We’re now offering organic snacks for your little ones from Little Duck Organics! In addition to our superb add-ons, this week’s boxes contain lots of local produce – green beans, bell peppers, zucchini, onions, and more. Check out the newsletter!
Maine Wild Blueberries! (5 pounds)
We are offering five pound boxes of organic wild low-bush blueberries from Burke Hill Farm in Cherryfield, Maine. The berries come in a compact, wax box. The box will fit into most freezers and the berries are perfect for baking! As in previous years, we anticipate irregular deliveries from the farm, and we will fill orders as supply permits! Order now!
Organic Heirloom Tomatoes! (2 pounds)
Two pound bags of assorted heirloom tomatoes from Atlas and Enterprise Farms are ready to go! Varieties may include Green Zebras to Valencias to Mr. Stripeys. These tomatoes are outstanding!! Order now!
Organic Pickling Cucumbers! (3 pounds)
Three pound bags of pickling cucumbers from Atlas Farm are available for all your pickling needs! These cukes are also great to snack on or to cut up and use in salads.! Order now!
It’s always great to get an email from one of the farms we work with with news like this… Gideon at Atlas Farm in South Deerfield let us know that he’s got a bunch of greenhouse baby greens available! (And Jess at Atlas was kind enough to send over these photos of these very greens!) These greens are similar to those amazing greens we had from Atlas in the fall, but they’re a little heartier and a little bigger. They’re of course good for salads but you could just as easily use them in a stir fry or braise them.
Anyway, Atlas is going to bring some over for all of you to order as add-ons for the week of February 28th. We should have enough but it’s always tough to anticipate demand, so we’ll go with “first come, first served” for availability! We may be able to get some more the following two weeks but we’re not sure yet. You can order them on our Order Add-Ons page. Have a great weekend!
Atlas Farm in South Deerfield MA is sending over baby greens for you to order as add-ons next week! Delicious local salad mix in November? You can’t go wrong. We’ll probably only have these greens for one week… 8 ounce bags. Order here!
Some of our eagle-eyed customers noticed that beekeeper Mike Graney’s honey (Eat Local Honey brand) appeared on our Add-On page yesterday… We’ve carried this honey before and it’s back for good reason: it’s delicious! Mike harvests this honey from hives in Mattapan, just miles away from the Boston Organics warehouse. Pick it up on the Add-Ons page! A note: this honey is local, but it’s not organic.
We just got word from Ben Perrin at Burke Hill Farms up in Cherryfield, ME.
The rainy, wet conditions are not allowing Ben and his crew to pick. We’ll have to wait until next week.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Any orders placed this week, we’ll be filled as soon as possible.
Maine Wild Blueberries! (5 pounds)
We are offering five pound boxes of organic wild low-bush blueberries from Burke Hill Farm in Cherryfield, Maine. The berries come in a compact, wax box. The box will fit into most freezers and the berries are perfect for baking! As in previous years, we anticipate irregular deliveries from the farm, and we will fill orders as supply permits! Order now (pre-order only)!
Organic Heirloom Tomatoes! (2 pounds)
Two pound bags of assorted heirloom tomatoes from Atlas Farm are ready to go! Varieties may include Green Zebras to Valencias to Mr. Stripeys. These tomatoes are outstanding!! Order now!
Organic Pickling Cucumbers! (3 pounds)
Three pound bags of pickling cucumbers from Atlas Farm are available for all your pickling needs! These cukes are also great to snack on or to cut up and use in salads.! Order now!
The first Maine wild blueberries of the season will be available starting the week of August 9th! The wild blueberries are from Burke Hill Farm in Cherryfield, ME. They will be available until the first frost which typically arrives in mid-September. As in the past, we anticipate irregular availability and will fill orders as best as possible. Order here!
These are lowbush blueberries and grow in the glacial soils of Downeast Maine. The lowbush variety are known to be a superfood because of their high levels of antioxidants that are believed to protect against disease and promote healthy aging. A lot more information can be found here
This week (July 26th-July 31st), we will be offering certified organic red and purple potatoes (2 lb bags) as well as English peas (1 lb) as add-ons..
The peas need to be shelled (pods can not be eaten).
These will be provided to us by Charlie’s Redhouse Farm located in Winchendon, MA. The farm is operated by the same people who own the Red House Restaurant and Charlie’s Kitchen in Cambridge.Their intent is to supply their restaurants with their very own local, certified organic produce. They are pretty low key about their farm to fork efforts but we think it is very cool and worth highlighting.
This is their first year at it and they have some extra produce. We are very happy to have connected with them and hope this is only the beginning.
As this was not planned, we only have access to a limited supply and were not able to get the items into any of the boxes (except for peas in the Dogma box).
Also, as is often the case with many smaller, local organic farms, it is more costly for them to grow and harvest their fruits and vegetables as almost all the labor is manual with little automation/mechanization. In addition, most of these farms do not utilize subsidized labor. This requires them to charge a price that makes it difficult for us to get the items into your boxes; but in the least, it allows us to offer them to you as an add-on.
As some of you may have heard, Taza Chocolates located in Somerville suffered significant water damage from recent torrential rains to its newly renovated facilities. They have asked for support by purchasing their chocolates. For the next two weeks we will be selling their chocolates at special prices. All bars delivered through the end of July will be sold for $4.95 (regularly $6.50) and all Mexicano discs will be sold for $3.50 (regularly $4.50). Order here!
