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Growers Southeastern Specialty Producers/Buyers Massachusetts Agricultural SEMAP Member Farmers’ Markets Partnership Tomato Approved Businesses www.SEMAPonline.org

1 SEMAP’s Agricultural Community Snapshot: 329 stewarding Market value of Value of direct sales to over 105,000 acres agricultural products consumers = $5,065,000 of land sold = $154,200,000 (up from $3,477,000 in 1997)

Board members: Carolyn Demoranville, President ~ Director, Cranberry Station, Contents East Wareham Directory Barbara Hanley, Vice President ~ Shy Brothers Cheese, Westport SEMAP Member Growers 3 Margie Baldwin ~ Marion Institute & How On Earth, Mattapoisett SEMAP Specialty Producers/Buyers 8 Adrienne Kravitz ~ Kravitz Cranberries Social Service and Service Providers 10 Dianne Langeland ~ Edible Cape Cod Magazine Member Farmers’ Markets 11 David Rose ~ Moonlightrose Alpacas, Swansea Tomato Approved Businesses 3 Ron Smolowitz ~ Coonamessett Farms, Falmouth Why Eat Local? 4 Barbara Anglin – Plymouth Farmers’ Market How to Buy Local 7 Joseph Baldwin ~ Accounting Officer, Farm Credit East Go Local & Get Involved: SEMAP Annual Events & Opportunities 8 Jennifer Dubois ~ Director of Community Conservation, Farm to Institution Project 10 The Trustees of Reservations. Want to Be a Farmer? 11 Alison Gilmore Carr ~ Cranberry grower, Carver Harvest Calendar 12 Deborah Hood ~ Senior Series Producer, This Old House.

What is SEMAP? The Farms Forever program provides technical assistance to the farming community including land matching, referral services, facilitating land transfer and leasing processes, and gathering land data so the program serves as a clearinghouse of information on Southeastern Massachusetts Agricultural Partnership (SEMAP) farmland for the region. Contact: Bridget Alexander, balexander@ is dedicated to preserving and expanding access to local food semaponline.org, (508) 295-2212 x50. and sustainable farming in southeastern Massachusetts through research and education. SEMAP is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit Who’s in the Local Food Guide & organization and operates two programs: The Buy Fresh Buy Local™ How do I Get in Next Year? Southeastern Massachusetts Educational Campaign (BFBL) and Farms SEMAP is a member-based organization; descriptions of all members Forever. We also maintain a growing membership of farmers and are included in this Local Food Guide as a benefit of membership: businesses who use locally grown products; all are included in this guide. Our office is located in East Wareham, and you can learn more • SEMAP Farm/Business Members & Specialty Producers about public or business membership, our events, or other ways to get • SEMAP Tomato Approved Business Members involved at www.SEMAPonline.org or by calling (508) 295-2212 x50. • SEMAP Member Farmers’ Markets in Southeastern Massachusetts

Through the Buy Fresh Buy Local (BFBL) Campaign, we educate the Not a member? Sign up by April 1, 2012 and you’ll make the next guide. public on the Why, Where and How of local food and sustainable Visit www.SEMAPonline.org or call (508) 295-2212 x50 to learn how farming. Through a three-pronged strategy incorporating to join. participation in community events, Local Food 101 seminars and workshops and educational classes, we are able to reach many people To advertise in the guide, contact SEMAP at [email protected] in our region. Contact: Sarah Cogswell, SEMAP Program Director, or (508) 295-2212 x50. [email protected], (508) 295-2212 x50.

Thank you to Reynolds DeWalt for sponsoring 50% of printing costs, and thank you to our advertisers for covering the remaining 50%. Thanks also to Mediumstudio for design, Jessie Gunnard for editing, and for contributed photos by SEMAP Member farms (Brix Bounty Farm, CN Smith Farm, Langewater Farm, Miss Scarlett’s Blue Ribbon Farm, Plato’s Harvest Organic Farm, Shy Brothers Farm, Silverbrook Farm, Taylor Bay Scallops, Web of Life Organic Farm)

2 FS = Farm Stand

CSA = Community Supported

FM = Farmers’ Market

= Tomato Approved Business

operations of a working farm. Twenty-five percent Alderbrook Farm GROWERS of our produce is donated to local food pantries, shelters and emergency food programs. The Allen & Nancy Manley remainder is distributed to the community through BARNSTABLE COUNTY 1213 Russells Mills Road, Dartmouth, MA our CSA shares and is for sale at the Sandwich (508) 636-4562 Farmers Market. Small family farm offering seasonal produce, farm Cape Abilities Farm fresh eggs, milk, cut flowers, herbs, items from In the Weeds Flower Farm the Dartmouth Grange shared-use kitchen, honey, Jim Knieriem maple syrup, breads, and baked goods. We also 458 Main Street (Route 6A), Dennis, MA Debra Demarais offer birdseed, birdhouses, candles and gift items, www.capeabilities.org 392 Main Street, Brewster, MA and encourage a visit with our barnyard animals. (508) 385-2538 (508) 385-6961 Farm stand open year round, 4am-5:30pm Monday- We sell early and fresh award-winning tomatoes [email protected] Saturday, 4am-4pm Sunday. and other grown in our Dennis A small grower with a roadside stand business on greenhouses, along with herbs and flower baskets. Route 6A in West Brewster, we specialize in pussy Bettencourt Dairy Farm Cape Abilities Farm employs over 50 people with willows, twig wreaths, hydrangeas, lots of cut 100 Simmons Street, Rehoboth, MA disabilities to help grow and market our produce, flowers, Christmas greens and wreaths. We plant (508) 252-5464 and all profits go to fund programs for people with around 20 varieties of tomatoes and sell wholesale, We produce raw cow’s milk for customers to pick up disabilities on Cape Cod. Open daily 10am–6pm. retail, and subscription cut flowers to restaurants, directly from the farm. Please call ahead to arrange. businesses and weddings. At our stand you can also Coonamessett Bog Christmas Tree Farm find a variety of vegetables, including cucumbers and squash. Henry & Winifred Dick TOMATO 392 Boxberry Hill Road, East Falmouth, MA Miss Scarlett’s Blue Ribbon Farm (508) 563-3523 APPROVED

