Do you know people who are concerned about access to fresh produce this summer due to COVID-19? In this newsletter we explore why Community Supported Agriculture and specifically Fresh Earth Farms is the answer. Feel free to share with those who you feel could benefit from joining our farm!
With the current unknowns around the COVID-19 pandemic it is increasingly concerning how long this quarantine is going to last, which affects our ability to get food to eat. It is also unknown whether gathering places like local farmers’ markets are going to be open this summer or restaurants for that matter. And though there doesn’t seem to be an issue with finding produce in the local stores, this could change as the pandemic continues. This is why it is a good time to join a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm for this season.
If you are looking for a way to get fresh produce from a local farm delivered close to your house, we are the solution. If you want produce that is handled by at most three people from harvest to delivery, we are your solution. If you want produce where there hasn’t been a hundred other produce section foragers coughing and sneezing around the veggies, we are the solution. If you want to reduce your interaction with potentially infected people, we are the solution. And finally, if you are looking for ways to keep your money local, we are the solution.
CSA farming is what we’ve been doing for the last 18 years. We have this figured out. We know what we are doing and we do it quite well. Our customers get the best of everything we grow. We use organic practices to provide healthy and delicious vegetables. Growing produce for a CSA membership is different than growing for wholesale or for restaurants. We don’t fill a box with just kale or summer squash. We have a wide variety of produce ready for harvest each and every week. By planning at the beginning of the calendar year what will go out in each share we know when to plant or transplant each crop at the right time. We plant successions of the same crop so our members can enjoy weeks worth of broccoli, sweet corn or cucumbers. For delivery we think about what we put in the box from a consumer standpoint so that there is enough of each item to be useful and not contain endless weeks of cabbage. On-farm members get the luxury of choosing the produce they take home. Being a CSA farm is not adding CSA to an existing farm; it is its own business model with its own unique challenges and rewards.
Fresh Earth Farms has been in business since 2002. We’ve been doing CSA since 2004 and being CSA exclusively (no farmers’ markets, no wholesale) since 2007. If you are looking for an answer to fresh produce during this unpredictable time give us a look over. You may be surprised at the freshness, convenience, and taste of our offering.
To order your share go to our online store or contact me directly.