Wednesday, August 13th, 2014
Our Dogma Box includes organic fruits and vegetables sourced as close to Boston as possible throughout the year. Similar to a CSA or farm share, this box is filled with the best organic produce from local and regional farms each week.
It’s hard to believe so many delicious fruits and vegetables are grown organically right here in New England! If you visited Massachusetts’ Pioneer Valley this week you’d find beautiful fields of corn, peppers, mint, scallions and kale.
Don’t have time to visit the farms yourself? Boston Organics brings all the amazing farm-fresh goodness directly to your door!
This week’s Dogma Box contains:
- Bell Peppers – Atlas Farm (S. Deerfield, MA)
- Blueberries – Dwight Miller Orchards (Dummerston, VT)
- Corn – Lakeside Organics (Hadley, MA)
- Mint – Happy Valley Organics (Whately, MA)
- Radishes – Deep Root Organic Coop (Johnson, VT)
- Scallions – Atlas Farm (S. Deerfield, MA)
- Sprouts – Jonathan’s Organic (Rochester, MA)
- Kale – Atlas Farm (S. Deerfield, MA)
- Lettuce – Atlas Farm (S. Deerfield, MA)
Not sure what to make with sprouts or looking for the best kale recipe? We’ve got you covered! Our Kale and Fresh Mint Salad with Spicy Peanut Dressing is packed with plenty of protein and is the perfect combination of salty, sweet, crunchy, and tasty.
Monday, August 4th, 2014
Vegetarians and omnivores rejoice – organic tofu is now available as an add-on!
There’s also an amazing variety of fresh organic fruits and vegetables going out in boxes this week including local blueberries from Dwight Miller Orchards, sweet corn from Lakeside Organics, and Red Russian Kale from Happy Valley Organics.
In this week’s newsletter you’ll learn about our new terrific tofu supplier, discover the difference between Italian and Asian eggplants, and see what’s fresh and in season from our organic farm partners across New England!
Thursday, July 24th, 2014
Boston Organics customers can now enter to win one of July’s two Summer Rewards Prizes:
- Breville 850-Watt Juicer
- Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Cones and Cakes
Earn bonus points and increase your chances of winning by encouraging your friends to sign up for Boston Organics!
*Refer-A-Friend*
You’ll also both get 10% off your next delivery.
Join the Juicing Jamboree!
It’s a fact that Americans don’t consume enough fruits and vegetables. Even with a Boston Organics subscription, it takes time and a conscious effort make sure you eat your USDA recommended 5 servings of fruits and vegetables every day. That’s why many members of the Boston Organics Community enjoy the simplicity and convenience of juicing.
With a quality juicer, you can easily extract the vitamins and minerals from fresh fruits and vegetables, helping your body absorb them more quickly. Plus, fresh homemade juice is unpasteurized, which means it maintains more of these natural nutrients.
You can also control everything that goes into your juice, so you can add an extra head of kale and keep out the sugar – or replace all the kale with a few heaping tablespoons of sugar if you prefer!
The Breville 850-Watt Juicer
As part of our Summer Rewards Program, one lucky Boston Organics customer will be selected to receive a brand-new Breville 850-Watt Juicer at the end of this month!
This high-end juicer is largely considered one of the best introductory juicers on the market. It’s multiple speeds and large feed tube make it easy for you to effortlessly extract nutrients from all of your fresh fruits and vegetables, and the accompanying recipe book will make you a master juicer in no time!
This centrifugal juicer draws the juice out quickly and separates the pulp into a large 2.5-liter receptacle, which means you can juice large quantities without interruptions. If you want a little extra fiber in you diet, you can add some pulp back into your juice or save it for added texture and flavor in soups, pasta dishes, and baked goods. Because the moving parts easily disassemble and are dishwasher safe, cleanup is speedy and painless.
How to Win:
If you want to increase your chances of winning this juicer, you can begin by referring friends to Boston Organics through our Refer-A-Friend Program. For every friend you tell about Boston Organics, you’ll automatically receive 10% off your next delivery and get an extra entry in our monthly Summer Rewards drawing!
Click here to learn how to WIN the
Boston Organics Summer Rewards Program
and to see all 8 amazing prizes!
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014
Our Dogma Box includes organic fruits and vegetables sourced as close to Boston as possible throughout the year. Similar to a CSA or farm share, this box is filled with the best organic produce from local and regional farms each week.
So many gorgeous greens in this week’s Dogma Box! The possibilities for crisp salads, savory sides and simple snacks for your weekend barbecue are virtually endless.
This week’s Dogma Box contains:
Looking for a quick, unique side dish? Try zesty Zucchini Chile-Cheddar Mash or healthful Curly Kale Slaw.
Arugula fun fact: The vitamin-packed leafy green is also known as roquette, rucola, rugula, colewort, salad rocket and garden rocket. The name rocket comes from its ultra-fast growth rate.
Monday, June 30th, 2014
There’s nothing like summertime to bring us the freshest, tastiest selection of fruits and vegetables. This week many of our deliveries will include seasonal favorites like cucumbers, red leaf lettuce, kale and local zucchini. Check out this week’s newsletter for an easy side dish recipe that combines tender zucchini and Neighborly Farms Sharp Raw Milk Cheddar (on sale this week).
