On Saturdays I send an email describing the approximate box contents and price (actual contents may vary due to quality or availability). Orders must be placed by 4PM on Mondays. You can pick up your box(es) and pay between 1:00PM Thursdays and 12:00PM Saturdays at Ward's Berry Farm (614 South Main St., Sharon). Members order week by week, with the option of having their order placed automatically
every week. How often and how much you buy is completely up to you. Although we will soon be restructuring our financial system, we are currently not charging deposits or registration fees. This makes it very important that every order is picked up. To keep the box price down, we operate very close to our cost. Any order that is not paid for puts us in the red. So please, when you order, consider it your promise to purchase! As much produce as possible is from Massachusetts or other nearby New England farms, the rest from organic distributors. Most items we provide are certified organic. However, when we deal directly with local farms, we will occasionally get transitional items (crops that have been grown according to the Organic Standard Certification rules, but on land that is not yet certified), or other non-certified naturally grown or wild items. All non-certified items will always be clearly identified, and only ordered when we are familiar with the farm, and confident that the produce has been grown purely, according to organic standards. Of course, during much of the year there is not much local produce available, so some of the items in our boxes come from further away. Although much is purchased from organic produce distributors, we are fortunate to also have a Western Massachusetts farmer purveying produce for us on the east coast, following harvest season all the way down to Florida. So we are helping to support another local farm, as well as eliminating thousands of petromiles by purchasing as close to home as possible, e.g. buying from North Carolina instead of Florida, from Florida rather than California. If you would like to be added to our mailing list, please go to http://eepurl.com/lDqcz.
