June 5th, 2009 by Margie

Just like every girl needs a new outfit for the season, vegetablehusband.com is now sporting a new look for 2009…and I hope you LIKE!  We are on the road to interconnectivity and that is exciting.  I think that your ideas are at least as important as mine so please take a look and help me find the best features of our new website.  Of course, if you find something that doesn’t seem to make sense for you, please let me know.

We have tried to make sure we kept all your old favorites, while adding a few new features and information sources.  For those of you that have missed the Recipes section online, they are not only back but now very easy to print a single recipe.  You can also access all the recipes that were on the old website.  I know once I make something I like, I want to keep the recipe like an old friend.

Please indulge me for those of you that do not need to be walked thru a new website.  Some of you might appreciate the added explanations.  Now let’s just go from the Pages section to the Categories…

The first title to the right of our site is Pages and first up in the list is the blog.  This will take you to whatever the freshest info is in the site, whether it is a post in the the Field Notes or a recent article of interest to all of us.  Home is of course the Home page and now that we have switched to a more blog-drivin site, you will no longer always land in the home page but it will always be there to give you a simple welcome and explanation of Vegetable Husband.

About the VH is a little bit about how we got started on this journey and more specifically how I became your vegetable husband.  One day I will add a photo so you can put a face with the story but many of you see me in person showing up at your door from time to time.

Giving newcomers very specific information on how to join the service and if we offer delivery to your community is found in the Delivery Info section . Here you’ll find a map of the delivery area along with subscription rates and schedules. This will also be the place for newcomers to request service.  Remember how difficult it was to figure out how you actually subscribed in the beginning?  I am trying to hear that response and change the process.

I love that so many of you want to know exactly where your food comes from and this is why I added the Farms page.  Here you can see for yourself many of the folks growing your food.  We have brief descriptions and links to the farm websites, well to the few that have them.  Check it out!

On the Contact page you will find important links to forms if you need to suspend or cancel your service.  This will make things run smoothly when you have your next vacation.  Just fill out the form and we will automatically take care of your suspension time.  You will certainly get a confirmation note, as well.

Categories are a breakdown of all the blog posts and now your weekly letters are actually filed here.  I thought this would be cool for a couple of reasons.  One, you can now take a look online and see all that we are up to.  If I were checking us out for the first time, I think it would be fun to read through a few weeks of our letters.  It really let’s the season unfold.  The other nice thing is if you are wondering how soon you can expect a certain vegetable, now that we are rounding a full year, you can just look at the past.

Well rather than go through each title we used to classify the blog entries, just take a look on your own and see what ‘ya think.  I personally like Community Love because that is where I get to share wonderful notes and comments from you guys.

Have a beautiful week!