Farming for the long haul! Siena Farms, a seventy-acre market farm growing fresh produce for farmers’ markets, restaurants, and a 750-member CSA community, is nestled in the fertile soils of the Sudbury River valley just twenty-five miles west of Boston.
We use farm organically, using sustainable practices, without chemical herbicides, pesticides, fungicides, or fertilizers. Our year-round in-town farm store, Siena Farms South End, brings fresh produce to the city year-round. Come by for our veggies & eggs, Sofra baked goods, and other regional New England products.
Operating as usual
There’s a point in every season where I think, “this is the best time of year for farm veggies.” And here I am, again, proclaiming that right now is THE BEST time of year for local produce!
Tell us your favorite autumn veggie in the comments! Mine is Kabocha Squash… or maybe cauliflower… or red cabbage? So hard to pick just one! 😋
Soon to be popcorn! 🍿
First bulk harvest of the season is in the books! The team brought back all of the sunshine kabocha squash yesterday from our fields in Sterling. Can’t wait to eat these!! They are the perfect squash for pumpkin pie 😋
We’ve been seeing some visitors on the farm lately! The monarch butterflies are making their annual autumn appearance on their migration south.
Farming is really hard work (in case you didn’t know), but it’s rewarding in so many ways. One of the best things about doing this job is the people who are doing it with us. The crew this year has been incredible, and I honestly can’t say enough kind words about them. From their collective overwhelming positivity, to their silliness and giggles, and their unmatched productivity— these people make the job so fun.
So many good times with this fantastic group of people!
Friends! We are launching our Four-Season Apprenticeship this fall!
The apprenticeship is geared toward educating new farmers on year-round farming in New England.
With SIX new greenhouses currently under construction, the winter and spring seasons of the apprenticeship will focus on greenhouse production, and include our crop planning process.
We are now taking applications for start dates between October and January. The Four-Season Apprenticeship will go through November 2023.
Check out the job listing on our website, and email [email protected] to apply!
It’s the last week of our sunflower share 🌻
The crew is having a great time during our last sunflower pack!
Found this little guy trying to blend in out in the fields yesterday.
Today was the first fresh baby ginger harvest of the season! Grown by our specialty crops manager Mishreky, this crop is wonderfully floral, sweet, and tender.
Be sure to pick some up at either of our two retail stores tomorrow!
Early morning here on the farm to capture the sunrise over the fields ☀️
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Cultivating our sunflowers 🌻 last week- back when we were pleading with the weather to give us some rainy days 🌧
The sunnies (and all the other crops) are drinking it up today!
We heard we missed National dog day… but around here every day is for the pups! These two are best pals and A LOT of fun to have around the farm 🐶 🧑🏻🌾
Assistant Harvest Manager Ryan getting the scallions all cleaned up for the first day of the Autumn CSA season!
Our tomato shares all prepped and ready for our tomato loving CSA customers!
What have you been cookin up with all of your tomatoes?
Feeling ready for fall with these beauties! Autumn CSA farm shares are nearly here 🍂 Todays the last day to sign up to start next week!
Tomatoes for days! Wouldn’t have it any other way 😋
Anyone else out there eating tomatoes for every meal and LOVING it?? 🍅🍽
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We’re hiring farm apprentices for the upcoming autumn season 👩🏻🌾 Join this fantastic crew of farmers for some hard work, a whole lot of fun, and a lot of learning!
Check out the job description on our website, and email [email protected] to apply!
Ever heard of a Jimmy Nardello Pepper? These beauties are sweet frying peppers that hail from southern Italy.
We’re growing some new (to us) tomato varieties this year, and brought back our favorites from last year.
Here we have:
Moonglow (orange heirloom)
Berkeley Tie-Dye (green and red striped)
Japanese Black Trifele (pear shaped with green streaked shoulders)
Brandywine (large pink-ish heirloom)
Have you ever seen an 8’ wall of tomatoes?