Cut-your-own Christmas trees available weekends Susan Knieriem BUSINESSES from Thanksgiving to Christmas Eve. Call for hours. 555 Route 6A, Yarmouth Port, MA www.missscarlettsblueribbonfarm.com Identify your business as a supporter Coonamessett Farm (508) 685-9554 of local agriculture! SEMAP’s Cape Cod’s largest poultry and pork farmers, Ron & Roxanne Smolowitz offering chicken, duck, geese, turkey, and pork. All Tomato Approved Businesses are 277 Hatchville Road, East Falmouth, MA animals are born and raised in Yarmouth Port and service providers in the agricultural www.coonamessettfarm.com are free-frolicking and never frozen. Retail sales on community and/or farmers’ markets, (508) 563-2560 the farm every Sunday 12-4pm. Pick-your-own membership farm with public farm restaurants, farms and retail stand and café. CSA includes vegetables, flowers, businesses sourcing from at least berries, meat, cheese and shellfish. Wholesale to BRISTOL COUNTY restaurants. three local farms in the southeastern MA area. Whether you’re looking to Alanda Farm The Farm @ Community Green source more from local producers

John Buffington Kristie Kapp, Farm Manager or inform your customers of the 2685 Horton Street, North Dighton, MA Victory Drive, Sandwich, MA local farm connections you currently (508) 252-4003 www.haconcapecod.org/communitygreen-farm. [email protected] enjoy, join SEMAP as a Tomato htm Family farm raising sheep and lamb, wool products (508) 566-4335 Approved Business today! available for sale year round. All meats are USDA The Farm at Community Green is a project of inspected. Products available through retail only Housing Assistance Corporation. Our goal is to at our farm stand and at farmers’ markets. Contact provide educational opportunities in sustainable for more information. agriculture for local citizens to learn about and care through the diverse

3 Briggs Nursery creative wines from our own estate-grown grapes. Retail location Tasting room open 12–5pm Friday - Sunday. Gary Briggs 295 Kelley Boulevard, North Attleboro, MA Dufort Farms www.briggsgarden.com (508) 699-7421 Carolyn & John Dufort Retail garden center and landscape design center. 55 Reservoir Avenue, Rehoboth, MA www.dufortfarms.com Brix Bounty Farm (508) 252-6323 The Dufort family farm was established in 1990 munity. We believe in supporting our local econo- Derek Christianson on 32 acres of land, and we lease an additional 120 my, and at times partner with other local farms to 858 Tucker Road, Dartmouth, MA acres for supporting livestock. Year round at the ensure that our customers have a wonderful selec- www.brixbounty.com farm store you may purchase individual cuts of tion of in-season vegetables and products from our (508) 992-1868 USDA beef and pork, whole chickens, Thanksgiving area. Farm stand open daily 10am-6pm. We produce and promote the production of turkeys, honey and homemade jams and jellies nutrient-dense , grown using sustainable made from our berries. Pick your own blueberries Hilltop Farm from our 1000 bushes from July through methods with a focus on improving soil health for long-term viability. Our produce is grown without September. Farm store 8am-4pm Wednesday and Allison Nightingale & Earl Matthews chemical pesticides or herbicides, and we strive Saturday. 875A East Horseneck Road, Westport, MA to improve through community www.hilltopfarmwestport.com projects that increase knowledge and awareness of Eva’s Garden (617) 851-6319 sustainable production techniques on farms and in Eva Sommaripa We are a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) backyard and community gardens. CSA; farm stand 105 Jordan Road, South Dartmouth, MA farm in beautiful Westport, and as we pursue open daily in season, 10am-dusk. www.evasgreengarden.com organic certification, we use organic methods to produce a wide variety of traditional, heirloom, and exotic vegetables, fruits, and flowers for our neighbors in southeastern Massachusetts and Why Eat Local? Local farmers offer crop varieties grown for taste You care about your HEALTH Rhode Island. Visit our website to learn more about and freshness rather than shipping and long our crops, and to find additional products like farm Local food is fresher and tastes better than food • shelf life. fresh eggs. shipped long distances from far states and other Local farms help to establish and maintain countries. • healthy soils through sustainable farming J.H. Beaulieu Livestock & Produce Farm Knowing where your food comes from and how • practices such as crop rotation, diverse crop it is grown or raised enables you to choose safe varieties, pasture raised livestock and integrated Joe Beaulieu food from farmers you trust. • past management (IPM). 16 Sconticut Neck Road, #126, Fairhaven, MA Buying local food gets you outside and keeps you (508) 496-9209 in touch with your neighbors, the seasons, and You care about your COMMUNITY [email protected] the harvest calendar. • and local ECONOMY Naturally-grown field-raised beef, chicken and With each local food purchase, you ensure that You care about the ENVIRONMENT farm fresh eggs. All meat USDA inspected and cut more of your money spent on food goes to the to specifications, blast frozen, and vacuum-sealed. Local food travels less! The average supermarket • farmer and, in turn, the local economy. travels 1500+ miles from farm to table. Johnson’s Roadside Stand •

