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Thanksgiving is a food-lover’s holiday. Here at Boston Organics, we love to cook, eat, and share recipes with one another, and we wanted to share a few of our favorite Thanksgiving dishes with you.

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Thanks to the beautiful weather, we’ve got local Red Boston lettuce this week from Atlas Farm! Sweet potatoes, cranberries, beets, radishes, and apples are some of the other delicious local crops we’ve got coming in. We have a condensed Thanksgiving delivery schedule next week, and we’re offering Thanksgiving add-on’s such as pecans, cranberry sauce, mushrooms, and more! Also, there’s a cooking class coming up this Saturday at the Boston Center for Adult Education! Check out the newsletter!

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How it all began:
In the early 1970’s, Bob and Barbara Sanderson started growing organic sprouts in an old barn in Rochester, MA. With a few alfalfa seeds and a vision of growing and selling good, healthy produce year-round, they started growing sprouts on a small scale for friends and small retailers. In 1976, they convinced Shaw’s to start carrying their products, and they’ve been in business ever since.

Where they are now:
With approximately 50 employees and 2 facilities in Massachusetts, Jonathan’s Sprouts is a leader in the sprout industry and supplies sprouts for supermarkets, specialty markets, wholesale distributors, and small grocery services like Boston Organics!

Bob and Barbara have been credited with bringing sprouts to the retail market in the New England region. In the early 1980s, Bob and Barbara founded the New England Sprout Growers Association, which, in 1989, seeded the International Sprout Growers Association, The associations bring together sprout growers from around the world every year to discuss important topics within the industry and strengthen the relationship between sprout growers worldwide. Bob and Barbara also played an instrumental role in bringing organic produce – as a category – to mainstream supermarkets.

Products:
Jonathan’s grows a variety of delicious sprouts, including: radish sprouts, broccoli sprouts, pea shoots, mung bean sprouts, alfalfa sprouts, clover sprouts, sunflower greens, and a “Munchin’ Mix” of peas, lentils, and adzuki beans. Jonathan’s grows all products using organic practices. During Massachusetts cranberry season (October through December), Jonathan’s also packages and distributes organic cranberries from local Massachusetts cranberry growers.

Why organic?
“It’s very important to me that we don’t contaminate the environment with pesticides,” says Barbara Sanderson. “Equally important is the nutritional aspect of organic produce. Plants that are not chemically fertilized send out enzymes that digest the soil, absorbing many micro-nutrients not available in the “instant” fertilizers. These “phyto-chemicals” (plant chemicals) are well known in research for helping prevent chronic and age-related diseases, as well as cancers.”

“I’m definitely an organic consumer.”

What’s your favorite fruit or vegetable?
Barbara: “I’m eating a lot of sprouts. I spread hummus or another spread onto a piece of flat round whole wheat bread, put an ounce of sprouts on it, and roll it up. I also love avocado. Avocado and Alfalfa sprouts make the best sandwich. You don’t even need a dressing.”

What’s next for Jonathan’s Sprouts?
They’re working with a grower in New Jersey who grows beautiful rainbow microgreens. They’re hoping to bring these microgreens to supermarket shelves in the near future.

We’re thrilled to continue our relationship with Jonathan’s Sprouts and provide our customers with some of the healthiest and best tasting organic sprouts on the market. Stay tuned for photos and videos from our visit with Jonathan’s and their cranberry growers!

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Thanksgiving is coming up, and we’ve got some schedule changes and deadlines to announce! Look out for Thanksgiving add-on’s such as cranberries, pumpkins, cranberry sauce, acorn and butternut squash, and pecans! Produce this week includes 2 types of radishes, local sweet potatoes, Florida citrus, and more. Also, we’ve got a delicious recipe for Cider Glazed Root Vegetables! Check out the newsletter!

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We’re having a customer Thanksgiving recipe contest!!!

Hi folks! We have a quick update for you regarding some of our produce this week.

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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! Read More

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With Thanksgiving on the horizon, we’re working hard over here to plan out Thanksgiving week deliveries. We will not be delivering on Thursday, November 24 and Friday, November 25. Instead, we are condensing our delivery week into Monday, November 21 through Wednesday, November 23.

Happy Food Day from your friends at Boston Organics! We’re very excited to announce that we’re receiving delicious pie pumpkins from Atlas Farm that you can order as an add-on for the next few weeks. We also have kohlrabi from Porter Farms! This week’s newsletter features some truly delicious employee-tested recipes for curried kohlrabi, pumpkin cheese fondue, and pizza with pumpkin, goat cheese, and caramelized onions. Check out the newsletter!

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Jonathan’s Organics is supplying us with the first harvest of this season’s cranberries from Cape Cod! Lettuce is back on track thanks to the beautiful weather last week, and we have more local baby greens available for add-on’s. Also, we’re announcing a new add-on from Fiddler’s Green in Maine – organic beans!!! We’ve got black beans, garbanzos, and lentils for you. Check out the news, fall recipes, and more in the newsletter!

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