Onwards to Week 11! We are humbled to see this community of members grow week to week. It is our honor to feed more and more families in our community with this bounty of farm fresh local food! We hope everyone has been enjoying the thrill of receiving their box as much as we have.
This past week we had the honor of featuring some amazing recipes from Chef Devan Giddix of Bourbon House. If you did not receive these recipes in last week's delivery visit our instagram @harviefarms to see what he cooked up for us this week (he even added a seasonal cocktail!). While you grab all of your ingredients, here is a little background on the mastermind behind those recipes!
Chef Devan Giddix attended the Culinary Institute of America where he traveled to New Orleans and fell in love with its culinary lineage. He went from cook, to lead cook at Palace Café and then to sous chef and eventually chef de cuisine at Bourbon House. Along the way his appreciation of seafood, especially Gulf seafood has grown.
Chef Devan gets his inspiration through the seasonality of food and the way that ingredients at their peak freshness speak their own culinary language. He loves the way food brings people together and gets his energy from making guests happy through his dishes. If he’s not at work, you’re likely to find him at home with his wife, playing with their dogs and cooking something up on the grill (likely that something being local seafood). We encourage you visit Devan at Bourbon House when you have the chance and taste his dish of the season!
At Harvie Farm’s New Orleans we value community and it has been so fun having the chance to include Chef’s like Devan who add a special “flavor” to the group. One of our goals in 2021 is to continue to build up and grow a community of local eaters, farm lovers and fresh food fanatics. At the beginning of this year we launched a Facebook group called Geaux Local to start the conversation and continue the growth of this community. Our vision is to bring together locals, farmers, producers, chefs and businesses alike. We hope that this group provides a fun and entertaining place to talk to one another about our passion for food and our local community. It is also a great place to share what you are cookin’ up each week with your Harvie box! If you have not already joined we encourage you to check it out!
You can request approval here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/geauxlocal
We are so excited to see this community grow - thank you for the continued support. We hope that everyone will continue to invite your friends and family to join along as we expand Harvie Farms New Orleans!
Now, here are some updates on the products we have available for you next week!
Cheese share
The cheese share this week is Ama Blue, Aged Soft Blue Cheese, 4 oz - St. James Cheese
Featured Item
Satsuma Juice - Becnel Citrus
We had the unique opportunity to source this juice at the end of the satsuma season. We have froze these so we can offer this delicious juice to you until next season. Simply place it in your fridge to let it defrost and we promise it will taste absolutely delicious! We are addicted to it over here.
Some new items this week
Oyster Mushrooms, Nature's Crest
Mustard Greens, Two Dog Farm
Purple Daikon Radish, Two Dog Farm
Hydroponic Slicer Tomatoes (limited quantity), Cajun Growers
Green onions, Pelican Produce
Carrots, Perilloux Farm
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.
You can also drop off your packaging for reuse at this address:
205 23rd St
Kenner, LA
70062
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.
