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Category: Community
Planning for your Thanksgiving Meal
Planning for your Thanksgiving holiday meal, plus your easy Thanksgiving order form PDF!
Klesick Farms is grateful for the opportunity to help you celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday. Just the thought of you and your loved ones gathered around the dining room table, sharing good food and good stories, warms our hearts. Perhaps more than any other holiday, Thanksgiving captures the true meaning of a box of good.
Our Special “Holiday Box” Traditional Meal Items
We are excited to once again offer our special annual Holiday Box ($40). This special box of traditional holiday produce can be purchased in addition to or in place of your regular order. You can also purchase a box even if it is not your normally scheduled delivery week. See pre-order form, below.)
Holiday Box Contents:
Yellow Onions, 1 lb.
Yellow Potatoes, 3 lbs.
Yams, 2 lbs.
Carrots,2 lbs.
Green Beans, 1 lb.
Organic Bread Cubes for Stuffing, 1 lb.
Granny Smith Apples, 2 lbs.
Cranberries, 8 oz.
Celery, 1 bunch
Delicata Squash, 2 ea.
Navel Oranges,2 lbs.
*Due to the special ordering necessary for this box, menu items cannot be changed or substituted.
Delivery Schedule: Holiday Box deliveries will be made November 3rd through December 5th. The week of Thanksgiving, all deliveries will be made Monday through Wednesday. Please check the newsletter that comes in your box of good for your alternate delivery schedule the week of the holiday.
An Opportunity to Give! ~ Sending a Holiday Donation Box to Neighbors in Need
If your celebration includes helping the less fortunate who live in our community, we make it easy for you to give. For the discounted price of $32, you can purchase a Holiday Donation Box for us to deliver to a local food bank prior to the Thanksgiving holiday. How good and easy is that? Plus, for every Holiday Donation Box you purchase, we will send you Matty Ride’s Christmas CD as a gift (a great stocking stuffer)!
Donate a holiday box to the food bank today! Click here to add the Holiday Donation Box to your cart, or call our office at 360-652-4663 and we’ll be delighted to add that for you!
Thanksgiving Week Pre-Order Form PDF
You can leave this order form out for your delivery person, mail it to us,email a photo of it to us, or use it as a guide when emailing or calling us:
[email protected] 360.652.4663
Progress. One Bite At A Time.
This week we start delivering to the Kenmore, Lake Forest Park and Inglewood communities on Wednesdays. And on Thursday we are going to be delivering to North Seattle or 145th Street North to Snohomish County.
This is very exciting news for us here at Klesick Farms. For the last 17 years we have been growing, sourcing, and delivering only organically grown fruits and vegetables. We haven’t deviated from our mission or our message of helping growers stay on the land and helping our customers eat well.
We are passionate about healing our Nation through farming and believe that the health of our Nation is tied to the health of our food supply and helping more customers eat healthy food is a big part of the solution.
Over the years, what was a dream to be a family farm became a good food community; a community of passionate growers and urban allies, working together to build a better food system for future generations. This is a community of folks who believe that the environment and farming can do more than coexist, the two can thrive together. Folks who see the through ruse of the GMO proponents and believe that world can be fed using organic growing practices AND SHOULD BE!
I love what we do, I love that we have done it every day, with every delivery to every customer for so many years. We believe that by working in unison, Klesick Farms, our growers, and you, we are making a difference locally and beyond.
And as a local good food community we are also a part of a larger difference that is being played out in communities across America and the world.
We are turning the tide of a corporate driven food system one bite at a time.
Farmer Tristan
Join Me in Protecting the Integrity of Our Food Supply
Locally, we have been fighting to preserve farmland and now I need your help to convince our two Congress Representatives to vote NO on HR1599: the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act. This bill essentially prevents states from adopting their own GMO laws and REVERSES any laws that have already passed. That is the wrong kind of leadership on this issue.
The anti-GMO community is calling this the DARK Act (Denying Americans the Right to Know Act). I have spoken with Congressman Rick Larsen and Congresswoman Suzan Delbene’s office and neither of them are committing at this time on which way they are going to vote. The vote is in two days – I know how I would vote!
Please click on the link and express your opinion. The vote is scheduled for Wednesday or Thursday. Also, please share this and let’s let our representatives know that GMO’s are not the future and should not receive preferential treatment from the federal government. ASK them to vote NO on HB 1599, aka the DARK Act.
