Farm Happenings for July 6, 2021

Good Afternoon Farm Family,

Welcome to the Summer 2021 Farm Share season. For those of you who have been members through the spring, welcome back and for those of you that this will be your first shares of the season welcome aboard. We have worked really hard to get things to this point and have built a lot of relationships along the way with other growers and producer to offer a wider array of products this season.

This weeks shares will include corn, beans, tomatoes, lettuce, candy onions, cabbage, cucumbers, peaches, squash and zuchinni. In addition to our produce offerings we will also have coffee, chicken breast, hamburger, pork sausage, and honey.

I hope everyone is as excited as we are to start the summer season. More and more produce will be rolling in each week. We will continue to work with Spring Valley Orchard all summer on peaches so you will see those offered throughout the year which is a very exciting thing. We had hoped to have them last summer but they experienced a big freeze late last spring that cut their crop nearly in half.

As always if you have questions, feel free to reach out.

Since 1927, our farm has been a well-known landmark in the Kanawha Valley, and our family has been an active part of the community. Our family roots began in Buffalo with Veto and Nellie Gritt’s establishment of our current farm operation. Today, we continue to thrive with our family's fourth generation growing up on the farm. We have changed, evolved, and adapted our agribusiness to serve the needs of our local and regional customers. Gone are the days of delivering eggs in the C10 to the front doors of Buffalo before greenhouses and our first farm stand. Many improvements have been made to our farm, and we continue extensive planning for the future of the farm and retail market.

The diversity of our business model, from our multitude of crops, companion products, marketing strategies, and support of other local farms has helped us weather many storms and the volatility of agricultural income. Pick Your Own, Agritourism, and our CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) all are strengths that make us unique and lively. Our relationships with growers and suppliers are truly local, most within a 50-mile radius.

As a family, we are proud of our contributions to the community of Buffalo as we serve as stewards of the land, provide employment opportunities on our farm and in our retail locations, and grow and provide farm-fresh products. The combined 400 acres of land we farm provide beauty and open space in Buffalo, as well as an opportunity to provide family in our community with healthy food options. Over 80 individuals are employed over the course of a year, allowing us to contribute to the growth of our local economy. As a long-standing employer in our community, we have had the opportunity to ‘raise’ many teenagers who come back after further education and raising families to say how valuable their experience at Gritt’s was to their life. We have had the pleasure of having multiple generations of families be a part of our farm, too.

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