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The first local heirloom tomatoes and Maine wild blueberries of the season are here! The heirloom tomatoes are from Atlas Farm in South Deerfield, MA; and the wild blueberries are from Burke Hill Farm in Cherryfield, ME.

Over the weekend Jeff stopped in at Atlas Farm in South Deerfield, MA. Check it out!

Topics: Organic Farmers

In general, it looks like the bill is of most concern to small farms and small food processors that would have to follow more costly and stringent guidelines concerning traceability.

Michael Pollan’s most recent book In Defense of Food and article in the New York Times hit on a key but underlying theme about what Boston Organics is partially about; encouraging and supporting a lifestyle of eating and preparing simple ingredients. While living in San Francisco from 1995-2002, I underwent a lifestyle transformation. Part of that transformation included eating more healthy foods thanks to a home delivery service called Planet Organics. I had always considered myself a healthy person that exercised regularly and ate a balanced diet.

Topics: Jeff’s Corner

We are proud owners of a new cargo-trike, and we’ll be using it to make deliveries that are close to our HQ. Our first day brought some challenges, but we’re off and pedaling! Rob went along to assist Cathy, and here are some pictures!

Topics: Cargo Bike Delivery

More local produce, looking great! We have local strawberries from Chamutka Farm in Whately, and local salad mix from Old Friends Farm in Amherst!

Topics: Newsletter

We are really excited about the local, organic strawberries. At a recent meeting I attended, I brought over one package each of the local and California strawberries.

Topics: Jeff’s Corner, Newsletter

We just learned that Rick Pedersen of Pedersen Farm lost his entire crop of broccoli for the season. This is the same farm that provided that awesome asparagus the past 5-6 weeks. There were two main contributing factors. Early in the season there were heavy rains that damaged many of the seedlings. This was followed by exceptionally hot and dry weather which attracted a blight of flea beetles; unfortunately there are few effective organic controls. Had he been farming conventionally, Rick would have had more options to save the crop. One can imagine the non organic options, although effective are probably more toxic.

Topics: Jeff’s Corner