It's now December, just weeks away from the official start of winter. Hanukkah's begun. Holiday shopping is in full swing. And an onslaught of Christmas carols ushering you through every public space is unavoidable. So does all of this mean that we're officially finished with the local growing season? Nope. Not even close.
Topics: Local Dogma Box, Newsletter, Eat Local, Organic Farmers, Organic Grocery Delivery Boston, Organic Leafy Greens
Even though we've been working with organic produce for more than 13 years, we still occassionally come across something new and suprising. You can imagine how excited the crew got when we learned we'd be delivering this declious new vegetable.
Topics: Newsletter, Eat Local, Organic Farmers, Organic Grocery Delivery Boston, Organic Leafy Greens, Organic Brussels Sprouts
Author Faith Baldwin once painted a rich portrait of autumn, describing how it "[burns] brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees." The same goes for the fields in which our farm partners' crops grow. And this week we're taking some of fall's fiery enchantment, packing it up and bringing it to your doorstep.
Topics: Recipes, Fall Produce, Newsletter, Organic Grocery Add-Ons, Fresh From the Farm, Organic Grocery Delivery Boston, Organic Squash, Organic Leafy Greens, organic pomegranate
It's one of the best times of year to live in New England. The days are still long and warm, but the evenings become cool and crisp. And it's during this straddle-season that we get to savor the final flavors of summer while enjoying those first tastes of fall.
Topics: Organic Garlic, Happy Valley Organics, organic blueberries, Newsletter, Eat Local, Organic Farmers, Organic Grocery Add-Ons, Organic Grocery Delivery Boston, Organic Leafy Greens, The Kitchen Garden
How much do you know about where your food comes from?
If you buy and eat organic food, you already know quite a lot. For instance, you know that it was grown without synthetic fertilizers and wasn’t sprayed with harmful chemical pesticides. You also know that there are no genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in your food and that the animals that produced your eggs and milk weren’t fed antibiotics. Instead, they were raised in safe, humane conditions.
But as a busy Boston resident, you don’t have time to visit all of the organic farms that grow your food. That’s part of our job, to increase transparency in the supply chain and make sure that the food you eat comes from truly sustainable sources.
We work with a vast network of organic farms, and every season we like to go visit a few of them. Not only does this help maintain our strong working relationship with these organic farmers, it also gives us an opportunity to ask questions and learn new things about modern organic farming practices.
Earlier this summer, we sent a few members of the Boston Organics Crew to southern Vermont and central Massachusetts to visit some of our local farm partners there. Here’s a short recap from each visit.
Topics: Fall Produce, Newsletter, Dwight Miller Orchard, Organic Farmers, Fresh From the Farm, Atlas Farm, Organic Apples, summer produce, Organic Leafy Greens, New England Local Fruits and Vegetables, The Kitchen Garden
You can never have too many organic tomatoes.
We adopted that motto after a fungal disease wiped out most of Atlas Farm’s tomato fields last year. But this year our farmers have used all of their organic farming prowess to protect their tomatoes from late blight and they have a bumper crop to share with the Boston Organics Community.
So we’re putting our tomăto motto to the test this week with oodles of heirlooms from Atlas and juicy Roma tomatoes from Blue Ox Farm in almost all of the boxes.
Topics: Newsletter, organic tomatoes, Organic Grocery Add-Ons, Fresh From the Farm, Organic Grocery Delivery Boston, summer produce, Organic Leafy Greens
You really have no excuse to eat anything but locally grown, organic food this week considering the dazzling array of fresh fruits and vegetables our farm partners have available.
Topics: Newsletter, Eat Local, Organic Farmers, Atlas Farm, Organic Grocery Delivery Boston, summer produce, Organic Leafy Greens
The bountiful harvests from our local farm partners continue this week with an absolute rainbow of color. Bright red tomatoes, summer squash and fresh corn on the cob round out a cornucopia that also includes several leafy greens, blueberries and eggplants.
Topics: Newsletter, Eat Local, organic kale, Organic Farmers, Organic Grocery Delivery Boston, summer produce, Organic Leafy Greens
Farmers are often considered creatures of habit—if they find something that works well, they like to stick with it. At the same time, unpredictable weather patterns, pests and botanical diseases mean that organic farmers need to think on their feet and be ready to adapt and try new things at a moment's notice.
Topics: Newsletter, Eat Local, Organic Farmers, Organic Herbs, summer produce, Organic Leafy Greens
In the Boston area, the early summer is a fantastic time to get your hands on a variety of locally grown leafy greens. This week, familiar faves like kale and dandelion are joined by more unusual leaves like calaloo and radicchio — all coming from Atlas Farm in central Massachusetts.
Topics: Local Dogma Box, Eat Local, Organic Farmers, Atlas Farm, summer produce, Organic Leafy Greens, New England Local Fruits and Vegetables
