Our Dogma Box includes produce sourced as close to Boston as possible throughout the year. Similar to a CSA, this box is filled with the best organic produce from local and regional farms.

This week’s Dogma Box includes tasty spring flavors of spring-dug parsnips, cucumber, and fresh basil!

This week’s Dogma Box contains:

• Spring Dug Parsnips – Winter Moon Farm (Hadley, MA)
• Basil – Happy Valley Organics (Whately, MA)
• Empire Apples – Dwight Miller Orchards (E. Dummerston, VT)
• Sunchokes – Deep Root Organic Coop (Johnson, VT)
• Cucumbers – Deep Root Organic Coop (Johnson, VT)
• Onions – Porter Farms (Elba, NY)
• Potatoes – Nature’s Circle Farm (Houlton, ME)
• Rutabaga – Nature’s Circle Farm (Houlton, ME)

Coming Soon to a Dogma Box near you…

We’re looking forward to more colorful items brightening up Dogma Boxes in the coming few weeks. It looks like we’re approaching the first harvest of early season hot house tomatoes, which are full of flavor and perfect for sandwiches.

We hope you enjoy this delicious bounty of New England farms, and stay tuned for more delicious local produce on the horizon!

We want to wish a very happy Earth Day to our customers!!!!

In an effort to thank you all for helping us support sustainable agriculture, we have planted a tree for each of our customers! We partnered with Trees for the Future, an organization that has worked to develop sustainable agroforestry programs in developing countries around the world since 1989. They work with people to improve livelihoods and restore degraded lands to sustainable productivity through planting trees. Click here to view a map of their nurseries and projects!

Here at our office and warehouse, we’re constantly evaluating the environmental impact of our operations to make sure we get healthy organic food to you in the most sustainable way possible. We’d like to share some of the things we’ve been doing!

Bottleless Water Dispenser
By switching to a bottleless water dispenser, we’re eliminating the use of plastic bottles for our water storage. This particular system’s environmental impact is equivalent to planting 30 trees per year.

Recycling and Composting stations in our break room

We recently put a 3-bin recycling and composting station in our break room so less goes in the trash and more items go where they should! Our employees also made additional labels to help us all identify what goes where.

Motion Sensor Lighting

We installed a motion detector lighting system in 2 of the most high-traffic rooms in our office – the conference room and the break room. After 5 minutes of detected inactivity, the lights will turn themselves off. This has also made for some funny moments during meetings if we’re not moving very much!

In addition to these recent endeavors, composting and recycling remain essential to our daily operations. Here are a few facts for you!

• In 2011, we composted 32,270 lbs of produce with Save That Stuff
• In 2011, we recycled 20,000 lbs of cardboard with Save That Stuff
• We also donated we donated 26,235 pounds of produce to Food For Free in 2011!

It’s your support and belief in a healthy food system that allows us to do what we do! From all of us here at Boston Organics, thank you for your continued support, and Happy Earth Day!