| I, like you, have been feeling a little depressed about the ongoing snow, so it’s a good time cheer everyone up by telling you how it is already Spring here at the farm! We’ve been busy planting…The onions and other alliums are up…Farmer Glenn is still seeding peppers and alerting me to missing varieties and additional quantities needed, but that is winding down. Tomatoes next! Yes Summer CSA and market people, those plants are growing for you 🙂 That’s uplifting, right? For our tomato gardening friends out there, Reid and Kirsten are busy seeding the heirloom tomatoes. I had to pop on a few new designer varieties and am pretty excited for you to see them. Naturally we have all the varieties you cannot live without like Jetstar, Supersteak, Better Boy, Early Girl, New Big Dwarf, and a couple very disease resistant varieties. As always, we love us the oxhearts and blue-black varieties. See what will be available here. Avoid the time and hassle and preorder here. What do we have now? You can find plentiful apples, root crops (carrots, beets, radishes, parsnips…), cabbages, many varieties of potatoes, greens, spinach, Swiss chard, kale, hydroponic lettuce, mesclun, choy, onions, winter squashes, along with pantry items, kraut, kimchi, apple chips, good marinara, pesto… Where can you find Stillman’s produce? Jamaica Plain Saturdays Centre St noon-3pm. Unless the weather is beastly, we will be at the JP market every Saturday. Stillman Quality Meats and Red’s Best will be there too – so you can truly shop for safe, local food all year! New Braintree Farm Stand: Open Thursday through Saturday 10am-4pm INSIDE the middle greenhouse – follow the flags! Shop inside and enjoy the moist heat and the cactus blooming all winter. ALL payment options, including CC, Square, Venmo, PayPal, EBT/SNAP/HIP.   |
2026 Farm Best Summer CSA Grown by our family for yours. Spring CSA is underway and members should be receiving a reminder via text from Farmhand before your pickup day. If you are reading this letter, you know we are busy prepping for bedding plant season, Summer CSAs and summer farmers markets. We depend so much on the CSA to resolve the farm cash flow – we still have payroll, soil, seeds, and energy costs all winter, in order to grow crops that won’t be sold until May, June, or July. Sign up now and then lean back and start dreaming about your next strawberries and peas 🙂 Ooh, I forgot, if you are new to our CSA, you can order extras to be delivered with your weekly bag! Don’t keep your favorite CSA a SECRET 🙂Sign up |
 Farm Dirt The barn reno is well underway and it is lots of fun to pop in to check on the progress. Both the entire East and North walls have been 100% rebuilt and we have been frustrated by vendors trying to get the front door ordered, but I have faith it will actually get ordered this week 🙂 The kitchen is framed out and has windows and the space is starting to take shape. We had a stressful day last week when the electrician needed to shut off all the power, yes, the generator too, to move the electrical panel and all the lines too. He had the power off about 9 hours and the good Lord gave us a cloudy day above freezing! If it had been sunny the hydroponics would have suffered badly without water, if the temperature had dropped below freezing we would lose our plants…so all in all it was a worrisome day but ended great! Other great news – the first guys from Jamaica are arriving this evening. No, the timing of the storm is not helpful, but it will sure be nice to have the extra help tomorrow with planting and picking.Wildlife: I saw my first Turkey Vulture on the 28th – the first harbinger of Spring. Also Bald Eagle and Gosshawk sightings this week. A deer was out in the new strawberry field this morning. And Kaleb is 6 months old! We hope all is well with you and yours. As always, If you have questions or just want to chat plants or veggies, feel free to reach out, we love to hear from you. We look forward filling up the greenhouses, nicer weather, cleaning our the Bluebird boxes, hearing and seeing amphibians, and a having a great growing season. Keep growing with us! Eat well, The Stillmans |