Tristan
Act Now on GMO Labeling to Stop the “DARK” Act
Contact your Representative in Congress today!
From the National Organic Coalition
The innocuously named HR 1599: the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act has been dubbed the DARK Act (Denying Americans the Right-to-Know Act) by members of the good food movement. The DARK Act will be voted on in Congress next week.
The DARK Act will:
- Prevent states from adopting their own GMO labeling laws and reverse laws that have already passed.
- Prevent state or county laws regulating GMO crops.
- Prevent the Food and Drug Administration from requiring companies to label GMO ingredients and instead continue a “voluntary” labeling policy. In 14 years, not one company has voluntary labeled products containing GMO ingredients.
Take action now to stop the DARK Act!
- Call the Capitol Hill Switchboard at 202-224-3121, and ask for your Representative’s office where you can leave her or him a message.
Click here to find out who your Representative is. - Click here to send an email: Tell Congress to oppose the DARK Act and support mandatory GE food labeling!
Below is some sample language for your message to your Representative.
Please customize this to fit your voice.
Please oppose HR 1599 (the “Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act”). Congress should focus on the labeling solutions that Americans are asking for – not legislation written by and for big food and chemical companies that only serves to keep Americans in the dark.
You may also thank legislators who have come out against the Dark Act and for labeling:
Chris Gibson of New York
Peter DeFazio of Oregon
Barbara Boxer of California
For more information, and to send a message today, click here.
GMO food labeling is important to Americans, with over 90% consistently supporting transparency in the marketplace. In 2013 and 2014 there were over 70 GMO labeling bills introduced across 30 states, with laws being passed in Maine, Connecticut and Vermont.
Klesick now serves Shoreline & Inglewood Communities
We have exciting news! We are expanding our delivery zones to serve Shoreline and Inglewood communities next week!
Let your friends, co-workers, and family know that we are now offering a box of good to the Inglewood/Bothell communities to 116th St. on Wednesdays and to the North Seattle/Shoreline communities down to NE 145th St. (Hwy 523) on Thursdays.
As I mentioned in last week’s newsletter, due to the disappointing vote from The Snohomish County Council a few weeks ago, concerning farmland preservation, I am now working on a different strategy. If the county won’t help us preserve farmland, we will have to do it ourselves – one intentional bite at a time. The strategy is simple: deliver more fruits and vegetables from local farms to local eaters.
Throughout this last year we have been preparing to expand our delivery service and areas in order to build strong bonds between local farmers and local customers.
In October we moved into a new packing facility in Stanwood, nearer to our farm and to other farms that we work closely with in the region. At that time we added more infrastructure to better serve local farmers and you, our customers. We added additional cooler space and freezer space as well as expanding our packing capacity.
Last month we expanded our delivery days from 4 days to 5 days.
Last week we updated our shopping cart to be more mobile-friendly than ever. Ordering organic, local, and GMO-free produce just got easier.
This brings you a fun referral opportunity: For every person you refer from anywhere, you will receive a free bar of Theo Chocolate and your name will be entered for a chance to win a free two-night stay at the beautiful La Conner Channel Lodge.
Farmer Tristan
Keep Multi-Family Zones at Higher Densities and Preserve Farmland
A few weeks ago you received an action alert from farmer Tristan Klesick and I, asking for your help in telling the Snohomish County Council to not adopt changes to the County’s Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) program. Unfortunately, the County Council did not listen. Instead, Council’s decision was a missed opportunity and allowed exemptions for single family homes and townhouses from the TDR program, and preserving valuable farmland and local food sources.
If that wasn’t bad enough, now the County Council is considering removing even more land and development from the TDR Program!
The County Council is considering reducing minimum density requirements in multi-family zones–even those multi-family zones around Highway 99 are perfect for transit-oriented, mixed use redevelopment. This would allow for single family homes and townhomes in areas that are best suited for higher densities. It would also remove more land from the TDR program, which would reduce opportunities for protecting critical farmlands in Snohomish County.
If the Council approves, we will lose opportunities for affordable housing near transit; we will lose receiving areas for TDR development credits to preserve farmland, and we’ll have further expansion of our urban growth areas into our rural lands.
That is a lose-lose-lose situation. Ultimately, if the Council decreases densities in our Multi-Family zones, we will also be adding more and more cars to our roads creating more traffic nightmares, adding more pollutants into our air and water, and giving the developers exactly what they want…open season on our rural lands for more sprawling development! And we won’t be helping our farmers preserve farmland!
