Greetings Farm Friends!
We hope you all had a happy and delicious Thanksgiving. Pinckney and I took a much-needed day off from the farm to relax with our families and enjoy a day long feast of traditional Turkey Day fare.
It’s hard to believe that our last delivery was a little over a week ago. Since that time, we have already jumped into planning for our Spring/Summer 2010 season: plotting out the new field layouts, estimating crop percentages, and recruiting new drop sites. We have even begun planting some of our earlier Spring crops such as sweet onions. The work never ends, but that’s what we love about our CSA!
As mentioned, our website is now ready to accept new Spring/Summer subscriptions for 2010. Click here to be directed to the new sign up page! While it may seem early, we need all the head-start we can get in planning, especially when it comes time to order seeds!
We have made a few changes to the program for 2010 that I’d like to share with you. First, we have renamed our shares to more accurately portray the volumes of the boxes and the number of people for which they are best suited. In signing up, please note that the Family, Small, and Single shares of last year have been renamed (respectively) Extra Large, Large, and Medium shares for 2010. In addition, we have added a new, premium share for individual subscribers. We feel like this will be a welcome and popular addition to our offering. Please contact our office at 803-492-3521 or email info@pinckneysproduce.com if you have need any help with your order.
In addition to the changes in shares, we found it necessary to institute a delivery surcharge for certain drop sites, so that we can improve and maintain our convenient delivery services. This fee will amount to a $12 delivery charge per season to areas more than 35 miles from our farm and a $24 charge per season to areas more than 70 miles from the farm. These fees break down to between 1 and 2 dollars per delivery week and will go towards the cost of fuel, drivers, insurance, and perhaps even an additional delivery truck.
In the next few weeks, we will be sending out a 2009 member feedback survey to all of you. We hope that you’ll take the time to give us your thoughts on a variety of topics from the quality of our produce to your favorite and least favorite vegetables. Your feedback is invaluable to us, and we will use it to continue to improve our programs and your overall member experience as a part of our farm family.
Thanks again for being a part of our farm family. Our first year as a CSA was a great challenge, and we learned much from it. We truly appreciate your support, and we look forward to delivering high quality, fresh, local produce to you next Spring!
All the best,
Jody
