Category: Farm Happenings
Greetings from Fresh Start Farms! It’s the last week of the Summer FarmShare! We are so thankful for your support of Fresh Start Farms this summer. Your food dollars made a meaningful impact in your community this season by strengthening new American farm businesses and creating more access points for food-insecure communities to have fresh, local, […]
Written by Sarah Wiggins on August 16, 2021
Greetings from Fresh Start Farms! It’s hard to believe we are already at week 11 of the 12-week Summer FarmShare! Thank you so much for supporting the new American farmers of Fresh Start Farms this season. The Fall FarmShare starts immediately following the summer share, so you won’t miss a week of fresh, local food. […]
Written by Sarah Wiggins on August 9, 2021
Greetings from Fresh Start Farms! Look forward to lots of green beans, tomatoes, carrots, broccoli, and the first taste of tomatillos this week! This week we’re welcoming a new product line from Mola Foods! Founder, LaFortune Jeannette Djabea, is a champion of African cuisine and creates seasonings, sauces, chips, and marinades from tastes and flavors […]
Written by Sarah Wiggins on August 2, 2021
Greetings from Fresh Start Farms! Tomatoes have arrived! Enjoy delicious greenhouse tomatoes from the Dunbarton Farmers this week. Mid summer brings lots of new veggies to pick. This week you’ll see lots of green beans, carrots, hot peppers, and broccoli. Peach season just started, so don’t miss them this week! Don’t forget to get some […]
Written by Sarah Wiggins on July 26, 2021
Greetings from Fresh Start Farms! The record-breaking rainfall these past few weeks brought a number of challenges to the Fresh Start Farmers. Waterlogged soil cuts off the air supply to roots, mud encourages crops to rot, and planting is put on hold in muddy fields. But yet, the farmers persevere and continue to grow and […]
Written by Sarah Wiggins on July 19, 2021
Greetings from Fresh Start Farms! The middle of July means a number of new crops are starting to come into season! Zucchini and basil are in full swing and you may see the first couple of pounds of green peppers, carrots, and fennel this week, surely with more to come next week. Soon we’ll start […]
Written by Sarah Wiggins on July 12, 2021
Greetings from Fresh Start Farms! Happy 4th of July! We hope that you have a great weekend full of family, friends, and delicious food! 4th of July Schedule: For Wed & Thur delivery/pick up members, you will receive the customization email for next week’s share this afternoon. You will have until the normal time (Tue […]
Written by Sarah Wiggins on July 2, 2021
Greetings from Fresh Start Farms! It’s officially summer! The Fresh Start Farmers were out early on the farms this morning in an attempt to beat some of this heat. This week you’ll see an abundance of lettuce, swiss chard, scallions, garlic scapes, kale, peas, and so much more. Plus the first taste of tomatoes, basil, […]
Written by Sarah Wiggins on June 24, 2021
Greetings from Fresh Start Farms! Fresh Start Farms has a new website! We hope you’ll explore the new site and don’t forget to check out the new recipe section to get some inspiration on what to do with your FarmShare veggies. A note on the upcoming 4th of July holiday: For Wed & Thur delivery/pick up […]
Written by Sarah Wiggins on June 21, 2021
Greetings from Fresh Start Farms! Fresh Start Farms has a new website! We hope you’ll explore the new site and don’t forget to check out the new recipe section to get some inspiration on what to do with your FarmShare veggies. With Father’s Day coming up this weekend, we brought in grain-finished marinated steak tips from […]
Written by [email protected] on April 22, 2021