Bring Your Own Bags, Boxes, or Baskets! It’s the Law

We are just over a month into the Vermont Single Use Products Law that bans single-use plastic shopping bags. The law allows continued use of plastic bags for our pre-bagged salad greens and similar items.

Please bring your own shopping bags for collecting items at pickup, as ICF will no longer provide new plastic shopping bags. You can find a myriad number of reusable shopping and produce bags on the internet and at local stores.

If you want to show your ICF spirit, canvas tote bags are available for purchase for $12. They feature the Intervale Community Farm logo created by ICF Board member/community artist Bonnie Acker, and are a sturdy, organic, made-in-USA way to carry your produce!

We still have our blue barrels with re-used bags. Please feel free to add to the collection with any clean, full-size shopping bags you acquired this winter, and grab a few to use yourself when needed.

Some staff favorite shopping bags in the T-shirt style are available from Urban Market. The Urban Market bags are lightweight, packable, roomy, and easy to wash.

After testing several plastic and biodegradable produce bags last winter, our clear winner was the Evert Fresh Green Bag. While not cheap (roughly $1/bag), they are durable, rinse clean easily, and provided far and away the best storage conditions for produce.

Some of you have found grocery and produce bags you like, Let us know which ones you recommend. Post a note and picture on our Facebook page!