Timothy & Jeanne Johnson Clear Run Farms 445 Market Street, Swansea, MA (508) 636-5869 (508) 379-0349 John Nunes, Jr. Eva’s Garden is a certified organic farm specializing Johnson’s Roadside Stand offers freshly-picked 39 Miller Street, Rehoboth, MA in unique herbs, flowers, heirloom vegetables and fruits and vegetables from their family farm. Other (508) 336-2277 specialty greens. Sales are to restaurants, caterers items for sale include freshly-baked goods (pies, Producing wholesale beef available to restaurants and schools. muffins and bread), cut flowers and annuals, as and caterers. Contact us for availability and prices well as local juices, sodas and homemade ice cream and for retail sales. The Farmer’s Garden from Bliss Dairy in Attleboro. Open 9am-6pm Monday - Saturday; 9am-5pm Sunday. Coastal Vineyards Tammy Noons 2685 G.A.R. Highway, Swansea, MA Kettle Pond Farm David Neilson www.farmersgardencsa.com 61 Pardon Hill Road, South Dartmouth, MA (508) 889-7632 Adam Hale www.coastal-vineyards.com The Farmer’s Garden is a 200-acre vegetable farm 181 Bayview Avenue, Berkley, MA (774) 202-4876 with a tradition and passion for producing high www.kettlepondfarm.com Coastal Vineyards produces small batches of fine quality and great tasting vegetables for the com- (508) 822-4142 4 Kettle Pond Farm is a not-for-profit organization blueberries and apples in season on Saturday to donate over 2000 pounds of fresh produce. All focused on educating the community about the afternoons; call for opening times. produce is distributed by the Hunger Commission, importance of local agriculture, sustainable land a program of the United Way of Greater New stewardship and open space conservation. We sell Revolution Lobster Bedford, which distributes to pantries and kitchens our products through a CSA program and our farm across the South Coast. Check our website for stand. Farm stand open daily 9am-7pm, mid-April Tim Field weekly volunteer drop-in days and times. through November. 291 American Legion Highway, Westport, MA www.revolutionlobster.com Shy Brothers Farm Lanzoni’s (508) 264-3838 Revolution Lobster is owned and operated by the Barbara Hanley Maria Lanzoni Field family who catch lobsters right from local Westport Point, MA 36 Robinson Road, Acushnet, MA waters off Westport. We sell live lobsters wholesale www.shybrothersfarm.com (508) 763-8088 and retail, and all are caught locally by our family (508) 965-6560 Lanzoni’s uses six greenhouses to grow our own or by other Westport Point fisherman. Delivery is The Santos brothers make artisanal cheese from vegetable plants, flowers, geraniums and potted available, or you may pick up lobsters at Westport our third-generation dairy farm in Westport. plants. Our farm stand is open seven days a week Market, the Downtown Fall River Farmers’ Market, “Hannahbells” are handmade thimble-shaped through October 31st, and offers a wide variety of and through Silverbrook Farm’s CSA. Call for cheeses available in several varieties, including fresh seasonal vegetables including lettuce, beets, ordering and delivery information. award-winning classic French, Shallot and carrots, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant and much Lavender. “Cloumage” is the newest addition, a more! Nos falamos Portuguese. River Rock Farm fresh lactic curd cheese. All our cheese is made Sales by phone using the oldest technique: letting the milk and Noquochoke Paul Schmid culture do the work, with no heat, no pressing and 236 Fisherville Lane, South Westport, MA no hurrying. George Smith & Doris Mills (508) 636-5586 594 Drift Road, Westport, MA [email protected] www.noqorchards.com River Rock Farm has raised grass-fed Angus beef (508) 636-2237 since 1961. Our animals spend twelve months a We grow 70 varieties of apples, as well as other tree year outside on pastures and are fed only on our fruit and heirloom vegetables. We sell our products own hay in the winter. We do not use hormones, at our farm stand, farmers’ markets, and to schools antibiotics or chemical ; we were certified and other wholesale customers. Our farm stand organic in 2005. We sell customers at least one- is open daily in season with a large variety of quarter of an animal, arrange the processing at a heirloom vegetables and fruits and our own fresh USDA-approved slaughterhouse in Groton, MA, and apple cider. arrange local delivery. No mail orders, please.

