Dear Local Food Box members and local food supporters,
Registration for this year’s Local Food Box is open! We thank you for your patience as we have been switching over our software. As it is a new software, please reach out if you have any troubles signing up! You can read the updates below or just skip it and register here.
We are proud to be working with a great team of local farmers and producers to offer you a beautiful, fresh and delicious assortment of local food and flowers again this year. Our farmers work hard and are committed to creating local food resiliency and high quality products.
Box program options
- Meats (pork, chicken and lamb) from Parry Bay Sheep Farm and Stillmeadow Farm
- Flower bouquets from The Marchand Family Garden
- Honey from Windweaver Farm
- Mushrooms from West Coast Mycology
- Microgreens from Roaming Raven Farm
- Flour from Nootka Rose
- Eggs from Ridgeview Farm and Starlit Ridge Farm (egg producers may vary depending on availability)
- Fruits and vegetables from Wind Whipped Farm
Pickup Location Options: At Wind Whipped Farm
- Tuesdays, 3:30 – 5:30
- Fridays, 3:30 – 5:30
- Saturdays, 9:00 am-noon in the Wind Whipped Farmstand (items will be pre-packaged and left out in the farmstand for you to pick up)
We are only opening registration for farm pickups at the moment and we will open registration for town pickups if we don’t reach our registration capacity.
Solidarity Share
Thanks for all the support we have received in establishing the Solidarity Share to help provide local produce to families facing financial difficulty. Last year, box members provided nearly $2,000 in solidarity funding by adding Solidarity Shares to their box orders and by donating Administrative Fee Credits at the end of the season. This funding has helped establish the Metchosin Farmers Solidarity Fund, a partnership with Umi Nami Farm and Sea Bluff Farm that aims to provide a regular weekly supply of fresh vegetables for a local community food bank (see article below). So far, this program has been impactful, we are keen to continue to strengthen and expand it this year.
Busy spring at the farm!
We’re continuing to make great progress on our farm expansion. This season, we’re planting new apple trees and doubling our strawberry patch so we can bring even more fruit into your boxes.
Spring planting is in full swing, with new crops going into the ground each week. We’re just wrapping up our onion planting, and our greenhouses are filling up with fresh growth—like the carrots below. Up next: tomatoes!
Strawberry transplants ready to be planted in the next few weeks
First carrots of the season are coming along nicely
Future onions and shallots
Thanks!
We hope you will be joining us in the box program this year and we really appreciate it if you can recommend The Local Food Box to your friends and in your networks.
Sincerely,
Alex and Virginie on behalf of the Wind Whipped Farm Team and The Local Food Box partners.
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