Hello Friends!

Our Spring/Summer Program has quickly come to a close with today being our last delivery day of the season!  It's bittersweet because we know this means there will be some of you we will not see until next Spring, we'll miss the regular harvest of fresh produce, but we'll also be able to take a little down time and regroup.  Winter is always a good time for us to re-evaluate policies and procedures as well as working with our farmers on a growing plan.  Be on the lookout for another email from us asking what kinds of produce you'd like to see next year.

We won't be back up in Nashville again until we deliver turkeys on Sunday, November 23rd.  If you ordered a turkey, you'll be receiving a special order email in case you'd like to order anything else for your Thanksgiving dinner.  We plan to have some holiday breads, our fresh harvest canned goods as well as our usual meat and eggs.

This Winter we are also going to begin plans to begin bringing canning and baking back onto the farm.  This will allow us to increase our canned goods variety (such as soups, broths, stocks, etc) as well as develop new bread recipes.  I've been wanting to try an "Ezekiel" bread recipe for the longest time!  :)  We do plan to have some winter produce available.  Our Amish farmers in the Pleasantville area are very resourceful.  Ron and Heath will be working with these farmers in the next couple of weeks to develop an abbreviated production schedule for winter produce.

Our chicken production is doing wonderful.  We have an inventory built up and have another 1,100 chicken out in the pasture.  We will have plenty of chicken for the winter program.

Attached is a flyer promoting our Winter program as well as the Winter registration form.  Please write if you have any questions.  The only deadline is if you want to prepay for the Winter and receive the 10% discount, you'll need to do so by or on the first day of deliveries (11/30).  Robbie Poe has been doing all of our flyers, he's a dear friend and very talented, thank you Robbie!

Please consider staying with us this winter.  Winter months are difficult for farmers and this CSA supports 18 employees as well as 46 small family farms in middle Tennessee.  I wish you could see how much of an impact you are making in many lives.

We love our customers and look forward to serving you in any way we can. 

Thank you for your friendship and business!

Tim & Jennifer Bodnar

Avalon Acres Farms