We hope you enjoyed your first box of the season, and if you're an every-other-week member, then we hope you're looking forward to your first pick up!
We just want to give you a little explanation about the packaging that we use. The Crop Boxes allow us to use very little, however your bags of salad greens, microgreens, arugula microgreens, pea shoots, and cherry tomatoes will come in plastic bags or containers. Why? Plastic, as "evil" as it may seem, is the absolute best material to keep produce fresh the longest. The plastic clamshells even go a step further and extend the shelf life of our various microgreens by a few days. Whether or not you appreciate plastics in your home, you will certainly appreciate the shelf life of our produce. Unfortunately, ESPECIALLY during the covid19 era, we CANNOT accept returns of any plastic bags or containers.
We limit or eliminate plastic use in every other aspect of our farm, from staying completely away from plastic mulch and almost avoiding landscape fabric (though the fabric that we do use lasts years), to using paper transplant pots with many of our seedlings, and buying sturdy (expensive plastic) seeding trays that last years and don't end up in the landfill after one use. We also use very little drip tape, and what we do use is in use for multiple seasons! That is only a small fraction of the ways in which we consider our farm an environmentally sustainable one. We'll share others with you throughout the season!
Enjoy your produce and we'll see you next week.
Katherine and Spencer
