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posted March 19th, 2020
This e-mail is to stay in communication with our CSA members during this strange and uncertain time. We have been asked by friends and CSA members if we will still be planning on providing CSA boxes for our members this summer. Right now the answer is a strong and resounding YES!
Fortunately, we are still 11 weeks away from our first CSA delivery. Our hope at this time is that we will still be able to deliver your CSA boxes to the dropsites we have lined up. We’re watching closely to see what happens and if any of our current dropsites will be closed or in-accessible. If you live near one of our dropsites and are willing to host as a dropsite in the event that your local dropsite is closed, please let us know. We want to be prepared as far in advance as we can in the event that we cannot deliver to any given dropsite. Right now this is our primary concern, and an easily navigable one at that if we are prepared.
Never before has the work that we’re doing on our Small Family Farm felt more important! Providing wholesome, fresh, local, organic produce to our community members feels like an honorable privilege. In a time of insecurity, uncertainty and scarcity, accessibility to fresh, local and organic produce has never felt more necessary.
We want to assure you that we are busy out here on the farm planting seeds and preparing for an abundant and strong growing season. We’re lining up employees, greasing our equipment, changing our oil, and watching the snow melt while waiting for our first opportunities to get our tractors into the fields and start farming! It is mostly business as usual as your farmers have a hermit-like nature and we secretly revel in the excuse to stay home and focused on our work and small family.
While the work on the farm right now is mostly done by Adam and I (and one employee who comes one day a week), we are talking about how the farm will change when our Full and Part Time seasonal workers start working regularly in late April and the first of May. We are also preparing in this changing climate for increased safety in our packing shed and food processing facilities. Some of the ideas we are planning to implement are:
-Employees who are sick will not come to work or come into contact with the produce
-Everyone will be trained on how to properly wash their hands and will know where the hand washing facilities are located.
-Hand washing will be encouraged more regularly this season such as before starting work, before returning to work from a break or absence from their workstation, before putting gloves on and after using the restroom.
-We also plan to clean our work surfaces in the packing shed routinely. We will also be washing our bulk tanks and veggie washing machines more regularly.
-Continued washing of all produce harvest crates after every use.
We anxiously await the greatest sanitizer of all, the SUN! I feel hopeful that with the return of the south winds and the lengthening daylight, we will all be out soaking up more sunshine, eating more green food and sneezing and coughing less. The sun will tempt us into it’s light and energize us into more movement and fresh air-giving our immune systems the the boost they are waiting for. We’ll get through this y’all!
In the meantime, I wish you all health and strength in the days ahead. Enjoy your social reprieve! We’ll stay in contact!
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