Walkup says. "Just something we do for customers."
Mug Shots' home base is at 2100 Fairmount Ave., but produce orders can also be picked up at the Manayunk and Girard Avenue locations.
