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2821 SEMAP Proof1 2016 Free! SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS LOCAL FOOD GUIDE GROWERS • SEAFOOD SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS BEER, WINE, & SPIRITS AGRICULTURAL GROCERS • RESTAURANTS PARTNERSHIP AND MORE! www.SEMAPonline.org 1 2 SEMAP’S AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITY SNAPSHOT: Over 1,700 farms located on Market value of Value of direct sales to over 108,000 acres across agricultural products consumers = $8,705,000 Bristol, Plymouth, and sold = $157,222,000! (compared to Norfolk counties. $5,065,000 in 2007) BOARD MEMBERS CONTENTS Todd Sandstrum – President, South Shore Great Pumpkin Challenge, Easton Derek Christianson – Vice President, Brix Bounty Farm, Dartmouth Directory Ben Wolbach – Treasurer, Skinny Dip Farm, Westport Growers 4 Kimberly Ferreira – Clerk, Mass in Motion, New Bedford Fred Ames – The Carrot Project, Easton, MA Seafood 18 Wendy Braga – In Bloom Florist, Dartmouth , MA Ashley Brister – Round the Bend Farm, South Dartmouth Beer, Wine, & Spirits 20 Bob Feingold – 24K Heirloom Tomatoes, South Dartmouth Value-Added Producers 22 Sue Guiducci – Bristol County Conservation District, Dartmouth Denise Sheppard – DM Sheppard Consulting, Bridgewater Restaurants & Caterers 24 Andy Tomolonis – The Standard Times, New Bedford Grocers 27 STAFF Service Providers 29 Karen Schwalbe Farmers’ Markets 30 Executive Director [email protected] Why Eat Local? 5 (508) 524- 2601 How to Buy Local 8 Kendra Murray SEMAP Annual Events 9 Program Coordinator [email protected] SEMAP Twilight Workshops 18 Harvest Calendar 32 What is SEMAP? Who’s in the Local Food Guide & How Can I Get My Business Listed? The Southeastern Massachusetts Agricultural Partnership (SEMAP) is dedicated to preserving and expanding access to local food and Our guide is a comprehensive listing of many local farms and food sustainable farming in southeastern Massachusetts through research businesses. SEMAP Members are those that are highlighted. To ensure and education. We truly believe that local agriculture is essential to your business is listed become a member today. the health and vitality of our community and economy. Sustaining farmers and farm businesses are at the core of our mission. We Not a member? Sign up now to be included in our next guide, to be provide technical assistance to farmers, educate the community on published in summer 2017. Visit SEMAPonline.org to learn more about the importance of agriculture, work to increase the functionality of membership and sign up today! our region’s food system, and connect all people to local food. To advertise in this guide contact Karen at We maintain a growing membership of farmers and businesses who [email protected]. use locally grown products; all are included in this guide. You can learn more about public or business membership, our events, or other ways to get involved at www.SEMAPonline.org or emailing Kendra at [email protected]. 3 FS = Farm Stand CSA = Community Supported Agriculture (Farm Shares) PYO = Pick Your Own FF = Family Fun SEMAP Member GROWERS ORLEANS Lanzoni’s BARNSTABLE COUNTY Dry Swamp Bog Farm Maria Lanzoni 36 Robinson Road, Acushnet, MA Vincent Olliver BARNSTABLE (508) 763-8088 22 Great Oak Rd, East Orleans, MA Lanzoni’s in Acushnet utilizes 6 greenhouses Borderbay Junction Farm (508) 728-5085 to grow their own vegetable plants, flowers, www.dsbfarm.com Greg Hamm geraniums and potted plants. The farm stand is Dry Swamp Bog Farm is a small chemical-free farm 120 Buttonwood Ln, West Barnstable, MA open 7 days a week through Oct. 31st, offering a in East Orleans (Massachusetts) operating since (617) 448-6666 wide variety of fresh seasonal vegetables including 1979 offers in season blueberries, cranberries, and www.borderbayjunctionfarm.com lettuce, beets, carrots, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant produce from asparagus to zucchini including a Borderbay offers all natural, free range lamb. and many more! Their pastures are not treated with any chemicals, variety of herbs. fertilizers, or herbicides. The lambs are antibiotic Perry Hill Orchard free and receive no vaccinations of any kind. All John Howcroft lambs are kept with their mothers, milk fed for BRISTOL COUNTY 35 Perry Hill Rd, Acushnet, MA ninety days, after which they graze on pasture (508) 995-6799 bordering The Great Marsh across from Sandy ACUSHNET www.perryhillorchard.com Neck. The sea air deposits small amounts of sea Perry Hill Orchard offers pick your own apples salt on the pasture, giving the lamb a unique flavor. Ashley’s Peaches during the fall season in addition to the farm stand. They also eat wild grape leaves, onion grass, and Ernest & Diane Ventura Starting late summer with the harvest of Georgia Russian olive. Lambs are also given a small amount 1461 Main St, Acushnet, MA and White peaches, Perry Hill also offers a variety of Vermont made grain to round out their diet. (508) 763-4329 of fruits and vegetables that include heirloom Ashley’s Peaches specializes in tree ripened fruits, tomatoes, pumpkins, quince, pears, and