Photo By: Rikki Snyder

The Thanksgiving table is full of flavorful seasonal dishes.  Many of us use family recipes passed down through generations,  borrowed from friends, or from our favorite cook book.  We imagine many of you are using Boston Organics produce for your holiday meal and we’d love to hear what you’re making!

We invite you to share your best creations with us for our Thanksgiving Recipe Photo Contest!

Here are the criteria:
1. We’re looking for pictures of the finished dish that you’ve created.
2. Recipes should include at least one fruit or vegetable from Boston Organics.
3. Photos should be well-lit and the subject should be in focus.
4. Please send in an accompanying recipe (source cited) with your photo. The recipe format should include an ingredient list and instructions.
5. Photos must be the property of the contestant.

Instructions:
Limit 3 photos per contestant. Please send your picture AND recipe to marketing@bostonorganics.com.

Deadline:
Submit your recipe by the end of the day on *Sunday, December 2nd*. Winners will be chosen by Sunday, December 3rd and announced the that week!

Winner Receives:
The Grand Prize winner will receive a gift bag of delicious add-on items and will be featured in our blog, social media sites, and December 3rd newsletter! Our favorites will be featured on our blog and social media sties.

If you have any questions, please email marketing@bostonorganics.com.

Good luck, and have fun!

Photo By: Deb Perelman

With Thanksgiving less than a week away, we’ve been daydreaming about all the wholesome dishes we can make with this season’s produce.

We put our heads together and planned out a menu with starters, sides, and desserts that you and your family can make with the produce in your boxes next week!

Starters:

• Curried carrot, sweet potato and ginger soup
• Mixed green salad w/apples and walnut dressing

Sides:

• Beet & apple salad
• Spiced baked acorn squash
• Potato and rutabaga gratin
• Roasted kohlrabi
• Cranberry pecan stuffing

Desserts:

• Chocolate beet brownies
• Cranberry upside-down cake (see above photo)

Stay tuned for our Thanksgiving Recipe Photo contest! We are looking for seasonally stunning photos of Thanksgiving dishes you and your family have prepared with Boston Organic produce.

Happy holidays from your friends at Boston Organics!

Happy early Thanksgiving from your friends at Boston Organics! Due to our condensed delivery schedule for next week, we’re sending out the newsletter today.

Inside this newsletter you’ll find recipes for comforting Thanksgiving dishes, plus news about the fruits and veggies coming in from the fields for next week’s boxes. Pecan add-ons are now available, along with tons of Thanksgiving produce add-ons for your holiday cooking needs. Check out the newsletter!

Thanksgiving: 5 ways to share the holiday with those in need

The smell of fall in the air, old jack-o-lanterns being hauled off and a crisp breeze can only mean Thanksgiving is around the corner. The holiday’s arrival brings friends and loved ones together to share a warm meal. However, there are still many folks in our communities in need during the holidays. We’ve put together a list of 5 ways to give people in need a happy holiday.

5 ways to give back this Thanksgiving:

1.  Greater Boston Food Bank is the largest hunger-relief organization in New England and among the largest food banks in the country.

Their Fall Turkey Drive is a great way to help out the local community. A $17 donation provides a 12-14lb turkey dinner for those in need. You can make a single donation, become an individual fundraiser or get your company involved with a corporate team.

2.  Food For Free  located in Cambridge, MA, rescues fresh food—food that might otherwise go to waste—and distributes it within the local emergency food system where it can reach those in need.

Food For Free accepts donations and welcome volunteers year round for home delivery, weekend truck routes, and office support.  A fun way to support Food For Free and satisfy your appetite is to attend a luncheon at Rendezvous Restaurant on Nov 17. All proceeds directly support Food For Free.

In 2011, Boston Organics donated over 25,000 pounds of organic produce to Food For Free.

3.  Community Servings  is a not-for-profit food and nutrition program providing services throughout Massachusetts to individuals and families living with critical and chronic illnesses.

Their Pie in the Sky fundraiser has been running each November since 1993. Boston’s best restaurants, bakeries, caterers and hotels donate thousands of pies that over 500 volunteers then sell to family, friends and colleagues. Each pie costs $25, providing a week’s worth of hearty home-delivered meals to a Community Servings’ client and a tasty Thanksgiving treat to the buyer.

4.  bostonCANshare is an annual food drive sponsored by Mayor Menino, the Mayor’s Office of Food Initiatives, FedEx, and The Greater Boston Food Bank.

Get involved by donating cans, cash and spreading the word about the can drive. All food items donated will go to local food panties to stock the shelves. Any cash donations support Boston Bounty Bucks which provide low income families with access to health fresh fruits and vegetables that they would otherwise struggle to afford.

