The farms are delivering gorgeous summer produce for your boxes! This is the time of year to savor the flavors, customize your box to include all your favorites and complete your summer menus. Whether you're grilling, stir frying, roasting or making salads, shopping Daybreak provides you with fresh, local, delicious, nutritious, responsibly produced options for tofu, cheese, meats, chicken, fish, grains, and more to round out your meals! Enjoy the summer goodness.
New Products Available:
Abraham's Creamery Goat Cheese. Abraham's is a small family farm from Newport, ME.
Seafood. True Fin buys directly from Gulf of Maine fishermen to provide top quality, fully traceable seafood that is good for our customers, the ocean and coastal communities.
Look for more on these two new producers next week!
From our Deer Isle coffee roaster friends 44 North, Las Diosas Nicaragua variety available for a limited time.
Las Diosas (The Goddesses) is a cooperative organized and run by women in the Managua region of Nicaragua. The Coop consists of four smaller cooperatives, each managed by its own directive (female Board of Directors). Fiercely independent and determined to succeed in the coffee industry, the 250-member cooperative has made much progress since their founding in 1996, both in terms of sustainable commercial relations for their coffee sales as well as the promotion of issues such as women’s education, housing and health.
Las Diosas is a dynamic network of community based cooperatives run by women and supporting true development and respect for women’s rights. The cooperative describes itself as an “organization that promotes the autonomy and empowerment of rural women: that have decision-making power over their bodies, their desires, their sexuality, their opinions, the way of organizing themselves, as well as control over economic and financial goods.” Part of their goal is a food sovereignty project to promote organic farming through the production of native seeds and biointensive crops on their small plots of land.
44 North’s commitment to purchase this great coffee from Las Diosas will help secure local, organic and sustainable food security and farming practices to support their families and sustain their coop.
Tasting notes: wildflower honey & vanilla shortbread; Roast level: Light; Location: Woman owned and run coffee cooperative in the Managua region of Nicaragua; Latitude = 12º North
Update from South Paw Farm
We've been keeping up with summer from our hilltop here in Freedom with the first big hauls of hard-won tomatoes, tender baby summer squash, fresh-to-death garlic bulbs, hot peppers, and even some beets under our belts. We're in love with our crew of sweet, collaborative, veggie farmin' experts: apart from Meg, Ryan, and Lyra, it's Santi, Mike, Michaela, Anna, Page, Danny, and Kelsey rounding out this peak-season labor load. We're continuing our work of serious record-keeping and research for climate change adaptation, and the quest for biodegradable non-plastic packaging continues, with some promising progress: biodegradable clear clamshells for our tomatoes (see photo), and biodegradable netting for incoming root crops. Other than that, it's a lot of snuggling dogs, Taylor Swift re-recordings, and making sure to take time to swim with family and friends.