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Richard & Marie Pray, Laura Smith Jerome Sampson Silverbrook Farm Rehoboth, MA 222 Old Bedford Road, Westport, MA (508) 336-7681 [email protected] Andy Pollock [email protected] (508) 674-2733 592 Chase Road, Dartmouth, MA Sixth-generation vegetable and horticulture farm We grow fresh fruits and vegetables including www.SilverbrookDartmouth.com practicing safe and environmentally friendly blueberries, strawberries, corn, onions and (508) 991-5185 techniques. We have been using Integrated Pest potatoes on 75 acres. We sell wholesale and retail; As one of the oldest operating farms in the Management (IPM) practices on 150 acres and look for us at farmers’ markets in Dartmouth and Commonwealth, we participate in 14 farmers’ in ten greenhouses for years, and in 2010, we New Bedford. markets each week and have 510 CSA members, started the transition to certified organic herbs reaching from as far as Boston and Cape Cod. and vegetables. We also farm in nearby Seekonk, Sharing the Harvest Community Farm We partner with other farms to provide a wonderful diversity of fruits and vegetables offered at the Dighton and East Providence. All produce goes to the United Way peak of ripeness and freshness. Visit our website Dan King, Farm Manager for more information. Pocasset Orchards Dartmouth YMCA, 276 Gulf Hill Road, South Dartmouth, MA Karl Glosl www.ymcasouthcoast.org The Silverbrook Farm 1427 Old Fall River Road, North Dartmouth, MA (508) 993-3361 (508) 995-5019 Sharing the Harvest Community Farm is a non- Nick Ciaccio and JJ Pereira [email protected] profit community farm located at the Dartmouth 934 Main Street, Acushnet, MA Pocasset Orchards grows a variety of fruits, YMCA. Our volunteer-driven effort helps alleviate www.thesilverbrookfarm.com including apples, apricots, blueberries, peaches, hunger in our area through the growth and (774) 202-1027 pears, plums, nectarines and pluots. Local honey distribution of fresh fruits and vegetables. In our The Silverbrook Farm serves the southern New is available in the fall, and you may pick your own first five years more than 500 volunteers worked England region with fresh produce, produce/ 5 cranberries grown right on our property. 90% of our farm stand products at our 55-acre farm, and provide a wide selection of produce Stonehaven Farm and flowers. We have converted several crops to Baystate Organic Certification, and following Virginia Merlier the GAP (Good Agricultural Practices) standards 1506 Drift Road, Westport, MA ensures our farm is on the leading edge of food www.stonehavenfamilyfarm.com safety, hygiene, soil testing, water testing, and (508) 636-1361 traceability. We offer our own corn, organic Stonehaven Farm produces free-range chicken and summer squash and zucchini, sugar snap peas, duck eggs and all-natural grass finished spring shell peas, beans, lettuce, radishes, rhubarb and livestock CSA programs, hay rides, a variety of farm lamb. Wool blankets and lamb pelts are available raspberries, and we sell our own popcorn, jams, animals, and more. Our store is open 9am-3pm to purchase as well. Our large garden and berry jellies and honey. Saturday and Sunday. Please see our website for provide vegetables and fruit in season. We extended fall hours. share our farm experience through a farm stay, and Bull Frog Acres welcome guests to the farm for day visits. Please Skinny Dip Farm visit our website and call ahead to schedule. Denise & Jeffrey Pavao 195 Blackmore Pond Road, West Wareham, MA Hannah & Ben Wolbach Tavares Hillside Farm www.bullfrogacres.com 1603 Main Road, Westport, MA (508) 748-3981 www.skinnydipfarm.blogspot.com Paul & Linda Tavares Small family farm stand selling farm fresh eggs, (401) 592-0237 67 Canning Boulevard, Tiverton, RI flowers, and a variety of in-season produce. Open We grow produce using sustainable farming (508) 636-2042 daily in season. methods, and we aim to certify as organic in 2012. [email protected] We grow a wide variety of produce with a specialty We produce a variety of fresh produce including C.N. Smith Farm, Inc. in salad greens and cut flowers. Check our website sweet corn, peppers, squash, pumpkins, and for updates on markets and other locations that sell zucchini. We also sell cut flowers, homemade jams, Chris Smith our farm’s products. jellies and relishes, and arborvitae trees. 325 South Street, East Bridgewater, MA www.cnsmithfarminc.com Souza Family Farm (508) 378-2270 Founded in 1925, C.N. Smith Farm, Inc. is a 90-acre John & Valerie Souza DUKES COUNTY farm. Farm stand and garden center are open April 33 Agricultural Avenue, Rehoboth, MA to December and offer a variety of seasonal fruit www.Souzafamilyfarm.com Cuttyhunk Shellfish Farms, Inc. and vegetables seven days a week. We also offer (508) 245-4635 Seth & Dorothy Garfield activities including hayrides and berry picking. We are a family-operated business growing an P.O. Box 51, Cuttyhunk Island, MA Wholesale deliveries are available. array of flowers, hangers, herbs, bedding plants www.cuttyhunkshellfish.com and vegetable plants, as well as high tunnel crops Now celebrating 30 years in business, Cuttyhunk Cape Cod Select like cucumbers and tomatoes. Outdoors we grow Shellfish Farms, Inc. provides fresh, delicious Sales online or by phone a wide assortment of vegetables for retail sale Cuttyhunk Oysters® and clams to restaurants and Cindy Rhodes at our stand as well as at the farmers’ market in distributors throughout New England. Raw bar 73 Tremont Street, Carver, MA Easton, and for wholesale. We have several acres and catering services are available at your location www.capecodselect.com of orchards, and in the fall offer apples, cider, fall for all events. Delivery to the mainland is available (508) 866-1149 vegetables and chrysanthemums, straw bales, corn twice a week in the Dartmouth/New Bedford area, For over 70 years, our family has been harvesting stalks and other autumn decorations. and we ship to New York City’s fish markets on cranberries in southeastern Massachusetts, refrigerated trucks and to other locations via UPS the heart of Cranberry Country. We select Stone Bridge Farm or our own delivery truck. Our harvest season is only the ripest, freshest fruit, and from flower June through February. Please visit website for to package, strive to integrate all the latest Scott & Joanne Harding more details. sustainable technologies and pledge to do our 186 Leonard Street, Acushnet, MA share in protecting the environment. We sell fresh www.stonebridgefarmevents.com cranberries (October – December) packed in 3 lb. (508) 951-1551 PLYMOUTH COUNTY or 5 lb. wooden crates or frozen cranberries (year [email protected] round) shipped to your door. Our farm stand offers a variety of fruit, vegetables, Billingsgate Farm / Grandpa Tom’s herbs, flowers, eggs and specialty items. Visit our Wholesale Vegetables Chokecherry Organic Farm Farmers’ Market every Saturday beginning July 9th Bruce Quevillon from 10am-2pm, and join us in the fall for fresh 80 North Street, Duxbury, MA Peter & Lynn Reading (781) 837-2121 6 County Road (Route 106), Plympton, MA [email protected] (781) 293-6144 Eight-acre organic family farm producing a variety In operation for more than 30 years, we grow over of vegetables including romaine lettuce, heirloom 6 tomatoes, peppers, garlic and beets. Please call for farm stand we offer our own eggs, vegetables and availability; farm visits by appointment only. pumpkins, as well as aged cow manure (bagged) and harvest decorations (September - November). Fresh Meadows Farm Farm stand open daily 11am-7pm May to November.

