Thursdays at Langwater Farm are now a one stop shop starting May 9th!  Jordan Brothers Seafood is back every Thursday- come down to get some fresh fish for dinner.  We are also excited to announce that we have a new vendor joining us on Thursdays, Proofed Artisan and Traditional Breads.  Some of you may already know Proofed and their delicious breads from the Easton Winter Farmers Market.

Round out your dinner with a Langwater Farm salad… we have fresh salad mix with tender baby lettuces and crunchy spinach garnished with Nasturtium blossoms.   We also have crispy heads of lettuce, crunchy carrots, mild scallions, and three early kale varieties, Red Russian, Lacinato, and Starbor- all perfect for sauteing!

Don’t forget to pick up a gift card or a flowering Nasturtium hanging basket- perfect for Mother’s Day!

After a winter that seemed as though it would never end, our farmstand will be re-opening for the season starting this Saturday May 4!  We will be open for our regular business hours, Tuesday-Sunday 10am-6pm, until December 24th.  These last few weeks have been busy, and the crew is excited to be back out in the field.  The slow warm up has definitely caused some overcrowding in the greenhouse.  A lot of plants were ready to be transplanted out into the field, but weren’t quite ready for the overnight low temps.  Using row cover has really helped with this.  The row cover is also a great barricade against early insect and deer pressure.  Now that it is finally warming up, we are in a mad dash to get everything transplanted out into the field.  The tractor with the water wheel transplanter has been running 5 days per week!  We are also direct seeding lots of peas, beans, carrots, beets, greens, and other early varieties in the field.

For Opening Day, we will have lots of our Certified Organic vegetable seedlings… tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, eggplant, squash, melons, lettuce, herbs & much more!  We will be harvesting our salad mix, scallions, lettuce and kale, so get ready for some great sporing salads!  We will have local maple syrup from Davell’s in North Attleboro, MA and honey from Howland Apiaries in Brockton, MA.

We are excited to be starting another great season here at Langwater Farm!  Thanks for your support!

It is January here on the farm and although the farmstand is closed for the winter, we are all very busy here!  We are already accepting sign-up sheets for next year’s CSA season (sign up here!) as we work on taking our seed inventory, ordering seeds in all sorts of exciting varieties for the coming season, and planning our crops and field layouts.

For the 2013 CSA we have many of the same popular options available again, so you can enjoy our delicious, fresh-picked Certified Organic produce the way that works best for you. This year will be our fourth growing season at Langwater Farm and you can expect the same diversity, freshness, and high quality in all of our produce.

This year’s options are:

Full Season CSA: Weekly pickups of our own Certified Organic produce will start the week of May 21st and go through the last week of October (24 weeks).  Each week you’ll get a mix of 5-10 different vegetables and the variety and quantity will change according to the season. We aim to return you at least 15% on your investment with us. Choose from a Whole Share for $625 or a Half Share for $350.

Farmstand CSA: A more flexible option: $350 gets you a $400 debit card, redeemable for any item whenever the farmstand is open, all season long.  You choose what veggies you like and when you want them.

Sunflower CSA: Ten weeks of brilliant sunflower bunches starting in July. (Only 20 shares available.) $60.

Winter CSA: Saving the best for last, the Winter CSA runs for 8 weeks, November-December. For $175, a share will include lots of greens, roots, and winter squash and average $25 worth of produce each week. We aim to return you at least 15% on your investment with us.

Ashmont Farmers Market CSA: Weekly pickups of our own Certified Organic produce at the Ashmont/Peabody Square Farmers Market on Fridays, 3-7pm from July-October (15 weeks). Choose from a Whole Share for $450 or Half Share for $250.

To give an idea of what kind of quantity and diversity to expect in this year’s Full Season and Ashmont shares, here’s a few sample weeks of last year’s shares. This year’s shares will be pretty much the same in terms of quantity and diversity, although we can’t promise these exact items on these exact weeks this year.

