Summer is on the way, the greens are rolling in - collards and lacinato kale from Ironwood Farm, bok choi and pak choi from Bahner Farm, green curly kale from Ironwood & Hallbrook Farms - plus salad greens, radishes and cucumbers. Salad time! We're now offering sunflower oil from Yost Farm, non-GMO, grown and cold pressed in Maine. Lots of extras to swap or add into your box, bagels, cheese, coffee, ferments, eggs, yogurts and grilling meats.
If you didn't see the New Season Review from last week, please read, the Seven Moon Farm Introduction follows the Update!
New Season Review: How to get the products you like most in your Farm Box:
1) Set product Preferences in your account, Harvie's algorithm will build your box according to your preferences from what the farms have available for the week, swap products during the customization period. Sign in here.
2) Customize your box after you receive your customization email Wednesday morning, you'll have until 11:59pm Thursday night to make any changes or place boxes on Hold if needed.
3) Set a calendar reminder with your pickup day and time.
4) Enjoy all the fresh veggies and other farm fresh products when you get home!
Online Updates Happening
Harvie, the online ordering platform, will be making updates to the software to improve user experience. You may notice minor changes happening, please let us know if you have any questions about navigating your account, we'll try to notify you about any major changes that aren't straightforward. Thanks for your patience as these updates are rolled out!
This week the new Box Customization Page is online. Things will look a little different but functionality is fairly straightforward.
Two things to keep in mind while working in the new page:
1) When you want to increase the quantity of a product, select the amount from the drop down menu that you want to ADD to the quantity already in your box. Example: if you have 1 head of lettuce in your box and you want to receive 2, add 1 more from the drop down.
2) To reduce the quantity of a product that is in your box, you have to change that quantity in your Cart, not in the quantity box on the customization page (this will be resolved in the near future). The cart is located in the top right of the page.
Pick Up Policy
If you are unable to pick up your box and did not cancel your order by the cancellation deadline (Thursday 11:59pm the week prior to delivery) and are a workplace participant, please make arrangements with a co-worker to pick up your share. For non-workplace participants, please make arrangements with a friend or family member to pick up your box. Your order will be forfeited and will go to an individual or family in need if not picked up at the end of the designated time. We’re sorry but we cannot give a credit for boxes that are not picked up; but don’t worry, the produce will not go to waste.
About our Farm Boxes
When customers sign up for a Box with Daybreak they are signing up for a Share of the Harvest. Unlike a traditional CSA, the ability that Harvie gives us to customize boxes helps to get our members a variety of produce that they can more specifically choose. That being said we still have to work within the availability of what our farmers have in season, and sometimes substitutions have to be made when farms don’t have as much of a crop as they expected or have crop failures due to weather or pests. This is the difference between signing up for a share of local food vs. shopping at the grocery store where items come in from all over the country. Daybreak and all our partnering farms really appreciate the support and dedication that our shareholderss are making to our farms.
Questions? Contact us!
farmers@daybreakgrowersalliance.com • 207-808-2189
Introducing Seven Moon Farm
Seven Moon Farm is a certified organic farm growing veggies, dried flowers, and herbs on one acre of rented land in Montville. Rachel is in her first year of MOFGA's Jourrneyperson Program, and is ecstatic to be producing for Daybreak Growers Alliance this season. The farm has been a hive of activity the past few weeks! Beds are quickly filling up, and the high tunnel has been flipped over from early spring greens and baby beets/turnips to summer crops, like sweet peppers and basil. When not knuckle deep in a transplanting project, or on the tractor fighting quack grass, Rachel has been enjoying watching the peas and fava beans jump up in the lengthening days, and encouraging Arlo the trusty farm dog to chase deer and turkeys away from her fields.
