Well, we had our second build of the season today and we are so glad to be back doing what we've been preparing for all winter rather than spending all of our waking moments repairing.  This was a long, hard fought week, but God was gracious and our efforts were fruitful.

Our new parking lot was finished and all the electrical is hooked up.  We plan on changing the plugs out on our trucks and making the switch on Monday morning.  We also have the pasture bush hogged where we are going to put our new commercial kitchen facility.  We are so excited!  We can't believe God has paved the way for us to have this so soon.

We think we are going to put the permanent fencing plans on hold until the fall... the temporary fence seems to be working and we have a real freight train on our hands picking and packing and delivering food.  Our RECIPE blog will be up to speed again on Tuesday and we will be identifying all your foods for you.  Sorry it's a bit late, but just getting all the information in the PC to make deliveries has consumed all of our time, playing catch up and all.  Angel, our customer service person just came back online yesterday... it took days to get power back in Centerville TN.

Anyway, our spirits are high... the farmers are growing, picking and washing and we are trying to figure out how to do it better than ever before. Our new crew is learning and growing in the midst of the heat of battle... no better way to learn than to make mistakes and fix 'em!  We just hope and pray that our mistakes are transparent to you.  If they're not, please be sure to let us know... our mission is to delight you.  Well... here are some pics of this week's progress.

These are all pictures of the new parking lot we built for the trucks.  It will be so nice having the trucks out of our front yard and also knowing that mild wet weather won't prevent the trucks from rolling on time.  Of course, this area was completely under water last week, but God willing, we won't have it that bad for a very long time.

Building boxes again!!!

A standard share... very pretty box!

Armie and Michael and Yordy are pulling the meats for this week's build.

This is Tommy, our Production Supervisor, being all shy and stuff.  He is an awesome addition to the team... we are blessed to have him (as well as all the others)!

This is Chris Monk (our Operations Manager) explaining himself to the Queen of Finance (Jennifer)!  All kidding aside, this guy works his butt off and is so passionate about what we do.

Yordy is our Farm Supervisor and Line Foreman for our builds.  He really has such great energy and he's a real moralle builder.  We love Yordy.

What else can I say... the woman of my dreams!  Can you tell we love what we do? 

Thank you so much, each and every one of you for making our lives possible.  We mean that from the bottom of our hearts.

The Avalon Acres Team

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