We are very excited this week to welcome you all back inside our farm stand for the 2021 season! Our staff is nearing 100% fully vaccinated status, but Shopkeepers and crew will continue to wear masks inside the farm stand building and wash and pack area. For now, in place of Senior Hours, the first hour of each day masks will be required inside the farm stand (Tuesday - Friday 11am - noon and Saturday 9am - 10am) regardless of vaccination status. We invite customers to also continue to wear masks inside the farm stand the remainder of the day (Tuesday - Friday noon - 6pm and Saturday 10am - 3pm), but it will not be a requirement for fully vaccinated individuals to do so. At all times, we will ventilate the farm stand, provide handwashing sinks for general food safety, keep the produce displays spread apart, and will institute capacity limits inside the stand to enable proper distancing. In addition, we will keep a produce list outside the farm stand, and our Shopkeepers will be happy to shop for any customer who does not want to go inside the stand at all. We will also keep offering online pre-orders with outdoor pick-up on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays (online ordering opens at 6pm the night before here: https://openfoodnetwork.net/barrett-s-mill-farm/shop). We will continue to monitor the situation over the next few weeks and make adjustments to this plan as needed. We have been continuously adapting to make everyone as comfortable as possible on the farm throughout a very challenging year and a half, and we appreciate your patience and understanding as we develop the best practices for this season!
The CSA will begin next week, June 8th. Pick-ups will be Tuesdays and Thursdays 11am-6pm and Saturdays 9am-3pm. We will be sending out an email tomorrow to all CSA members with more details about pick-ups under the tent, as well as pick-your-own information for the start of the season. We will include a list of CSA Week 1 items available in next week’s newsletter, but you can look forward to veggies like spinach, scallions, arugula, bok choy and more to choose from to fill your CSA bag! We are very excited that sugar snap peas (and likely limited strawberries as well) will be ready for the first week of pick-your-own!
In the farm store and available online this week:
Carrots - From our high tunnel!
Spinach
Strawberries - Starting Wednesday. Just the very beginning! We will see how fast they start ripening with some warmer weather!
Sweet William flower bouquets
Radishes
Arugula
Baby bok choy
Mushrooms from Fat Moon Farm - Farmer’s Mix bags and Shiitake pints
Double B Honey - From hives on the property.
Seedlings: Herbs, Tomatoes, Peppers, Eggplant, Husk Cherries