You will also find info about our adjusted holiday schedule (Happy Birthday, America!) and see what else is on sale this week in our add-on section! (Real Pickles Garlic Sauerkraut for sausages, anyone?!)
Enjoy a great start to a delicious week.
Wednesday, June 25th, 2014
Our Dogma Box includes organic fruits and vegetables sourced as close to Boston as possible throughout the year. Similar to a CSA or farm share, this box is filled with the best organic produce from local and regional farms each week.
It must be summer! Look at the delicious garlic scapes, tomatoes, and yellow squash in this week’s Dogma Box. Everything is organic, Massachusetts-grown, and brought right to your door!
This week’s Dogma Box contains:
Scapes are the flower stems that garlic plants produce before the bulbs mature. When they’re harvested young, as these are, they have a spectacularly delicate and tender taste.
Try this recipe for Sweet Sauteed Garlic Scapes. The tiny bit of brown sugar mixes with the salty cheese and the natural flavor of the garlic scapes for an out-of-this-world experience.
Tuesday, June 10th, 2014
Our Dogma Box includes organic fruits and vegetables sourced as close to Boston as possible throughout the year. Similar to a CSA or farm share, this box is filled with the best organic produce from local and regional farms each week.
The organic produce in this week’s Dogma Box comes almost entirely from Massachusetts and Vermont! The gorgeous chard, kale, and lettuce are all from Atlas Farm in Deerfield, MA while the tasty radishes, parsnips, and sunchokes were grown on Deep Root Organic Coop’s member farms.
This week’s Dogma Box contains:
- Chard – Atlas Farm (S. Deerfield, MA)
- Kale – Atlas Farm (S. Deerfield, MA)
- Lettuce – Atlas Farm (S. Deerfield, MA)
- Chives – Happy Valley Organics (Whately, MA)
- Black Radishes – Deep Root Organic Coop (Johnson, VT)
- Parsnips – Deep Root Organic Coop (Johnson, VT)
- Sunchokes – Deep Root Organic Coop (Johnson, VT)
- Onions – Porter Farms (Elba, NY)
- Empire Apples – Dwight Miller Orchards (East Dummerston, VT)
We have a bunch of recipes for all your leafy greens this week. Bake your kale into mini frittatas with our Kale and Chives Egg Muffins or try our try a Chickpea Curry with Kale or Swiss Chard!
Monday, June 9th, 2014
We kicked off the local season last week with a bountiful harvest from Atlas Farm and the local produce continues to roll in this week from all over Massachusetts and Vermont!
Big leafy bunches of kale, chard, and red leaf lettuce will fill the Dogma Boxes while the 2/3 veggie boxes will be packed with collard greens from Atlas Farm and plump hot house tomatoes from Deep Root Organic Coop.
Read this week’s newsletter for great recipe ideas and to learn how you can save 10% on your next delivery!
Monday, June 2nd, 2014
The moment we’ve all been waiting for is finally here. We can barely contain our excitement – by the end of this week you’ll be enjoying your first harvest of the year from Atlas Farm!
This week, Dogma Box customers will find lots of local leafy greens in their box including red leaf lettuce, kale, chard, and arugula! Even if you’re not a Dogma Box customer, there are still plenty of local leafy greens to go around. Local organic pea shoots from Jonathan’s Organic (Rochester, MA) and fresh-cut organic basil from Happy Valley Organics (Whately, MA) can be found in almost every box along with Atlas Farm (Deerfield, MA) lettuce and kale.
Read this week’s newsletter to see what else you might find in this week’s box and for some great recipe ideas too! You’ll also find information about our ongoing Summer Rewards Program including new prizes for the month of June.
Wednesday, June 19th, 2013
With so many varieties of leafy greens coming from our local farmers each week, it can be difficult to figure out which is which. After all, they are all green and leafy!
Though these greens may appear similar at a glance, they are actually quite unique. We want to help you celebrate these unique greens in all their delicious, nutritious glory, so we’ve put together this quick visual guide to help you identify the common greens in your produce box.
Quick Leafy Green Terminology:
• Spine: the large stem that runs through the center of the greens
• Rib: small stems that come off of the spines and run through the leaves
Kale
Curly Kale: Light green spines and ribs with rough, curly leaves.
Red (Russian Red) Kale: Purple spines and ribs with flat, green leaves that protrude like fingers.
Lacinato or Dinosaur Kale: Off-white spines and ribs with slender, bumpy leaves.
Click here for kale storage tips and recipes!
Collard Greens
Light green spines and ribs with large, broad leaves.
Click here for collard greens storage tips and recipes!
Chard
Green Chard: Light green spines with small tender ribs and large paddle-shaped leaves.
Red Chard: Red spines and tender red ribs with dark green paddle-shaped leaves.
Rainbow Chard: Multicolored spines and ribs with dark green paddle-shaped leaves.
Click here for chard storage tips and recipes!
Arugula
Long, slender spines with quill-like leaves, usually packed in small bunches.
Click here for arugula storage tips and recipes!
We hope this guide will help you differentiate between the many greens that we get from our farm partners throughout the year.
Don’t forget – if you’re ever stumped, you can always snap a picture and send it to our leafy green experts at [email protected], and we’ll help you out!