Harvie Farms New Orleans Week 8

Here is one of our favorite pictures of Madeline and Timothy at Compostella Farm using their intermediate size lettuce harvester. This harvester cuts the lettuce and then the conveyor belt drops the lettuce in the tub in the back. This is a rare harvest method they have begun to use as their farm continues to grow!

Cheers to another great week of deliveries - we hope you all enjoyed unboxing your bounty as much as we did! This week we included some delicious recipes thanks to our chef of the week Brian Burns of Costera Restaurant and Bar.

Chef Brian brought our box to life with his Italian Sausage and Canestri Pasta and Charred Winter Vegetable Salad. For those looking to try Burns excellent take on spanish cuisine, Costera is a must try when you have the chance. Prior to opening Costera, Burns was the chef de cuisine at Donald Link's James Beard Award-winning restaurant Peche. After traveling throughout Spain, Burns and his partner Reno De Ranieri decided to open Costera and bring their own twist to what they saw as an underserved market. Burns and Ranieri make sure local ingredients are the core of every dish and often include the same ingredients you are all receiving each week.

Speaking of ingredients, we have some exciting new options coming to you in the next few weeks! In two weeks we are excited to share that we will have EGGS available! After you begin to add your eggs, get ready for more because milk, fresh baked bread and strawberries will be close behind. We will have more updates for you as these items become available but wanted to make sure to let you know what is to come so you have time to prepare and set your preferences!

Now, here are some updates on the products we have available for you next week!

Featured Item

Pasture Raised Whole Chickens, 3-3.5 lbs - Mahaffey Farms

Cheese share

The cheese share this week is Beecher’s Cheddar, 8 oz

Some new items this week

Ground Chicken - Mahaffey Farms
Ground Pork, 1 lb pack - Berkwood Farms
Malfade Fresh Pasta, 1 lb bags - Josephine Estelle
Brussels Sprouts, 1/2 lb bag - Perilloux Farm
Bok Choi, 1 large Head - Two Dog Farm
Oyster Mushroom - Two Dog Farm
Purple Radish, 1 lb bag - Pelican Produce
Cauliflower - Ranatza Farm
Vermont Creamery, Cremont - St. James Cheese
Beemster Gouda, 8 oz - St. James Cheese

How Harvie Works 

As you may have noticed, we’ve recently updated our share names to better reflect the variety of products we have available - produce, dairy, meat, seafood, and dry goods. Since we’ve moved away from separate produce or meat & seafood boxes, your membership with Harvie Farms New Orleans can include as much variety as you’d like in one box to fit your diet and lifestyle! Setting preferences and customizing your share are two more ways to ensure you receive delicious, local food that works for your household. 

Rating products in your preferences is the first way to ensure that what you love is included in your share. Anything rated with a 1 (Not for Me) will never be included in your share. Interested in only fresh meat and seafood offerings? No problem! You can rate all produce products as a 1, and you won’t receive them. Here’s a brief tutorial on How do preferences work?. To set your preferences ahead of time and make sure your box will be customized to fit them visit this link: https://www.harvie.farm/member/preferences.

After you’ve set your preferences, you can customize your share during the customization period. When the customization window is open, you can swap items for other products and purchase extras. Here’s a great resource that goes over How Swaps and Extras Work.

Please customize your farm share or purchase extras if you like using the link in your email. You will have until 5 pm on Friday to make changes to your farm share. At that point, we'll send your orders to our farmers and they will be harvesting to get ready for Wednesday delivery! We'll deliver to your home between noon and 8pm on Wednesday. Please check your address and if there are any special directions for how we should deliver let us know here: https://www.harvie.farm/member/profile/edit

How to Reschedule or Hold Your Share

Have a trip coming up, need to hold a particular box, or know that you’ll want to double up on deliveries on a future date? We’ve got you covered! You can reschedule and hold your shares to ensure your deliveries arrive when they work best for your household. Please make these changes  well ahead of time, as finalized shares cannot be rescheduled or changed once they’re included in a delivery. 

Rescheduling a Share Date

When you reschedule your share, you'll be prompted to pick the next available date at your chosen delivery location, and payment will be moved accordingly.  Rescheduling is available to members within the same season.

Rescheduling a Share’s Location

If you need to change your delivery option you can make this change within the same week as the original delivery or can move it to another available week. Your payment will be moved accordingly. Holding a SharePlacing a hold on your delivery will result in forfeiting (cancelling) that share for the week and no additional payment will be charged. You can hold three deliveries per year, and holding your share does not  automatically reschedule those shares.

For more information on these tools, as well as a step-by-step tutorial on how to reschedule or hold a share, check out our resources here. 

Packaging Return Instructions

We know there is a lot of packaging that goes into delivering your farm fresh goodies which is why we encourage you to return your packaging to us for reuse! Follow the steps below to help us reduce waste!  

- Remove and retain clear plastic bag of local farm products 
- Break down cardboard box 
- Stack shiny liner and ice packs on box 
- Place flattened box, liner, and ice packs in the box delivery location on delivery day 
- Please try to keep the box, liner and ice packs dry when possible.  

Thanks for helping reduce our environmental footprint!  

Let’s Build a Community!

In 2021, we want to build a community of local food eaters here at Harvie Farms New Orleans! There are so many creative and interesting people that are members and we want to unlock this community to support all of us in eating fresh and local.We've found private Facebook communities to be a very effective way to communicate, learn, and collaborate in the past so we are launching a Facebook group called Geaux Local which you can join here:https://www.facebook.com/groups/geauxlocal 

This is available for current members of Harvie Farms New Orleans as well as anyone interested in what we are doing. We encourage you to invite your friends and family!

We thrive and grow on referrals.

If you love your Harvie box, please tell your friends. We are increasing the credit for referrals from $25 to $50 until the end of the year. You can use these credits for extras purchases to add on to your box. Find your personal referral link here: https://www.harvie.farm/member/refer-a-friend Also, if you post an unboxing, recipe, or testimonial video to twitter, facebook, instagram or youtube.. tag us @harviefarms, add your referral link to the post, and send us a screenshot (neworleans@harvie.farm) and we'll give you a $5 credit on your account.

Got any questions? Drop us a line at support@harvie.farm or (412) 567-3864.