March 30

Box Contents:

1.50 lbs Mandarins

1 bu Green Garlic

1 bu Purple Carrots

1 bu Red Spring Onions

.5 lb Snow Peas

1 hd Red Cabbage

1 bu Spinach

Box Notes: The sweet, juicy mandarins are from Gold Oak Ranch and are CCOF-certified organic.

We’d like to welcome our new Riverdog Farm veggie box subscribers! Thank you for joining the farm during these trying times. 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 CSA customers so we have an 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 with additional procedures for COVID-19 prevention. 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 using a pressure washer, and a new layout of the packing shed work spacing and harvesting so that each employee has a minimum of 6 foot distance from one another.

Here are some updates/changes/reminders 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.

• We picked up a new batch of our holiday hams last Saturday from Roundman’s in Ft. Bragg. They are 4-6 lbs average weight. There are now 15 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, a USDA inspected butcher shop. The hams are delivered frozen, in a cooler, to your CSA delivery site or available for pick up at market. Please return the cooler to the drop site the following week or leave it there at the time of your order pick up. The hams taste best heated. Cook (re-heat) the 4-6 lb hams for about an hour at 350 degrees. The juices will come out. Tip: pour orange juice into the bottom of the pan or layer marmalade on top of the ham and cover ham with foil. The juice/marmalade will give the ham a delicious citrusy flavor.

  • Please respect the site host’s privacy when you pick up your order. Do not knock on the site host doors. Call the farm if you need assistance finding the boxes, if an item is missing from your order, or your name is the not on the sign-in sheet.

• Please take only the items that are yours. Check order labels for your name and match them to the items listed on the sign-in sheet. If you inadvertently picked up an item that is not yours, let the farm know so we can let the subscriber know.

• NEW A/B subscriptions are no longer available.

• For those needing to skip deliveries, please login to your account and schedule your skip weeks: http://www.riverdogfarm.com/csa .

• For current A/B week subscribers please note that the delivery schedule is every other week. Some months may have 3 deliveries, some may only have 2 but the schedule is every-other-week for your deliveries.

• Reminder: So your subscription continues uninterrupted, please make sure your credit card on file is up to date on your CSA account. For those who need to end the CSA subscription, you MUST contact the farm through email to confirm cancellation –

• Your subscription will continue until this email confirmation is made by you, the member.