Welcome to the New Winter FarmShare! Welcome to week 1 of your Winter FarmShare! This is the first year that we are offering a FarmShare throughout the winter, so thank you for supporting local food year-round! As a Fresh Start FarmShare member, you are contributing to Fresh Start’s efforts to ensure everyone has access to […]
Happy Thanksgiving! We’ve made it to the very last week of the SummerShare; can you believe it? We sure can’t. We are very thankful for your support and for the season we have had. What better way to celebrate and be grateful for the bountiful harvest than Thanksgiving? From all of us here at Fresh […]
Only 2 more weeks of the Summer FarmShare left! Thanksgiving week will be the last delivery for this share, but did you know that the FarmShare now runs year round? The new Winter FarmShare will start the last week in November and run to March. You can continue to eat local through the cold months and […]
The daylight hours are getting shorter, the nights are getting colder, and the season has ended for our Fresh Start Farmers. We are very grateful for all of their hard work this summer–and recognize the many challenges that arise–in producing fresh, local food for the FarmShares! In the meantime, you will still receive wonderful produce […]
November is almost here! We have a had a full and eventful October, and while Fresh Start Farmers are starting to wind things down for the season, there are plenty of projects at the Food Hub keeping us busy, like the Fresh Choice Manchester project and Farm to School Program. We thank you for all […]
The nights are getting cold and we have had our first hard frost. Outdoor crops are dwindling, but we are still looking forward to white sweet potatoes, winter squash, carrots, daikons and some of the last of Fresh start Farm’s tomatoes this week. We’re thankful for the partner farms we work with that help us […]
The first frost of the year marks a change in the types of local foods available, but thanks to the season extension of greenhouses we get to hold on to the summer veggies like tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant a bit longer. Enjoy them while they last! This week we have a few new veggies from […]
Reflections & Exciting Events Greetings from Fresh Start Farms! The October foliage gets brighter and brighter every day, and the palette of fall seems to be setting in. The Concord farm may look a little less green these days, but as you can see there is still plenty of color. Farmer Josephin shared some thoughts […]
Happy October! Greetings from all of us here at Fresh Start Farms, and happy October! With the cooler temperatures and turning of the leaves, Mother Nature dictates that we start to plan for the winter (however reluctant we may be to do so!)… but planning can be very exciting. We are energized by the projects […]
Opportunities to Grow Autumn is here, school is well underway, and the routines of our lives keep us moving at a pretty fast pace. Sometimes it can be hard to find excitement in our day-to-day tasks; but our environment changes all around us, all the time, offering up opportunities to grow. Lots of things are […]
