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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!

Posted on November 23rd, 2020 by Daybreak Growers Alliance
 
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 FARM
MONROE, MAINE
 
We 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:
    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 March
On 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