squash. picked fresh daily. A variety of homegrown fresh BREWSTER They have homemade jams that are made on the vegetables for sale as well. Please call for availability. Great Cape Herbs farm from all of their own fruits. Also selling pure Stephan Brown honey that is harvested from the farm’s own bee 2624 Main St, Brewster, MA Braley Orchards hives. Apple varieties include: MacIntosh, Macoun, Hillary Braley (508) 896-5900 Honeycrisp, Liberty, Freedom, Cortland, Baldwin, 1189 Main St, Acushnet, MA www.greatcape.com Matsu and Golden Crisp. (508) 991-0693 Organic (non-certified) medicinal herb farm Open 7 days a week, 9 AM to 6 PM. Family owned & and old-fashioned Herbal Apothecary; they Stone Bridge Farm operated farm, growing apples, peaches, pumpkins, make herbal extracts, oils, honeys, vinegars, Scott & Joanne Harding tomatoes, squash, zucchini, cukes, cranberries & salves, sprays etc. from plants they grow on the 186 Leonard St, Acushnet, MA offering corn, jams, jellies, fudge & relishes, as well farm; firewood for campers; Potted medicinal/ (508) 951-1551 as quilts & crafts. ornamental plants available for sale. Open to the www.stonebridgefarmevents.com public year round. Stone Bridge Farm hosts a weekly famers market, Keith’s Farm reopening on June 4, 2016. Stone Bridge will Keith Santos continue offering a “Picture Yourself at a Cranberry 1149 Main St, Acushnet, MA Harvest,” photo opportunity which includes (508) 763-2622 education about the growing and harvesting of Keith’s Farm is a family business and offers a cranberries and a photo of you in chest waders on a wide selection of the best produce and a variety flooded bog with cranberries floating. You must call of berries. In the spring, summer, and fall, the ahead to schedule this as the days book up quickly. farm stand is a showcase for fresh farm-grown Ample off street parking. Pick your own cranberries seasonal fruits, vegetables, and plants. Your family and harvested cranberries are also available in fall will have the freshest, tastiest and highest quality of 2016. vegetables and fruits, harvested daily for the best taste. Keith’s also offers hayrides and pick your own 4 strawberries, apples, and pumpkins. The Silverbrook Farm JJ Pereira 934 Main St, Acushnet, MA WHY EAT LOCAL? (774) 202-1027 You care about You care about the You care about your www.thesilverbrookfarm.com The Silverbrook Farm is a fully operational your HEALTH ENVIRONMENT COMMUNITY and • Local food is fresher and • Local food travels less! agriculture facility serving the Southern New local ECONOMY tastes better than food The average supermarket England Region. Family owned and operated for With each local food purchase, shipped long distances vegetable travels 1500+ nearly two decades, with their famous homemade you ensure that more of your from far states and other miles from farm to table. Pies, Horse Drawn Hayrides, Expanding Produce money spent on food goes to countries. Local farmers offer crop and Livestock Programs, and colorful seasonal • the farmer and, in turn, the Knowing where your food varieties grown for taste Events, Silverbrook Farm is becoming the standard • local economy. comes from and how it is and freshness rather than in traditional products and entertainment. Offering grown or raised enables you shipping and long shelf life. Produce and Meat CSA shares. The Farm Store is to choose safe food from Local farms help to establish open on weekends May through December. • farmers you trust. and maintain healthy ATTLEBORO • Buying local food gets you soils through sustainable outside and keeps you in farming practices such as 2 Friends Farm touch with your neighbors, crop rotation, diverse crop John Irving & Ashley Driscoll the seasons, and the harvest varieties, pasture raised 81 West St, Attleboro, MA calendar. livestock and integrated (508) 455-0532 past management (IPM). www.2friendsfarm.com 2 Friends Farm is a certified organic, nutrition focused farm that’s bringing life-giving wheatgrass BERKLEY between the Taunton River and Assonet Neck. and micro-greens to the surrounding area. 2 The farm has been certified Organic since 2007. Friends is an innovative farm located inside a Chamberlain Farm Heart Beets is currently growing vegetables on historic Attleboro mill building, where unused Bob & Jacqui Chamberlain roughly 2 acres at Kettle Pond Farm. The farm’s space was turned into the finest indoor grow 12 Friend Street, Berkley, MA main objective is to grow the most nutritious food facility. Find 2 Friends’ products in local grocers (508) 880-2817 possible using the best practices. and on top of your favorite dish at many fine dining www.chamberlainfarm.com establishments and catered events. The Chamberlain family has owned and operated DARTMOUTH the farm since 1969. The main crop was, and still is, Attleboro Farms butternut squash. In the mid 90s cranberry bogs 24K Heirloom Tomatoes Bob & Janet Feingold Kris and Deb Kieon were added and more recently they added a beautiful 538 Horseneck Rd, South Dartmouth, MA 491 Hickory Rd, N.
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