On-Farm Produce Pick-ups
We are now in the early starts of the new year of 2011 and we would like to let you know what this year will be for Arugula’s Star Farm....soon to be updated for year 2012.
As our farm is always aspiring to achieve the long terms goals and plans we mention throughout our website we just did not have enough daylight hours through the last year, not to mention the set back from the May 2010 Flood, to complete all we wanted and needed to accomplish at the farm as to be able to move on to the growings of more and to be a larger force of agricultural good for our local communities and cities. The May 2010 Flood also has caused us to feel obligated to put a large % of our growing fields in a perennial grass/legume cover crop to help re-build the top layer of precious soil that was swept away.
With this said, we will not be offering a CSA, or the On-line Produce Store for Elmington Park deliveries, nor will we be selling to Whole Foods in Green Hills. We are limiting ourselves to an acre of organic vegetable production this year and will only have limited amounts of seasonal produce for On-Farm pick-ups.
Arugula's Star Farm's mailing list has grown over the last three years to almost 500 and we have decided that as people come and go, we are going to discontinue this list and start from fresh. So, if you truly have loved our organic produce and would be interested in knowing about what exciting offerings or establishments that could come into fruition in a couple of years down the road, or if you think you are a candidate for seasonal On-Farm fruit & vegetable pick-ups in 2011 you can simply re-sign up by clicking here Mailing List or by going to our website and signing up for our Mailing List
On-Farm Pick-up Details...Current for winter months of 2012
The way the On-Farm ordering/pick-up will function this year will be that an e-mail will be sent out on Wednesdays when there will be produce available for pick-up that current week. To be on the list to receive this e-mail please sign-up for our mailing list. As it is really hard to meet everyone's schedule, it makes it very difficult to decide what should be the best time for on-farm pick-ups. We have decided for the fall to go with a large pick-up window that occurs from Fridays at 1pm through the weekend. The produce will be placed at the Shipping and Receiving Rocket near the farm gate at 1 pm on Fridays and will stay there through Sunday evening. This will give everyone the freedom to come when he or she so desires in betwwen the given times and therefore does not pin one into a 1 hour pick-up time frame. Remember, if you are not a close by neighbor, the most ideal notion would be to get together a produce pick-up group that could allow for a rotational pick-up schedule for each person in that group. For example, if there were four people in a group each person in that group would only have to drive to the farm once a month.
To place an order, after getting this e-mail showing you the available organic produce, you will just call our office phone 931-682-3314 and leave a message telling the type and qty of produce items that you will be picking up. If you have access to a fax and that is easier for you, we can also receive a Faxed order at 931-682-9175, or you can just send your order via e-mail allie@ArugulasStarFarm.com
We hope to be seeing you and we hope that you can enjoy our seasonal and limited amounts of organic produce in the winter months of 2012.