Please CLICK HERE to send a message to the Snohomish County Council today to tell them NO to reducing minimum densities in our Multi-Family zones, and YES to keeping TDR receiving areas intact for these zones to help preserve farmland and local food sources.
Our Council needs to hear from you! They need to know that you want housing choices for all income groups and higher densities in the multi-family zones that will help jumpstart transit-oriented development. We need long-range planning regulations that will house our growing population near transit and urban centers, reduce car trips that are polluting our air and water and clogging our roads, and save farmland from urban sprawl.
The hearing is at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, July 15th! Please CLICK HERE to send the message before the hearing. If you can, please attend the hearing and speak directly to the Council.
Thank you for your help!
Kristin Kelly, Snohomish/Skagit Program Director, Futurewise
P.S. If you would like more information about how to support your local farmers and about Klesick Farms, contact Tristan by Clicking Here.
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Kristin Kelly
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City: Snohomish WA 98290
Preserving Food and Farmland with La Conner Channel Lodge
6/29/2015
Have you heard? You may have seen the exciting news in our weekly specials email, but just in case you missed it: we’ve teamed up with one of our favorite local vacation destinations to add some fun to our mission to support more local farms. We’re bringing you the opportunity to win a two night stay at the La Conner Channel Lodge! Enjoy one of the Deluxe Queen Water View rooms. Relax with the sun kissed color palette, luxurious linens, fireplace, WI-FI, & gourmet continental breakfast! Fir accents and slate flooring give the rooms a natural richness. And the best part? It’s only a short drive away!
Here’s how you can participate in the sweepstakes, while helping to support local farms and farmland:
♦ Refer your friends to a box of good. The more people who eat intentionally, the stronger our local food infrastructure will become! For each friend (or co-worker, or family member!) you send our way that signs up for produce deliveries, we’ll enter your name in the drawing!
♦ Refer your friends to a box of good. The more people who eat intentionally, the stronger our local food infrastructure will become! For each friend (or co-worker, or family member!) you send our way that signs up for produce deliveries, we’ll enter your name in the drawing!
♦ Buy more local food. Check our weekly box menus. Each item marked with an asterisk is locally grown in the Pacific NW. If you order extra of that item, you’ll be directly supporting local food. Each week we’ll highlight one item grown in the Northwest you can purchase for a bonus entry. This week, choose local Rainier cherries to get your name entered into the drawing an additional time.
♦ Share about Klesick Farms on Facebook and Twitter! Be sure to tag us in your post, so we can see your post and credit your share with another submission!
Note: By entering the sweepstakes, you’ll also be entered to receive special offers and discounts from La Conner Channel Lodge. You can opt out of these any time. The drawing will take place after July 31th, 2015.
Preseving Local Food Options & Farmland, Part II
Week of June 21, 2015
Preserving local food options and farmland should not be this hard! The United States has been blessed with some amazing Natural resources like good Farmland, Forest lands, grazing lands, minerals, water and waterways. And since the day this country was founded we pushed west. Forward Ho! Surprisingly?!?!?!, we reached the Pacific Ocean and no longer can push west. So what are we going to do now to wisely use the finite natural resources we have been blessed with to provide a quality of life for generations of future citizens?
Farmers are like any other member of our communities. We have kids, grand kids, we have to go to the dentist and doctor, save for weddings and retirement. We also have to manage a large community resource called farmland. And in the last 20 years that management has included an ever increasing regulatory burden, otherwise known as additional expenses to run our farms. And the closer your farm is to the city it gets more complicated, and if you happen to farm next to a river and a city, WOW!
Given the County Council’s appetite to not use Zoning or TDR as mechanisms to shift the Development pressure away from our farms at the moment, we need a different strategy.
I think fair pricing, not price gouging is a part of the solution, but supply and demand drive prices. Having more farms selling to more local folks will keep food prices affordable and have the biggest impact on saving farmland today.
To accomplish this, each of us will have to be intentional. I believe small-to-medium farmers are the key to feeding our local communities. Literally, bringing a box of good to more people is the solution. I have intentionally positioned Klesick farms to play a larger part in feeding our local communities. We have moved to a new packing facility, we have expanded our delivery days and are working with more local growers to get more local food to our customers.
