Fresh "NWF" Food

• Harvested Fresh - Most items are harvested only hours before you receive them. That's Fresh food!
  • Some days some items on farm pick ups may be only minutes Fresh of harvest 
    Now that's really Fresh food!

  We call this Fresh Food

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• Harvested When? days, maybe Weeks ago
  • Harvested, packed, loaded, stored in a warehouse, loaded, transported, unloaded, stored in a warehouse, loaded, transported, unloaded, stored in a warehouse, finally culled, prepared, displayed and labeled Fresh. NOT!   That's not Fresh!
    This is Old Food

• The best food is the Freshest food off the vine
  • Harvested at peak quality & ripeness
  • Highest in nutritional content

Other comparisons

• You are rarely offered food hours fresh off the vine at the supermarket
  • picked under-ripe for transporting
  • harvested before peak life-energy 
  • nutritionally underdeveloped

• The healthiest food is biodynamically grown food, harvested peak ripe

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• How many food recalls are you going to endure? Contaminated food, tainted, mislabeled, etc., ...

• Many unique and some common varieties, grown  for their flavor or texture, or specifically the higher health packed nutritional content of varieties not offered at supermarkets.

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• Varieties grown for supermarkets are selected for uniform look and durability to survive handling and shipping and still look great on the shelf for a day or two until you buy it

• Many tender and healthy or heirloom varieties do not transport well.. Fresh natural food full of whole-earth life-energy.  Naturally grown beyond organic standards. We seek to provide the healthiest food possible

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• Many varieties are often tough and tasteless but they look like "great stuff, for not a lotta money"! when you hear this enough you believe it tastes like great stuff (Yes! great stuff - not great food) 

• Members living near or driving by one of our farms stop in and pick up shares of food, no extra petroleum products are used to transport the old food to you. This cuts our dependency on Oil.

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• How many tons of hydro carbons are you going to continue to support and allow to be pumped into the environment  for corporate profit to transport OLD FOOD to your table.  It is our responsibility to STOP IT!

• Money spent on fuel to pickup or deliver Locally grown food is spent in your local economy. In vehicles bought in local economy, licensed and pay taxed here, supports small local businesses, and may be your neighbor or lives close to you. LOCAL is KEY!

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• Only a very small fraction of the transportation cost goes into your local economy, if any! Large corporations use their supply lines which are based in other regions and their accounts divert revenue away from local economies.

• Step vans, pickup trucks or your car, deliver or conveniently pickup your Fresh food.  Small vehicles distributing Fresh food in local networks. Transportation costs remain in the local economy

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• Huge trucks and trains and ships pour tons of pollution into our earths atmosphere to bring you old food, "great stuff, for not a lotta money". And you still have to drive to pick it up.