Buying Local: North Shore Area

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You want to eat healthy. You want to shop local. But you don’t know how and you don’t know where. Don’t worry. You are not alone.

      Shopping and eating healthy are incredibly difficult tasks in today’s society where everything is sent from farms or factories to industries where it gets packaged and then delivered on trucks or planes across the country or world to grocery stores. Not very sustainable, right?

      Solution: shop local and organic. Here is a list of places (in no particular order) in the North Shore area where you can purchase a variety of local, organic foods, including fruits, vegetables, cheeses, meats, and poultry.

Farms

•    Green Meadows Farm grows certified organic vegetables, including spinach, arugula, scallions, brussel sprouts, broccoli, carrots, and leafy greens, as well as fruits like blueberries, raspberries, and strawberries. You can also pick up some of its pasture-raised pork and farm-raised lamb and chicken. Open daily 8-6pm. 978-468-2277. 656 Asbury Street, South Hamilton, MA 01982.

•    Natural Way Farm is a sustainable farm that sells pick-your-own blueberries, free-range, pastured, naturally tinted eggs, honey, and specialty greens and herbs through natural farming techniques. Call for hours. 978-887-8580. 79 Hill Street, Topsfield, MA
01983.

•    Appleton Farms is the oldest continuously operating farm in the country and sells grass-fed beef, meats, cheeses, yogurts, and milk. Farmstand open M, W, Th 2-7pm; T, F 11-6pm; Sat. 9-3pm. 978-356-3825. 219 County Road, Ipswich, MA 01938.

•   Tendercrop Farms offers grass-fed Black Angus beef and hormone-free, antibiotic-free chickens. Open daily 9-7pm. 978-469-6972.108 High Road, Newbury, MA 01951.

•    Kimble Feed Farm raises all-natural pork and grass-fed beef and bison. Open M-F, 9-5pm; Sat. 9-2pm. 978-521-3900.780 East Broadway, Haverhill, MA 01830.

•    Valley View Farm is known for its handcrafted farmstead and artisanal goat cheeses that are produced by pasture-fed goats. Hours through October: Thursdays 4-6pm. 978-887-8215. 278 High Street, Topsfield, MA 01938. 

Farmers’ Markets

·                    •    Beverly Farmers’ Market is open on Mondays until early October 3-7pm at the Veterans Memorial Park on Rantoul Street and Railroad Avenue, Beverly, MA 01915. http://www.beverlyfarmersmarket.org/. 

·                    •     Farmers’ Market is open Thursdays 3-6pm from now until October 24 at the Derby Square on Front Street in Salem, MA 01970. The winter market will begin soon after that. http://salemfarmersmarket.org/. 

·                     •     Farmers’ Market is open until November 23 on Saturdays from 9-12pm at Marblehead Veterans Middle School at 217 Pleasant Street in Marblehead, MA 01945. http://www.marbleheadfm.com/. 

·                     •    Cape Anne Farmers’ Market is open rain or shine 3-6:30pm every Thursday until October 10 at Stage Fort Park in Gloucester, MA 01930. http://www.capeannfarmersmarket.org/index.html.

·                    •    Peabody Farmers’ Market is open on Saturdays 10-2pm until Sept. 29 at the Leather City Common, 55 Lowell Street in Peabody, MA 01960.

·                    •    Newburyport Farmers’ Market is open rain or shine every Sunday from 9-1pm at the Tannery Marketplace at 50 Water Street, Newburyport, MA 01950.  http://www.thenewburyportfarmersmarket.org/. 

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)

·                     •    Green Meadow Farm offers a Fall CSA share beginning October 29 through December, with extra large distributions for Thanksgiving and Christmas. The seasonal fruits and vegetables are grown on the farm and in the greenhouse. Shares include kale, lettuce, beets, asian greens, spinach, arugula, microgreens, potatoes, celeriac, kohlrabi, rutabaga, cabbage, carrots, brussels sprouts, broccoli, sweet potatoes, and winter squash. Click here to join: http://www.gmfarm.com/fall-shares.

·                  •    Moraine Farm provides its Extended Season CSA to its current shareholders from October to November, but will open it to the public beginning December 1. All fruits and vegetables are grown in an organic, sustainable way. Extended CSA offers beets, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, chard, celery root, escarole, kale, gilfeather rutabagas, herbs, purple top turnips, winter squash, winter radishes, salad turnips, lettuce, sweet potatoes, potatoes, kohlrabi, onions, shallots, leeks, herbs, kale, lettuce, radicchio, spinach, radicchio, and spinach. For more information, check out:  http://www.thetrustees.org/places-to-visit/csa/moraine-farm-csa/share-options.html.