Providing local & organic food to our communities for over 25 years
A portal into the more nuanced aspects of FDC Membership Extras Table Reminder! When you make a selection from the extras table at the depot, please make sure you remember to record your purchases and to use nice, clear handwriting. Sometimes things go missing, and other times …
Ordering Tamara, Marion and I all have a hand in keeping the FDC stocked with good food. Tamara likes to keep products in stock that are favorites – hers and members’. She reaches out to Just Soap, Bee Boys Honey, Bee Balm and a bunch of others …
By Julie Pottier-Brown, Operations Manager We left off last week explaining the color system for each depot. When we create labels, tape a cooler, or put a dot on a flower hamper we follow this color rule: Marblehead is red, Melrose is blue and Salem is green. …
By Julie Pottier-Brown, Operations Manager I heard years ago that when the lovely bakery that is A&J King in Salem wanted to add a new cookie to its line-up it took a year to figure out how to fit the new item into the production …
Weather Policy: The Show Must Go On – As Safely As Possible. This past Tuesday, we had yet another heat advisory. This time, severe thunderstorms were also forecast. Below, we let the Tuesday members know how we handle extreme weather. As we head into fall, storms …
Some things change, some things stay the same By Julie Pottier-Brown, Operations Manager From 1993 to 1996, the FDC was a completely volunteer-run organization: including driving to the farm(s), managing finances, writing the newsletter and setting up the distribution (which consisted of scales and tables …
Technology has changed, but word of mouth is still the best way for us to find suppliers.
By Julie Pottier-Brown, Operations Manager Emily Landeck, owner of our primary farm, Riverland Farm, started giving her crew holidays off last season. This is unusual in the farm business. Monica (Newsletter Editor who fixes my run on sentences, is the collaborator of some, and writer …
We will likely never be a zero waste operation, but we strive to reuse and return as much as we can to our producers. The Following Items can be returned for reuse. Bring them to your normal pickup day and time. Make sure they are clean …
