Month: April 2020

So we debuted our salad mix last week and sold out in less than two days. It’s obviously nice for us that there seems to be demand for it, but we also don’t like turning folks away due to sell outs. It’s going to be a slow process, but we’re working on increasing our weekly salad mix output. Salad mix is something that we will ideally be able to do year-round, so we’re trying to play the long game here. Anyway, for those who bought salad mix last week, please let us know what you thought about it! Any feedback, good or bad, is welcome.

We WILL have salad mix for sale this week, but it will likely not be as much as we had last week. So, for that reason, we’re going to ask that any future salad mix orders be limited to one bag per order for the time being. Regarding our $5 for 1, $4 for 2+ pricing scheme where you mix and match with microgreens trays…. that will still be in effect. So a single bag of salad mix will be $5, but if you get a bag of salad mix and 1 or more microgreens trays, then the salad mix and microgreens will be $4 per item. Please let us know if you have any questions on that.

We’re sold out of chicken eggs for the May 2 market, but are taking advance orders for the May 9 market. We do have some duck eggs available for May 2, and plenty of microgreens.

Behind the scenes, we’re also investigating ways to better automate the order reservation process. It will almost certainly involve some sort of shopping cart scheme on our website, but a potential twist could be that you could either purchase your cart contents via PayPal / credit card (just like you would in any online store)… OR… you could “reserve” the contents of your order and pay later via Venmo or in-person at the market, etc. But, generally, having our products visible on our website with prices and availability for upcoming market dates… all of that, it seems, would make for a more streamlined, efficient experience for all involved. Anyway, these are all concepts / in the works at this point, but we’ll keep you posted with any news on that front.

Hang in there, everyone, and hope to see you Saturday!

Sorry to anyone who may have been interested and not yet placed an order, but we are now sold out of the salad mix bags for this week. We do have more growing in the garden for next week. Meanwhile, for this week, we still have some duck eggs available as well as the following varieties of microgreens:

• arugula
• basic salad mix (not to be confused with the garden-harvested stuff)
• basil
• cilantro
• kale
• pea
• radish
• spicy salad mix

Thanks all!

We’re starting to get our first batches of salad greens from the garden! All 8 of the following greens will be combined into one big ol’ mix of veggie goodness:

• 4 different lettuces:
  • green oak leaf
  • red oak leaf
  • red romaine
  • green Batavian
• red Russian kale
• mustard
• rainbow Swiss Chard
• arugula

We’re going to offer this mix for sale at the Manassas Farmer’s Market in a 6 ounce bag. The market is still pre-order only, so please contact us if you’d like to arrange an order. Pricing will be similar to what we do for microgreens: $5 for a single bag or $4 per bag for two or more bags. And you can mix and match the salad mix bags with microgreens as desired (for example, a bag of salad mix and a 5×5 microgreens tray would cost $8 total). And, as always, we have plenty of microgreens this week, as well!

Meanwhile, we’re completely sold out of chicken eggs this week. There has been a massive increase in egg demand over the past month or so. We used to have a healthy reserve of eggs to rely on, but we’re at the point now where we’re essentially taking orders for eggs that haven’t even been laid yet! If you’d like chicken eggs, all we can really do at the moment is place an order for you for the following week (ie May 2 market). We do still have some duck eggs available this week.

We’ve sown batches of cherry tomatoes and peanuts inside and will be planting them out in the garden next month… hopefully some good stuff to come over the summer. Looking forward to eventually resuming the traditional farmer’s market setup with tents and sampling and lots of people browsing around… maybe in a month or two or three? We haven’t heard anything on that front, but we’ll let you know if we do. Stay healthy, everyone!

The demand for eggs has gone way way up over the past few weeks. Our duck egg backlog more or less disappeared last week, and our chicken egg supply is almost at that point. It seems people are stocking up on the more staple products these days. These certainly aren’t the best of times, but we’re grateful for all of the local support recently.

We’ve decided to put purchase limits in place for our chicken eggs and duck eggs to hopefully better spread out availability. For the time being, we’re going to limit chicken egg purchases to no more than 1 dozen and duck egg purchases to no more than a 1/2 dozen. We’re hoping that this will reduce the number of times we have to tell people we don’t have any eggs for them in the near term. Once our supply has recovered a bit and/or demand has calmed down, we’ll likely remove the purchase limits… we’ll post another update at that time. Our egg prices have been unchanged since we started selling at the farmer’s market in June last year, and no plans to change them anytime soon: $3 per half dozen for chicken eggs and $4 per half dozen for duck eggs.

We want to give a big thank you to all of our customers, and hope everyone is staying safe and healthy!

The first “drive by” farmer’s market went off without a hitch (at least for us) this past Saturday. We setup our green tables and put the orders out in grocery bags… customers came, grabbed their stuff, and went on their way. The market opened for pickup at 10am and we had all our orders gone by noon-ish.

There was some occasional confusion amongst the customers as to which vendor was which, as not many of us had signage. We’re planning to bring our sign this next time, to do our part to alleviate that. And also a few people who hadn’t pre-ordered from anyone and just wanted to browse around… they were, as kindly as possible, turned away by the market managers. There’s definitely a different vibe to this market, but not sure much can be done about that. It’s nice that we’re all at least making a go of it.

Not sure yet which vendors might be showing up on the 11th. We already have a handful of orders, so we’ll definitely be there. We had heard about the possibility of needing to sub-divide that 10am – 1pm time window into multiple shifts IF too many vendors needed to attend (point being to avoid excessive people density). But, again, no idea which vendors will be coming this next time, and so far, the official plan is that all vendors will be there from 10am – 1pm.

Anyway, we’ve seen a lot of chicken egg sales these past few weeks. Significantly higher than any other period. We still have an inventory of chicken eggs, but may need to start limiting purchase quantities maybe next week or so. We’ll see how things go. For now, please keep the orders coming! And we have some duck eggs back in stock, as well. We’re also reorienting our microgreens grow schedule to align with these Saturday markets. So now, all of our microgreens will (ideally) hit peak maturity on Saturdays.

Hope all are well. Seems like we’re slowly but surely getting through this thing.

We got word just hours ago that the market managers will need to move the location of the “drive by” farmer’s market. The new location will be our usual Saturday farmer’s market location… ie in the commuter parking lot across the street from Baldwin Elementary School. Timeframe is still Saturday from 10am – 1pm. We’re crossing our fingers that there will be no further changes in plans, but… well maybe we’ll just hope for the best.

Many thanks to all the folks who have already placed orders with us for pickup at this market! For anyone else, we still have plenty of chicken eggs and I think still a few microgreens trays, so feel free to contact us and we can get into details. Regardless, best of health to everyone and enjoy the upcoming weekend!