The Kitsap Fresh Warehouse
Guest Writer: Sally Zalac
Picture a bowl full of salad greens, crumbly cheese, smoked nuts, crunchy radishes, tender sprouts, napped in a creamy handmade dressing, with a slice of fresh bread slathered in churned butter on the side. You might ask, how did this healthy meal arrive on your dinner table? This week we are pleased to bring you the first in a series of articles aimed at keeping you in the know about your online farmer’s market. We begin at the hub, the Kitsap Fresh warehouse.
Following the trail of just one ingredient from our bowl, we find the salad greens growing on a local farm in Kitsap County. After washing the freshly harvested greens, the farmer then bags and tags them, with your personal I.D. labels provided by the website. Next, the greens are delivered to our warehouse, along with the rest of this week’s harvest for packaging into your curbside pickup order.
Kitsap Fresh provides all licensing and permits, website management, marketing, and food distribution, allowing farmers and producers of every size to do what they do best – grow, harvest and process delicious food. Interacting with 200-300 weekly customers, while practicing safe distancing standards, is also handled by our warehouse staff. In addition, we offer bags of salad greens from multiple growers, as well as a plethora of other assorted food options. Imagine how diverse that bowl of salad will become as the growing season progresses!
Sally Zalac is a valued customer and volunteer for Kitsap Fresh. She has a passion for local farms, organic food and regenerative farming.
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