I try to stay fairly transparent with everyone as to how our business works. Fresh Fork works with nearly 100 area farms to assemble your weekly grab bags. Our budget is 65% of every dollar goes to the farmer and the 35% is designed to cover our overhead - trucks, fuel, staff, warehouse, marketing, spoilage, donations, etc.

We try to spread the budget out to give you equal bags, but there are certain times when some bags are much larger and others much smaller. We like to say that "not all weeks are created equal."  You've probably noticed lately that the bags have been really big and we have featured fruit for all 14 weeks this summer - the first time we have ever been able to do that!

As a result, however, we are way over budget for the season and this week's bag isn't really helping. I had intended to save the chickens for a few weeks later, but we can't move in our freezer and they need to move out!

Over the next few weeks, there will be some smaller bags to help us get back on budget. We are right now floating at 76% costs, so we have a lot of room to make up! Thank you in advance for your cooperation and understanding.