Author: Amy Levine

The fall season is winding down and that means we're approaching the end of our produce from Atlas Farm for a while. We've got cabbage, daikon radishes, potatoes, and celery root from Atlas this week, and beets and carnival squash are coming in from our friends at Deep Root Organic Coop in VT. We're getting local broccoli as well as onions and kohlrabi from Porter Farms this week! Also, learn the scandalous story behind the Gilfeather rutabaga in this week's newsletter!

With the upcoming delivery schedule changes for the weeks of Christmas and New Years, order and cancellation deadlines have changed as well!

The Dogma Box is transitioning into local winter produce in a bulbous way. This means hardier vegetables like celery root, turnips, winter radishes, beet, and other tubers and root crops.

All year round we work closely with Atlas Farm out of South Deerfield, MA and are always excited to see what they have for us. This week’s Dogma Box will be a bit more colorful with Atlas’s watermelon radish - cut it open to see where it gets its name!

As the temperature drops and the ground begins to frost, we look to Deep Root Organics, a cooperative of almost 20 organic farms in northern Vermont and southern Quebec to get some of the best root veggies around! We are getting beets and acorn squash in from Deep Root and look forward to their winter offerings.

This week’s Dogma Box includes:

• Watermelon Radish - Atlas Farm (S. Deerfield MA)
• Celeriac - Atlas Farm (S. Deerfield MA)
• Parsnip - Atlas Farm (S. Deerfield MA)
• Green cabbage - Atlas Farm (S. Deerfield MA)
• Onions - Porter Farms (Elba, NY)
• Kohlrabi - Porter Farms (Elba, NY)
• Red Potato - Happy Valley Organics (Whately, MA)
• McIntosh Apples - Dwight Miller & Sons Orchards (E. Dummerston, VT)
• Beets - Deep Root Organic Coop (Johnson, VT)
• Acorn Squash - Deep Root Organic Coop (Johnson, VT)

Recipes
The recipes below work well with many of the items that you’re receiving in the Dogma Box this week. These recipes are usually quite flexible and easily adaptable based on your pantry and your dietary needs. Feel free to get creative in the kitchen! If you come up with new ways to use some of our recipes and would like to share, post them on our Facebook or Tweet us.

Creamy Parsnip, Celeriac, & Turnip Soup

Cabbage and Apple

Holiday Cheddar Mash

Beet and Apple Salad

What are you cooking this week? Feel free to share with us at any time! For more recipes, check out the Produce Info, Storage Tips and Recipes section on our website and browse recipes by item. Here you can find nutritional information, preparation tips, and recipes for each produce item we offer. Happy eating from your friends at Boston Organics!

Happy Holidays!

The holidays are coming up soon! We will be closed on Christmas (Tuesday, December 25th) and New Years (Tuesday, January 1st). Our delivery schedules will be condensed for those two weeks.

There's lots to be excited about over here at the Boston Organics office! We're now carrying organic milk from Shaw Farm in Dracut, MA, and we have local honey back in stock from Boston beekeeper Mike Graney. Also, boxes this week are filled with plenty of tasty root veggies to help you warm up your kitchen. Check out the newsletter!

We're very excited to announce that we are now offering organic milk from Shaw Farm in Dracut, MA! Shaw Farm is one of the Commonwealth's only producers of certified organic milk, and their quality is outstanding.

We hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving holiday! We've got lots of great veggies this week along with some special fruits, including persimmons and Ataulfo mangoes! It's also the last week for cranberries, and we still have some of our holiday produce and pecan add-ons for your cooking needs this holiday season. Check out the newsletter!