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Full Shares
Butternut Squash
Tomatoes
Collards
Baby Bok Choi
Beets
Lettuce
Potatoes
Peppers – Bell
& Hot
Eggplant
Cukes (pickling)
Squashes – summer
Green Beans
Farm Herb
Apples – Mac
Half Shares
Butternut Squash
Tomatoes
Collards
Baby Bok Choi
Lettuce
Potatoes
Peppers – Bell
& Hot
Cukes – (pickling)
Green Beans
Farm Herb
Apples – Mac
Single Shares
Butternut Squash
Tomatoes
Baby Bok Choi
Lettuce
Potatoes
Peppers
Cukes – (pickling)
Squashes – summer
Green Beans
Farm Herb
Apples - Mac
Due to availability not all shares will have the exact same
contents.
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Happy Labor Day from All of Us At
Heavens Harvest Farm!
As we labor to pick and pack your shares today, we are
struck by how blessed we are individually and collectively. We are encouraged by the support of almost
700 members, who have enabled us to grow to over 25 delivery locations. With
our collaborative farm partners, we are growing and providing for literally
thousands of families and individuals.
All of these consumers are supporting local, sustainable, organic and
viable farms. Collectively over 1500 acres of farm land is dedicated to these
practices on behalf of this generation and many successive ones to come.
Ethel and I couldn’t be happier (even in the midst of
some very troubling weather circumstances for the 2nd consecutive
year) that our children and their mates are working side by side with us to
live the dream of helping many to come into their best health physically,
emotionally and spiritually.
Please know that we value each of you and want you to
feel free to call or email us with both your concerns and favorable
comments. Just this week I received
two emails from the same local drop site, one person raving about the produce
and signing up for the fall share, and another who was disappointed because
there were yellow leaves on the Bok Choi and holes in the Chinese
cabbage. They also were concerned
about the quantity of the produce in a half share.
First, this is an organic farm and the produce is not
perfect nor do we make claims to such. Farm life and the produce mirror our weather
and other variables such as field diseases and pests of many kinds. We believe, as do our fellow growers, that
the single biggest reason to grow organically is to lessen the toxic overload
that is all around us today. Everyday
we are subjected to over 1400 toxic substances especially so if you live in
an urban environment. All of these
threaten our health in subtle and significant ways. My good friend Dr. N Thomas LaCava (who is
a board certified pediatrician and a clinical ecologist and specializes in
treating enviromentally ill patients) tells me the single most important
aspect of recovery from ill health is to eat organic vegetables and fruit as
well as organic meats! I have known Dr. LaCava for over 25 years and he is
responsible for helping me to recover my health in my middle 30’s. I was very close to dying having suffered
with cyto-megla virus, eppstein-barre virus, crohns disease and serious life
threatening asthma along with being allergic to literally everything. I say this to encourage all of you to
consider why you support us. It isn’t
about perfection…it is about working together for everyone’s best, most
especially our next generation. We are
so grateful that our son and daughter-in-law have raised our little Siena (who is 15 months old and incredibly healthy) in a truly
healthy way. Organic food,
breast-feeding healthy play all of which have produced a loving, contented
(as much as any baby can be )and very healthy child.
This is what we stand for. If you believe that a farmers market or a
grocery store would better serve you then by all means purchase your vegetables
there. Be aware that produce that is
certified organic or IPM at least, local and sustainable ensures your ability
to best nourish your whole person. We
are 100% committed to continuing this process, now and for the foreseeable
future.
Please join us for our Fall, Winter and Spring
shares. We will continue to buy the
best organic produce from the same sources that you see at Whole Foods like
Lady Moon Organic Farms and Cottles Organic Farms from Florida and North Carolina during the off-season.
With Enterprise farm as our off-season partner, we have developed
relationships with many organic farms that will grow for us as well as
receive our in-season produce in return.
What better way to encourage regional distribution pathways, farm to
consumer. No warehouses, limited
transit time and fresh direct to you.
Again, our best for your Labor Day.
Join us now for our Fall Share!
Old members and new have until September 18th
to enroll!!!
Please pass the word along to all of your friends neighbors,
family.
Blessings
-Ashley & Ethel
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