Thank you all for another great week of Summer Shares! We are so happy to welcome all of the new comers and hope everyone is enjoying Finger Lakes Farm Fresh Veggies as much as we are enjoying seeing the boxes fill up and become full of variety!
This week we will introduce some large beef steak tomatoes! We hope you've been enjoying the cherry and plum ones. We also bring to you String Beans, Garlic, Eggplant and Snap Peas are back! Joe also has available, 2, half bushel boxes of beets if anyone is interested in preserving some!
A Note from Joe!
Hi everybody! This is Joseph Fox from Green Ridge Acres. Hope you all had a good time over the 4th of July weekend!
On Monday, July 5th we harvested all the vegetables we supply for the subscription box for Wednesday the 7th because my wife's youngest sister married Tuesday, the 6th and we wanted to be there the whole day. Unfortunately, the cooler chose to malfunction and froze a lot of those vegetables. We want to refund the money for any of these vegetables that you didn't receive. Contact Angela if you have not been refunded, but were shorted something.
We are getting a nice amount of moisture for the vegetables so far for this summer. We have another week or of Snap Peas then they are done for the year. We just started picking green beans. We will offer them to you this week!
Our new batch of hens are now laying large eggs! You may see them soon depending on which boxes get our eggs. The hens are in a portable chicken house that is moved to fresh pasture every 2-3 days. Our happy hens can eat feed we provide them every day or they can go out and scratch in the grass in search of bugs. They do eat grass which helps darken the egg yolks. Studies show that hens on pasture produce eggs that are healthier for us.
You can feel good about eating our eggs, because we do not use growth hormones or antibiotics and the hen feed is certified organic, which means the feed was raised without harmful herbicides, pesticides and chemical fertilizer.
Wishing you all the best!
Joseph Fox