The crew tackled another huge tomato harvest this morning! Can’t wait to share all of these with you! 🍅
First week of our corn & fruit share is underway! 🌽 🍑 🍎
I think it’s safe to say tomato season has officially begun! 🍅
We just finished our first big harvest of the season, and we’re pretty excited to try a few new varieties this year. Our tomato share begins the week of Aug. 8th!
Tell us your fav tomato variety in the comments!
I think it’s safe to say tomato season has officially begun! 🍅
We just finished our first big harvest of the season, and we’re pretty excited to try a few new varieties this year. Our tomato share begins the week of Aug. 8th!
Tell us your fav tomato variety in the comments!
Farm Manager Mike & Production Manager Jeffrey discussing yesterday’s garlic harvest.
Over the past two weeks the team has brought in around 4 acres of garlic. Now it’s time to hang it all to cure!
Heat Wave Fun Fact: Did you know that anthocyanin — the pigment that gives plants their purple color — acts as a natural sunscreen?
Follow this cabbage’s lead and take a trip to our retail locations to stay out of the heat this week.
These napa cabbages are from our trial plot, and the farm stores will be getting a fresh batch of them on Friday!
We heard that a sunflower a day keeps the doctor away. That’s the saying… right? 🌻
But really, our camera rolls are full of sunflower photos these days. They’re so cheerful!
Our first 2022 tomatoes straight from the field this morning!
So close to tomato season!!!! Tomato share starts the week of Aug. 8, and we still have spots open!
Sunflower season is definitely the most cheerful time of year out here on the farm 🌻
Sunnies are finally here! We are not sure who is more excited, us or the bees.
Sunflower shares are available on our website and we also have bunches of these beautiful blooms in our farm stores starting this week!
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Currently seeding all of our autumn carrots! Twenty beds of orange boleros, and 20 beds of rainbows 🌈 🥕
These seeds get planted directly outside, instead of transplanted after starting in the greenhouse like lots of our other crops. We should see signs of germination in about a week!
We’ve been growing this gorgeous merlot napa cabbage as a trial this season— were loving it so much that we decided to plant more for our CSA! Coming this autumn!
Cabbage transplant in the works 🚜 🌱
It’s been a colorful morning at our farm stores! Check out what our Specialty Crops Manager has been growing for our farm stores & wholesale customers.
Pics 1 & 2: Nasturtium
Pic 3: Shiso
Pic 4: Lu Hsien Amaranth
Pic 5: Merlot Napa Cabbage
Pic 6: Cherry tomatoes (mixed varieties from our high tunnels)
And remember- you can order from our farm stores for delivery online through Mercato!
Our crew just finished the annual garlic scape harvest in our six acre garlic planting!
With a record number of bins filled to the brim, we will be able to include scapes in our CSA shares for the next few weeks!
Amaranth and Thai Basil growing in the greenhouse 🌱
Share your favorite ways to use these in your kitchen in the comments!! 🧑🍳
The yardlong beans are looking good! These are being grown in our retail plot, and will hit our farm stores later this summer ☀️
A lovely day for a bok choy harvest 😋
Share your fav bok choy recipes with us— we’ll be cooking it up all week!
We’re hiring! We’re looking for a couple of people to join our retail team— Assistant Retail Manager and Retail Shift Supervisor positions are now open. Check out all openings on our website, and email your resume & cover letter to [email protected] to apply!
The CSA this week is full of some new veggies! First week for chard, kohlrabi, garlic scapes, and fennel! Can’t believe how amazing the early season had been!
Shop our farm stores online through Mercato! Our team hand-selects every item on your list, so you get our freshest produce delivered to your door. Use code BPM15 for $15 off $75+, valid through 7/4 🥬
Assistant mushroom manager Lyle and mushroom manager Gabe have been working hard over the last few weeks to increase the diversity of our mushroom production. These Blue Oyster and Lion’s Mane mushrooms are looking great!
