Spring CSA

We have reached the final delivery of Spring CSA! Thank you so much for your continued support of our small farms and of local agriculture. Local agriculture is the most critical part of building a sustainable food system – and you, our CSA members, play a huge role in that mission – so thank you! We enjoyed pushing ourselves to provide you with so many fun “out of season” crops like the strawberries, special herbs and greens…and we enjoyed eating too 🙂

Bag 7 of the Spring CSA should include the following: Snap peas, Kale, Lettuce, Spinach, Napa Cabbage OR Fennel OR Zucchini, Kohlrabi, Green Garlic OR Mint OR Garlic Scapes, Spring Radishes, Mutsu and Cortland Apples, and free-range eggs from our friends over at Hope’s Happy Hens. Please note that the weekly photo is not an exact depiction of what is in your share, but rather a reference image.

The weekly letter will be coming to your inbox the day before your pickup and is also available at stillmansfarm.com/blog and stilllifefarm.wordpress.com.  

Saturday: June 1, Jamaica Plain, 12-3pm

Sunday: June 2, Lunenburg, 12-1pm

Thursday: June 6
Boston (Boston Public Market) 12-5pm
Brookline (Beals Street) 1-6pm
Watertown (City Hall) 12:30-1pm
Natick (Princeton Rd) 1:30-6pm
Worcester (Deadhorse Hill Restaurant) 5-9pm
Hardwick (Still Life Farm) 4-6pm
New Braintree (Stillman’s Farm) 12-6pm

Eat local all year round! Enrollments open for Summer and Winter CSAs. Reserve your share today!

Summer CSA.  Just a few more weeks left to sign up for your Summer CSA Share through Stillman’s Farm.  Check out their excellent selection of summer options – the Standard Summer Share, A-La-Carte Shopping Credit, Tomato CSA, or Fruit CSA.  https://stillmansfarm.com/csa/

Winter CSA.  Still Life Farm Winter CSA 2024-2025 just dropped, and they’re offering an Early Bird Discount now through June 1!  Sign up for your Winter CSA share early and BE your farm’s literal seed money. SLF Winter CSA

Featured Item: Green Garlic

Green garlic is the immature stage of the garlic plant.  This stage can be harvested any time from April through June (garlic typically matures by mid-June and is then ready to be picked and dried for long-season storage).  To use green garlic, chop from the bulb all the way up the stem to the first leaf.  Throw it into all your favorite dishes as a garlic substitute.  Same great garlic flavor with a little jump on the season!

Other interesting items in your bag:

Fennel.  We trialed fennel in the greenhouse last spring.  Year 2 and these are beautiful and tender, perfect for any fresh application!

Napa Cabbage.  Also from the greenhouse!   Pretty happy we can enjoy this crisp crunchy cabbage this spring.  Perfect for slaws, stir fry, lettuce wraps, just anything, really.

Sugar Snap Peas. Farmer Glenn get’s these babies in well before the rest of the pack. As usual, we take care of our CSA members 1st and you get the good stuff 😉 The rest of Massachusetts won’t be picking peas for another few weeks. EAT THE WHOLE PEA! Just string them and enjoy, no shelling. We are still in snacking-in-salad mode with peas in the house, but if you prefer them cooked, 4-5 minutes tops.

Farm Dirt

Stillman’s Farm. Celebrating Reid and Kirsten’s 1 year anniversary and Faith back from her 1st year college.  Yes, we are family focused and that is good for your family too! Because we care so much about the health and safety of our children, grandchildren, animals and future grandchildren you can rest in the knowledge that what we are providing to you we have deemed safe for our kids/grandkids to run through and eat!   Memorial Day marks the Massachusetts frost date – the last recorded date for frost in the area, and the first safe date to put tenders out without worry – so there is TONS of transplanting happening.  The first farmers markets have opened, so market loads are being picked, packed, and trucked off.  And the greenhouses are overflowing with plants ready for your gardens (come and get them at the New Braintree farm or at any of our local markets). Summer CSA starts in just a few weeks – still looking like the first drop will be June 15th!!! Feel free to check in on your status if you have forgotten 🙂 There’s still time to sign up here. 

Still Life Farm. Flipped two greenhouses from winter crops to cherry tomatoes and heirloom tomatoes, planted sweet potatoes, cut up the Irish potatoes for planting, sooo much planting. The blueberries are still blooming and we will be picking currants very soon, which is exciting. Currants, and other fabulouso fruit from SLF is available at all markets Stillman’s Farm attends…especially bountiful at Copley and JP 🙂 Full list here.
If you have not signed up yet, today is the last day to secure your SLF Winter CSA share with the early bird discount. Be sure to reach out to Halley if you are not sure if you are signed up yet 🙂  Sign up Winter CSA here

Eat well & love your food,

Halley Stillman (Still Life Farm) & Genevieve Stillman (Stillman’s Farm)