This is the future to a farmer!

Picture: A field of brilliant green cover crops is a slice of beauty, and makes me feel content that I'm doing my duty to improve the land for future harvests. (See more dreamy farmy talk after this important Harvie program info...)

Important Customizing Tips: Don't make your box undervalue by removing items and not adding enough items back into it. You can remove several items from your box, but you'll still pay the minimum price for your membership box that week.

-All the veggies (for veggie members) and meats have different values/prices- some are lower and some are higher depending on type and size of the items that I put into the program's harvest selection. If you take an item out of your box like a 2 pound couple of butternuts and want to replace it with lettuce, you'll need to find several items to add back into your box.
Low Box Value alert: Look for a green bar that says you can add more items to your share/box.

-The other customizing tip that I have noticed that helps members, is to keep adding items to your box until your shopping cart's total is just over your share's price...for example if you have a $26.75 regular veggie share, go over the box value by $1-3...so about $27.50 or $28.30 or something like that. That green bar with the box value alert should go away at that time.

Back to farmer dreams: this cocktail of millet, cowpeas, and sunflowers absorbs nutrients and provides food for important soil fungus, bacteria, and other microorganisms to support living soil and future food crops. Our work is easier with the cool mornings and clear air and we're pushing ahead with planting for December harvests. Peaceful fields with fall crickets and melodic meadowlarks and freshly cut hay. Our fall plants are growing with a burst on this warm late September day...even though the waning sun of post equinox is calming some plants down. Each day is less to the plants, but some of them feel the push to come to maturity like watermelon and daikon radish...say bye to tomato plants and hello to collard greens!

We love sharing our passion for good farm food! Eating fresh, vibrant veggies and delicious, flavorful farm meats is an easy choice with Bluebird Farm’s customizable veggie, beef, and pork boxes. Taste the difference with local farm food. We believe that food should be grown with biological methods that improve the health of the land, plants, and animals while sustaining the farmers that grow your food. Our greatest passion is to grow delicious food for you and your family while caring for the land.
We’re growing for you!

Farmers Marie Williamson and William Lyons started Bluebird Farm in 2009 on the land that Marie grew up on in Morganton, North Carolina. They earn their livelihood growing food on the farm, and love the beauty of food and land. They are passionate about the art of grazing livestock, and they feed their meat hogs certified organic grains. They work hard to raise healthy, flavorful vegetables, pastured meats, and eggs using biological techniques that improve the health of their land and contribute to a diverse farm ecosystem.

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