What to Expect at the Farm Stand and Farmer's Market?

Thank you for your understanding and support during these times as we learn how to operate and get you good food safely and efficiently. Please read for all the info you need to get your food home safely and know that we will likely be changing protocols as we learn how to operate in this unique time. 

What to expect at the Farm Stand?

During this time, your safety is our number one priority. As we open up our new Farm Stand, we ask that you will follow these guidelines:

While at the Farm Stand (inside or outside):

• Stay home if you feel sick

• Please wear a mask or face covering over your nose and mouth

• Maintain social distancing (6 feet apart - one cow length)

• Only two shoppers in the Farm Stand at a time

• No pets please

• Read signs and ask friendly attendant any questions you may have

Upon entering the Farm Stand:

• Please use hand sanitizer when you enter the Farm Stand

• Use the basket provided for shopping

• Shop with your eyes, not your hands - and only pick out the veggies you will be taking home with you. Place them on the check out table, the attendant will ring them up for you, and you can bag them.

Farm Stand open daily, 10am-6pm, from May-October. Learn more at www.nativehillfarm.com/farm-stand.

What to expect at the Farmer's Market?

We will be in a new location on the more eastern side of the market where all the farms will be located.  

• Shop healthy - wear a mask or face covering and gloves when shopping

• Go solo - and please no pets

• Come prepared - have a plan/shopping list prepared

• Mind the signs

• Reduce money handling - no Market Bucks this year

• Take it to go - please do not eat at the Market

• Let us serve you - allow vendors to hand products to you

• Be courteous and patient!

For more information about the Larimer County Farmer's Market please visit their website: https://lcfm.extension.colostate.edu/

Larimer County Farmer's Market is open every Saturday, 9am-1pm, from May 23 - October 31, 2020.

COVID-19 Update from Native Hill Farm

Photo credit: Stephanie Powell, This Vicarious Life

Hello Folks, 

We are closely monitoring the COVID-19 situation and how it might affect our farm community. The health and safety of our customers is, and always has been, our top priority. In the coming weeks and months, as this situation evolves, we will keep you updated on how potential closures (i.e. Farmer's Market) are affecting farm operations and distribution of our Farm Shares.

Some steps we are taking now:

1) We already have stringent health and safety protocols in place at Native Hill Farm. We will continue these practices and continue monitoring local, state and CDC recommendations for COVID-19. Locally grown food has a much much shorter supply chain with many many less people handling the produce. 

2) With the addition of the new packhouse building at the farm we are now more prepared than ever to efficiently and very safely grow, wash and properly store your food before it gets to your family. 

Steps we are considering if the Farmer's Market is closed come May:

1) Farm Share pick-up at the Farm

2) Home delivery

3) Extended farm stand hours and staffing

4) No farm tours or gatherings at the farm and only farm staff will be allowed on the farm during this time.

We believe eating fresh, local, nutrient dense and naturally grown produce will help encourage a strong immune system and good health in our community. Supporting local farmers is more important now than ever before! As we continue to work tirelessly to grow your food, we will do everything in our power to get that food to you safely and efficiently. The farm is full steam ahead and at full production as we head towards the season. We realize the huge importance of the food we grow and how it is accessed to our community.

Stay well,

Nic + The Native Hill Farm Family

Words of Wisdom from Wendell Berry in this tumultuous time:

"When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free." ~ Wendell Berry, “New Collected Poems”