{"id":220,"date":"2019-12-31T18:42:44","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T18:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hungrybearfarm.com\/?page_id=220"},"modified":"2025-10-29T14:02:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:02:45","slug":"member-handbook","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hungrybearfarm.com\/?page_id=220","title":{"rendered":"Member Handbook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Membership Benefits<\/b> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your commitment to supporting the farm for the entire growing season allows us to concentrate on our mission to provide our community with high quality food while sustaining and improving the surrounding ecosystem. It also allows us to remain viable even if we are challenged with the unavoidable risks associated with farming such as severe weather events or uncontrollable pests. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In exchange for your financial support, you can expect to receive a generous share of the season’s finest produce for the number of weeks that the particular season runs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your support also helps provide families in need with healthy, fresh, delicious produce through donation to local food-sharing organization and our partnership with the Monadnock Farm Share Program<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Payment Plans<\/b> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We offer flexible payment methods and schedules. However, if you sign up for a season, we require payment for the entire season. If you don\u2019t see a payment plan or method that is comfortable for you, please let us know so that we can discuss options. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reducing Waste<\/b> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an effort to reduce waste and environmental impact, please bring a bag or other container with you each time you come to pick up your share as we do not typically have extra bags at the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Market-Style Field Pickup<\/strong>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to the week\u2019s designated items, full-share members are also able to  choose from a wide selection of \u201cchoice items\u201d.  In addition, we typically  offer fresh-cut flowers,  herbs and greens on pickup day.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please take a moment to review these important<\/em>  policies and procedures:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reducing Waste<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an effort to reduce waste and environmental impact, we ask that you please<\/em> bring  bags or other containers with you each time you come to pick up your share. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to make our Tuesday pickup days convenient for everyone, we offer a 9AM to 4:30 PM pickup window<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selection usually takes our members about 15 minutes so please <\/em>allow enough time to finish<\/em> choosing your items by 4:30\u00a0 PM.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you find that you are not able to collect your share during the designated hours, we encourage you to ask a friend or neighbor to collect your share for you.  If you choose this option,  please let us know and please share this information with your designee so that they know what to expect.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you find that you are not able to arrive at the field by 4:30 on pick-up day<\/em> <\/strong>and wish to have Gene bag up your share, you will need to text him<\/strong> (978)-935-1797 before 4:00 PM<\/em> <\/strong>so that he can leave your labeled<\/strong> share on the latecomers table on Reed Road<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any shares found on Wednesday morning that were not picked up will be donated as Tuesday is our only pickup day.<\/strong>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please do not take a share that has someone else\u2019s name on it from the latecomers table as these shares have already been spoken for. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Membership Benefits Your commitment to supporting the farm for the entire growing season allows us to concentrate on our mission to provide our community with high quality food while sustaining and improving the surrounding ecosystem. It also allows us to remain viable even if we are challenged with the unavoidable risks associated with farming such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-220","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hungrybearfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hungrybearfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hungrybearfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hungrybearfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hungrybearfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hungrybearfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":696,"href":"https:\/\/hungrybearfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/220\/revisions\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hungrybearfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}