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 line up and hand sort New York state grown black and kidney beans for bulk purchase (10 pound bags) 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
Crystal Brook Goat Cheeses
Fiore Di Nonno Mozzarella and Burrata
November Distribution
Crystal Brook Goat Cheeses
Bulk Apples, 1 bushel boxes
Apple Cider
December Distribution
Crystal Brook Goat Cheeses
Fiore Di Nonno Mozzarella and Burrata
Warm Colors Apiary Raw Honey
Warren Farm Maple Syrup
Bulk Vegetable Storage Crops
Bulk NY state-grown Black beans
Bulk Maine grown Kidney beans