Check out how we grow our big & bright sunflowers 🌻 with Production Manager Jeffrey! With a cameo by Farm Pup Hank 🐶
And p.s. We still have spots open for our sunflower share! Starts in July!
The eggplants are flowering! Another very good sign that summer veggies are almost here 🌱☀️
Our summer CSA members can be expecting summer squash SOON! Can’t believe how great these are looking!
Our Summer CSA starts next week! It’s not too late to get on the schedule for next week- just sign up today online!
Hundreds and hundreds of chive blossoms ☺️
The fields are overflowing!! There’s still time to join our Summer CSA! Sign up online and start the week of June 6th 🥦
Comment your fav summer veggie! Right now I’m especially loving the broccolini & our crunch newham lettuce 🥬
Did you know we have a Community Sponsored Farm Share program? We partner with and to bring our farm’s fresh veggies to local families facing food insecurity.
We want all of our community members to have equitable access to fresh, healthy, and local produce. So, donate a farm share now through June 1st and we will provide a 50% match donation!
Check it out online! DM & comment any questions 🌞
Counting down the days until these sweet little cherry tomatoes are ready! We still have some openings for our tomato share- sign up on the website!
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Sudbury, MA
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Siena Farms South End Store 106 Waltham St Boston MA 02118 (617) 422-0030 Mon - Fri: 11:00 am - 7:00 pm Sat & Sun: 10:00 pm - 6:00 pm Boston Public Market Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway side 100 Hanover St. Boston, MA 02108 (978) 793-7305 Mon - Sat: 8 am - 8 pm Sun: 10 am - 6 pm Copley Farmers Market Along St. James Avenue, Dartmouth Street & Boylston Street 139 St. James Ave Boston, MA 02116 Tuesday and Friday 11:00 am to 6:00 pm 5/12/2017 through 11/21/2017
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Check out how we grow our big & bright sunflowers 🌻 with Production Manager Jeffrey! With a cameo by Farm Pup Hank 🐶 And p.s. We still have spots open for our sunflower share! Starts in July! #sienafarms #csa #sienafarmscsa #flowerfarmer
Signups for the last 3 weeks of our spring share are still open!! Sign up today to get your veggies next week 😊 🎥 @dozavisuals
Finally learning how to use this drone! Got part of the harvest crew & Farmer Chris 🧑🏻🌾 in action during our first spinach harvest of the season! 🌱 #sienafarms #csa #sienafarmscsa #dronephotography
Our first lettuce planting of 2022- transplanting onto plastic row cover 🚜 🌱 Remember last week’s spading video? We’re back at the same field to form beds, lay plastic row cover, and transplant lettuce! Production Manager Jeffrey walks us through the process, explaining why we use the row cover (it’s biodegradable and adds carbon back into the soil, btw!) and how the water wheel implement is used to plant the lettuce. #sienafarms #sienafarmscsa #communitysupportedagriculture
Tulip bunches are available online now to add on for CSA pickup tomorrow! https://sienafarms.com/products/spring-tulip-bunch And no, you don’t have to be a CSA member to order the tulip add-on! Just select which Thursday pickup location works best for you at checkout, and we’ll handle the rest 🌷 p.s. did you know that tulips open and close their petals throughout the day? The flowers are responsive to sunlight and temp changes— this one opened up under the desk lamp in about a half hour, but will close back up this evening!
