Local Produce for 2025
Enjoy this vide Lane & I put together in 2024 to help explain why we’re excited to get a box last year and why you will too this year!!
I’m ecstatic to offer you LOCALLY grown produce this year at the farm store!
This year we are partnering with Fusilier Family Farms in Manchester, MI
for our 2nd year to bring you
fresh vegetables & fruit each week with a
“Local Produce Box Subscription”
Check out their Facebook page here: Facebook-Fusilier Family Farms
DETAILS
We will partner with Fusilier Family Farm to offer you a “Local Produce Box Subscription”
The “Local Produce Box Subscription” is a weekly delivery of fresh produce grown by Fusilier Family Farm.
Each week, on Fridays, starting June 13th through October 24th, 2025 Fusiliers will create a box of produce, grown on their farm by their family, that you will pick up from our farm store each week.
You will pay for the “Local Produce Box Subscription” in full now. In return you’ll be guaranteed a weekly delivery of locally grown vegetables & fruit for the summer & fall.
I will be creating a Facebook group with all of us who sign up for the box (yes, I am getting a box too!) this way we can share recipes & how to best store the produce. I plan to share what I am doing with the produce each week with you.
See below why I will be getting a “Local Produce Box Subscription” this year & why it will be the best thing for you and your family.
HOW IT WILL WORK
For 20 weeks this year, on Fridays, from June 13th - October 24th, you’ll receive a box of locally grown fruit & veggies for about $(final price coming soon!)/week.
Cost
$(final price coming soon!) total if pay by credit card
$(final price coming soon) total if paid with cash or check.
Fill out the form below to sign up. I will then send you an invoice. You will pay that one of two ways
Either via the invoice by credit card
Or stop into the farm store to pay with cash or check to receive the discount
Pick-up Details
Pick up is on Fridays at our farm store from 2-6pm
First come first serve- I will have space for 3 to be picked up on Saturdays from 10am-3pm as we’ll place your box in our cooler overnight. Add to the comments of the form you want Saturday pick up to secure this option.
You can assign someone to pick up your box if you can’t.
Want to sign up but have a few conflicts this summer?
1st assign someone to pick it up for you. Can’t find anyone? Let’s chat and I can see what we can do.
What’s in the box?
Each week you’ll receive about 8 different veggies and/or fruit. Or about 3/4 bushels of produce each week.
See picture of what they plan to include and when it will be in season. This is an estimate, not exactly what you’ll get each week.
I’m creating a Facebook group of all of us who get a box. I’ll share how I’m cooking my produce, how I’ll store it and more. You can join in too on the sharing or just observe ideas.
Ideas
Busy schedule?
Split this with a friend or family member.
You pick up 10 weeks, they pick up the other 10 weeks.
Or split weeks in other ways too maybe 75/25.
Afraid this is too much for you to eat?
You can freeze the extra items you can’t eat!
We did this a LOT last year because life got busy and are enjoying the produce this winter!
You won’t spend an entire day freezing the extra produce, it took me one night during dinner each week to freeze what we couldn’t use.
Something you don’t like in your box?
I plan to set up a “swapping table”.
You can leave what you don’t want and pick up what you would eat.
Maybe you get too much sweet corn and want to trade for more tomatoes.
Please remember…
As the season get’s started, the first couple of boxes may be a little lighter and less variety. But trust me they will make it up in the end when all fruit and veggies are in season. We’ll be busting at the seams with produce come July!
This subscription is paid early so Fusiliers can plan their produce to be planted for the season.
I am also getting a box. I can answer your questions and help you pair these items with our beef and pork and even chicken too through our Facebook group or ask us when you’re in picking up your box!
Pinterest & Google will be your friend. If there’s an item you aren’t familiar with, just search for recipes.
Questions?
Call or text me at 517-262-2423 (Jackie)
Or email me at sanfordfamilybeef@gmail.com
Why i’m getting a box for my family this year
The last 10 years we’ve participated in a couple different farms produces boxes like this for the summer & fall.
Here are the reasons I love them, based on my previous experiences, as well as why now…why this year?
I know the farmer who grew it!
This is my #1 reason for me to get a box this year. As Chris and I have sat through meetings this winter & I have met with vegetable & fruit farmers in Michigan the future of farming at a commercial scale is getting scary. The cost of H2A wages have increased significantly. Domestic workers don’t exist. The U.S. imports 60% of our fresh fruit and 40% of our fresh vegetables & these numbers are climbing. The existence of multi-generational fruit & vegetable farms in Michigan is dwindling and I am here to support buying from a local farm to ensure my family gets to eat Michigan grown produce vs. imported produce year after year.
It was after my February producer meeting that I knew we needed to find a produce farmer, for our family and for yours.
Other reasons to love… knowing my farmer means I know where the produce was grown!
I’m supporting a local farm continue their passion of farming allowing them to pass the farm onto the next generation. Fusiliers is a multi-generational family farm
The produce can last longer when stored properly!
My lettuce lasted 3 weeks, my cucumbers lasted 2 weeks, & tomatoes just as long.
Fusilier’s pick the produce at peak freshness, not weeks before to transport it across the ocean or country
I go to the grocery store less!
With a freezer full of beef & pork and my produce box, I only have to grocery shop every 2-3 weeks to pick up the staples vs. having to go each week for produce.
Less shopping in the summertime, means more time with my family.
I shop for the pantry & fridge staples I can make many different meals with, no matter what comes in the box that week.
The produce is more nutrient dense & has more flavor!
This is because they are picking produce close to peak freshness vs. a week before peak freshness to travel across the country.
I know I will have produce each week for my family!
Life gets busy right? Having a produce box each week forces us to eat more produce as a family. I don’t want it to go to waste.
I can feel secure knowing I have partnered with a local farm to ensure I have a source for produce. No need to worry about shelves at the grocery store being empty.
In the weeks my life was BUSY in summer 2024, I froze a lot of the produce. Now we are enjoying garden fresh green beans, sweet corn, blueberries, peaches and more!
The quantity we get each week makes freezing it manageable. It doesn’t take all day to freeze what you can’t eat.
I froze most of mine while making dinner for that night. Super quick and easy!
Enjoy fresh Michigan grown fruit without the drive to West Michigan
Yes, fresh MI fruit will be in our box nearly every week!
We had peaches each week for nearly 2 months
Plums, peaches, strawberries, and blueberries were in our boxes last year!
Living in the middle of the state, we can only enjoy these fruits once a season when we make the drive to west Michigan to get them.
With our produce box, you get these fruits delivered to our farm store for you to pick up.
You get to enjoy them, week after week vs. just one time a summer!
The amount of fruit we get in our box makes this price and commitment to picking up each Friday 100% worth it!
ALL of these reasons helps me feel secure this year. I know that no matter the labor issues & the unknowns of the world that I have partnered with Fusilier Family Farms this year to know that I have produce EACH week for my family.
There is no price tag that I wouldn’t pay to have that security and to have that relationship with another local farmer.
Are you ready to join me in getting a “Local Produce Box Subscription” this year? Fill out the form today to sign up.