Domingo Fernandes Nessralla’s Farm of Marshfield 43 North Main Street, Carver, MA www.freshmeadowscranberries.com Paul Nessralla (508) 866-7136 1200 Ocean Street, Marshfield, MA Fresh Meadows is a third-generation cranberry www.nessrallas.com operation growing organically certified fresh Early (781) 834-2833 Blacks. Join us at our farm stand or visit our website Nessralla Farm, Inc. has been family owned and for the latest information. operated since 1979. Our farm stand and garden center sell a variety of homegrown plants (annuals) Prospect Hill Farm Golden Rule Farm at Soule Homestead and vegetables, as well as other local produce. Sales by phone only Please call for more information. Open daily 8am- Rebecca Lipton Frank Albani 6pm from Easter to Christmas. 30 Prospect Street, Plympton, MA 46 Soule Street, Middleboro, MA (781) 582-8363 www.soulehomestead.org Certified organic since the 1990s, we provide (508) 947-6744 eggs, a wide variety of heirloom vegetables, fruit, We grow certified organic vegetables; please blueberries, and more. Call for farm stand hours. contact us for availability and pricing. Hickory Knoll Farm How to Buy Local

Another great way to stay in touch with the seasons Kelly & Shawn Conway In southeastern Massachusetts there are many is to regularly visit farmers’ markets. Farmers’ 23 Leonard Street, Lakeville, MA ways to support our local farms year round by markets are plentiful in southeastern MA, and (508) 946-5504 purchasing their vegetables, fruits, meats, dairy boast a wide variety of produce and products made [email protected] products, nursery items and other products. At our fourth-generation 60-acre family farm locally. Farmers’ markets have become community meeting places, and are some of the best sources we have a seasonal farm stand and year-round The first step is to think seasonally, and look for for fresh local foods; several even run through the greenhouse vegetable production. We grow local items grown and harvested month by month winter months. See page 11 for a list. cranberries, herbs and spring plants, and offer – check out the Harvest Calendar on page 12 to hayrides during harvest season (September - New guide you. Year’s) that show beautiful views of the bogs and Our region also has hundreds of roadside farm stands throughout the many back roads and coastal pasture animals. Please call for more information An easy way to stay in touch with the seasons trails. Finding a local farm stand you enjoy close and reservations. is to join a CSA program, short for Community to home is sometimes the best and easiest way to Supported Agriculture. CSAs are farm subscription enjoy local produce in season. Jonathan’s Sprouts programs where community members purchase Retail outlets - see website a “share” of the harvest at the start of the year, Search for farm stands, farmers’ markets and Bob & Barbi Sanderson and receive a box of freshly picked produce each CSAs with SEMAP’s Online Farm Guide at www. 384 Vaughan Hill Road, Rochester, MA week. Some CSAs offer meat, cheese, baked goods SEMAPonline.org. www.jonathansorganic.com and other extras, and some run into or through (508) 763-5505 the winter, so check for a program that fits your New England’s only full-line sprout company, schedule and taste preferences. growing a variety of certified organic sprouts, pea shoots, and wheat grass. Jonathan’s also packs locally grown organic salad greens and herbs from neighboring farms in southeastern Massachusetts. Plato’s Harvest Organic Farm Puddingstone Organics Learn more at www.jonathansorganic.com. David Purpura Bill Rogers Lolan’s Farm 131 Chestnut Street, Middleboro, MA 121 Old Center Street, Middleborough, MA www.platosharvest.wordpress.com www.facebook.com/pages/Puddingstone- Sam & Susan Shield (508) 315-9429 Organics 121 Thompson Street, Middleboro, MA Plato’s Harvest is a certified organic farm producing (508) 946-0745 (508) 947-7797 a diverse array of vegetables with a focus on [email protected] [email protected] heirloom varieties. Chicken, eggs, honey, and some We are a family-owned dairy farm milking 60 livestock are also available; some food is available registered Holsteins, and are members of Agri- year-round. We sell at the Plymouth and Harvard Mark/Cabot Cooperative. At our seasonal retail farmers’ markets. 7 We raise and sell certified organic eggs and broiler chickens. Limited supply of in-season produce NORFOLK COUNTY available, especially garlic. Check out our Facebook page for farm updates and more. Brambly Farms

Teal Farm Ted & Sandra O’Harte 84 Cleveland Street, Norfolk, MA www.bramblyfarms.com Matthew Sanders, Carolyn Sanders Abrantes & (508) 520-2321 David Sanders We raise several breeds of pasture-raised, 567 New Bedford Road, Rochester, MA hormone-free heritage pigs & poultry, and sell our (508) 367-8188 RHODE ISLAND pork by sampler packs of five to ten pounds, as well [email protected] as half and whole pigs. We have pastured eggs (both Teal Farm is operated by the Teal grandchildren: Maplewood Farm hen and duck) and raise several hundred pastured Matthew Sanders, Carolyn Sanders Abrantes and turkeys for the holidays. Open 10am-5pm Saturday David Sanders. We grow vegetables, fruit, and Judy Carvalho and Sunday. flowers, and offer a CSA and operate a farm stand 234 Hedly Street, Portsmouth, RI on the north side of New Bedford Road. Farm- (401) 683-1370 grown eggs, chicken and lamb are also available. Lawton’s Family Farm / [email protected] Oake Knoll Ayrshires Three-season farm specializing in over thirty varieties of herbs, cut sunflowers and wholesale Go Local and Ed, Nancy & Terri Lawton potatoes. Some delivery is available at an extra 70 North Street, Foxboro, MA charge. Products are sold directly at local farms and Get Involved! www.lawtonsfamilyfarm.com at local farmers’ markets. (508) 543-6460 SEMAP’s Annual Events Our farm store carries only pure Massachusetts January – Winter Networking Event for farmers farm products. Our Oake Knoll Ayrshires raw milk and business owners is bottled daily, with no antibiotics or hormones. February – Agriculture and Food Conference of Our Foxboro Cheese is made from our own milk, SPECIALTY Southeastern MA, open to farmers and the public and during summer, vegetables are picked fresh June – Farm to Table Dinner every day. We raise grass-fed beef without any PRODUCERS / BUYERS September – BOG JOG 5K Trail Run/Walk antibiotics or hormones, and offer stew meat, November – SEMAP’s Annual Meeting patties, ground beef, and all-natural hot dogs. Our humanely-raised veal is available in many cuts. BARNSTABLE COUNTY Farm stand open daily year-round 10am-6pm. Web Of Life Organic Farm Cape Cod Beer Norwell Farms Retail location Donna Blischke Beth & Todd Marcus 71 Silva Street, Carver, MA 1336 Phinney’s Lane, Hyannis, MA Susan Peters, Farm Manager www.weboflifefarm.com (508) 790-4200 5 Jacobs Lane, Norwell, MA (508) 866-7712 Cape Cod Beer is Cape Cod’s only microbrewery, www.norwellfarms.org We are a small family farm offering seedlings, producing handcrafted beers year round: Cape Norwell Farms is a new, not-for-profit 1/6-acre produce, herbs, honey, eggs and poultry, as well as Cod Red (Amber Ale), Cape Cod IPA, and seasonal community farm at the historic Jacobs Farm on certified organic garlic powder, heirloom pepper Hefe-Weizen, Porter and Stout. At the brewery Main Street, providing fresh, seasonal food to our sauces and sauerkraut. We also have a wide variety we also sell a wide variety of items made on Cape CSA members and residents in need through the of jams, jellies, preserves and salsa made with Cod. Retail hours at the brewery: 12-6pm Monday - Norwell Food Pantry. We also offer educational our own organic ingredients grown and prepared Friday; 11am-2pm Saturday; tours Saturday at 1pm programs to the public about sustainable farming on the farm. Our products are available at the or by appointment. Visit our website for a complete and local food production, and host community Plymouth Farmers’ Market Stevens Field and the list of where to find Cape Cod Beers. events and volunteer opportunities at the farm. Harvard Square Farmers’ Market. White Barn Farm Cape Cod Chef on Call Kevin Jamieson Christy Raymond 39 Old Long Pond Road, Brewster, MA 458 South Street, Wrentham, MA www.capecodchefoncall.com www.whitebarnfarm.org (508) 896-1400 (774) 210-0359 We take the worry out of planning a menu and put We run a 60-member CSA program and have a the fun back into entertaining. From weddings and roadside stand open several days a week. Each traditional Cape Cod clambakes to a four-course spring, we hold a two-day plant sale, offering a wide dinner or a home-cooked barbeque, our personal variety of seedlings started in our greenhouse. The chef comes to your home and cooks for any end of the season is marked by a Thanksgiving sale, occasion. where you can stock up for the winter and the big 8 feast. Harvest Delivery Down to Earth Natural Foods DUKES COUNTY

