Harvie Farms New Orleans Week 9

Thank you to everyone for another great week of deliveries! We hope you are all enjoying your fresh bounty as much as we are.

Over the past few weeks we have been working on a project that we are excited to be able to share with you all - Harvie Farms New Orleans is partnering with Feed the Second Line to deliver farm fresh local food to our elders!

Feed the Second Line by Krewe of Red Beans is an effort to support the folks who create New Orleans culture and make our city special. Spy Boys, Baby Dolls, Musicians, Second Lines - all of these are created by people. During these tough times of COVID, we invite you to join us - in supporting the culture bearers. Beginning in 2020, Feed the Second Line has purchased over $130,000 worth of groceries and created $300,000 worth of jobs for New Orleans culture-bearers.

We are excited to partner, to build a sustainable system to supply the culture-bearers of New Orleans with farm-fresh produce! This week we add the first 5 culture-bearers to our service, but there are 120 more to go! We estimate $2,500 will be the average cost for a year's worth of Harvie Boxes for one culture-bearer - the goal is to add them all in 2021 (which means a goal of $312,500). Help us add them all over time!

If you would like to partner with us and support these elders you can add our donation share to your delivery or visit feedthesecondline.org.

Join us in supporting the culture!

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

Featured Item

Pasture Raised Eggs, 1 dozen - Greener Pastures, Singer LA

Greener pastures is run by a young farmer, John Cassell. Last year the eye of hurricane Laura ripped through Greener Pastures and John is still fighting to bring the farm back from the destruction. These pasture raised eggs are the first product they have available since rebuilding after the destruction. 

Cheese share

The cheese share this week is PsycheDillic Dill Chèvre (Cypress Grove) - St. James Cheese 

Some new items this week

Pasture Raised Eggs, 1 dozen - Greener Pastures (Singer, LA)
Skim Milk 1/2 Gallon - Feliciana's Best Dairy (Slaughter, LA)
2% Milk 1/2 Gallon - Feliciana's Best Dairy (Slaughter, LA)
Whole Milk 1/2 Gallon - Feliciana's Best Dairy (Slaughter, LA)
Chocolate milk, 1/2 gallon - Feliciana's Best Dairy
Broccoli - Elmer's Farm (Shreveport, LA)
Super shot, 2 oz - Coffee Science
Woke AF, 8 oz Espresso Concentrate - Coffee Science


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.