Celebrate Earth Day!

As employees at Orr’s, we feel fortunate to be able to spend so much of our time outdoors.  We work many hours each day to keep our land in its best condition. We get to breathe fresh air, smell the sweet scents of nature, and feel the sun and wind against our skin. Every day spend working is a day we appreciate our planet— but it’s not every day that we get to celebrate it with others.

Earth Day is one of the easiest holidays to celebrate! Small actions, like taking shorter showers or turning off lights, can make a big difference. Here are a few of our favorite tips for living an environmentally responsible lifestyle that we found from a website dedicated to this special day, https://www.earthday.org/.

1. Join a local park, beach, or river clean up group. Once the stay at home order is lifted and it’s safe to be around others, a clean up group would be a great way to get some fresh air and meet new people. This link explains how to find groups like this near you!
2. Carpool, ride a bike, or use public transportation and reduce your carbon footprint by every mile you don’t spend behind the wheel. Currently, millions of people are working from home, which has reduced the amount of driving and improved air quality. Now is the perfect time to rethink your usual habits and find a carpool buddy for once work returns to normal.
3. Donate old clothes and home goods. Consider buying used products instead of new products. You can also reuse your shipping boxes by donating to Give Back Box. Learn more here!
4. Instead of getting paper bills in the mail each month, switch to online services.
5. Buy local food to reduce the distance from farm to fork.

If you don’t have your own garden, we have tons of locally sourced food options that you can purchase by using the online ordering system on our website.  Just go to https://orrsfarmmarket.com/store/, place your order, and after a few hours we’ll have it ready for you to pick up curbside. Don’t forget to stop and smell the hydrangeas! We’re open 10am-5pm, Tuesday through Saturday. Happiness grows here!