Farmstand Hours:
January - May hours:
Fri, Sat & Sun 9 - 5pm
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Upcoming Events
Saturday and/or Sunday, March 15 & 16 Whole Grains Primer Shutesbury, MA
Interested in grains from ancient to modern and from barley to rice? Join Field to Plate for a weekend of translating whole grains into practical culinary solutions! Visit our website for complete info.
Saturday, March 22nd, 10am - Noon Meet the Chicks Come by the farm to meet the newly hatched baby chickens. Free.
Saturday, March 22nd, 1pm - 3pm
Grocery Co-op 101 Learn how our co-op works, how to place an order, and what products are available. Free.
March 28 - 30
Saturday, April 12th, 9am - Noon
Hamilton Wenham Trail Day, Sponsored by Hamilton Wenham Green Participate in one of our five walks in the forested landscape on Trail Day and learn what natural treasures are in your back yards.Green Meadows Farm will host a "Children's Fairy Walk" as part of the event. Pre-registration is required for the walks. Please sign up at the Hamilton Wenham Library or call the library at 978-468-5577.
Wednesday, April 30th, 6:30pm Hamilton Wenham Library An Inconvienent Truth, part of a film series sponsored by Hamilton Wenham Green Free.
Saturday, May 3rd, 1pm - 3pm Planning Your Vegetable Garden with Farmer Andrew. Learn about plant growth, compost, mulch and more. Receive a bag of organic fertilizer to get you started. $30 per person ($28 members) call our farm office at 978-468-3720 to sign up. | |
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| Farmer Andrew's Update
Spring has started at the farm. We have new baby  chicks, who arrived in the mail. The crew has started seeding onions and leeks in the greenhouse. We've also been busy making improvements in the farmstand. The floor has been refinished and a few months ago, we had new lighting installed. Possibly the best improvement is our new produce display bins and shelves. The Wild Oats in Portland, Maine closed and we were able to obtain their beautiful displays. Please come by and check out how great our produce looks in this new setting.
In other news, our CSA is now full, thanks to all of you who signed up. We are now taking a waiting list, and may open up the CSA, depending on weather and crop conditions.
Soon, we will be mailing our new 2008 Education Programs flyer to each member family. Inside, we will enclose your pick up day and a reminder for the CSA events happening this summer. I'm really excited about our new programs and events, and am looking forward to our best season yet. |
 Lydia Sisson, Farm Educator
We're thrilled to introduce our newest member to the crew, Lydia Sisson. She will be living here at the farm, and will be splitting her time between farming and running our education programs and birthday parties. Lydia is 23 years old and grew up in McClellanville, South Carolina. She graduated from Vassar College and spent a summer working for Fresh Roots, an urban youth farming project in Lowell, Massachusetts. She has spent time working at Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary as a teacher/naturalist, and also has also worked on a farm in Brazil. She's particularly excited about our new partnership with Eurostoves, teaching young chefs about where their food comes from. Her goal is to run her own educational farm. Her favorite vegetable is collard greens. |
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Easter Meats Pre-Order
This Easter we will be offering Northeast Family Farms Maple Smoked Hams and Locally Raised Spring Lambs, Leg of Lamb and Lamb Shanks.
The Boneless Pit Hams come from Lucki 7 Livestock - a Northeast Family Farm - in upstate New York and are maple smoked in Vermont. The pigs raised at Lucki 7 are a variety of heritage breeds and are fed a diet 100% free from animal proteins, antibiotics and added hormones. They are free to come and go between lush green pasture and deeply bedded pens. The hams weigh 6-10 pounds and cost $8 per pound. They will be available for pick up on the Friday and Saturday before Easter. The deadline to order hams is March 17th.
The lamb is Massachusetts raised and responsibly processed. The Spring Lamb will be about 20 lbs and will cost $7 per pound.The bone-in Leg of Lamb will weigh 9-11 pounds and will cost $7.00 per pound. The boneless Leg of Lamb will be 6-7 pounds and will cost $8.50 per pound. The deadline to order lamb is March 13th.
We can also pre-order game birds and other cuts of pork and lamb. Contact us either by email to organicfarmer@comcast.net or by stopping by the farmstand to let us know what you need and we will do our best to find it for you. |
Clothing Sale, Boston Honey and Massachusetts Maple
We're getting ready for warm weather and have put our farm sweatshirts on sale. Buy one and get the second at 50% off. We have all sizes, from 2 through extra large. They are made in a sweatshop free environment, in downtown Los Angeles by American Apparel, and are just the right weight. Our fair trade clothing by Global Mamas is also on sale for buy one, get the second at 50% off. We've got a great selection of robes, pajamas and kids clothes to choose from.
We also have a line of honey from Boston Honey  Company which is great tasting, produced in Holliston, Massachusetts. This summer, we'll have our own farm honey back again, when we can harvest from our own hives. Our shipment of Maple Syrup from Warren Farm and Sugarhouse is in, excellent for baking and sunday morning pancake breakfasts. | |
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