Hello there!👋
This is the Spira Farms newsletter. Where when we say locally grown, we mean some farm you can drive to in half an hour, not locally grown 8 hours away.
Today we are going to talk about:
- Stepping into Star Wars ⭐
Welcome to the Matrix 😎
Now available at the Spira Farms store are all kinds of varieties of Lettuces, Kales, Swiss Chard, Basil and more. Here’s the store of the Sci-Fi farm. 👇
Lettuce see how many puns I can make.
Ten minutes away from Spira Farms, lies another farm that looks like something out of the future. Second City Greens in Downtown Lockport is a shipping container farm growing all kinds of fantastic greens, and they lettuce tour the space.
Behind me in this picture, is where the lights and lettuces are all growing. Like Spira Farms, the mission is the same. Lettuce make foods local, make foods fresh, and make foods sustainable.
The shelf life of the greens are just as long, lasting two weeks. It turns out, if you grow foods locally they lettuce see longer shelf lives across the board. Microgreens, Lettuces, Mushrooms all last for two weeks or more pretty easily when locally grown. Makes you wonder how old those products are coming in from out of state actually are 🤔
What gets me excited more than anything else is when someone is on board with farm to table. Let me clarify what farm to table means to me, it means you harvest it and deliver it fresh. At Spira Farms, we do this through 24 hour harvest to delivery (and were working on getting this even faster 😉 TBD). We now have a wide variety of products that can do this same thing, year round.🥳
So here is where we are at. Today, we have a variety of lettuces available in store at Spira Farms. Were testing the waters on these new products in-store only right now. We are working on bringing the products to the online store in time, but need to see what the community actually wants first.
We are kicking off the new products through a deal, if you buy a lettuce (or other mature leafy greens) and mushrooms we’ll toss in some microgreens of your choice. Try all the best of locally grown foods available year-round. Just need to get some winter fruits and roots next (this is going to take awhile). Stay tuned, lettuce make more plans on the products being available for regular delivery!