March 23

Box Contents:
1 hd Green Cabbage
1.50 lbs Mandarin Oranges
1.50 lbs Leeks
.75 lbs Little Gem Lettuce
1 bu Red Chard
1 lb bu Asparagus

We’d like to welcome our new Riverdog Farm veggie box subscribers! We have received
many new and renewing sign-ups over the past week. Due to the unfortunate restaurant
closures, we have shifted our sales to primarily CSA and farmers markets. Because of this
shift, we are able to allocate the majority of the produce we are growing at this time directly
to our customers so we have ample supply of the vegetables. Thankfully, the farmers
markets remain open because they are food sources and are being categorized as
“essential businesses” during the shelter-in-place order.
We continue to practice safe food handling in all aspects of running the farm. The practices
include: hand washing and glove wearing by all employees who handle the produce from
harvest to wash and pack, policy of stay at home for those with fever/cough or any flu
symptoms, sanitizing of all plastic harvest totes and CSA totes with a bleach solution.
Here are some updates/changes since last week:
• New chicken orders are not available this week via the CSA. The weekly chicken
subscriptions and orders placed as of 3/20/20 will be fulfilled.
• New egg orders are not available this week via the CSA. You may purchase eggs at
the farmers market.

• 7 Holiday hams are still available. Place your order now for delivery with your next
CSA order or pick up at market or email the farm - csa@riverdogfarm.com to
reserve one. Place your orders for spring hams by 9:00 am, Monday April 6, 2020
for timely delivery. Riverdog Farm hams are smoked and cured at Roundman’s in
Ft. Bragg. They are delivered frozen, in a cooler, to your CSA delivery site. Please
return the cooler to the drop site the following week or leave it there at the time of
your order pick up.
The sweet, juicy mandarins are from Gold Oak Ranch and are CCOF-certified organic.
Field Notes: Rain, Rain, come and stay… a major change in the weather pattern is ahead,
looks like rain in Northern California all week! We are very pleased about the weather
forecast. It also looks there will be some frost which enhances the sweetness of all the
winter crops. We started to transplant 15 varieties of tomatoes. They will be frost-protected
with overhead irrigation lines.
Reminder: Please make sure your credit card on file is updated (if expired) on your CSA
account so you subscription continues uninterrupted.