Massachusetts Organic Food Guide

Description

Our farm produces a wide diversity of vegetables, flowers, fruit, and a high quality selection of vegetable and bedding plant flowers for home gardeners in the spring. You might have heard about the big annual Tomato Festival we hold every year. We've been growing with certified organic practices since we started in 2001.

Red Fire Farm offers fresh organic produce through our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. CSA members support our sustainable, organic growing practices, and receive a weekly share of the freshest, most nourishing produce. Join us at one of our nearby distributions in Western Massachusetts and the Boston Area. Our farmstands in Granby and Montague serve up our local produce and other local products from May through October. You can also find us at some of the areas farmers' markets, and in some stores and restaurants.

Products

Basil, beans, beets, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, cilantro, cucumbers, eggplant, edamame, garlic, Swiss chard, kale, salad mix, spinach, Asian greens, ground cherries, tomatillos, herbs, lettuce, leeks, melons, onions, scallions, parsley, peas, parsnips, peppers, potatoes, radishes, raspberries, rutabagas, summer squash, strawberries, sweet potatoes, winter squash, sweet corn, tomatoes, turnips, zucchini

CSA

We offer fresh farm shares for weekly pickup in June through October, and then every other week from November through March. Pricing depends on length of the season. Fruit shares, organic egg shares, and flower shares can be added to your vegetable share. We also offer home delivery to locations in Franklin, Hampshire and Hampden counties, as well as in the Boston area. All shares come with our big pick-your-own patch at the farm.

CSA Pickup Locations

• At the Farm (7 Carver St., Granby, 01033): Tuesdays 2 to 7 p.m. and Fridays 2 to 7 p.m.
• In Montague Center at the Old Depot Gardens Farmstand (504 Turners Falls Road, Montague): This location is a farmstand membership. You can come to the farmstand anytime, seven days a week. You will have credit to use equal to the share price, except you will get a 10% discount off marked prices. If you get the full season share, those four weeks of vegetables will be boxed, and winter shares will be located in the cooler behind the stand for pickup.;
• In Springfield at the Farmers' Market at Forest Park (Forest Park, Springfield, 01108): Tuesdays 12:30 to 6 p.m.
• In Greenfield behind Green Fields Market (144 Main St., Greenfield, 01301): Wednesdays 3 to 6 p.m.

Common Wealth CSA

Red Fire Farm is part of a cooperative CSA with several organic farmers called Common Wealth CSA. Red Fire Farm grows about half of the produce for this cooperative. Common Wealth CSA has deliveries on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays in the Boston area

Wednesday pickup spots

• In Somerville at the Somerville Growing Center(22 Vinal Ave., Somerville, 02143), 4 to 7 p.m.
• Harvest Co-op Cambridge (581 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, 02139), 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.
• Harvest Co-op Jamaica Plain (57 South St., Jamaica Plain, MA 02130), 3 to 6:30 p.m

Thursday pick-up spots

• In Boston, at the South Station Farmer's Market (Dewey Square by South Station, Boston), 12 to 6:30 p.m.

Friday pick-up spots

• In Brighton, Whole Foods Market parking lot (15 Washington St., Brighton, 02135), 3:30 to 7 p.m.
• In Cambridge at MIT (Stata Center Courtyard, 32 Vassar St., Cambridge, 02139), 3 to 6:30 p.m.
• Harvest Co-op Cambridge (581 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139), 2:30 to 6 p.m.

Farmers' Market

Boston Public Market at South Station (Atlantic Avenue and Summer Street, on the Rose Kennedy Greenway), Thursdays, 11:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., from May to October. Springfield (at the X in Forest Park), Tuesdays, 12:30 to 6 p.m., from May to October.

Farm Stand

Red Fire farmstand in the beautiful barn on our farm and Old Depot Gardens farmstand (504 Turners Falls Road, Montague, 01351), open daily 9 a.m. to dusk, from May 1 to Nov. 1.

Pick Your Own

Strawberries, peas, beans, basil, cherry tomatoes, herbs, tomatillos, ground cherries, cut flowers, shell beans, hot peppers, kale, and raspberries. PYO available only available for CSA and farmstand members.