Author: Amy Levine

The Dogma Box includes produce sourced as close to Boston as possible. Similar to a CSA, this box is filled with the best organic produce from local and regional farms.

It's almost March! We've got delicious green veggies for the boxes including chard, kale, broccoli, and hot house cucumbers. Delicious and versatile rutabaga will make its way into several boxes along with Russet potatoes from Nature's Circle Farm. Gold Nugget mandarins are here, and specialty citrus add-ons continue with Meyer lemons, blood oranges, and honey tangerines. Plus, we're announcing the debut of Night Shift Brewing's Cape Codder Weisse, a sour beer aged on our organic cranberries. Check out the newsletter!

Happy President's Day! We're getting closer to spring, and we're happy to say we are still bringing in the local goods this time of year. This week brings flavorful celeriac (celery root), the epic ugly duckling of the culinary world. We also have carrots, kohlrabi, sunchokes, turnips coming in, with broccoli, kale, and green leaf lettuce to brighten up the boxes. Specialty citrus add-ons continue, and we have a new batch of flavorful tomato puree from Atlas Farm! Check out the newsletter!

The Dogma Box includes produce sourced as close to Boston as possible. Similar to a CSA, this box is filled with the best organic produce from local and regional farms.

We hope you all made it through storm Nemo without too many problems! We've got plenty of goodies to help you warm up your houses. Blood oranges, Meyer lemons, and honey tangerines are coming in again this week, and we're seeing more beautiful roots from Massachusetts, Vermont, and Maine. Also, we have Equal Exchange Milk Chocolate Hearts for you and your sweetie this Valentine's Day. Check out the newsletter!

Meyer lemons are a foodie favorite because of their sweet flavor and lack of a sour bite. Believed to be a cross between a lemon and a mandarin orange, Meyer lemons are sweeter than conventional lemons and taste reminiscent of tangerines. If you love lemon flavor but can’t handle the sour kick, you could eat Meyer lemons without puckering up!

While most Meyer lemon recipes lean towards sweet flavors, these lemons are easily adaptable in a range of recipes, from sweet to savory. Meyer lemons are great in baked goods, juices, sauces, cocktails, and even as pickles!

When you think of pickling, dill (cucumbers?) is the first thing that comes to mind. However, preserved lemons are commonly used in Moroccan cuisine and pack a fantastically subtle sweet flavor. You can preserve lemons by fermenting them in salt and lemon juice. Check out this recipe for Moroccan Preserved Lemons.

These little lemons can add a zip of refreshment to your winter culinary routine.

What’s your favorite recipe for Meyer lemons?

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It's quite the week for specialty citrus! Blood oranges, honey tangerines, and Meyer lemons are going out on boxes and we've got plenty available as add-ons. We are always excited for blood orange season, and we were fortunate enough to bring the blood oranges and honey tangerines from California by train, which is a fuel efficient means of produce transportation. Learn all about these unique fruits and the rest of great items in this week's boxes. Check out the newsletter!

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Boston Organics is deeply rooted in local and organic food production, buying thousands of pounds of local organic produce from farms in Massachusetts, and putting money directly into farmer’s hands.

Bootstrap Compost directly enriches local farms by providing the building blocks of nutrient rich soil. Their finished compost gets distributed throughout Boston to their customers, community gardens, and schools.

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It is important to eat your fruits and vegetables! Boston Organics believes eating organic is the best way to stay healthy. Certified organic produce is grown without synthetic pesticides, herbicides and other harmful agriculture chemicals. Additionally, cooking from fresh raw ingredients helps you eat healthier on a regular basis and can help you save money.

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In the United States we produce enough food scraps every day to fill Gillette Stadium to the brim. Yet, sadly, only 2.8% of these scraps are composted (EPA, 2010). Bootstrap Compost’s mission is to collect organic materials from city dwellers and redistribute them to local farms for composting. To date, they have helped divert nearly 170,000 pounds of organic waste from landfills in Greater Boston to create over 80,000 lbs of locally sourced compost.

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It's hard to believe it, but this is the last week in January. With last week's extremely cold temperatures, we hope you were all able to stay warm and keep healthy. Cooking is one of the best ways to warm up your house, and we've just launched our brand new Lentil Soup Kit to help you make big batches of hearty soup. This week's boxes feature some Asian-inspired produce including Mung bean sprouts and daikon radishes, and we've got beautiful Chioggia beets for you this week. Plus, find healthy recipes for your Super Bowl parties. Check out this week's newsletter!

You know it's January in Boston when the Charles River looks more like an ice cube tray than a waterway. In this climate it can be difficult to keep warm and stay healthy. At Boston Organics we are arming you with fresh vegetables and a foolproof meal plan: winter soups!

To help make nutritious soups your easy go-to meals, we have developed an Organic Lentil Soup Kit! This kit contains everything you need to make a big ol' pot of soup that you can eat throughout the week.

The Lentil Soup Kit contains:

• 1 package of green lentils (Fiddler’s Green Farm Organic)
• .5 lb onion
• 1 lb sweet potatoes
• 1 head of garlic
• 1.5oz baby spinach (Olivia’s Organics)
• 1 recipe card

We highly encourage loading the soup up with extra vegetables from your box. The recipe card includes a list of optional veggies that would work well with this recipe, but feel free to get creative. Our recipe card also includes some fun spice recommendations to kick the flavor up a notch.

Order the soup kit here. Happy eating and stay warm!