Lovely, lovely goodies as happily everything went pretty much as expected this week, yay!  There are a lot of variables with our group of growers and Will works hard to organize everyone each week (as well as forecasting for coming weeks) so that we can make as accurate a prediction

Box Graffiti: We encourage our Members to decorate the boxes when you return them with your own creative messages! This was a great one we got back last week, (apologies that I neglected to write down the Member's name for photo credit!). We get about 40% of our boxes back from Members so we can send them back out with more good food, reducing costs and waste! ______________________________________

as possible in our "Online Market is Open!" emails. His spreadsheet each week details how much of what is coming from who and I don't envy him this job! It's just always nice when it all works out as planned. He plans so well that often we only have a few things leftover for our own kitchen!    

The Arugula for this week's orders was a little on the small side and this tasty salad green, when field-grown instead of hydroponically grown, has more fiber and texture to it. We love it for sandwiches instead of lettuce, chopped up for salads or even added to a stir-fry at the last minute. We love to hear from you about how you prepare our good food, let us know if you have a great recipe to share so we can post it for all of our Members. ; )  

Ordering Reminders

Just a couple of reminders for our Members: we have had some folks requesting to make substitutions for Farmer's Pick Orders. Please remember that we really can't do this! We pack and deliver 200-250 orders each week and we just don't have the capacity to make changes to the Farmer's Pick boxes. If there is something you really don't want listed in the Farmer's Pick prediction please consider trying our Custom Choice Order. For a $5 packing fee we pretty much guarantee you are going to get what you order (Custom Choice always get priority if we are short on something) and Members can pick and choose only the items you want! We do always make substitutions for allergy alerts, please be sure we know if you have a food allergy so we can note your account. Thanks for your understanding on this!

Order Confirmation Emails: remember, after your order is complete and processed in the system the Order Confirmation email is sent so you can be sure everything is correct (Pickup Location, item quantities, etc.). If we need to make a change to your order please call or email ASAP (if it's Monday or Tuesday definitely call us so we get the message). You can always check the status of your order by logging in to your account, too!       

Farmer's Pick details for this week's deliveries: