No, one-time boxes may be purchased whenever extra harvest inventory is available.

However, subscriptions are the best way to secure your Produce Box throughout the season.

Because our farm partners are intentionally small regenerative farms, weekly harvest inventory is naturally limited. If available produce is fully reserved through subscriptions, there may not be additional one-time boxes available that week.

Absolutely not!

Many people don’t realize that even grocery store organic produce can still undergo post-harvest treatments after harvest as it moves through large storage and distribution systems to extend shelf life.

For example, some retailers use antimicrobial misting spray systems like Produce Maxx with chlorine as an ingredient to help preserve freshness on store shelves. (That mist/spray isn’t always water…) Others use shelf-life extender coatings like Apeel/Organipeel, which are approved for use even on some organic produce.

Produce Maxx is an EPA-registered antimicrobial wash that contains hypochlorous acid, a chlorine-based compound.

Chlorine materials are explicitly allowed under the USDA organic regulations, as long as a water rinse is used. But the lines are blurry when it comes to produce sitting on the shelves at grocery stores, sprayed continuously while waiting to be put in a customer’s cart. The regulations focus on processing and packing facilities, not necessarily on ongoing retail misting once produce is already on display.

Our goal is different: freshly harvested produce, grown in real soil, shipped fresh, and handled as minimally as possible with NO post harvest chemical coatings.

And because this is real produce from small farms grown in real soil without any post harvest antimicrobial chemical spray treatments… it may not always look perfectly uniform or “picture perfect” like grocery store produce.

But honestly… that’s kind of the beauty of it. 🌱

Yes. After harvest, produce is cooled overnight in a walk-in fridge before being packed and shipped the following day.

Each box is packed with an insulated liner and ice packs to maintain freshness during transit.

Yes, shipping is included in the price of the Produce Box.

Your purchase helps fairly compensate the farmers growing your food while also covering insulated packaging, ice packs, and direct-to-door delivery to keep your produce fresh during transit.

Because these boxes ship fresh from our central produce hub shortly after harvest, we prioritize fast transit times and temperature-controlled packaging to preserve freshness and quality from the field to your doorstep.

Produce Box subscriptions process on Fridays, and boxes are then harvested, packed, and shipped the following Tuesday and Thursday.

For one-time (non-subscription) orders, any order placed before Sunday at 12 PM ET will ship the following week on Tuesday or Thursday.

You’ll receive a tracking link via email as soon as your box ships.

Please note: If your order also includes items like meat, dairy, sourdough, or other Nourish products, your produce ships separately to preserve freshness and quality.

Because Produce Boxes ship directly from our central produce hub, they may also ship on a different day than the rest of your order in order to reduce unnecessary transit time and keep produce as fresh as possible.

Produce Boxes arrive within 1–2 days after shipment. (unless there is a FedEx delay)

If your address falls outside our normal 2-day ground shipping window, we automatically upgrade your box to 2-Day Express shipping to help ensure produce arrives fresh and cool.

Don’t worry, this can occasionally happen, especially with tender greens during warmer months.

Many leafy vegetables can easily be revived by trimming the ends slightly and soaking them in an ice water bath for 15–30 minutes.

Please remember: we do not use antimicrobial sprays, wax coatings, or post-harvest treatments commonly used in conventional grocery store supply chains.

This means the produce may not always look “picture perfect” like it does at stores, but it is still incredibly fresh, nutrient-dense, flavorful, and fully functional.

This is real produce:

• - Grown in healthy living soil
• - Pesticide-free
• - Free of antimicrobial sprays
• - Free of wax coatings
• - Free of APEEL coatings

If anything arrives beyond damaged beyond repair, please contact us at support@nourishfoodclub.com with your order number and photos of the produce, and we will make it right!

Absolutely. You can manage your subscription directly through your Nourish Food Club account and choose “Skip” anytime.

Because we pack and ship produce within a very short window after harvest each week, please make any changes to your subscription (such as skip or change addresses) before Sunday at 11:59 PM ET prior to the upcoming shipment week.

Our Produce Box season follows the natural growing and harvest season as closely as possible.

The first harvest shipments begin at the end of May, with weekly produce shipments continuing through approximately the end of October.

As the growing season winds down, produce naturally transitions into more storage-friendly crops like:

• Winter squash
• Potatoes
• Root vegetables

The official Seasonal Produce Box subscription season runs from late May through late October during the peak growing season.

You may start, pause, skip, or cancel your subscription at any time.

Eating produce in season means enjoying foods when they’re naturally ripe: often sweeter, more flavorful, and at their freshest.

Seasonal eating also naturally increases dietary variety throughout the year while reconnecting you with nature’s rhythms and the natural harvest cycle.

Rather than eating the same produce year-round from industrial supply chains, seasonal eating encourages diversity, creativity in the kitchen, and a closer connection to the farms and seasons producing your food.

Simple, traditional, and delicious.