Looking for an easy way to eat fresh and healthy?Would you like to feel good knowing where your food comes from?
Seasons’ Harvest Farm is a family owned, organic, one hundred acre vegetable and livestock farm in northeastern Berks County. We’ve come to believe that good health comes in large part from eating good food; flavorful food that provides the nutrients, minerals, and vitamins we need to nurture our health. We focus on the health of our soil and don’t use synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, or pesticides. We pick our vegetables ripe and deliver them to you generally within a day of harvest.
To help bring great tasting, healthy vegetables to our local community, we offer a weekly fresh vegetable delivery service. Purchase a vegetable membership share at the beginning of the growing season and each week receive fresh seasonal vegetables and herbs from our fields. Our harvest season begins in June and ends in November, generally 22 to 24 weeks of vegetables dependent on seasonal conditions and frost. Each week we hand pick your vegetables based on what’s ready to eat. We believe that this fresh food service offers you the best of the farm’s harvest, reasonably priced and conveniently delivered. Food raised by folks that you come to know.
We offer a weekly newsletter with your vegetable delivery that tells you a bit about farm goings on, provides you with a list of vegetables in your box that week, and includes a few recipes to help you cook those veggies for your table. Our website will be expanded to offer some “veggie 101” information about how to prepare each vegetable along with an archive of recipes from our members and earlier newsletters.
During the harvest season we’ll invite you to share in our Farm Saturdays. On these days, visit the farm, meet the farmers, pick some vegetables or flowers, and purchase separately our eggs and meat.
In 2008, we offered our delivery service in the following areas: Allentown, Bethlehem, Coopersburg, Doylestown, Easton, Seasons’ Harvest Farm, Kutztown, Nazareth, and Reading. We also provide workplace delivery when we’re able to develop enough member interest within a business or workplace to support deliveries there. We’re always willing to explore new delivery locations to meet our members’ needs.
FAQ's
Q: How and where will I pick up my seasonal produce share?
A: Our fresh food delivery is made to your area generally on a weekday each week, generally in the early afternoon. You normally will have 6-7 hours to pick up your delivery. You will receive a waxed produce delivery box, labeled with your name, containing your weekly share of vegetables, nicely packed. We will provide each member with two boxes which we hope to rotate throughout the season. We ask that you return your box each week to your delivery site for reuse. Our delivery site will be as convenient as possible to your home or workplace. Once we’ve identified the best delivery location for all of our customers in your area, we’ll send you an email to confirm your membership and delivery site.
Q: How will I know what fresh produce items to expect each week?
A: Our harvest chart (on our website) will guide you in understanding what vegetables are upcoming from our fields. As you look over our harvest chart, keep in mind that not all of these vegetables will be available at one time. And though some things, like lettuces, may be available throughout much of the season, most of our vegetables are picked during the peak of their season so that they’re fresh and delicious. To help with your weekly menu planning, we’ll also send along by email or in your produce box a weekly listing of what fresh food items to expect. The portions of our vegetable items will generally follow standard farm market portions (e.g., a 1lb. bunch of carrots or beets, 1 head of lettuce, an 8oz. bag of salad greens, etc.).
Q: What harvest shares are available to choose from?:
A: A full share offers 8 - 12 boxed vegetable items delivered each week of the growing season. A full share is generally enough to feed a family of four.
A: A medium share offers 5 -7 boxed vegetable items delivered each week of the growing season. A medium share is generally enough to feed a family of two.