That picture is your farmers (minus Jason) posing for an awkward prom picture at farm prom last weeked:)
Welcome to those of you just joining us for fall! With temps in the high 90s, it's difficult to call this fall, but we're expecting a cool-down any minute. I think this is third or fourth summer, but who's counting:)
To those of you just joining us, here is some logistical information:
We re-use the wax boxes, pint cups, and egg cartons, so it's great to return those when you pick up your box the following week! The salad mix containers (including arugula) are compostable. If you don't have a compost, or your compost is too small, return them to us and we'll compost them in our compost! We use the box liners for food safety reasons (since we don't control what happens to the boxes after they are delivered), but they make nice trash bags, etc. They're yours to keep.
Here's what to expect: this email on Thursday afternoon with a list of your share's contents (this is based on your preferences and what's available to harvest). At this point, you can swap out items. At this point, the swapping is fairly smooth but the system only lets you swap one item for one item, regardless of value (they're working on a fix for this to roll out next season), so be careful here! You can also change your preferences whenever you wish, which is another way to manipulate (in a good way) the system. For example: if you keep missing out on celery, but you want it, go in and change your preferences to a 5 for that week to assure that you are first on the list. You can go back and change it later. Also, if you love kale, but don't want it every week, you can go in and temporarily change your preference to a 1 for a week or two. Just another "hack". It's still easiest to swap out items, but until they solve the value part, there's a bit of risk involved in that.
Usually this part contains the farm blog, which I'll include since some of you are seasoned veterans.
Have you ever taken a “real age” test? Where you answer a bunch of questions about lifestyle and habits and you get back a “real age” (hint, if you want to be younger than you are, you can’t ride a motorcycle
