Topic: Newsletter

With the warmer weather and longer days, it's a great week for a farm visit! This week we're sending a few of our team to Granby, MA to visit the folks at Red Fire Farm and get a glimpse of the early season activity.

It's that time of year when we meet with our growers to review the past year's harvest and start planning for the upcoming season. Unfortunately we don't get to leave the office for farm visits as often as we'd like, but it's always a pleasure to meet with our friendly growers whenever we get the chance. Last Friday we had a nice visit with Michael Docter of Winter Moon Farm, and we look forward to his beautiful harvest in the coming winter and for many more to come.

Many of the boxes will be seeing some bright colors this week with broccoli, chard, sweet potatoes, and a mix of gold or red beets. We're also bringing in some early spring flavor with Roma tomatoes and yellow squash. Citrus season is still brightening up the boxes with Minneola tangelos, Murcott mandarins, and luscious blood oranges. Check out the newsletter!

Last week we launched our 2013 Customer Survey so we can learn more about your Boston Organics experience and figure out ways to improve our service. We have already received a lot of insightful information and we look forward to reviewing everything! This week’s vegetable boxes will be getting a taste of spring with some Swiss chard, sweet potatoes, and bok choy! Check out this week's newsletter!

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!

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!

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!

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!