Author: Coley Ward

We discovered Justin Klaassen, a product developer and father of two who lives in South Boston, when he started tagging us on Instagram, where he posts under the name @hoppybeerman. Always the posts would feature a beer next to some fruits or vegetables that he got in his Boston Organics box.

A couple of years ago, Joy Huang started her Instagram account (@joyosity) to share photos of her culinary creations and travel explorations. Last year, she challenged herself to post one recipe photo a day. Since then, her audience has grown and she now has over 6,000 followers.

She says joining cooking clubs on Facebook (like the Food52 cookbook club and baking club) gave her a lot of inspiration for what to make. Occasionally some of her posts would be picked up by other larger accounts like @Food52, @marthastewart, @thekitchn, @foodandwine, and @thefeedfeed which brought a lot more exposure to her account. One unique aspect of her Instagram photos is that they are all taken and edited with her iPhone.

It gets cold in our offices at this time of year, and most of the time you'll see our team wearing hats to keep their heads warm. Here are some of the hats they wore this week.

The weather outside is frightful and if you're lucky enough to be home from work, you're probably wondering what to do with yourself. Here are a few suggestions from your friends at Boston Organics. (Note: If you did make it in to the office today, numbers two, three and six are still totally doable -- five, too, if you have a long enough lunch break, a carrot for a nose and sticks for arms.)

Our most read blog post of all time remains The Difference Between USDA Organic and Non-GMO Verified Seal. It has more than three times the visits of our next most popular post, our Guide to Organic Apple Picking. But we digress. This post is about 2017. Here are the most read blog posts published this year.

This year, instead of sending chocolates or little monkey robots that fart on command to our best customers, we decided to say thank you by making a donation on their behalf to one of three local nonprofits. Here's a little background on the groups we chose and why. They represent three areas that we care a lot about -- farming, sustainability and food security.

Tis the season for adjusted delivery schedules. Boston Organics will not be making deliveries on Monday, December 25, Friday, December 29 or Monday, January 1, necessitating some schedule shuffling during Christmas and New Year's weeks. Please see below for information on when we'll be delivering to your zip code during these holiday weeks.

We're always looking for opportunities to improve, to give our users more value. Recently, we started asking  if there were any changes that we could make to our weekly newsletter that would make it more valuable to our customers?

This week's box features shiitake mushrooms, which are crazy nutritious but also delicious. If you're a mushroom fan, shiitakes are likely one your list of favorites (they're so much more flavorful and complex than boring white button mushrooms!). You'll encounter shiitakes in various forms in a lot of Asian cuisine, like miso soup and many stirfries. Today we've got a recipe that calls for roasting the mushrooms and we think you're going to love it.