Covid 19 Lockdown

Microgreens that the hens enjoyed once the restaurants, cafes & farmers markets closed down.

20 April 2020

It has been very surreal these last few weeks during Level 4 lockdown.

We made the decision to combine with another stallholder from the Feilding Farmer’s market and have been making weekly vege box deliveries mainly to regular and high risk customers in Feilding and Palmerston North. Because we are so small the number of deliveries we can manage each week is fairly small. Requests as word of mouth has spread far outways our ability to supply. It has been a rapid learning curve developing systems to keep everyone safe plus admin to track the deliveries. Going forward we will continue with deliveries until the Farmers Markets open again but are looking at doing vege box deliveries of seasonal produce as part of our regular weekly business.

We should have been starting with our first stand alone stall in the Hokowhitu Village carpark on 5th April but due to the lockdown haven’t started these yet. Hopefully with the right processes in place we might be able to get these going sooner than the full Farmers Markets are able to resume - maybe level 2 depending on the restrictions.

With restaurants, cafes and markets closed we are only growing and selling about a quarter of the salad greens, microgreens etc as part of the Friday deliveries. Still less time planting and processing has been a good chance for us to catch up on a few jobs around the property eg hedges, preparing gardens for winter tarping etc. I have also had time to finally put some of our art pieces on the website store 🤗