We are excited to be gearing up for another season of great local food. Local Food Box Membership sign-ups are going well with 95 of 100 available vegetable subscriptions sold, 34 meat boxes, 40 egg subscriptions and a dozen bouquets. We still have a few spots left for more members at the Metchosin pickup location; […]
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2018 LFB season: Register now!
Good news folks! We are now accepting registrations for the 2018 season of the Local Food Box program. If you were a member in the past and know the drill, please Register Here. Space is limited, so sign-up as soon as possible. We have already sold 75 of the 100 available vegetable boxes to returning […]
2017: It’s a wrap!
The first Local Food Box pick-up of 2017 was 20 weeks ago. After over 6.5 tonnes of vegetables & fruits, 360 meat boxes, 140 flower bouquets, and 6720 eggs….it’s a wrap! Thank you to our members for joining our program and supporting local farmers. We hope you enjoyed this season of food & flowers, and that you will sign […]
Countdown to first pick-up & Mother’s Day
There are less than 4 weeks before the beginning of the 2017 Local Food Box program! It’s a busy time of year on our farms and we are getting excited about the first Local Food Boxes of the year (first in-town pickups on June 6, in Metchosin on June 9). All of the box options […]
Feast Your Eyes
We are often asked by potential new Local Food Box members how much food they should expect to receive each week in the program. Every year we intend to take photos of what a weekly share of vegetables looks like but inevitably we get too busy. So we were happy to hear that one of our Local Food Box members […]
Registration is open for 2017!
To skip the narrative and go straight to signing up, click here. 2016 Season Overview In 2015 we made the difficult decision to postpone production at Wind Whipped Farm and not run The Local Food Box program. We needed to make some significant soil and infrastructure improvements to increase and better manage production. We knew […]