Update: 2023 Season
We are excited to welcome children and families fully back to the farm this season. Kids are welcome at harvests, as long as they are well supervised and a wee bit helpful. For families with younger kiddos, contact us about weekend shifts and tasks like berry-picking (super fun family activity!).

We are back to our usual event schedule with potlucks and farm classes open to our community (some classes require an RSVP).

Health & COVID-19 Information That Is Still Relevant!
(these safety guidelines are specifically for the harvest times, but are a good baseline for daily operations.)

1. Please do not come to the farm if you have had recent contact with someone with covid-19, or if you are showing symptoms of the virus.

2. Wash your hands with soap and water when you arrive on the farm, after using the bathroom, after touching your eyes/nose/mouth, after using your phone, and after touching items that others were handling.

3. Wear clean clothes.

4. Please be respectful of your own and others' desire for physical distancing.

5. Bring your own water bottle.

General Safety Information

a bit about WEATHER: We will harvest on time, rain or shine. We will take shelter if there is severe weather or lightning, but we will go back out to harvest as soon as the rain lets up. It's often windier and colder on the farm than in town and it's often dewy in the morning.  it's good to wear layers and waterproof shoes. We do have some misc rain gear and rain boots if you need them, but it's simplest if people bring their own.

It gets HOT on the farm during the summer months. Please come prepared with sunscreen, a hat, and plenty of drinking water.

Food Safety:

While there is nothing that we can do to ensure that our farm and food is 100% safe, there are many things that we can do to drastically improve safety conditions. We ask all of our volunteers to follow these rules and guidelines. Each of us have different risk factors and each of us has decided to work on the farm under the assumption that these are the safety protocols that we are following. If any one of us is not following these rules, it undermines the integrity of our farm and the food we are distributing.

FOOD SAFETY GUIDELINES:
1. Do not come to the farm if you have symptoms of a food borne illness - vomiting, diarrhea, or abnormal stomach cramping.
2.  Keep poop from interacting with our food. 
      a. Wear clean clothes and do not wear shoes that have animal poop on them
      b. don't pet the animals
      c. avoid animal poop in the field - just skip over leafy greens if there's visible bird poop on it.
     d. wash your hands with soap and water after using bathroom, or any contact with poop or animals, or
your phone
    e. wash your food with clean water before eating

QUICK NOTE ABOUT CHEMICAL SAFETY:
We also don't want any chemicals on the food we are distributing.  Please have your hands clean of bug spray, sun screen, perfume, deodorant, etc.  If you need to apply these things while at the farm, do so outside the garden area and then wash your hands with soap and water.