Scallions aka green onions, are a fresher, sweeter, milder member of the allium family that never develop a true bulb. Easy on the eyes while chopping and in appearance, their bright green and white color and mild sharpness is a welcome addition to salads, stir fries, omelettes, savory baked goods and more.
Topics: Local Season, Organic Scallions, scallions, farm partners, Riverland
Overnight oats are your ticket to easing the hectic morning rush of breakfast-and-out-the-door. Prep oats the night before and once morning comes, grab a spoon and you're on your way to a tasty breakfast and well-fueled day. Enjoy this nutritious start to your morning while making good use of the wonderful fruits that arrive every week in your Boston Organics box.
Topics: Organic Milk, Recipes, organic blueberries, Organic Apples, Organic Stone Fruit, overnight oats, oatmeal
Dear Boston Organics Community:
Topics: Company Updates
On National Eat Your Vegetables Day, we're remembering important words from Albert Einstein:
Topics: organic produce, salad, vegetarian, Albert Einstein, eat your vegetables, salad for dinner
Kitchen Garden Farm is a 50-acre, certified organic farm located in Sunderland, MA, the heart of the fertile Pioneer Valley. Owners Caroline Pam and Tom Wilcox are passionate about all things food, and dedicated to the craft of growing the most delicious produce possible. On their 25 acres of farmland a diverse array of organic vegetables grow.After purchasing their first parcel of land in 2006 the couple spent many years acquiring more acreage while painstakingly converting the previously conventionally farmed land to organic farming. Caroline and Tim are committed to growing healthy soils by cultivating a wide range of biodiverse crops, improving crop rotation and cover cropping. In 2014 the farm received organic certification and the Boston Organics Community has been enjoying the bounty of the produce and products - like fire roasted chili or tomatillo salsa and naturally fermented sriracha - from Kitchen Garden Farm since 2015.
So far this year, Boston Organics' customers have enjoyed bunched root crops and early spring produce like baby bok choy and mustard greens, be on the look out for the coveted summer harvest of cucumbers, heirloom tomatoes, peppers and eggplant from Kitchen Garden Farm.
The duo is highly involved in their local community: Caroline is a periodic contributor to Edible Pioneer Valley and a monthly contributor for the Daily Hampshire Gazette. If you have a second, take a moment and read her article about women in farming!
Topics: Eat Local, Organic Farmers, The Kitchen Garden, pioneer valley
We love the connections that we've made with the local organic farming community over our almost 20 years delivering organic food in the greater Boston area, and the part we've played in helping the farmers build their businesses and support one another.
In 2008 Michael Docter of Winter Moon Roots in Hadley, MA approached Boston Organics about supplying us with their storage carrots. He was building his business, a carbon neutral 30 acre organic root vegetable farm and needed a reliable market for his produce. We agreed to purchase 1000 lbs of carrots per week, ensuring he could get his business off the ground and the rest is history. We've relied on his beautiful, organic root vegetables ever since.
Just last week we learned from another of our suppliers, Atlas Farms, about a GoFund me campaign to help Rosendo Santizo, stay with me here, buy Winter Moon Farms from Michael.
Topics: Locavore, Atlas Farm, Winter Moon Roots, organic farming, Go Fund Me, Western Mass, Immigrant owned farms, Guatemalan Immigrant, Family owned farms, Root vegetables
What's great for breakfast, lunch or dinner; makes good use of the contents of your organic vegetable box and allows you to be creative? Why a vegetable frittata of course!!
It's the perfect answer to what's for dinner when everyone has gotten home late. Special enough for guests for brunch. While your at it make two because leftovers are egg-cellent! Wonderful thrown in a pita for a brown bag lunch. Or eaten on the fly when you're heading out the door in the morning.
Once you've got a few basic principles down, throw on your chef's hat and get cooking.
Topics: Recipes, Home Cooking Kitchen Tips, frittata
With people returning to the office post Covid, Wellness Programs are all the rage, and businesses have their pick of innovative vendors offering products and services aimed at boosting employee health and productivity. To learn about our office wellness program that includes organic snacks delivered to your business and a discount for your employees who use our home delivery systems go here.
Developing a wellness program can help employees feel valued and support healthy lifestyle choices, but success requires planning and dedication. Before launching a wellness program at your office, consider these four tips to help shape your plan.
Topics: office, Healthy Office
Spring is in the air and with it the daylight time and energy to break out of our winter doldrums. Perhaps your pantry has acquired an inventory - canned goods, snacks and other processed foods - more worthy of winter (and Covid) dormancy than Spring brightness and warmth. Well, that's easily fixed with our tips for building a pantry worthy of the vernal equinox and the fresh seasonal produce to come.
Topics: Organic Mangoes, Newsletter, boston organics, Home Cooking Kitchen Tips, spring produce, Original Boston Organics Blog
There's apple pie, pumpkin pie, pecan pie, sweet potato pie -- maybe coconut cream pie if your family is crazy like mine. But there's absolutely no need to restrict your pie consumption to dessert. Here are five recipes for savory vegetarian pies that will make you wonder why you don't eat pie for dinner more often.
Topics: Vegetarian and Vegan Food, Organic Garlic, Recipes, Holiday, Organic Kohlrabi, organic carrots, Organic Onions, Organic Grocery Delivery Boston, Organic Potatoes, organic celery, Thanksgiving, vegetarian savory pies, pie recipes, Organic Zucchini, Organic Lentils
