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Our first priority when it comes to our produce is plain and simple: to purchase from local farmers and producers. Each week when we’re putting together the Share, our first move is to call & text the local farmers that we’re connected with. One of our grants is called the Local Food Promotion Program grant, which allows us to pay our local farmers and producers a fair wholesale price for their goods. We purchase shelf-stable local goods year-round, and strive to always source from local farmers every week, but there are times in the year where that becomes a little bit more difficult (December-June).
When we can’t source 80%-100% of the items in the Weekly Shares locally as we do in the summer, our next priority is to source organically. Our organic suppliers sometimes have limited variety, but we do what we can to keep it exciting and to us it’s about the quality of the produce that we’re offering. We can confidently say that our Shares average about 80% organic produce throughout the year.
Finally, when we aren’t able to source organically we are extremely mindful of the non-organic produce that we choose to include in the Shares. We stick to the items on the “Clean Fifteen,” a list that was featured in our newsletter a few weeks ago. The items on this list have been proven to contain small amount of pesticide (kiwi, avocado, cantaloupe, etc). To read more about this list go to the Environmental Working Group’s website. We are concerned with offering healthy fruits and vegetables to as many people as we can, and this is the model that we have chosen to make it happen!
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When we can’t source 80%-100% of the items in the Weekly Shares locally as we do in the summer, our next priority is to source organically. Our organic suppliers sometimes have limited variety, but we do what we can to keep it exciting and to us it’s about the quality of the produce that we’re offering. We can confidently say that our Shares average about 80% organic produce throughout the year.
Finally, when we aren’t able to source organically we are extremely mindful of the non-organic produce that we choose to include in the Shares. We stick to the items on the “Clean Fifteen,” a list that was featured in our newsletter a few weeks ago. The items on this list have been proven to contain small amount of pesticide (kiwi, avocado, cantaloupe, etc). To read more about this list go to the Environmental Working Group’s website. We are concerned with offering healthy fruits and vegetables to as many people as we can, and this is the model that we have chosen to make it happen!
Click here to download a PDF of this week's Newsletter!