Shared Harvest is all about local veggies, but we like to provide shareholders with some optional “Extras” to complement the delicious vegetables in the winter share. Limited space and logistical constraints mean we must choose carefully the Extras we offer. It should come as no surprise that we like to support small, local, family businesses.
Here’s how the Extras work. Shareholders are sent an on-line order form for the Extras that will be available at the next scheduled distribution. A week or two before the distribution, we order the Extras from local producers and arrange to pick them up. In some cases the Extras are delivered to us. (We like this!) Shareholders pick up and pay for their Extras when they get their shares.
Here’s the likely “Extras” line up for this year. Scroll to the bottom of this page to see the schedule of when we plan to distribute various extras.
Bulk Storage Vegetables from Riverland Farm in Sunderland (Rob and Meghan) and Picadilly Farm in Winchester, NH (Bruce and Jenny). We’ll distribute most of these pre-ordered bulk veggies during the last CSA pick ups.
Apple Cider and Apples by the Bushel, from Glenn Cook, Cider Hill Farm, Amesbury. Glenn will deliver cider and apples by the bushel if we’re able to put together an order for 100 bushels of apples. Get out your apple sauce, apple butter, apple pie, apple crisp and apple-whatever recipes! (We don’t have a truck big enough to haul bushels and bushels of apples to the distribution sites, so we count on shareholder’s apple-loving appetites to help us reach the 100 bushel mark!)
Beans from Baer’s Best Beans. Charley Baer will hand sort and fill 10# bags of his Maine grown dried beans for bulk purchase this year.
Cheese Fiore di Nonno, Somerville. Lourdes Smith provides us with mozzarella and burrata at each CSA distribution. Farmers Ann and Eric Starbard send us goat cheese from Crystal Brook Farm in Sterling.
Honey from Warm Colors Apiary in Deerfield. Warm Colors owners and bee keepers, Dan and Bonita Conlon, don’t use any chemicals in their bee keeping! Here’s an article from The Commonweeder that provides a nice introduction to Dan and Warm Colors Apiary.
Maple Syrup from the Warren Farm, North Brookfield. Dale and Jan Wentworth offer sugaring tours on the weekends in March. Reservations are required!
Here’s the likely schedule for when the Extras will be offered this year. (These will be confirmed closer to the time they are to be ordered.)
October Distribution
Fiore di Nonno fresh mozzarella and burrata
Crystal Brook Farm goat cheeses
Maple Syrup from the Warren Farm
Bulk kale, cabbage, and carrots
November Distribution
Eggs-from free ranging, organically fed hens
Fiore di Nonno fresh mozzarella and burrata
Crystal Brook Farm goat cheeses
Maple Syrup from the Warren Farm
Bulk cabbage, carrots, potatoes, sweet potatoes, purple top turnips
Fresh Apple cider from Cider Hill Farm
Cranberries from Fresh Meadows organic farm in Carver
All-local pie crusts from Just Add [Fruit] in Melrose
Jams and spreads made from local fruit by Doves & Figs in Arlington
December Distribution
Eggs-from free ranging, organically fed hens
Fiore di Nonno fresh mozzarella and burrata
Crystal Brook Farm goat cheeses
Maple Syrup from the Warren Farm
Bulk carrots, beets, potatoes, onions, garlic, sweet potatoes etc. for winter storage
All-local pie crusts
Jams and spreads made from local fruit by Doves & Figs in Arlington
Bulk cipollini onions and shallots from Moraine Farm in Beverly
Raw, untreated honey from Warm Colors Apiary
Bulk Maine-grown Dried Beans from Baer’s Best, Lover’s Brook Farm in southern Maine
