After visiting Atlas and Winter Moon Farm we stopped in Whately, MA, at the main site of Enterprise Farm.
And James let us know a little bit about plowing these fields…
And told us about different plants in the greenhouse…
Our next stop was Winter Moon Farm in Hadley, MA! We’ve received some really great carrots this past season that Michael Docter of Winter Moon Farm grew over at Joe Czajkowski Farm/Lakeside Organics in Hadley. Michael formerly worked with the Food Bank Farm in Hadley, but is now working on getting Winter Moon Farm up and running and getting their transitional fields certified. We’re looking forward to great things!
Michael also shared some info about the new fields…
And his storage facility…
And let us know about the farmland where he’s digging parsnips…
Here’s a video from customer Nina Manolson. She stopped by the warehouse to demonstrate how to make “banana candy”. Thanks Nina!
During the summer we have access to lots of wonderful local produce, and we’re getting closer and closer every day! We are stoked about this growing season and we checked in with a few of our growers in Western Mass last week. For the most part things are looking pretty mellow right now, but we wanted to share what we saw behind the scenes! Our first stop was Atlas Farm in Deerfield…
Gideon Porth owns and operates Atlas Farm and he had some nice things to say about us!
Our upstairs neighbors are running a great program and we wanted to help spread the word!
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Nina Manolson from Body Alive Body Aware stopped by Boston Organics and filmed a couple quick videos! Check them out! You can see the original post on her blog here!
We just caught an article about Equal Exchange/Oke bananas in the Business section of the Boston Globe. Check it out!
We’re psyched to announce that we’re offering two new add-on cheeses from Maine’s Longfellow’s Creamery! These cheeses are handmade in small batches at Second Chance Farm in Avon. Second Chance Farm is Animal Welfare Approved.
Tumbledown Mountain Tomme – A raw milk cheese that is rich, earthy, and buttery! It is great with crackers or bread, but also melts beautifully and makes a wonderful grilled cheese!
Grafton Notch Gouda – A dense aged raw milk cheese.
We love ‘em, try them out!
Boston Organics was certified as Sustainable Business Leader, having completed the Sustainable Business Leader Program (SBLP) – a program of the Sustainable Business Network that provides guidance, support, and technical assistance to facilitate the greening of small and medium-sized businesses.
In order to earn the certification, we completed the rigorous six-step SBLP process and reduced our carbon footprint. Measurable and significant changes were identified and implemented in areas including Energy Efficiency, Water Conservation, Waste Reduction, Transportation Management, Pollution Prevention, and Sustainability Management!
See Jeff Barry accepting our certificate below!
We received this picture of a “modest carrot” from a Boston Organics member last week! This carrot came to us from Wintermoon Farm, in Hadley, MA, and we have some excellent add-on rainbow carrots from them this week!