Circle Brook Fruit Share 2016
We will once again offer a fruit share for the 2016 season. It will be a slightly shorter season (12 weeks) and comes with some caveats. All of the local fruit producers have had a very bad season due to late frosts and freezes in the spring. Many have lost their entire crop of plums and apricots and have had significant losses with peaches and nectarines. Normally most of the fruit we distribute comes from an organic farm in the Hudson Valley, NY. While the farm grows their vegetable crops organically, the fruit is labeled Eco-grown. This means that they adhere as much as possible to organic methods but do spray when necessary with products not approved for organic production. These sprays are primarily early in the season when the fruit is just setting. The farm regularly tests the fruit to insure it is free of pesticide residues. (more…)