Hello All,
Great progress was made in the shop today, a new floor was laid by my brother Stuart from Stamford Interiors. If you remember he did most of the work fitting out the kitchen end 3 years ago. It will make the shop end so much easier to keep clean, and I’ve pretty much colour matched it with the gravel in the car park – so dirty footprints won’t show as much!
We now have the great job of putting all the shelves and tables back in, and getting everything re-stocked. All being well we should re-open the shop on Wednesday 3rd June – this will be confirmed in next week’s newsletter. For the first few weeks it is likely to be restricted hours and Wednesday to Saturday only.
I am looking at moving some people’s delivery days around to even them across the week (at the moment Thursday accounts for 25% of the entire week). I will be emailing everyone who may be affected to let you know what the new plan is. Thank you for your patience and understanding about this, another ‘new normal’ way of working 😊
If you are comfortable with collecting your box from the farm shop you will be very welcome. About 20 people do this now, and its freeing up a lot of my time which I am grateful for. Adrian, Gillian and Peter are all still able to do deliveries for me which is great. I am losing Danny from next week sadly, his furlough has come to an end and will be returning to work. I really don't think I could have got through these last 8 weeks without his help.
Collection time will be between 11am-1pm – I cannot guarantee being on site before or after this, so apologies if this isn’t as convenient for you as possible. Once we are open these timings will increase.
Payment will continue to be via GoCardless, I will not be able to take cash or card payments on the day.
Collection will be from the side door of the farm shop. If you would prefer to open your boot and I place the box inside that’s fine – just tell me which you would prefer.
Please DO NOT just turn up and expect your box to be ready or even on site. I will not be able to add any last minute ‘extras’ as I do not have any ‘spare’ stock in the shop.
Please be aware that the queuing system for the garden centre has narrowed our access slightly. Please slow right down and watch for people crossing with trollies etc.
What’s in the box next week:
This is the list of veg and fruit that will be in boxes for delivery/collection w\c 25th May.
New Potatoes (Cornish)
Carrots
Tomatoes
Lettuce
Cucumber
Salad onions
White Onions
Courgettes
Broccoli
Please let me know if you would like any substitutes or extra items by the of Saturday 23rd May.
As usual, with the ‘extras’ please tell me the number of, or weight of what you would like.
Items that can be ordered as extra’s are:
Mushrooms
Parsnips
Celery
Spinach
Red Onions
‘Prince’ Apples
Bramley Apples
Pears
Rhubarb
Beetroot
Asparagus (250g bundle for £2.50)
Cauliflowers and cabbages are both really expensive at the moment, we aren’t likely to be able to get many next week. If you are desperate for any, please let me know and I’ll try for you.
If you need to change box size or frequency, that’s not a problem, just let me know as soon as possible.
Finally - please remember to leave your boxes out for me to be able to reuse them, thank you.
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