5.  In our local community – Harvest on Vine is a food pantry in Charlestown.

Your donation of $35 will provide a local family in need with a Thanksgiving dinner. They will be feeding 600 families this Thanksgiving and could use your support!

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In your own community, be on the lookout for a way to support those in need this holiday season through a food or clothing drive, or by volunteering with a local support group.

                ~From your friends at Boston Organics, have a very happy Thanksgiving holiday!

Thanksgiving will be here before we know it! We’ve been busy over here working out the details for deliveries during Thanksgiving week.

We won’t be delivering on Thursday 11/22 or Friday 11/23, so we’re compressing our deliveries into the first half of the week.

Check out the delivery schedule below for the week of 11/19!

Monday, November 19
02109 Boston (Downtown/Financial)
02110 Boston (Downtown/Financial)
02111 Boston (Chinatown/Leather)
02115 Boston (Back Bay/Fenway/Mission Hill)
02116 Boston (Back Bay/South End)
02118 Boston (South End)
02119 Boston (Roxbury)
02120 Boston (Mission Hill/JP/Roxbury)
02121 Boston (Dorchester)
02122 Boston (Dorchester)
02124 Boston (Dorchester)
02125 Boston (Dorchester)
02127 Boston (South Boston)
02130 Boston (Jamaica Plain)
02199 Boston (Copley)
02210 Boston (Fort Point)
02215 Boston (Back Bay/Fenway)
02108 Boston (Beacon Hill)
02113 Boston (North End)
02114 Boston (Beacon Hill)

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Tuesday, November 20
01890 Winchester
02138 Cambridge (Harvard Sq/Fresh Pond)
02139 Cambridge (Inman Sq)
02140 Cambridge (Porter Sq)
02141 Cambridge (Inman Sq)
02142 Cambridge
02474 Arlington
02476 Arlington
01950 Newburyport
02128 East Boston
02143 Somerville
02144 Somerville (Davis Sq/Porter Sq)
02145 Somerville
02148 Malden
02149 Everett
02150 Chelsea
02152 Winthrop
02155 Medford
02156 Medford
02176 Melrose

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Wednesday, November 21
02129 Charlestown
02131 Boston (Roslindale)
02132 Boston (West Roxbury)
02134 Allston
02135 Brighton
02146 Brookline
02163 Boston (Allston)
02445 Brookline (Chestnut Hill)
02446 Brookline (Coolidge Corner)
02451 Waltham
02452 Waltham
02453 Waltham
02458 Newton (Newton Corner)
02459 Newton (Newton Center)
02460 Newton (Newtonville)
02461 Newton (Newton Highlands)
02462 Newton (Lower Falls)
02464 Newton (Upper Falls)
02465 Newton (West Newton)
02466 Newton (Auburndale)
02467 Newton (Chestnut Hill)
02468 Newton (Waban)
02472 Watertown
02478 Belmont
02481 Wellesley
02482 Wellesley

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Going out of town, or having guests in? Don’t think you can use your Boston Organics delivery? It’s easy to cancel your delivery for Thanksgiving week on our website!

If you’ve got any questions, don’t hesitate to call us up at 617-242-1700 or email us at service@bostonorganics.com!

Thank you and Happy Holidays!

We have a special thank you note from Boston Organics’ founder Jeff Barry, and we’re featuring our 5 favorite customer-submitted recipes from the Thanksgiving recipe contest! Check out this week’s newsletter! 

Happy Halloween!! We had a great time over the weekend at the Boston Vegetarian Food Festival, and we also had a lovely trip to a cranberry bog with our friends at Jonathan’s Organic. We’ve got awesome fall recipes and Thanksgiving-themed add-ons available, and there’s plenty to be excited about in the boxes this week. Get the scoop in this week’s newsletter!

New this week: North Carolina Sweet Potato add-ons! And, more add-on potted basil. Read the Newsletter!

Our Tuesday customers have seen these in real life already, but we’ve got some fine cauliflower from Pedersen Farm in Seneca Castle, NY this week. And, the summer squash from Atlas Farm in South Deerfield has finally finished up with all the cold and cloudy weather. Our Local and All Veggie box customers will find Atlas’s Baby Bok Choy instead of zukes this Thursday and Friday!

October just began but we’re already scribbling on whiteboards to plan out Thanksgiving week deliveries. We won’t be delivering Thursday November 25 and Friday November 26; if you’re scheduled for a delivery those days, your delivery will be moved to the beginning of Thanksgiving week. We’re working on the final schedule and we’ll post it up here when it’s done. If you don’t want a delivery at all that week, let us know!