This is the first Winter CSA week of 2018, which means I should get a couple of housekeeping things out of the way;
First, Winter CSA is only every two weeks, and 12 total distributions (or 5 if you're only doing the Fall season), with a break during January. The dates for Farmers Market pick ups are 10-27, 11-10, 11-21*, 12-8, 12-19*, 2-16, 3-2, 3-16, 3-30, 4-13, 4-27, and 5-11. *these are holiday markets on Wednesdays!!
Secondly, because the pickups are less frequent, you will get a lot more produce when you do pickup.
Thirdly, a few notes about how Harvie decides what goes in your share; on Friday we create a harvest estimate, which is a list of which veggies we think we'll have, and what quantities. Next Harvie sorts the veggies into your boxes, using the following rules:
- Product has a member preference of 5 (Loves) if it is marked as a Featured Product and not already in share
- Product has a member preference of 4 (Really Likes) if it is marked as a Featured Product and not already in share
- Product has a member preference of 3 (Likes) or no preference if it is marked as a Featured Product and not already in share
- Product has a member preference of 5 (Loves) if it is marked as a Featured Product and not already TWO in share
- Product has a member preference of 2 (Will Eat) if it is marked as a Featured Product and not already in share
- Product has a member preference of 5 (Loves) if it is not marked as a Featured Product and not already in share
- Product has a member preference of 4 (Really Likes) if it is not marked as a Featured Product and not already in share
- Product has a member preference of 3 (Likes) or no preference if it is not marked as a Featured Product and not already in share
- Product has a member preference of 5 (Loves) if it is not marked as a Featured Product and not already TWO in share
- Product has a member preference of 2 (Will Eat) if it is not marked as a Featured Product and not already in share
- After this, it will aim to fill the share as best it can, assigning more multiples of products based on members greater preferences first
If you're like me, this looked like trying to read the rules to a somewhat complex board game. The bottom line is that your preferences will be strongly expressed with this decision tree, while we also have some discretion in what the farm wants to get out into boxes. For example, this week, we are featuring head lettuce, because it is really nice right now, and won't hold in our fields for long. On the other hand, some items, like green cabbage, are not featured, and lower on the list because they are still growing, and will hold in the field and the cooler for a long time, so there's no urgency to sending them out. Meanwhile, your box should be full of the things you love.
If you haven't set your preferences, please do that now! It will really make a difference in what gets put in your farmshare. And then, when you recieve you share e-mail, which should be Friday evening, feel free to swap and edit to your hearts content.
Thanks for joining us for winter, hope you enjoy all these fresh veggies.
Curtis and the Crew.
