Bon Appetit addresses salad bar concerns
As you know, we strive to purchase as many fresh seasonal fruits and vegetables from local farmers as possible. We’re blessed to have an abundance of great farmers surrounding Newberg producing wonderful organic and sustainably grown tomatoes, lettuces, broccoli, cauliflower and many other items.
It’s been brought to our attention that a few students this past week found little green worms in the salad from our salad bar. In looking into this, we discovered this is the time of year many bugs hatch and start feeding. Because the greens and lettuces we’ve been purchasing are organic, our farmers don’t use pesticides to chemically control these little bugs and worms, so there’s a greater potential for them to be present in the items we purchased. Although we double-wash our lettuces, apparently some of them made it through our washings, so to those who accidentally found them in their salads, we sincerely apologize.
Since the growing season is officially over in the area, starting this past Monday we began purchasing non-lettuces from California, which should alleviate the problem.
We thank everyone for their support and understanding. If anyone has additional questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
Denny Lawrence
Bon Appetit