Dave Henchy Laura Broekel & Catherine O’Berry Tisbury Farm Market www.harvest-delivery.com 751 Kempton Street, New Bedford, MA (508) 470-6004 www.downtoearthnaturalfoods.com Ed Charter Convenient home delivery for your busy lifestyle! (508) 996-1995 342 State Road, Vineyard Haven, MA This Community Supported Agriculture project Down to Earth Natural Foods is a family-run whole www.vineyardgrocer.com delivers the ultimate in freshness straight from the foods store established in 1977. We provide a (508) 696-8914 Verrill family farm in Concord, MA. Save precious well-rounded selection of natural foods, vitamins, Offering the best of locally grown produce and time and support your local small business while minerals, homeopathic remedies, beauty aids, locally made products, Tisbury Farm Market has reaping tasty benefits. Whole and half vegetable organic produce, books and more. A special focus at evolved from a fruit stand to a one-stop shopping and fruit home deliveries shares are available, as Down to Earth is holistic dog and cat care, including center boasting a butcher shop, a gourmet store well as a NEW Community Supported Fisheries natural and raw foods, vitamins, supplements and fully stocked with healthy foods and supplements (CSF) option. grooming supplies. as well as a complete kitchen manned by local celebrity chef Marvin Jones. Scenic Roots Fine Catering by Russell Morin Retail location Donna Kutil Russell Morin 349 Route 6A, East Sandwich, MA 95 Frank Mossberg Drive, Attleboro, MA www.scenicrootsgardencenter.com www.morins.com Volunteer & Donate SEMAP relies on the support of donors and (508) 888-0044 (508) 226-6600 volunteers to continue its work. We are a small A locally-owned, independent family-run retail Whether it’s a wedding at one of the famed community organization, and while the funding we garden center, we grow our own perennials, Newport mansions, a prestigious gala or a receive is crucial, so is the donation of volunteer time vegetable starts, hanging baskets, mums, asters corporate picnic, Fine Catering by Russell Morin and talent, without which we could not continue and miscellaneous annuals for retail sales. can help create memorable events. to preserve and expand access to local food and Olio di Melli sustainable farming in southeastern Massachusetts. BRISTOL COUNTY , online Tony & Rosemary Melli A1 Pickle Company 11 Division Road, Westport, MA PLYMOUTH COUNTY www.famousfoods.com (508) 636-8047 Ed Alberto Artisan Bakeshop 2 13th Street #7, Attleboro, MA Olio di Melli provides organic olive oils and balsamic vinegars as well as artisanal chocolate www.a1pickles.com Meredith Ciaburri torone from small family farms in Italy. We (508) 245-2892 265 Walnut Plain Road, Rochester, MA also supply area communities with local cheese A1 Pickle Company makes all-natural pickles www.artisanbakeshop.com from Martin’s Cheese Company (Westport), Shy from ingredients you’ll recognize, like cucumbers, (508) 763-4905 Brothers Farm (Westport) and Great Hill Blue onions, dill and vinegar. We have four flavors We prepare handmade pies, artisan and sandwich Cheese (Marion). Find us at area farmers’ markets (Bread and Butter, Dilly Dill, Pucker Pickles and breads, breakfast pastries, savories and wedding (Dartmouth, Falmouth, Harvard University, Kickin’ Kukes) and are always interested in your and occasion cakes. Using local fruit, produce, suggestions for new flavors. Provincetown) and online. Travessia Urban Winery meats and cheeses, Artisan Bakeshop strives to support our local farming community. Cork Wine & Tapas Retail location, Marco Montez Family Secrets Bakery 760 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA Jay Lanagan www.travessiawine.com 90 Front Street, New Bedford, MA 02740 Joy & Bob Higgins (774) 929-6534 (508) 994-9463 27 Tall Pines Road, Plymouth, MA Producing wines with locally-grown Vinifera www.corkwineandtapas.com www.familysecretsbakery.com grapes, which are honest, distinctive, and Located in historic New Bedford Seaport, Cork has a (617) 957-9402 characteristic of our region. Our wines are made winning combination of ambiance, food, drink and Gourmet bakery located in Plymouth where all with grapes grown by Running Brook Vineyards in service. We are committed to being the best we can items are handmade from family recipes, mostly Dartmouth and Westport Rivers in Westport, both be, and continually seek to use more local products organic and using New England products. Since in southeastern Massachusetts. Visit our winery on our menu. we do not use preservatives, every item is made to in downtown New Bedford where you can taste order to guarantee freshness. Orders are filled as and purchase our wines. Tasting fee is $5. 12-6pm they are received within 24-48 hours. Wednesday - Saturday; 12-5pm Sunday.

