As fall settles in and we return to old routines, our organic farmers continue to manage their fields with great vigor and diligence. This week, a few unusual specialties are on their way from the farm to your porch along with some of your favorite fall fruits and veggies.
If this is your first time trying delicata squash, your culinary world is about to get a whole lot bigger. Delicata squash has the rich flavor of a butternut squash and the creamy texture of a sweet potato.
We’re offering kiwi berries as an add-on for the first time in Boston Organics history!
Find out why kiwi berries are so good for you and learn why delicata squash is so easy to cook with, but so difficult to grow. Plus, find the best recipes for fall in this week’s newsletter!
Our Local 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 and brought right to your door each week.
Fall is here. The new season brings cooler weather and a whole different variety of local organic produce! This is the time for apple picking and pumpkin carving, for apple pies and roasted vegetables.
This week’s Local Dogma Box includes a few summer hold-outs like Blue Ox Farm’s cherry tomatoes, but Lakeside Organics and Dwight Miller Orchards are bringing us fall staples like organic McIntosh apples and delicious delicata squash.
This week’s Dogma Box contains:
If you haven’t cooked with a delicata squash before, you’re about to fall in love with this distinctively green-striped beauty. Unlike the more popular butternut squash, you don’t need to bother peeling the rind off of a delicata squash. Simply remove the seeds, chop it up, drizzle it with olive oil and enjoy!
Try this recipe for Roasted Delicata Squash with Mushrooms and Thyme, and we bet you’ll be singing delicata’s praises in no time at all (actually, in 25-30 minutes + prep time).
As the days get shorter and the nights get colder, it’s easy to get sentimental for those warm summer days. And though the evening frost may have abruptly ended this year’s heirloom tomato season, it also signals that a new variety of wonderful organic fruits and vegetables is on its way.
This week, Read Miller is bringing us some more of his splendid McIntosh apples! We’re also excited to introduce you to two unusual fall specialties, delicata squash and kiwiberries.
Learn about these two rare fall delicacies and get some fresh new recipes for your organic cooking – all in this week’s newsletter.
Our Local 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 and brought right to your door each week.
The seasons are starting to change, and so are the items in our Local Dogma Box! We still have some summer favorites, like cute snacking bell peppers from Atlas Farm, but you’ll also see some fall classics like organic sage and leeks.
It’s no coincidence that this is both the final week for organic wild blueberries and the first week of organic apples from Dwight Miller and Son Orchards in southern Vermont – autumn is certainly on its way!
This week’s Dogma Box contains:
- Green Bell Peppers – Atlas Farm (S. Deerfield, MA)
- Snacking Bell Peppers – Atlas Farm (S. Deerfield, MA)
- Dandelion Greens – Atlas Farm (S. Deerfield, MA)
- Fennel – Atlas Farm (S. Deerfield, MA)
- Leeks – Atlas Farm (S. Deerfield, MA)
- Lettuce – Atlas Farm (S. Deerfield, MA)
- Sage – Happy Valley Organics (Whately, MA)
- Tomatoes – Oxen Hill Farm (Suffield, CT)
- Blueberries – Burke Hill Farm (Cherryfield, ME)
- McIntosh Apples – Dwight Miller Orchards (E. Dummerston, VT)
This recipe for Pork Chops with Apple, Fennel and Sage became an instant Boston Organics favorite as soon as one of our customers, Brittany T., shared it with us. It’s the perfect opportunity for this week’s Dogma Box customers to brush off their autumnal cooking skills.
The new wrist watch from Apple computer may be making all the headlines right now, but the apple news we were really excited about at Boston Organics last week didn’t come from Silicon Valley — it came from the West River Valley in southern Vermont, home of Dwight Miller and Son Orchard.
Read Miller, an eighth generation Vermont farmer and just about the only organic apple farmer in New England, has been watching the weather change in East Dummerston and he announced last week that the first McIntosh apples of the season are ready for harvest!
As summer packs its bags, you’ll soon start to see your fall favorites appear in your weekly box. But over the next couple of weeks, our farmers will continue to harvest the last of their spectacular summer crops.
Learn about the McIntosh apple, see this week’s featured recipes, and see what’s fresh and in season when you read our weekly newsletter!
Our Local 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 and brought right to your door each week.
The flavor and freshness of local organic produce are unparalleled by conventional supermarket produce.
