Newsletter 2nd/3rd April 2009 |
| Posted on Apr 02 2009 at 10:11 AM |
If you didn’t receive last week’s newsletter about what you do and don’t get in your weekly box (excluding vegetables) then please see the website news section. We also had a query about storing vegetables, and have re-posted an old newsletter about this – particularly tricky this time of year of course, as the end of the season approaches, and tricky with the dry, windy weather too (but we are NOT complaining about that!), which sucks the moisture out of the greens and they can go limp very quickly if not tended to and got into the fridge quickly.
Please note it’s Easter next week, so all the deliveries which would normally fall on Good Friday will be made a day earlier on Thursday 9th April instead – please note this especially if you are collecting from shop premises which will be closed on the Friday. Thanks.
Easter seems a good time to launch the sale of chicken eggs alongside the vegetables and fruit on the choice list. You can of course order your usual standard box and add these as an extra if you wish. Over the years, we have been approached by several people asking us to sell their eggs through the box and we have finally been persuaded by Ben’s Hens, who won the Soil Association Gold Award for eggs in 2008, so have impeckable credentials. Ben, formerly of “Rod and Ben’s” box scheme south of
As you hopefully already know, we are having an Easter Egg Hunt on Easter Sunday at Bidwell Barton, Upton Pyne, which will also involve other children’s activities such as decorating (hard-boiled) chicken eggs and for those of you feeling energetic, Tom is going to organise a pogo stick competition. For the Easter Egg Hunt turn up at any time between 10 and
Enjoy your vegetables. All the best Phil,