Week of June 5^th

Half Share: 1 head Broccoli, 1 bunch Radishes or 1 bunch Turnips, 1 head Lettuce, 1 bag Spinach, 1 pint Strawberries

Whole Share: 1 head Broccoli, 1 bunch Radishes, 1 bunch Turnips, 1 bunch Kale, 1 head Lettuce, 1 bag Spinach, 1 bag Arugula, 1 bag Meslcun Mix, 1 quart Strawberries

Week of July 30^th

Half Share: 1 half pint Cherry Tomatoes, 3 pieces Summer Squash/Zucchini, 3 pieces Specialty Summer Squash/Zucchini, 2 Pickling Cucumbers, 1 Slicing Cucumber, 1 Sweet Walla Walla Onion, 1 bunch Carrots or 1 bunch Beets, 1 pint Mixed New Potatoes

Whole Share: 6 ears Sweet Corn, 3 Early Girl Tomatoes, 1 pint Cherry Tomatoes, 3 pieces Summer Squash/Zucchini, 3 pieces Specialty Summer Squash/Zucchini, 2 Pickling Cucumbers, 1 Slicing Cucumber, 1 Sweet Walla Walla Onion, 1 bunch Carrots or 1 bunch Beets, 1 quart Mixed New Potatoes

Week of September 25^th

Half Share: 1 Butternut Squash, 2 lb. Carrots or 2 lb. Beets, 1 bunch Hakurei Turnips or 1 bunch Radishes, 1 bunch Chard or 1 bunch Kale, 1 bag Arugula

Whole Share: 1 Butternut Squash, 2 lb. Carrots or 2 lb. Beets, 1 Yellow Onion, 1 bunch Radishes, 1 bunch Hakurei Turnips, 1 bunch Chard, 1 bunch Kale, 1 bag Spinach or 1 crown Broccoli, 1 bag Arugula

To reserve your spot in the 2013 CSA, download the signup sheet here and mail it back to us. Email us at langwaterfarm at gmail. com and we will happily answer any questions you may have.

Frosty mornings, colder nights, and the low slide of the sun across the horizon during the day prompts every living thing on the farm to start tucking in for the winter. Several days ago, a light snowfall covered the farm, a harbinger of the deep winter months ahead. The Christmas trees and holiday greenery at the farmstand were glistening that night, the snowflakes on the branches reflecting back the light.  While the farmstand is decked out for the holidays, we’re still in the farming season, still tending and harvesting crops from the fields.

Our Fraser Fir Christmas trees are grown at Cardinal Tree Farm, a family farm in Ashe County, North Carolina.

Kevin in the kale

Winter Rosemary bunches

For many crops, the oncoming winter means that they focus their energy on building their stores of sugar. Like bees producing honey all summer to feed the hive during the long winter, many plants produce and store sugars to stay alive during low-light days and freezing nights. Sugars not only feed the plant, they prevent it from freezing, as sugar water has a lower freezing point than pure water. These frost-sweetened crops–roots like carrots and beets, greens like spinach and kale–are at their peak right now, rich in flavor and sweetness. We still harvest them daily, once the sun warms them enough to be picked.

Our winter storage crops, like sweet potatoes, butternuts, and acorn squashes, are also genetically primed for late season flavor. When harvested, they begin their sugar building, steadily increasing for months as they stay packed in the barn away from light and moisture. Bred over hundreds of years to be dense packets of nutrition during lean winter months, they prove their worth now, when all the tomatoes, snap peas, peppers, and the other delicate summer crops have been overcome by the change of seasons.

Kate at the Wintertime Market in Pawtucket–so much seasonal bounty!

As we scramble to stay ahead of the fast-sinking sun on chilly afternoons, we look forward to another round of holiday feasts and heaping bowls full of the bounty of the fields. Seeds that were planted as far back as May, and plants tended all through the long summer, are now filling our harvest crates, soon to be served up and devoured by family and friends, gathered to celebrate.

