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Our crops are exclusively harvested by "loving" hands, the old fashioned way. Sometimes vegetables even get the white glove treatment as with easily bruised new potatoes and delicate crookneck squash. A visitor from China observing our harvest once remarked: "Food can't really be organic until people touch it. When these people harvest and handle the food is when it becomes organic." The harvest is put aboard electric flatbed trucks (hence the term truck farm) and transported to headquarters to prepare the vegetables for shipment. |
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We are dedicated to the use of paper lined wooden crates to protect our produce from the bumps and bruises of shipment to market. These collapsible, reusable crates, once the standard of the industry, have been largely replaced by the waxed carton. Waxed cartons are neither recyclable or reusable and only clog the waste stream. Box recyclers in urban areas collect wooden crates and resell them to farmers. We continue this tradition though these materials are becoming scarce. A wooden box can be used as many as a half-dozen times before being discarded. |
Denesse spends a major portion of her day arranging sales with retailers and wholesalers. Their vegetable orders will be picked the same day and shipped to retail outlets like the one from which you have purchased our product. Markets in California can sometimes have our product on their shelves within 24 hours of harvest. That is our ideal; we strive for freshness and only pick to order. We do not warehouse produce on the farm. |
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