Farm Happenings for April 27, 2021

Good Morning Farm Family,

The time has finally arrived for the first week of the 2021 Farm Share season! We are so excited to be back providing you with the produce and offerings from our farm as well as some new additions for this season. One of the newest offerings we have that we plan to include in everyones share this week is a 4oz bag of our very own Bob's Breakfast Brew. We have collaborated with Coal River Coffee Company in St. Albans to create this blend and we think its some pretty tasty coffee.

In addition to the coffee, we have also connected with Sugar Bottom Farms to provide honey this season, Black Oak Holler Farm to provide pork products (Pork Chops, Shoulder steaks, sausage, coppa, and boston butt.) In addition to pork, we are finalizing some work to offer beef and chicken this year as well.

Here on the farm, we are picking red tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, green tomatoes, lettuce, kale, and spinach this week. We also have some beautiful flowers we will be offering in shares this week, along with herbs. We have more product coming in the following weeks as well. As we speak we are working diligently with mother nature to take it easy on what appears to be a good crop of strawberries barring any setbacks with this cold weather we are currently experiencing.

I hope you all had a great winter. We welcomed the 5th generation to the farm on December 17th, 2020 with the arrival of Teagan Ann Gritt. 2020 was a wild and sometimes gloomy year so why not brighten it up by getting married and having a kid right?

As always feel free to reach out with any questions on concerns. Thank you all in advance for supporting our farm through our farm share program and all the other ways you all support us.

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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