March is one of the most difficult months for Massachusetts locavores to find fresh organic fruits and vegetables. While California may already be showing early signs of spring, New England is still in the depths of winter.
Even the most prepared homesteaders are scrounging through the back shelves of their pantries to find the items they stored at the end of the last local season.
Fortunately, because Boston Organics works with a network of organic farmers, we’re able to continue to fill our boxes with a smattering of local produce by getting the best items from each farm.
This week, we have a profusion of organic root veggies like parsnips, potatoes and rutabagas. We also have a medley of fresh organic herbs from central Massachusetts!
Locavore Recipe of the Week
Polenta is one of the coziest dishes you can make in the wintertime.
Braised root vegetables provide an excellent topping for this baked polenta, with its deliciously crusty edges and gooey, cheesy center.
Slowly cooking your parsnips, carrots and kohlrabi helps draw out these roots’ natural sweetness and creates a buttery melt-in-your-mouth texture that will have everyone asking for seconds.
This Week’s Local Produce
Potatoes
Picadilly Farm
(Winchester, NH)
Rutabagas
All of the fruits and vegetables we deliver are grown without synthetic pesticides and are USDA certified organic. Interested in receiving produce that’s both organic and locally sourced all year round? Check out our Local Dogma Box.
Similar to a CSA or farm share, our Local Dogma Box is filled with the best organic produce from local and regional farms and brought right to your door each week. It’s the easiest way to eat like a locavore!
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.
Our Dogma Box is staying close to its roots this week. We have beautifully golden roasting potatoes from Nature’s Circle Farm along with some enormous Daikon radishes from Red Fire Farm in Massachusetts. And don’t forget about those spring-dug parsnips – the cold winter made them particularly sweet this year!
This week’s Dogma Box contains:
If you’re looking for a new way to enjoy those sweet spring-dug parsnips, try this recipe for Parsnip Biscuits with Black Pepper and Honey!
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.
Our local farmers literally put down roots in the New England soil and now they’re ready to be eaten! This week’s Dogma Box has great potatoes, turnips, carrots, and beets in addition to local, organic apples and cabbage.
This week’s Dogma Box contains:
- Cabbage – Atlas Farm (S. Deerfield, MA)
- Carrots – Atlas Farm (S. Deerfield, MA)
- Butternut Squash- Atlas Farm (S. Deerfield, MA)
- Potatoes – Maple Row Farm (Ashfield, MA)
- Sweet Potatoes- Picadilly Farm (Winchester, NH)
- Empire Apples – Dwight Miller Orchards (East Dummerston, VT)
- Beets – Nature’s Circle Farm (Aroostook County, Maine)
- Turnips- Nature’s Circle Farm (Aroostook County, Maine)
- Onions- Porter Farms (Elba, NY)
Eat like a local and try some of these tasty veggies from the rich New England soil.