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.
Boston Organics works with the best organic food producers in New England to bring all of your weekly grocery needs directly to your door.
In addition to a box of fresh organic fruits and vegetables, our customers also enjoy loaves of freshly baked bread from Iggy’s and Nashoba Brook Bakery, rich and flavorful eggs from Pete & Gerry’s, wholesome organic milk from Shaw Farm, and a variety of delicious cheeses from Neighborly Farms of Vermont.
By now, you probably already know how excited we are to start offering organic yogurt to our loyal customers who have been looking forward to this possibility for several years.
As of last week, you can now order yogurt from trusted and familiar brands like Stonyfield Farm and Wallaby Organic.
We are also delighted by our new working relationship with one of New England’s finest organic yogurt producers: Butterworks Farm.
Responsible Farming Makes Delicious Yogurt
Inspired homesteaders Jack and Anne Lazor started Butterworks Farm in 1979 with the intention of raising their children in a place that respected both the land and the animals around them.
The Lazors now grow almost all of their own food on their small family farm in Westfield, Vermont. In the warmer months, their herd of Jersey cows grazes on the farm’s open pastures, and in the winter they’re fed organic grains and grasses that are also grown on the farm.
All 85 cows fit comfortably into the farm’s enormous solar barn where large windows and organic bedding (refreshed twice daily) keeps them warm and comfortable through the cold New England winter.
It’s no wonder that the Cornucopia Institute has awarded Butterworks Farm an outstanding 5/5 rating, ranking it as one of the the best dairies in the country!
Jersey cows are smaller and leaner than the traditional Holstein dairy cattle, but their milk has more protein and consequently more flavor. Raised entirely on an organic diet, the milk from Jack and Anne’s cows is incredibly delicious.
After tasting their yogurt and hearing their story, we knew that we wanted to share Butterworks Farm with the whole Boston Organics community.
Four Fantastic Flavors
Butterworks Farm makes four fantastic flavors of organic yogurt with the milk from their Jersey cows:
The Whole Milk Plain Organic Yogurt is the way that yogurt was meant to be made. Always made with live cultures and untainted with antibiotics or hormones, the high quality of Butterworks’ Jersey cow milk really shines through in this thick, creamy yogurt.
The Nonfat Plain Organic Yogurt by Butterworks tastes richer than any other nonfat yogurt that we’ve tried. It’s a healthy addition to Mediterranean cooking, and a simple touch of honey or fresh fruit makes for a particularly healthy breakfast!
The Nonfat Vanilla Organic Yogurt is injected with pure vanilla and gently sweetened with a splash of maple syrup. Add a spoonful of this yogurt to your smoothies for a little sip of heaven.
The Whole Milk Maple Organic Yogurt will make a yogurt lover out of kids and adults alike. Butterworks adds pure Vermont maple syrup to their Jersey cow milk and live cultures for a truly delicious yogurt.
We hope you’ll join us in welcoming Jack and Anne Lazor into the Boston Organics community because we’re incredibly excited to share Butterworks Farm organic yogurt with you!
Try Butterworks Yogurt With Your Next Delivery!
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.
In case you missed our big announcement last week, Boston Organics is now offering certified organic yogurt in our add-on section!
This week’s boxes will be packed with an amazing selection of organic fruits and vegetables. With the local growing season in full-swing, everything is particularly fresh and flavorful. We have lots of juicy plums and donut peaches for you to enjoy, and green cucumbers with a crunch that says welcome to summer.
Check out this week’s newsletter for the perfect recipe for these cucumbers and your fresh-cut dill from Happy Valley Organics in Whately, MA. You’ll also learn about garlic scapes, leafy greens, and our Summer Rewards Program!
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.
This week’s Dogma Box is overflowing with fresh organic fruits and vegetables from Vermont and Western Massachusetts. These leafy greens are grown without synthetic pesticides, making them safer to eat and better for the environment.
This week’s Dogma Box contains:
This week’s recipe for Sausage Risotto with Spring Greens is an excellent way to prepare dandelion greens or other leafy greens for meat-lovers everywhere.
This is a fantastic time to be part of the Boston Organics community – local organic vegetables are in abundance, juicy organic fruit is reaching its peak, and organic yogurt has just been added to our collection of grocery add-on items, which already includes weekly shopping list staples like milk, eggs, cheese, bread, coffee, and tea!
Read this week’s newsletter to learn more about our new yogurt add-ons and to see what’s fresh and in season this week! Plus, four great new recipes including Cuban-Style Frijoles Negros using Happy Valley Organic’s fresh cut oregano and Fiddler’s Green Farm Organic Black Beans.
Earn bonus points and increase your chances of winning by encouraging your friends to sign up for Boston Organics!
*Use our new Refer-A-Friend Program*
You’ll also both get 10% off your next delivery.
Learn To Cook In Your Own Kitchen!
If you win this month’s Summer Rewards Prize Drawing, you and up to five friends could have your own personal cooking experience with Chef Ryan Redmond! As a professionally trained chef and a longtime educator, Ryan Redmond brings his unique skills and engaged teaching style to a one-of-a-kind interactive dinner party experience.
If you win, Chef Ryan will work with you to design a menu using fresh Boston Organics ingredients that you and your guests are sure to enjoy. Then, Chef Ryan will teach you how to prepare a gourmet meal from the comfort of your own kitchen!
About Field to Fork and Chef Ryan Redmond
Chef Ryan Redmond is the man behind Field to Fork, a private chef business committed to real food, culinary instruction, and utilizing the richness of local food producers.
Chef Ryan holds a Professional Chef Degree from the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts, from which he graduated with high honors. In addition to experience cooking in the restaurant industry in the Boston area – including time at Michael Schlow’s Via Matta and a guest chef appearance at Peter McCarthy’s EVOO – he has taught cooking to children and adults and occasionally writes about food, culture and society for his blog Make Lunch Not War.
Visit Field to Fork’s website to learn more about Chef Ryan Redmond and his interactive dinner parties.
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!
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!
Every Boston Organics customer who receives a delivery in June is automatically entered to win one of this month’s two Summer Rewards Prizes:
- Home Delivered Organic Juice from Life Force Juice
- Personal Cooking Experience with Chef Ryan Redmond
Earn bonus points and increase your chances of winning by encouraging your friends to sign up for Boston Organics!
*Use our new Refer-A-Friend Program*
You’ll also both get 10% off your next delivery.
Bring on the Juice!
Our first June Summer Rewards Prize will help you squeeze the most out of your summer. With $120 to Life Force Juice, you can re-energize after every workout with a nutritious herbal infusion or spend all summer soaking up the summer sun and every last drop of Life Force’s delicious juices and smoothies.
Life Force Juice specializes in home delivery of fresh organic juice. Their juices, smoothies, and infusions are full of flavor and packed with nutritious vitamins and minerals! Here are some of their creative blends:
- The Beet Poet – Beet, Apple & Cucumber Juice
- Carrot Cake Smoothie – Homemade Almond Milk, Carrot Juice, Carrot, Banana, Ginger & Spices
- Deep Mineral Tea – Nettles, Horsetail, Alfalfa, Oatstraw & Comfrey
Best of all, just like Boston Organics, they bring it all directly to you!
To learn more about Life Force Juice, visit their website.