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New this Week in Your Shares: Green Beans, Cucumbers, and Dinosaur Kale are back in limited quantities! Featured from Our Farm Partners: Primrose Farm Bread and Butter Pickles and a diverse selection of cheeses from Cherish Creamery, Broadrun Farm, Pleasant Lane Farm, and Goat Rodeo Woolf Farm Apples continue....
Customer Appreciation Event! It's officially lip balm season! As a small gesture of our appreciation to our customers, we are having a customer appreciate giveaway event! Continuing for the next 2 weeks, we'll be gifting each of our members with one of our brand new VEGAN lip balms in Unscented, Cool Mint and Citrus flavors. Look for your lip balm in your bag this week! Enjoy!
September Farm Partner Promo Continues this Week!! How It Works: Did you know that September is Hunger Action Month? Did you also know that CVO has already donated more than 1,000 lbs. of vegetables to people in need this summer? This September, we will be partnering with the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. For every $10 of farm partner extras sold during the month of September, CVO will donate one organic canned good to the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank! We are setting a goal of 200 cans of organic vegetables!! We can do this with your support! Last chance this week to contribute to our fundraiser! It's time to stock up on fall items like Apple Butter and Spiced Apple Shrub!
Did you know that we have a Farm Market & Cafe along the Panhandle Trail in Burgettstown? Come and see us this month as we raise awareness for Hunger Action Month! We are all decked out for fall, and we'll be collecting donations of non-perishable food items until the end of September!
Updates from the Farm This week, we continued to plow through harvesting (pun intended). Farming is tough, but this year in particular, it seems like we have been fighting more fires than most seasons, especially with regard to staff turnover and equipment breakdowns. Like so many businesses in the wake of Covid, we have experienced a revolving door of staff this year. The world and people are still so unsettled. With regard to equipment, our box truck had transmission issues earlier this summer. Right now, our main John Deere tractor is currently out of commission, and unfortunately, it's almost impossible to get parts in a timely manner due to supply chain disruptions. So, we continue to wait for our turn to get service. Our Cub Cadet utility vehicle (the vehicle that we use to transport veggies and flowers in and out of the fields) is also now out of service until we can repair suspension issues. Luckily, we have a local mechanic in Cherry Valley that can help us out.
Farming really truly is so much more than just growing crops, and it really takes diversify skilled sets to do everything we do every day. I want you all to know that Emily Kramer, our Veggie Grower, and Vanessa Davis, our Retail Operations Manager, have truly been indispensable in bringing you your farm shares this season. We could not do it without these two lovely ladies!
Have a great week everyone, and thank you again for being a farm share member this season!! Jodi, Emily, Vanessa, and Jared The CVO Farm Share Team
If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to vanessa@cherryvalleyorganics.com or to support@harvie.farm at any time. |
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Farm Happening for September 29th
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About the farm
Cherry Valley Organics began in 2001 as a USDA certified organic farm, producing a high diversity of agricultural products, including vegetables, herbs, cut flowers, and potted plants. Since those early years, we have grown into an organic lifestyle company, producing a wide diversity of products that support a clean, organic lifestyle, including our herbal teas and herbal body care products, all of which are grown or hand-made at our farm.
At Cherry Valley Organics, we believe in…
*Living the healthiest life possible (full of organics!)
*Fair, livable wages for our team members
*USDA certified organic growing and production practices
*Minimizing our carbon footprint and ecological impact
*Supporting our local community
Cherry Valley Organics is a collaboration. Unlike traditional family farms, we come from diverse geographical, family, and professional backgrounds. We are growers, scientists, food & health enthusiasts, teachers, caretakers, chefs, and nutritionists. We are all farmers. And, all of us here at Cherry Valley Organics are committed to growing and producing high quality certified organic products for our community. We would never compromise on organics. Ever.
Cherry Valley Organics, founded by Jodi Danyo, began as a one-third-acre “urban farm” in the Pittsburgh suburb of Crafton, Cherry Valley Organics now encompasses approximately 36 acres in nearby Cherry Valley, Washington County, PA. Despite this expansion, the footprint of the operation is still quite small with farming operations encompassing less than 8 acres. The farm was built, quite literally, from the ground up!
Our Farm Share Growers, Emily Kramer, Vanessa Davis, Lindsay Henry, Alexis Williams, and Alliy Gundlach, love producing high quality organic products for our local Pittsburgh communities. You can find our products at the Sewickley Farmer’s Market on Saturdays (April through November), and also at local florists and specialty shops. In 2018, we opened a Farm Market & Cafe along the Panhandle Trail in Burgettstown, PA.
What makes our Farm Share unique?
*We wash the produce. Thoroughly. You are unlikely to get any mud in your CVO Farm Share bag. We still recommend that you wash our veggies, but many items will be ready to eat (and may make for excellent snacking in the car on the way home from the pick-up location).
