Boston Food Hub

09/17/2026

September is the critical time of year for an oft-overlooked product: seconds-grade tomatoes. These tomatoes come from the same plants as any other tomato, but have minor cracks, blemishes, or overripeness. Despite these minor imperfections, there is still so much utility that these tomatoes hold.

Tomato seconds are perfect for processing and preserving the season’s harvest, and can be purchased at a lower price point than their first-rate counterparts. For farmers, tomato seconds are an important way to get the most out of their crops, and generate a whole other revenue stream for such a high-expenditure plant.

Imperfect produce like tomato seconds are much more than just a second-rate crop, but a distinct product with an important role in building resiliency in our local food system 🍅

07/24/2026

We were excited to welcome our friends at Boston University Dining to Boston Food Hub this week! While campus activity quiets down, the summer months are a perfect time for dining teams to visit our Food Hub operation and meet our team.

Having face-to-face exposure with customers creates intangible, albeit huge benefits to the function of our work and we always welcome the opportunity to share our space with our partners.

Thank you BU Dining Services for your dedication to sustainability and local procurement!

07/17/2026

07/09/2026

We get a little more giddy with every new summer crop that reaches our availability list, but nothing gets us going more than MA-grown corn! For the first time this season we have sweet corn grown by the fine folks at Warner Farm . Local corn is such a different experience than its less-fresh, shipped-in counterparts—sweet, juicy, and begging to be eaten fresh without a pot of boiling water in sight.

Wanna learn more about the farm cultivating the cobs? Check out their little bio below!

Warner Farm is proud to be one of the oldest and longest-running family farms in New England. Nestled in the shadow of Mount Sugarloaf since 1718, Mike and David Wissermann continue a tenth-generation legacy across 150 acres of flat, fertile land. We love to highlight their supersweet strawberries, addictingly-snackable green beans, and (of course) their bushels and bushels of sweet corn. The farm site is also home to Mike’s Maze, an eight-acre corn maze that attracts over 8,000 visitors to the farm each year.

05/21/2026

On the road again with the BFH crew!

As a local food hub, we highly value meeting our farmers in-person before the growing season picks up. On a recent excursion, members of the Food Hub team ventured out to these three farms in the Pioneer Valley: Kitchen Garden Farm, Mycoterra Farm, and Warner Farm.

🌶️ Kitchen Garden Farm 🌶️ is a certified organic operation in Sunderland specializing in mixed vegetables of all sorts, from spicy greens to sweet peppers. We scoped out the brassicas field and greens harvester with co-owner Lilly!

🍄 Mycoterra Farm 🍄 is our purveyor of fresh and dried mushrooms. Owner Julia Coffey, trained under well-revered mycologist Paul Stamets, showed us every step of the delicate process of cultivating mushrooms from spore.

🍓Warner Farm 🍓, located in the shadow of Mount Sugarloaf in Sunderland, prioritizes fruit and corn cultivation, while also providing an array of other veggies. It was a joy to be able to complement farmer Lacey and the team on the sweetness of their green beans, and we’ll be back in the fall for their much-loved corn maze!!

05/08/2026

🚨This is not a drill! Asparagus season is here! 🚨

This much-loved local veggie is exceptionally well-adapted to the cool climate and nutrient-rich soils of the Pioneer Valley, rendering it super sweet and crisp. For over a century, Massachusetts farmers have taken huge pride in these harvests, and we are thrilled to extend that pride to our customers across Boston.

Wanna sharpen your knowledge about these tasty spears? Check out these facts:

👉 The epicenter of Massachusetts asparagus production is in Hadley, a small town in Western part of the State. Called “Hadley Grass” by locals, this crop is so important to the town that residents are currently working to make it the official State vegetable!

👉 Among the many Massachusetts Asparagus fanatics was Queen Elizabeth II, who had it shipped across the Atlantic in for her annual Spring feast at Buckingham palace!

👉 In the 1970s, fusarium bacteria caused a near-collapse of the asparagus industry in Massachusetts. With new disease-resistant cultivars in the late 20th century, asparagus production has now been slowly climbing back over the past decades.

04/13/2026

💚Welcome to peak greens season at BFH💚

Now that we seem to be on the other side of the particularly cold winter we had this year, sunnier days and warmer temps are generating some huge harvests of spinach, arugula, and other leafy greens for farmers in Massachusetts right now. Not only are greenhouse-grown plantings thriving, but we are also witnessing our first outdoor greens harvests too. With this abundance of greens, we’ve been able to offer a wider supply on our availability list, and at our best prices that we’ve had so far this season.

Greens season in the Northeast is always a verdant reminder that so many tasty crops are right around the corner. Our patience all winter will be paying off soon!

03/24/2026

Boston Food Hub’s calendar has been chock full during the final stretch of the cold-weather season! The early spring is peak activity for so many agricultural conferences, farm tours, educational activities, and other networking events before we all become occupied with the mountain of summer produce. Some highlights of this season included:

🥯 Our farmer appreciation brunch, when we co-hosted with Boston Area Gleaners at our shared headquarters at Stonefield Farm to celebrate farmers who supply the Food Hub, and who partner with the Gleaners on the food access front (some farms do both!)

🤝 Site visits to customers and suppliers alike, such as Growing places, Land’s Sake Farm, and Nan’s Kitchen.

📚 Educational events, like tabling with the Nutrition Lab at Braintree High School with other local food advocates at the Farm & Sea To School Conference.

All of these activities are far from superficial, but in fact vital for a connected, responsive, and thriving Food Hub and we’re thankful for the opportunities.

03/04/2026

Fresh, local produce that’s also cost-effective is a key component of our work at Boston Food Hub. We partner with several food access and nonprofit organizations that are able to take advantage of some of these offerings to provide for food insecure communities.

Two great examples of these organizations are Community Servings and Fresh Truck. Community Servings prepares medically-tailored, ready-to-eat meals for chronically and critically ill individuals and their families. Fresh Truck organizes weekly mobile markets that serve areas of Boston with limited access to fresh produce.

By leveraging the variety and accessibility of items on our weekly availability everybody wins—the farmers get a reliable outlet for some of their most-abundant crops, while the customer receives nutritionally dense, high-quality produce at a competitive price point.

If you live in the Boston area, be sure to check out these organizations and even sign up for a volunteer session—we recently volunteered with both and had a great time!

01/15/2026

We are proud to welcome Langwater Farm as a brand-new farm partner at Boston Food Hub! A true powerhouse in the organic vegetable scene in Eastern Massachussetts, Langwater grows a variety of crops across 80 acres in Easton. From their much-loved red slicer tomatoes to their hidden gems like sunchokes, the farmers at Langwater a jack-of-all-trades. Currently on our availability list, you can find their organic beets, daikon radishes, sunchokes and sweet potatoes, but as we enter spring and summer seasons expect to be seeing much more—we can’t wait!