9 Hearth Wood Fired Bread meat lasagna, sandwiches, and much more. Please Walters Specialty Foods call about our custom catering services; certified

Nicole Nyberg kitchen available for hourly rental to local food Phil Walters 123-2 Camelot Drive, Plymouth, MA entrepreneurs. Our CSA season runs from June 23 19 Nottingham Drive, Kingston, MA www.hearthwfb.com to September 1, with two share sizes available. (781) 585-3169 (774) 773-9388 [email protected] Artisan bread bakers in Plymouth specializing in The Market at Pinehills Escape from the everyday with gourmet items from handmade wood fired bread in the tradition of an authentic Caribbean kitchen. We use recipes the eighteenth century. Store is open 9am-6pm Mike Hiffa, Produce Manager passed down through the generations to make Monday - Saturday; 10am-3pm Sunday; retailers 6 Purchase Street, Plymouth, MA unique and delicious creations for you to enjoy and and wholesalers welcome. www.themarketpinehills.com share - a tropical vacation for your taste buds. Try (508) 209-0000 our BBQ sauces, jams/jellies, chutneys and variety How on Earth Store/CSA Market carrying seasonal produce from local farms of hot sauces. and friendly, knowledgeable help when you need it. Laura Killingbeck, Manager 62 Marion Road, Mattapoisett, MA Oxford Creamery SUFFOLK COUNTY www.howonearth.net (508) 758-1341 Liz Ackerman City Feed & Supply How On Earth offers one easy place to pick up local 98 County Road, Mattapoisett, MA and organic grocery items, including seasonal www.oxfordcreamery.com David Warner fruits and vegetables, dairy, eggs, meat, breads, (508) 996-6914 672 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain, MA honey, jam, herbs, flowers, crafts and more. We Old fashioned ice cream, seafood and sandwiches. www.cityfeedandsupply.com are also a full service restaurant serving breakfast Looking to use fresh ingredients from local farms (617) 524-5539 and lunch featuring fresh local and organic in season. We are a grocery/café/deli supplying the ingredients. Check out our homemade prepared neighborhood with a fine selection of natural foods including chicken pot pie, vegetable and foods, specialty groceries, local and organic fruits and vegetables, regional artisan cheeses, local meats, fresh baked items, hot-pressed and cold sandwiches, soups and locally prepared foods.

SOCIAL SERVICE PROVIDERS SERVICE PROVIDERS Mercy Meals & More Blair Agency Rev. Russ Chamberlain Linda Blair 634 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 145 South Main Street, Carver, MA www.mercymeals.org (508) 866-9150 (508) 728-1489 [email protected] Mercy Meals and More operates New Bedford’s only free daily breakfast program; a donation box is provided for those who are able to make a Farm Credit East, ACA contribution. Meals are served restaurant-style with table service, which we Maryann Ponte believe respects the dignity of our guests and promotes a sense of community. 67 Bedford Street, PO Box 720, Middleboro, MA Volunteers come from area faith communities and the general public, and (508) 946-4455 people in need of community service hours are encouraged to volunteer. www.farmcrediteast.com An average of 100 meals are served daily at a cost of about $2.00 per meal. Specialized lender and financial services leader committed to Northeast Mercy Meals & More seeks to use local products, particularly eggs, in our daily agriculture, commercial fishing and forest products industries. breakfast program.

The Farm to Institution Project: Maximizing Our season in advance), pay and have the produce picked up at the farm and shipped to the restaurant, market or school. SEMAP, FoodEx, the UMass Dartmouth Region’s Foodshed by Transforming the System Dining Services and their food service provider, Chartwells, are working together to pilot the new system. Buying local from farmers’ markets or joining a CSA (community supported agriculture) program has become easier in the last couple of years, but what SEMAP envisions an additional revenue stream for the region’s growers about grocery stores, colleges, hospitals and public schools? that will allow growers to maintain their existing direct-to-consumer sales while strengthening our foodshed. We support growing and raising more To increase access for these businesses and organizations while continuing to food than we currently are by utilizing existing farmland and season exten- support the region’s direct-to-consumer market and strengthen the region’s sion techniques. Learn more about the Farm to Institution Project at foodshed, SEMAP has teamed up with FoodEx, a for-profit business that links www.SEMAPonline.org, or contact Program Director Sarah Cogswell at growers and buyers through a web-based system. Growers are able to upload [email protected]. what’s available (months in advance) while buyers can order (perhaps an entire 10 The five-session workshop series includes these So, You Want sessions: to Be a Farmer? 1. So, You Want to Be a Farmer? The Dirty Truth 2. What is a Business Plan and Why You Need One 3. The Dollars and Sense of Financing a Small Farm Thanks to a grant from the Northeast Center for 4. News Flash! You Don’t Need to Own the Land Risk Management Education, SEMAP is pleased to You Farm offer the “So, You Want to Be a Farmer?” workshop 5. Farm Tour: What a Real Farm Smells Like series. This series will educate the aspiring farmer on the essential building blocks of starting a Workshops begin March 2012. Contact Bridget new farm enterprise and the network of existing Alexander at [email protected] services.

FARMERS’ MARKET MEMBERS The following 2011 SEMAP Member Farmers’ Markets are listed by town. You can find more area markets through the Online Farm Guide at www.semaponline.org.

