Tuesdays
3:00pm - 6:00pm
Cambridge Hospital
1493 Cambridge St
Cambridge, MA
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Tuesdays
Choice Style
3:00pm - 6:30pm
Pre-Boxed
3:00pm - 7:00pm
Farmer Dave's Farm
437 Parker Road
Dracut, MA
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Tuesdays
4:00pm - 7:00pm
Community Servings
18 Marbury Terrace
Jamaica Plain, MA
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Tuesdays
Choice Style
3:00pm - 6:30pm
Pre-Boxed
3:00pm - 7:00pm
Groundwork Lawrence
60 Island Street
Lawrence, MA
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Farm Notes
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On Sunday we hosted our annual CSA Member Appreciation Potluck. This year the potluck was especially important to us because we had to cancel last year's potluck due to an ominous weather forecast.
It is such an honor to grow food for so many families and to get to know your faces when you come to the farm. Watching everyone (kids and kids in spirit) enjoy a beautiful fall day on the farm - riding on the hayrides, playing games, picking apples, digging potatoes, running through the hay bale maze reminds me that the farm is so much more than the food we produce, it is being out with nature having real fun. Fun on the farm is becoming so different from the modern digital world we live in. A fun day on the farm can bring us back to where perhaps we should be.
We are profoundly grateful to have the opportunity to have been nourished by the meals you so lovingly prepared, using the food we so carefully and lovingly grow. It was a perfect time for all of us to stop and smell the proverbial roses and enjoy an afternoon with our community.
We still have five weeks left of the vegetable and fruit shares, and much abundance yet to come in the late fall share. After spending an afternoon with many of you though, it seems fitting to say this now: Thank you for allowing us to grow for you and for being part of our community. We know you have choices as to how to feed yourself and your family, and we are grateful to you for choosing Farmer Dave's.
It is a pleasure sharing with you.
Farmer Dave
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Farmer Clem with the twins
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In Your Share: Week 16
Fall is in the air! We should begin a slow shift away from the peak summer fruits and vegetables like cucumbers and watermelons to fall favorites like apples, carrots, leeks and eventually winter squash and potatoes.
This is what we are planning and hoping to harvest this week. Ultimately Mother Nature has the last word so the actual contents of your share will vary.
- Arugula
- Celery
- Carrots
- Kale
- Onions
- Bell, Cubanelle or Carmen Peppers
- Potatoes
- Radishes
- Cherry Tomatoes
- Husk Cherries (aka. Husk tomatoes or Ground Cherries)
- and more!
Fruit Share:
- Honeycrisp Apples
- Cortland Apples
- Macoun Apples
- Bosc Pears
- and possibly more depending on weather
*CSA members have indicated in our year-end survey that they would overwhelmingly prefer that we include only produce that we've grown ourselves in the vegetable shares. Our own winter squash is not yet ready to harvest. You should be seeing winter squash in your vegetable share later in the season, once we've harvested and cured it. In the meantime, we've started carrying some squash from other farms in our farm stands, so it is available for purchase for those who would like it.
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Try some of these recipes from our blog!
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A Note About Our Celery
New England-grown celery is more pungent and herbal- tasting than the celery grown in California or Florida to which we've all grown accustomed. If you find the flavor too intense for eating raw, use it as an herb in soups and stews, much like you would use fresh parsley.
Need some ideas?
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Recipe of the Week!
Lumpy Bumpy Applesauce
Member submitted recipe from Deb C. in Tewksbury
Ingredients
- Variety of apples, peeled and cored
- 2-3 large dashes of cinnamon
- 2 dashes of allspice
- 2 dashes of nutmeg
- small amount of water
- handful of husk cherries, paper removed
Directions:
- Cook down a variety of apples (with spices and small amount of water) slowly until apples get soft. Leave harder chunks.
- Allow to cool and add husk cherries.
Have a great tip or recipe to share?
Email it to us to have it included in our newsletter and recipe blog!
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Register Now for Late Fall!
Here at Farmer Dave's, many of the farm staff refer to the Late Fall Share as "the most wonderful time of the year." It's chock full of all of our favorite fall vegetables and fruit.
Late Fall Shares are available in the following locations:
-Burlington (Mondays 4:00 - 6:30 pm)
-Lanesville (Mondays 3:30 - 6:30 pm)
-Reading (Mondays 3:00 - 6:30 pm)
-Dracut (Tuesdays 3:00 - 7:00 pm)
-Lawrence (Tuesdays 3:00 - 7:00 pm)
-Tewksbury (Thursday 3:00 - 7:00 pm)
-East Somerville (Wednesdays 3:00 - 7:00 pm)
-East Boston (Wednesdays 2:00 - 6:00 pm)
-Westford (Fridays 2:00 - 6:00pm)
-Malden (Fridays 3:00 - 6:00pm)
-Home Delivery by Metro Pedal Power on Wednesdays (Somerville, Cambridge, many neighborhoods in Boston)
-Home Delivery by Farmer Dave's in Dracut, Lowell, Tewksbury, Methuen Andover, North Andover, Wakefield, Melrose, Stoneham, North Reading, Reading, Woburn, Salem NH, Pelham NH, Windham NH
Late Fall Share Details
The Late Fall share will run for 7 weeks, beginning in early November and ending in mid-December.
You can look forward the following in items your Late Fall share, harvest permitting:
Brussels sprouts, cabbage, broccoli, sweet potatoes, potatoes, carrots, beets, onions, celeriac, turnips, winter squashes, spinach , winter greens, leeks, apples, and lettuce.
Depending on when the last frost of the season occurs, we sometimes are able to include summer crops like peppers, eggplant, or corn in the late fall share. Each season's mixture varies based on crop conditions.
How can I sign up?
Looking forward to growing for you this fall!
The Farmer Dave's Crew
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Groundwork Share-a-Share:
Please consider helping us in our efforts to make the CSA accessible to more families by
donating to Groundwork Share-A-Share. With the help of CSA members like you, Groundwork has been able to help subsidize the cost of CSA shares for families who would otherwise be unable to afford participation.
To learn more about the program, click here.
Thank you all for helping us keep this program going in 2016!
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C
ontact Us:
Farmer Dave's CSA
437 Parker Road
Dracut, MA 01826
(978) 349-1952
farm@farmerdaves.net
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