General Information
2016 Vegetable Shares
What’s in the Vegetable Box?
Shares contain 2 overfilled shopping bags each week. The farmers send an email every Monday (sometimes Tuesday) with a list of what will be in the week's share. It will include some kind of salad green, leafy greens, 1-2 herbs, seasoning like garlic or green onions, root vegetables like carrots potatoes or beets. Later in season we will get summer vegetables like cucumbers, tomatoes, zucchini. In the fall, you will start seeing winter squash, more root vegetables.
Example vegetable boxes
image of one example vegetable bag
The full list of what they grow
Ideas for using your veggies!
The price of the vegetable box for Hesperides, is $768 for the season, or $32/box, which comes to APPROXIMATELY less than $2.00 a pound including lighter things like herbs and leafy greens. This is based on a 15 lbs box; weight and contents of boxes vary throughout the 24 week season.
You may pay in one payment or two:
One payment: Please enclose a check in the amount of $768 with your sign up form.
Two payments: Please enclose a check in the amount of $389 with your sign up form. Second payment $389 is due August 1
2016 Fruit Shares
$400 - 20 weeks at $20 per week
One payment: Please enclose a check in the amount of $400 with application.
Two payments: Please enclose a check for $200 with application. Second payment is due August 1.
What’s in the Vegetable Box?
Shares contain 2 overfilled shopping bags each week. The farmers send an email every Monday (sometimes Tuesday) with a list of what will be in the week's share. It will include some kind of salad green, leafy greens, 1-2 herbs, seasoning like garlic or green onions, root vegetables like carrots potatoes or beets. Later in season we will get summer vegetables like cucumbers, tomatoes, zucchini. In the fall, you will start seeing winter squash, more root vegetables.
Example vegetable boxes
image of one example vegetable bag
The full list of what they grow
Ideas for using your veggies!
The price of the vegetable box for Hesperides, is $768 for the season, or $32/box, which comes to APPROXIMATELY less than $2.00 a pound including lighter things like herbs and leafy greens. This is based on a 15 lbs box; weight and contents of boxes vary throughout the 24 week season.
You may pay in one payment or two:
One payment: Please enclose a check in the amount of $768 with your sign up form.
Two payments: Please enclose a check in the amount of $389 with your sign up form. Second payment $389 is due August 1
2016 Fruit Shares
$400 - 20 weeks at $20 per week
One payment: Please enclose a check in the amount of $400 with application.
Two payments: Please enclose a check for $200 with application. Second payment is due August 1.