Attleboro Farmers’ Market Middleboro Farmers’ Market Plymouth Farmers’ Market Saturday 8am–1pm Saturday 9am-1pm – Two Locations July 2 – October 29 June 11 – October 29 Thursday 2:30-6:30pm 74 North Main Street, Attleboro, MA Town Hall Lawn, 10 Nickerson Avenue, June 16 – October 27 www.attleborofarmersmarket.com Middleboro, MA Stephen’s Field, 132R Sandwich Street, (508) 866-2428 Plymouth, MA Braintree Farmers’ Market and Saturday 9am-1pm North Attleborough / Farmers’ Market at Saturday 9:30am-1:30pm June 11 – October 29 Attleboro Farms June 18 – October 29 Town Hall, 1 JFK Memorial Drive, Braintree, MA Sunday 12pm-4pm Courthouse Green, Court & Russell Streets, www.sustainablebraintree.org Open year round Plymouth, MA 491 Hickory Road, North Attleborough, MA www.plymouthfarmersmarket.org Carver Farmers’ Market www.attleborofarms.com Sunday 12pm-4pm Plymouth Local Foods Winter Market June 12 – October 30 North Easton Farmers’ Market Second Thursday of each month, 2:30-6:30pm Shurtleff Park, 108 Main Street, Carver, MA – Two Days December – April www.carverfarmersmarket.org Tuesday 2-6pm & Saturday 10am-2pm Plimoth Plantation, 137 Warren Avenue, May 21 – October 29 Plymouth, MA Falmouth / Green Harvest Organic Sheep Pasture, 261R Main Street, www.plymouthfarmersmarket.org Farmers’ Market North Easton, MA Tuesday 12pm-6pm www.nrtofeaston.org Scituate Farmers’ Market June 11 – November 11 (except July 19) Wednesday 3-7pm Barnstable Fair Grounds, 1220 Nathan Ellis Pembroke Farmers’ Market June 15 – October 26 Highway (Route 151), East Falmouth, MA Saturday 9am–12pm. 7 Henry Turner Bailey Road, North Scituate, MA [email protected] July 9 – October 1 www.scituatefarmersmarket.com Town Green, 100 Center Street, Pembroke, MA Marshfield Farmers’ Market www.pembrokefarmersmarket.org Stone Bridge Farm – Saturday Market Friday 2–6pm Saturdays 10am-2pm June 3 – October 14 Starting July 9 Winter Market last Saturday of each month, 186 Leonard Street, Acushnet, MA November through May, 9am-12pm. www.stonebridgefarmevents.com Marshfield Fairgrounds, 140 Main Street, Marshfield, MA www.marshfieldfair.org

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S I 9 8 Award-winning tomatoes, N C E 1 8 fresh local produce, herbs, flowers and locally made products. Farm Stand benefits people with A Small Family Farm disabilities across Cape Cod. seasonal local produce Open daily 10am to 6pm. fresh eggs, milk & bread talking barnyard animals “Best Farm Stand” — Cape Cod Life 2009 Editor’s Choice 1213 Russells Mills Road Dartmouth, MA 02748 458 Main St. • Rte. 6A • Dennis, MA 774-264-075 5 (508)385-2538 • www.CapeAbilities.org

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Reach for pure pancakes maple syrup from Massachusetts to use for all your cooking needs. This versatile, natural, healthier sweetener is made in the place that you love by farmers who care. Pick up your supply fresh from your local sugarmaker. Find one near you — and recipes! — at www.massmaple.org.

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Every Wednesday Rain or Shine! June 15th - October 26th 3pm - 7pm North Scituate Village 7 Henry Turner Bailey Road (corner of Henry Turner Bailey Road & Country Way) www.scituatefarmersmarket.com Produce • Seafood • Meat • Cheeses • Eggs Baked Goods • Chocolates • Flowers • And More!

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Community Member Levels & Food Shed - $1000 Tomato Approved Business Annual Benefits: • All the benefits at the Farm level plus: Identify your business as a supporter of • Two tickets to SEMAP’s Farm to Table Dinner local agriculture! Knife & Fork - $40 • Buy Fresh Buy Local® bumper sticker Tomato Approved Business • Subscription to SEMAP’s E-newsletters Farm & Business Memberships: Membership - $150 • 10% off Workshops/Speakers • Must verify use of local farms and/or locally • Invitation to Annual Meeting Farm Member & Annual Benefit s produced value-added products • Acknowledgement in SEMAP’s Annual Report Farm Membership - $75 (Contract Required) • Buy Fresh Buy Local® Marketing Kit • Buy Fresh Buy Local® Marketing Kit Kitchen Table - $75 (use contract required) (use contract required) • All the benefits at the Knife & Fork level plus: ~ 2 Buy Fresh Buy Local Southeastern • 10% off advertising & merchandise • A copy of SEMAP’s Local Food Guide mailed Massachusetts (BFBL) • Listing on SEMAP’s website to your home Posters, 20 BFBL Pop Cards, 20 BFBL • Listing in Local Food Guide Bumper Stickers, 500 Small BFBL Stickers • Invitation to Grower/Buyer Annual Networking Crop - $250 (0.5” h x 1.5” w), 20 SEMAP Bumper Stickers Event & Annual Meeting • All the benefits at the Kitchen Table level plus: • 10% off Advertising, Merchandise & Workshops/ • Advance invitation to SEMAP’s Farm to Table Dinner • 10% Discount on SEMAP merchandise Speakers • Advance notice of sponsorship opportunities • Listing on SEMAP’s website • Acknowledgement in SEMAP’s Annual Report Farm - $500 • Listing in Local Food Guide • All the benefits at the Crop level plus: • Invitation to Grower/Buyer Annual Networking • Subscription to edible Cape Cod or edible Event & Annual Meeting South Shore • Advance invitation to SEMAP’s Farm to Table • Advance invitation to SEMAP’s Farm to Table Dinner & 30% discount on two tickets for Dinner your farm

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