The quantity and variety of your box will fluctuate from week to week.  Your box will be lighter in the Spring and heavier throughout the Summer and Fall as you eat with the seasons.  Some farms use a smaller box in the Spring so their members feel like their box is full.  We prefer to use the same size box all season long.

I’ve been asked before, “Why does the farmers market have vegetables that we haven’t seen in our box yet?”  The answer is that every farmer is working with something different.  A farm a few hours away from us can have a different micro climate.  Each farm has different soils, rainfall, and frost times.  This affects when you can get your equipment into the fields and seeds in the ground.  Plus every farmer has a different “Master Plan”.  There are only so many hours in the the day and everybody lines up their priorities differently.

From past surveys I have found that for every person who wants more variety and less quantity there is another who wants less variety and more quantity .  The only way to please everyone (is that possible?) is to do both. Sometimes more quantity and sometimes more variety.  My goal is to have (on average) between 6-10 items in each box in large enough amounts to add to a meal.  My motto is “When in doubt, Stir-fry it!