For Champaign Urbana Residents: Winter Local Food Offerings
Greetings from monochromatically grey central illinois. It is precisely this kind of weather that makes you pine for some GREEN (and really any colored) foods from local farms. Well, for those of you who live in or around Champaign-Urbana, the world will be a little brighter starting this coming Saturday, January 23rd. Please read the email letter from Blue Moon Farm below. We have a limited supply of chevre, Mouton Frais (sheep milk "chevre), Roxanne and Moonglo that we will be selling with them, so orders will be filled on first come-first served basis.
Stay tuned for future winter updates from us.
P.S. On another note, we have a job opening for an assistant cheesemaker. We're looking for someone with culinary training/experience. Check out the job description on our website under "Interact" "Job Openings"
Hello all, please read carefully because you will be tested this Saturday.
It's finally here, the Blue Moon winter market, starting this Saturday, January 23. Next Market will be in two weeks. We've decided to try something a little more organized than the regular farmer's market, we are using a service called SurveyMonkey, which allows you to place an individual order by filling out our survey. Not only are we offering Blue Moon veggies, but Prairie Fruits Farm is also offering a variety of cheeses. Here's how it works: You get the survey as an email, which tells you what is available for the upcoming Saturday delivery. You fill it out and send it back to us before Thursday noon. This means you just click "Done" at the end of the survey. Then you show up between 9-12 on Saturday at the delivery location, which is in the indoor eating area outside the Common Ground Food Co-op in Lincoln Square Mall. You get there by going out the back door of the Co-op, or entering the mall in the Health Alliance area, east side of the mall. You will pay for your orders at that time.
Important reminders:
1. Winter harvest is trickier than summer harvest in that it takes longer to harvest, and we have less of it. Also, it's darn cold out here. Therefore, if you place an order, PLEASE PICK UP YOUR ORDER. We don't want to harvest too much, and lose that produce, and we don't want to harvest too little, and incur your disappointment.you must return the survey before noon on Thursday, or we can't get you your order. We will be using the survey numbers to know how much to harvest.
2. The survey itself should be self-explanatory and simple to use, but let us know if the questions are confusing in any way. The only question you must answer is the first one, in which you provide your name. Then you can order whatever you want.
3. Please bear in mind that we are trying something new, so feedback is welcome, and we might have to tweak the system in the future.
4. If all goes well we will do this again in two weeks....
5. We had an tough time reading some of your handwriting and a few emails bounced back. Please let your friends know if they did not get an email and have them email us to get on the list.
Here is a link to the survey:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7JHZSVF
This link is uniquely tied to this survey and your email address. Please do not forward this message.
Thanks for your patience and participation and please Dance for sun.
Blue Moon Farm
Please note: If you do not wish to receive further emails from us, please click the link below, and you will be automatically removed from our mailing list.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/optout.aspx?sm=NeGaHZS5yvXZgiyOvMK7pg_3d_3d
