Garden Boxes
Fresh produce. Weekly or Biweekly; Full sized boxes or Small sized. Typical garden variety and season. We’ve grown in our variety of offerings, but have found most like just the basics, which is where we are focusing our energy.
Garden produce is cut fresh within 2-3 days of your box… most the same day, but items like onions or garlic will have been picked earlier. Some items have to be picked daily, so we are often picking 6 days a week to keep the produce at the best tasting size and texture (like zucchini, asparagus, peas and beans). We have a cold room, since 2023, to chill items like lettuce, peas, beans, etc. so the produce does not deteriorate before you get them. We like our produce fresh, so try to keep yours just as fresh, too.
While we’d love to have you all season, we know you all have a life. Vacations and emergencies are just fine to take off, without charge. We offer your boxes (if given enough time) to those on our waiting list.
Tweaking… we allow some tweaking of our offerings. You get to choose 7 items to remove from your boxes at the beginning of the season. This allows you to enjoy all of your produce and avoiding those things that just don’t sit well with you. It may change some of your variety on some weeks, but we try our best to send you produce you will enjoy (within reason).
Choose a Season
Full Season
Boxes start mid-May and continue through the end of September. Sometimes we offer a couple more in October if produce is still available.
You will get the full variety of produce we grow on our farm.
Spring Season
Boxes start mid-May and continue through June. We take a couple weeks off in June, so those weeks are not offered (unless it works out for one of us to be here, but those are optional).
Typical produce is asparagus, greens, lettuce, bok choy & tatsoi, mustard, arugula, herbs, garlic scapes, early garlic and onions, snow peas, and rhubarb.
Summer Season
Starts in July – September with optional boxes in October, if available. This is when you get to see tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, zucchini, snap beans, onions, leeks, garlic bulbs, etc. Winter squash comes later in the season.
We still offer spring-like produce that we can tuck into cooler corners of our gardens… like lettuce, greens, and herbs.
Choose Pick-up Options
At the Farm
Picking up your Garden Boxes at the farm is free. We offer a couple different options, once we get a feel of what works best for our group this season.
Home Delivery
Home Delivery is offered on Thursday, with options occasionally for different days when we know we have to head to town for a meeting, etc.
Cost is $5 for Garden Boxes delivered to your door.
Drops
We offer drops, which is when we deliver to a particular site in a town so you can pick them up at a designated date and time. We do these on Thursdays on our delivery route.
We offer drops in Manly, Mason City and Clear Lake. The spots will be determined once we get a feel for a central location for our customers.
Mason City Fire Department is a drop for employees only.
We also deliver to our church in Mason City once a week, on dates we will be there for a meeting. (Typically Tuesday evenings).
Choose a plan
Each of us lives a different life, with a different rhythm. We try to supply boxes to best fit your needs.
Weekly Full Sized Box
$25
per box
- Large quantity.
- Nice for a family or a couple who eat a lot of fresh produce.
- Variety, usually 6-8 items per week.
- Our typical sized box.
Weekly Small Sized Box
$15
per box
- Smaller quantities per item.
- Good for a single person.
- Variety is same as the full sized box, just smaller amounts of each item.
- 6-8 items per week.
Biweekly Full Sized Box
$25
per box
- Large quantity.
- Nice for a couple or single person.
- Less often so you get two weeks to eat up your produce.
- Variety is the same as the weekly full sized box, 6-8 items per week.
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