Farm Happenings for July 14, 2020

Happy Friday and thanks for doing your rain dances this week as we got some much needed rain last night and more today. Finally the week has come that we have corn and cantaloupe. This is the latest we have had corn in years but also this is the first time in my memory of recent times that we had temperatures in the 30s on mothers day weekend. The production team lead by the head farmer here my dad Bob and my brother Bobby have been working around the clock watering during this high temps and no rain period to keep things moving along at the farm. Hats off to those guys. In addition to corn, cantaloupe will also be making its debut this week as well as bell peppers. Chef Patterson is back at it this week and is making zucchini bread.

I will personally be on vacation this week, honeymoon to be exact. My wife Andrea and I were planning a trip to the Netherlands this April for the annual tulip festival but you all know what happened there. So we pulled an audible and are heading to Montana and Wyoming to visit Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks and Jackson, Wyoming. I will have my phone and laptop on me so if you have any issues or questions feel free to text me at 304-553-2951 or email me whichever is easiest for you and I will get back to you as soon as I can.

I hope you all have enjoyed your produce so far and are looking forward to another great 8 weeks of the season.

Since 1927, our farm has been a well-known landmark in the Kanawha Valley, and our family has been an active part of the community. Our family roots began in Buffalo with Veto and Nellie Gritt’s establishment of our current farm operation. Today, we continue to thrive with our family's fourth generation growing up on the farm. We have changed, evolved, and adapted our agribusiness to serve the needs of our local and regional customers. Gone are the days of delivering eggs in the C10 to the front doors of Buffalo before greenhouses and our first farm stand. Many improvements have been made to our farm, and we continue extensive planning for the future of the farm and retail market.

The diversity of our business model, from our multitude of crops, companion products, marketing strategies, and support of other local farms has helped us weather many storms and the volatility of agricultural income. Pick Your Own, Agritourism, and our CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) all are strengths that make us unique and lively. Our relationships with growers and suppliers are truly local, most within a 50-mile radius.

As a family, we are proud of our contributions to the community of Buffalo as we serve as stewards of the land, provide employment opportunities on our farm and in our retail locations, and grow and provide farm-fresh products. The combined 400 acres of land we farm provide beauty and open space in Buffalo, as well as an opportunity to provide family in our community with healthy food options. Over 80 individuals are employed over the course of a year, allowing us to contribute to the growth of our local economy. As a long-standing employer in our community, we have had the opportunity to ‘raise’ many teenagers who come back after further education and raising families to say how valuable their experience at Gritt’s was to their life. We have had the pleasure of having multiple generations of families be a part of our farm, too.

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