The solution is to have more of you! Yes more of you: customers who are intentional about supporting local farms. It is that simple: the more local customers, the more local farms. So preserving local food options looks like eating locally from local farms! We need more intentional eaters!
Look for information on Facebook and in your inboxes this week as we roll out a new summer campaign to preserve local food options and farmland.
Together we can make a difference!
Farmer Tristan
Tristan's Letter to the County Council
Tristan is headed off this morning to talk to the Snohomish County Council.
Here’s the letter he’s bringing with him.
A huge “Thank you” to each of you who have responded so far. And for those of you who haven’t, there’s still time. Don’t wait, today, June 10th, 2015 is the close for the discussion. Add your voice to protect Snohomish County Farmland!
Good Morning, My name is Tristan Klesick and I am a local farmer from Stanwood. Before I begin, I wanted to say “thank you for choosing to be leaders”. Leadership is a rare commodity today and those who are willing to make the final decision are also rare.
I have been in the food and farming business for over 20 years and the last 15 years I have been involved with the TDR issue. The County has sent me to Maryland and California with then Councilman John Koster and Senior Planner Tom Niemann to study what worked and didn’t work in the TDR world. I was also co-chair of the Snohomish Agricultural Economic Development Action Team or SAEDAT. The Current TDR program is a solid policy.
Local farmland is an economic driver that provides local, regional and national food, helps keep taxes lower, provides habitat and flood storage.
I appreciate the tension surrounding Amendment 13. This issue is important enough to me that I engaged my community of customers and asked them to help me preserve local food options and farmland. I sent an email to 8000 people on my list and posted it on my FB page. As of this morning, that FB post has been seen by over 20K people and shared over 225 times.
My customers understand that growth is going to happen, infrastructure needs to built, but preserving the ability to feed our citizens is equally important.
The current TDR program is a good start at managing that growth and also ensuring that local citizens will have local food. Snohomish County needs the Development community to build the infrastructure to handle the growth and the TDR program, as it is, should also streamline that process for them. I understand that it is a new paradigm, but planning now to feed the current and future residents of our county is a part of that new paradigm.
This year I have seen the need for my farmland to produce more fruit and vegetables, because the local demand is increasing, but also because the “traditional” vegetable producing regions like Arizona and California are in major droughts. If things don’t return to somewhat normal precipitation, Snohomish County Farmland will be even more important to our county and this region.
My constituents, who are also your constituents, will want to hear how Council members Somers, Klein, Wright, Sullivan and Ryan voted. I will report back to them. I would love to report back to them that each of you led on the issue of managing growth and preserving local food options and farmland by voting no on amendment 13!
Thank you
Pre-Order Your Local Berries, Canning Veggies, and Herbs!
For 17 years, we’ve been bringing the local harvest to you.
Each season, while the Northwest harvest is at its peak – we deliver it to your door!
How can you get your share of the local good? It’s simple. Contact us to let us know which of the bulk fruits and/or veggies you’d like, and we’ll put your order on our reservation list. When the harvest is at its peak. We will contact you before sending out your order, so that you can prepare for its arrival.
locally and organically grown
Please note, all harvest dates are approximate and are subject to the laws and whiles (and wiles!) of nature.
- Strawberries: Half Flat (6×1 pint): $24 – Available now!!
- Harvest dates: June-August (note, some gaps in between harvests to be expected)
- Blueberries: Full flat (12×1 pint): $40
- Half Flats (6×1 pint): $22
- Harvest dates: late June-August.
- Raspberries: Half-flats (6×1/2 pint): $22.
- Harvest dates: late June-August.
- Pickling Cucumbers: Order as many as you need!
- 5-lb. units. $7.50/ 5 lbs.
- 40 lb. boxes. $50
- Harvest dates: August-September
- Dill: 1 bunch is a 2-3 inches in diameter. $4/bn.
- Harvest dates: August-September
- Green Beans:
- 5 lbs. $15
- 20 lb. boxes. $45
- Harvest dates: August-September
- Bulk Basil: available in 1 lb. units (about a grocery bag full). $8.50/lb.
- Harvest dates: August
Click here to email us your order.
*Important note: delivery week for these bulk orders are determined by harvest dates. If you will be away on vacation during specific weeks this summer, please let us know so that we don’t schedule your delivery while you are away.
These items are served on a first-come, first-serve basis. Availability may be limited.
Bulk orders will be delivered on your regular box of good delivery day.