Hi Daybreak friends,
This week we're offering our members access to Holiday Specialty products – discounts on gift certificates; chocolates; holiday treat gift boxes; and other products that make great stocking stuffers – check out the Holiday Specialty section when customizing! Give the sustainable gift of Maine grown, local and organic food products this season!
Account Auto-renew for 2022
We will be running Auto-renew for 2022 Farm & Butcher Box deliveries starting December 13. If Auto-renew is ON in your account your subscription will continue and you will receive the same boxes and add-ons that you are receiving now without any interruption in deliveries. You can manage your subscription in your account here while logged in to the system. If Auto-renew is OFF your shares will stop at the end of December 2021.
We have some new Add-on Shares of Apples, Fermented Foods and Tofu that have been available for the last couple of months - if you'd like to include any additional add-ons to your deliveries you can order those here.
If you'd like to discontinue a Box or Add-on share you can do so while logged in to your account here or from the Subscription tab by choosing Cancel Subscription --> choose an order --> select Partial or Full --> choose the share you would like to stop receiving. See Subscription screenshot below.
Email farmers@daybreakgrowersalliance.com if you'd like assistance making any adjustments to your deliveries.
Update from Villageside Farm
Greetings from Villageside Farm! People often ask: "What do vegetable farmers do in the winter?" The answer, like the answer to many questions, is it depends! It depends in large part on what enterprises the farm depends on. While all of the Daybreak farmers have things in common, not least of which is producing nutritious food for Mainers, every farm is unique! For us, this time of year is punctuated by some annual activities.
We are still selling storage crops from our cold storage units - mostly carrots, beets, garlic etc.. We are also working on firewood! Our seedling greenhouse uses firewood to heat, and burns about 8 cords of wood from March 1st to the end of May! To put that in perspective, it takes about 2 cords to keep our 5-person house fully heated for the entire winter. Yikes! It's true what they say that firewood heats you at least 3 times - and we are keeping warm on many of these chilly days by working on cutting, splitting and stacking.
At this time of year, we are also taking stock of the past season as well as wrapping up much of the bookkeeping. Real crop planning for 2022 tends to start after Jan 1. Most of our summer crew has moved on to winter work of their own, though a few keep busy here off and on during the week.
Lastly, for us, December is a time to rest and connect with neighbors, family and friends - relationships we've tried not to neglect during the crazy summer farming months! This means walks in the woods, volunteering with local organizations, basketball coaching, fireside gatherings and board games (favorites this season are Euchre, Wingspan and chess).
We wish you all the best this winter. Thanks for your support of Daybreak Growers Alliance! Along with all the other Mainers who support small, sustainable farming, your commitment makes the work that we do possible.
Kind regards,
Prentice & Polly