This week’s Dogma Box features a number of aromatic veggies from Atlas Farm in western Massachusetts, including farm-fresh garlic and leeks. Atlas also harvested some colorful bell peppers to complement Deep Root’s rainbow carrots and Oxen Hill’s red ripe tomatoes!
This week’s Dogma Box contains:
Those vibrant bell peppers and rainbow carrots are just dying to be introduced to your favorite veggie dip. Order a container of Wallaby Organic Greek Yogurt and whip up this simple Garlic-Chive Dip.
Your veggies will be happy to make a new friend, and if you bring this dip to a party, so will you!
With school back in session, many members of the Boston Organics Community are getting back into their regular routine, but as familiar folks return from their vacations and new friends join our community, we have lots of exciting new things to share!
Over the summer we expanded our delivery area to include Revere. We also added a wide variety of organic grocery add-ons, and we started working with a couple of new local farm partners including Oxen Hill Farm of Suffield, CT!
Read this week’s newsletter for a summary of our summer:
Just across the state border, in the northernmost part of Connecticut, Jonathan and Carol Griffin grow over 200 varieties of organic fruits, vegetables and flowers on their 28-acre family farm.
They carry on an historic family tradition of farming in New England that dates back to colonial times when their ancestor, Sgt. John Griffin, received a royal grant from the Prince of Wales.
Generation after generation has grown wholesome crops from the rich soil in East Granby and Suffield, and in 2012 Oxen Hill Farm completed the rigorous 3-year process required to receive organic certification from the USDA.
This sedulous family farm is enjoying a fantastic summer harvest, and the whole Boston Organics Community is lucky to share its abundance!
Boston Organics is happy to welcome Oxen Hill Farm into our network of local growers; not only because their tomatoes, green beans, and sweet potatoes are incredibly fresh and delicious, but because Oxen Hill Farm embodies the ethos behind the organic standard that we so strongly support.
In more ways than one, Oxen Hill Farm is growing with the next generation in mind. By rotating their crops and eliminating synthetic pesticides and fertilizers from their fields, Jonathan and Carol are helping to maintain fertile soil and a healthy planet for future generations.
And the next generation is paying close attention. When Oxen Hill Farm brought their first harvest to the Boston Organics warehouse last week, the two youngest Griffins were eager to help out.
Back on the farm, the kids are already learning how to grow organic fruits and vegetables, knowing that someday they may have the opportunity to continue the family tradition.
You can learn more about Oxen Hill Farm on their website.
Click here to read about Boston Organics’
network of local organic farms!
Our Local 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 and brought right to your door each week.
Labor Day has come and gone, but our summer produce is still growing strong. This week’s Dogma Box features plump tomatoes from our newest organic farm partner, Oxen Hill Farm.
There’s also plenty of local corn, cucumbers, lettuce, and collard greens for you to enjoy—not to mention another helping of organic wild blueberries from Downeast Maine!
This week’s Dogma Box contains:
- Beets – Picadilly Farm (Winchester, NH)
- Bell Peppers – Atlas Farm (S. Deerfield, MA)
- Blueberries – Burke Hill Farm (Cherryfield, ME)
- Collard Greens – Atlas Farm (S. Deerfield, MA)
- Corn – Lakeside Organics (Hadley, MA)
- Cucumbers – Atlas Farm (S. Deerfield, MA)
- Lettuce – Atlas Farm (S. Deerfield, MA)
- Onions – Porter Farms (Elba, NY)
- Thyme – Happy Valley Organics (Whately, MA)
- Tomatoes – Oxen Hill Farm (Suffield, CT)
This week’s Dogma Box recipe was tested and approved by our summer intern, Brittany Roberts. Stuffed Bell Pepper with Thyme is one of our new favorite summer recipes because you’re able to use so many fresh ingredients including corn, onion, tomatoes, and thyme.
Vegetarians looking for extra protein can substitute quinoa for the ground beef without changing the texture of the stuffing too much.
It may be hard to believe when it’s still 85 degrees outside, but the seasons are starting to change. Check back each week to see what’s fresh and in season with the Boston Organics Local Dogma Box!
Though Labor Day marks the traditional end of summer vacation, our farmers will continue to harvest plenty of your favorite summer fruits and veggies before transitioning into their autumn crops in a few weeks.
We’re super excited to offer locally-grown organic poblano peppers as an add-on for the first time ever in Boston Organics history!
Read this week’s newsletter for our favorite Chiles Rellenos recipe and news on the latest late summer produce. We also include background on Oxen Hill Farm, our newest organic farm partner from Suffield, Connecticut.