To add to the culinary revelry of the season, we’re baking pies and baked goodies for the holidays again–for parties, gifts, and stocking stuffers. Stop by the farmstand to order, or email us at langwaterfarm at gmail.

All of us at Langwater Farm want to thank you, our wonderful supporters and customers, for such a long and successful growing season.
Happy & Delicious Holidays to everyone!

Fall has begun in earnest at Langwater Farm. Mornings are crisper and sunset creeps up a little faster in the evenings. We’re harvesting lots of our favorite fall produce out of the fields every day–winter squashes, carrots, potatoes, beets, bunched greens, salad greens, radishes, and of course, bins of brilliant orange pumpkins!

Sugar pie pumpkins

Wee-B-Little pumpkins–so cute!

Every weekend until Halloween we’re offering free hayrides down to the pumpkin patch so you can pick your own pumpkin! During the week the pumpkin patch is still open for those who’d like to walk down and haul their pumpkins back on a Radio Flyer wagon.

Fall decorations like straw bales, mums, beautiful heirloom winter squash and weird pumpkin varieties, are all available at the farmstand. 

Our fall produce is certified organic and always fresh–we harvest every day!

Harvesting baby arugula

Stop by the farmstand for gorgeous pumpkins and fall decorations, delicious veggies, or to sign up for our Winter CSA!

Summer has definitely hit Langwater Farm! These days the farmstand looks like a fruit and vegetable riot, the parking lot is humming with cars, and the farm crew is hustling around keeping everything looking and tasting great! It truly is a great time at Langwater Farm.

Along with the warmer, busier days come the crops everyone associates with a Massachusetts summer: corn, tomatoes, eggplant, and squash. To make sure our supply meets our demand, the farm crew is out bright and early picking fresh vegetables everyday.

Some of our favorite vegetables to harvest are the red and yellow cherry tomatoes. They are so sweet; a perfect summer snack!

We also love cucumbers and zucchini! They are delightful to eat and even more fun to hunt for in the field.

Perhaps the best gift of summer are the melons! The whole crew loves to stop and enjoy a crisp, cool bite of watermelon on a hot afternoon.

The eggplants look like royalty sitting on their burlap throne in the farmstand. They truly are a great addition to many classic summertime dishes!

Our peppers are fantastic! Crunchy, sweet, and colorful.

Tomatoes. Tomatoes. Tomatoes!!! With weather patterns ripe for the spread of late blight, we have been babying our tomato plants and they have returned the favor! We have been getting TONS of heirloom, cherry, and red slicing tomatoes off the vine. When biting into one of our award winning tomatoes we know it truly is summertime here at Langwater Farm!

Summer is here but it definitely won’t stick around forever. Make sure you get down to Langwater Farm to enjoy the fruits and vegetables of summer!

This year we are offering something new at our farmers markets–an Organic Harvest Box! An Organic Harvest Box will include a selection of the in-season crops that we are picking at the farm, packed into a box made just for you, and brought to any of our farmers markets. Each week an email will be sent out with a list of the vegetables and fruits we will be packing in the Organic Harvest Box. Simply reply to the email to sign-up for that week and we will pack your box and bring it to market. We accept cash or credit upon pick-up.

To sign-up, simply send Rory an email at langwaterfarm@gmail.com. Please include your name and which farmer’s market you will be picking up at. For more information about the contents of the Organic Harvest Box click HERE!

Norwood Farmer’s Market: Tuesday, Town Common, Nahatan St and Rt 1A, Norwood MA, 12pm – 6pm

Northeastern University Farmer’s Market: Wednesday, Centennial Quad on the Northeastern University side of the Ruggles T-Stop, 11am-5pm

Medfield Farmer’s Market: Thursday. Located at the First Parish Unitarian Church, 26 North St., Medfield, MA, 2:30pm-6:30pm.

Attleboro Farmer’s Market: Saturday. North Main St., next to the Public Library, 8am-noon.