*High diversity of veggie crops. We grow over 150 varieties of vegetables and herbs per season, on average.
*Specialty crops, like microgreens. It's a bit unusual to see this high value crop in farm share programs. They are a bit tricky to grow, but wow do they pack a nutritional punch! Despite their small size, they are the most nutritious veggie in the share!
*We believe in minimizing our environmental impact, and we use biodegradable and compostable packaging wherever possible. And we have a variety of new packaging products in the works for 2021.
*Specialty cut flowers are a niche crop for us. We grow many of the hard-to-grow flower varieties like Ranunculus, Bells of Ireland, Delphinium, and more. Many more. Nearly 300 varieties! Our flowers are not your run of the mill market flowers. Our bouquets are carefully crafted, and absolutely gorgeous!
*We have extensive partnerships with other local businesses and farms, including Primrose Farm (pasture-raised eggs), Paul Family Farms (maple syrup), Tait Farm (jams, butters, shrubs), Weatherbury Farm (flours, milled products), Big Bob's Honey (honey), Clarion River Organics (potatoes, sweet potatoes, melons, winter squash), Woolf Family Farms (blueberries, apples, peaches), Cherish Creamery (cheese), Emerald Valley Artisans (cheese), Steel Cup Coffee Roasters (organic, fair-trade coffee), Conover Family Farm (pickles, hot sauce) and more! A selection of these items is available on a weekly basis and can be added onto your Veggie Farm Share in any quantity you choose. We believe in the value of small business and keeping dollars in our Pittsburgh neighborhoods.
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At Cherry Valley Organics, we believe in…
*Living the healthiest life possible (full of organics!)
*Fair, livable wages for our team members
*USDA certified organic growing and production practices
*Minimizing our carbon footprint and ecological impact
*Supporting our local community
Cherry Valley Organics is a collaboration. Unlike traditional family farms, we come from diverse geographical, family, and professional backgrounds. We are growers, scientists, food & health enthusiasts, teachers, caretakers, chefs, and nutritionists. We are all farmers. And, all of us here at Cherry Valley Organics are committed to growing and producing high quality certified organic products for our community. We would never compromise on organics. Ever.
Cherry Valley Organics, founded by Jodi Danyo, began as a one-third-acre “urban farm” in the Pittsburgh suburb of Crafton, Cherry Valley Organics now encompasses approximately 36 acres in nearby Cherry Valley, Washington County, PA. Despite this expansion, the footprint of the operation is still quite small with farming operations encompassing less than 8 acres. The farm was built, quite literally, from the ground up!
Our Farm Share Growers, Emily Kramer, Vanessa Davis, Lindsay Henry, Alexis Williams, and Alliy Gundlach, love producing high quality organic products for our local Pittsburgh communities. You can find our products at the Sewickley Farmer’s Market on Saturdays (April through November), and also at local florists and specialty shops. In 2018, we opened a Farm Market & Cafe along the Panhandle Trail in Burgettstown, PA.
What makes our Farm Share unique?
*We wash the produce. Thoroughly. You are unlikely to get any mud in your CVO Farm Share bag. We still recommend that you wash our veggies, but many items will be ready to eat (and may make for excellent snacking in the car on the way home from the pick-up location).
*High diversity of veggie crops. We grow over 150 varieties of vegetables and herbs per season, on average.
*Specialty crops, like microgreens. It's a bit unusual to see this high value crop in farm share programs. They are a bit tricky to grow, but wow do they pack a nutritional punch! Despite their small size, they are the most nutritious veggie in the share!
*We believe in minimizing our environmental impact, and we use biodegradable and compostable packaging wherever possible. And we have a variety of new packaging products in the works for 2021.
*Specialty cut flowers are a niche crop for us. We grow many of the hard-to-grow flower varieties like Ranunculus, Bells of Ireland, Delphinium, and more. Many more. Nearly 300 varieties! Our flowers are not your run of the mill market flowers. Our bouquets are carefully crafted, and absolutely gorgeous!
*We have extensive partnerships with other local businesses and farms, including Primrose Farm (pasture-raised eggs), Paul Family Farms (maple syrup), Tait Farm (jams, butters, shrubs), Weatherbury Farm (flours, milled products), Big Bob's Honey (honey), Clarion River Organics (potatoes, sweet potatoes, melons, winter squash), Woolf Family Farms (blueberries, apples, peaches), Cherish Creamery (cheese), Emerald Valley Artisans (cheese), Steel Cup Coffee Roasters (organic, fair-trade coffee), Conover Family Farm (pickles, hot sauce) and more! A selection of these items is available on a weekly basis and can be added onto your Veggie Farm Share in any quantity you choose. We believe in the value of small business and keeping dollars in our Pittsburgh neighborhoods.