Spend your Winter With Daybreak!Sign up for your winter shares now.WINTER BOUNTY SHARES: $36/bi-weekly. A mixture of winter hardy greens and storage vegetables, on average 7-8 per delivery. These shares also offer a wide array of unique pantry items and produce preserved from the height of the growing season to compliment your veggies, like local dried beans for hearty soups and stews, canned tomatoes and salsa or local cornmeal to make a quick bread and warm up your winter kitchen. Designed for two adults or a small family. $18 per week, delivered two weeks at a time January through May.
We also will continue to have our Meat Shares, and Add on Shares including cheese, eggs, yogurt, bagels and more! This winter we will also offer a wide array of extra items you can add to your share to allow you to do as much one stop shopping for your groceries as possible.
AUTO RENEW: If you haven't turned off auto-renew in your member profile you will be automatically renewed for our Winter Bounty Shares if you have a Local 25 share or Family Bounty. Your account will be charged $36 bi-weekly ($18/week). If you have questions or need help turning off auto-renew please let us know.
Do you currently have a Family Bounty Share and want to make sure you get enough veggies through the winter? Sign up for a Winter Bounty and then select additional produce from our weekly selection of Extra's or sign up to receive two Winter Bounty Shares.
Have questions about our Winter Shares? Please Contact us at farmers@daybreakgrowersalliance.com or check out our website www.daybreakgrowersalliance.com for more info.
APPLES FROM TELTANE FARMMONROE, MAINEWe are happy to be offering some unique specialty apples from Teltane Farm in Monroe again this early winter! Mark and Paula Fulford are some amazing farmers and orchardist. They specialize in varieties best suited to our climate and those that thrive without the use of conventional pesticides. The quality and flavor of their apples is attributed to their dedicated work to provide the most nutrient dense quality fruit through using an array of natural and organic minerals and foliar applications. We will be selling half peck bags of some of their best varieties over the coming month. Get them while we have them in stock!Teltane Farm Apple Varieties:
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Farm Happenings: Week of 11/30 Winter Bounty Share Sign up right around the corner! Great specialty apples available from Teltane Farm!
Baldwin
1740 Massachusetts , considered New England’s premier red winter apple for more than a century until a deep freezing cold snap in 1933 and 1934 killed or damaged most of upper New England and New York State's considerable Baldwin orchards. Richly flavored rustic red over medium to light green background , sometimes fully red. tart & sweet. Excellent for all apple uses . Keeps well into February
Vartanian Lightning
1952 southern New Hampshire a mutation in a Baldwin orchard that has developed a long following ever since its unusual qualities were recognized, quite sweet, slightly dryer flesh helps make this the longest storing apple in our orchard. Well into May, can still serve as a cooking or drying apple. Best desert quality is November through MarchOn long hot years like this one, 'Lightning’, develops a very sweet honey like core where the flesh is flooded with extra nectar.
Black Oxford
1864 Oxford County Maine.
Very late maturing fruits are very dense, unusually flavored flesh. Becomes almost fully covered with a dusky, purply black, slightly speckled skin. Beautiful variety almost free of disease.
One of Maine's most noteworthy original apples for all around use. Desert, cider, drying long storage int March
About the farm
We are a collection of small Maine farmers who believe that we are stronger and more resilient working together to provide our communities with local organic food. We are passionate about growing a vibrant Maine food economy and getting more local food onto Maine families tables.
Our farms are located in the rich agricultural landscape of Waldo and Kennebec counties, all offering our unique contributions to Daybreak’s Farm Box Subscription to create a well balanced and nutritious array in your families farm box each week. All our vegetables are from farms Certified Organic by MOFGA, and we offer a variety of Local and Organic options for Meat, Fruit, Dairy, Bread and Flower Add-ons. Our subscription is offered year round in two season sign up periods (Jun-Dec & Jan-May) to allow you to tailor the needs of your family to our subscription seasons and pay as you go throughout the year.
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Our farms are located in the rich agricultural landscape of Waldo and Kennebec counties, all offering our unique contributions to Daybreak’s Farm Box Subscription to create a well balanced and nutritious array in your families farm box each week. All our vegetables are from farms Certified Organic by MOFGA, and we offer a variety of Local and Organic options for Meat, Fruit, Dairy, Bread and Flower Add-ons. Our subscription is offered year round in two season sign up periods (Jun-Dec & Jan-May) to allow you to tailor the needs of your family to our subscription seasons and pay as you go throughout the year.