The Regulars

Farming and preparing food involve participating in beautiful cycles.  The year has 4 seasons, each of which grow different type of food and different amounts of food.  There are times in the year when we are very busy and times of the year when we are not.  Every week we prepare the food we have been blessed with, and every weekend we open.  We are hopeful that people will come down and eat our food and be pleased with their meal, pleased enough to come back and do it again!

A few of our customers come to see us on a regular basis.  Regular enough that we know their names, their preferences for food, we know about their lives and often times we know their friends whom they bring along.  Most of the time they greet us with smiles and ask us how the business is doing or how the farm is doing.  Many of our regulars now ask us what we recommend they should eat, and we give our recommendation based upon their prior orders and known preferences.  Many of our regulars are now getting to know each other.  These are intimate relationships that move beyond customers, they are becoming our friends.

These types of relationships are the ones we had hoped would develop when we first opened our business in 2019.  We knew the work would be hard, but seeing smiling grateful faces make it all worth it.  So, with a very grateful heart we want to thank our "regulars" for being there with us here in the beginning of our journey, while we figure out what we are doing and while we are waiting for others to find out about us.  Your support of our business is why we are still going strong!  Thank you for being a part of our life and thank you for allowing us to be a part of yours.

With love and gratitude!

Ryan and Megan




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