Farmstand Hours:
Tuesday - Sunday
9am - 7pm
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Produce
this week 
For Distribution:
Chard, Cabbage, Carrots, Beets, Summer Squash, Tomatoes, Peppers, Eggplant, Hot Peppers, Garlic, Onions
Pick Your Own:
String & Pole Beans, Thyme, Basil & Oregano in the front field, next to the farmstand.
Purslane - unlimited!
Flower Share:
18stems (unlimited weeds) and 8 sunflowers
Other Produce Available for Purchase |
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Upcoming Events
Wednesday, August 27th, 6:30pm - 9:30pm Pressure Cooking Class at Eurostoves in Beverly. Friends of the farm receive a 10% discount off this class, designed to help you learn how to better use your produce share. Click here for more information.
Thursday, August 28th, 6:30pm - 7:30pm. Organic Wine Talk. Come to Green Meadows and meet Dan Rossi, a consultant who is a graduate and post graduate of the German wine academy Kloster Eberbach and the Kobrand international wine school. You'll taste and learn about several wineries producing wines organically or biodynamically. $10 per person. Space is limited. Please sign up at the farmstand.
Sunday, Sept. 21st, 1pm - 6pm Mercury Brewing Company Harvest Festival at Green Meadows Farm. Join us at the farm for a great afternoon of local beer, music by Orville Giddings, and food by Ipswich Clambake.
Saturday, Sept 27th
Green Energy Fair
Hamilton-Wenham Community House and Hamilton-Wenham Library. Interested in helping with the event? Contact: barbaralawrence@comcast.net
Sunday, Sept 28th, 6:30 - 8:00. Local, Sustainable, Delicious: A Seasonal
Celebration Featuring Boston's Best Chefs! Join the Chef's Collaborative at Persephone in Boston for an evening of small plates prepared by eight of Boston's leading chefs. Tickets are $100 each and can be purchased online here.
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Organic Wine Talk and Tasting
Join us September 28th, 6:30pm - 7:30pm. Organic Wine Talk. Come to Green Meadows and meet Dan Rossi, a consultant who is a graduate and post graduate of the German wine academy Kloster Eberbach and the Kobrand international wine school. You'll taste and learn about several wineries producing wines organically or biodynamically. The cost is $10 per person. Space is limited. Please sign up at the farmstand. | |
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| Farmer Andrew's Update
 This photo is of a hawk that had been hunting our meat birds. The hawk must have dove through the seem of the chicken wire to get at his meal. I was a little more than shocked when I went in the afternoon to check on the broilers and saw them all making a big fuss. Three Auracana roosters had the hawk surrounded so he couldn't eat any more birds. For all you birders out there, I gave him a stern warning and let him go.
We processed another round of chickens recently and are getting more efficient. More chickens will be ready in another four weeks or so. For those who want a chicken and didn't sign up, we should have chickens this fall for the public. Amy, our chef, used the chicken livers to make pate for sale in the farmstand. Please think of us for lunch: we have fresh soup, sandwiches, and all sorts of interesting sides. The picnic tables by the Pick-Your-Own Field make a nice setting and we have wi-fi for those looking to get out of the office, but be productive.
THANKS FOR TWO DAYS OF SUN!!! |
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Land to Sea: A Wonderful Celebration!
 
We had a terrific time at this year's farm dinner. The rains paused long enough for us to celebrate food from Essex County. Woodmans catered the dinner, with clam chowder, steamers, lobster, chicken, and Green Meadows Farm vegetables. Other local food included cornbread and beautiful old fashioned oyster crackers from A&J King Bakery in Salem, plus goat cheese from Valley View Farm and Beer from Mercury Brewing.
 Rhonda Woodman spoke about the Woodman family, and how they invented the fried clam. We also heard from Kyle Woodman, who is a clammer here on the north shore. Hannah from Alfalfa Winery spoke about how her family bought the farm and turned it into a successful family business. Valley View Farm in Topsfield was represented by owners Peter and Elizabeth Mullholand, and is the only cheese producer in Essex County. Finally, we heard from Rob Martin, owner of Mercury Brewing Company. His retro Ford truck with three beer taps on the outside was a big hit! It was such an honor to have all of these hard working local producers at the farm. It was such a treat for all of us to hear their stories.
Blue Honey provided the music for the event. The seven piece band did a  wonderful job of entertaining everyone. CSA member Heather Manolian even joined in and sang a song, much to the delight of her kids! Thanks also to Lydia for providing hayrides and to everyone else who helped make the event such a success! |
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Tree Fruit Share Begins
The Tree fruit share will begin to roll in this week from our farmer friends at Cider Hill Farm in Amesbury, MA. They grow 16 different varieties of peaches and over 30 types of apples. Each week, tree fruit share members can pick up their 1/2 peck (about five pounds) of fruit. We're not sure what will be coming in week to week, but we're always impressed with the quality. Cider Hill uses IPM (Integrated Pest Management) growing techniques. This is a "low spray" farming practice. Organically grown tree fruit is almost impossible in the North East, due to pests and fungi that love apples and peaches. We trust Glen Cook, the farmer at Cider Hill and feel that his fruit is a safe product. |
| In Defence of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
by Michael Pollan
We really love this book and encourage you to consider adding it to your reading list. The following is from Michael Pollan's website:
Food. There's plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend it?
Because most of what we're consuming today is not food, and how we're consuming it -- in the car, in front of the TV, and increasingly alone -- is not really eating. Instead of food, we're consuming "edible foodlike substances" -- no longer the products of nature but of food science. Many of them come packaged with health claims that should be our first clue they are anything but healthy. In the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion. The result is what Michael Pollan calls the American paradox: The more we worry about nutrition, the less healthy we seem to become.
But if real food -- the sort of food our great grandmothers would recognize as food -- stands in need of defense, from whom does it need defending? From the food industry on one side and nutritional science on the other. Both stand to gain much from widespread confusion about what to eat, a question that for most of human history people have been able to answer without expert help. Yet the professionalization of eating has failed to make Americans healthier. Thirty years of official nutritional advice has only made us sicker and fatter while ruining countless numbers of meals.
Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. By urging us to once again eat food, he challenges the prevailing nutrient-by-nutrient approach -- what he calls nutritionism -- and proposes an alternative way of eating that is informed by the traditions and ecology of real, well-grown, unprocessed food. Our personal health, he argues, cannot be divorced from the health of the food chains of which we are part.
In Defense of Food shows us how, despite the daunting dietary landscape Americans confront in the modern supermarket, we can escape the Western diet and, by doing so, most of the chronic diseases that diet causes. We can relearn which foods are healthy, develop simple ways to moderate our appetites, and return eating to its proper context -- out of the car and back to the table. Michael Pollan's bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we can start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives, enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy, and bring pleasure back to eating.
The book is available at our farmstand or through any major bookseller.
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