Almost ready for our first planting! These plants moved out of the greenhouse and are hardening off in protected spaces outside. The move is a really important step to make sure all these plants survive transplant! Hardening off promotes cold tolerance in the cell structure of the plants, and limits growth above the soil to help grow a stronger root system below the soil 🌱 #sienafarmscsa #sienafarms #csa #communitysupportedagriculture
Our greenhouse is full to the brim! Over the next couple of weeks our farmers will be busy prepping the fields so they are transplant ready. Once all of these flats are cleared out and planted in the fields, another round of seeding will begin! #sienafarms #sienafarmscsa #communitysupportedagriculture
Our rolling high tunnels in action! We’re exposing our over wintered kale to the spring temps, and finally ready to start our early-season tomatoes inside the high tunnels! #sienafarms #csa #communitysupportedagriculture #sienafarmscsa
It’s finally here! Introducing the Siena Farms’ Dahlia Share, now available online 🌸 just in time for Valentines Day 💕 Enjoy our beautiful blooms for four weeks, beginning this September. Check out our website for more info, and act fast— availability is limited! #sienafarms #communitysupportedagriculture #csa #sienafarmscsa #flowerfarmerama
Last chance to save 5% on all 2022 farm shares! Choose from lots of veggie share options, our Mushroom Lover’s share, the Corn & Fruit Share, and more! Sale ends tonight at midnight! 📸 @dozavisuals #communitysupportedagriculture #csa #sienafarms #sienafarmscsa
Does it get any more satisfying than bulk harvesting cabbage? Temps are dipping into the low 20’s tonight, so the crew is working extra hard to get the last of our purple cabbage in today!
Slow and steady garlic planting 🧄 the crew is still hard at work getting all these split cloves into the ground!
Last chance to save 20% on 2022 farm shares— order by midnight tonight for our biggest savings!
Greenhouses on the MOVE! Last winter, we applied for a food security infrastructure grant, and received funds to build these rolling greenhouses to extend our season. We’ll be planting kale under these soon, and we’ll see how it goes! 🥬
Diggin’ for potato gold! 🥔
Well someone loves collards!! Our first-ever Farm Pup share starts next week — we have some fun treats lined up from @polkadogbakery and a ton of yummy veggies to supplement your pup’s healthy diet, while also limiting food waste. Learn more at sienafarms.com/CSA! 🐶
Making sunflower bouquets is pretty idyllic! 🌻 Head to our farm stores this weekend to grab a bunch (and stock up on veggies for the hurricane?!)
Well, this just makes us happy 🌻 Some Monday morning peace for you, by @dozavisuals!
Last Thursday was our annual garlic harvest! 🧄 This is always a special one: garlic is one of the few crops that follows us all throughout the year — from green garlic in the spring, to curly garlic scapes in the early summer, to sweet, sticky fresh garlic in July, and cured bulbs throughout the fall and winter. Every July we harvest all of our garlic bulbs and tie them to the rafters of the greenhouse, where they are left to air dry and cure. Over the next few months, we’ll sort through these bulbs, saving the largest ones as seed for our crop for next year, planted in the ground around Halloween-time. The following spring, the cycle begins again! Enjoy this video by @dozavisuals and some shots in our stories for this delicious annual harvest. And, enjoy the fresh garlic in your boxes this week!
Getting those summer carrots squeaky clean for CSA! 🥕
The first summer carrots are in this week’s CSA!! They’ve already sized up a bunch from a few weeks ago, and will have their beautiful greens attached for all your pesto and chimichurri needs 🥕
Annual garlic harvest (one of our faves) is just a week or so away!! Meantime, we’ll enjoy garlic scapes in the CSA this week, and then onto the first few fresh, sticky, sweet garlic bulbs next 🧄 📸 @dozavisuals
Prepping ground for our third tomato planting 🍅 This tractor implement allows us to spade, side dress, bed form, bury drip tape, and lay plastic all at once. Check, check, and check! ✅
Our lettuce and radicchio chopper this morning 💪🏼 first harvest for our summer CSA starting next week!!
Breaking ground on a new field just in time for a new season! Summer farm shares start NEXT WEEK — sign up by end of day today to start right away! ☀️🥬🍅🥒🌶🥕
Register today for Summer CSA Farm Shares starting June 7th! Choose pickup or home delivery throughout Eastern MA, including Cape Cod and North Shore — customize delivery schedule and locations around summer travel and vacations! More info and registration at sienafarms.com.
Growing award winning tomatoes takes some hard work! 🏆 🍅 After germination, we transpot our tomato starts by hand to give them more room to grow before they get transplanted into the field.
Beautiful day for transplanting! 🌞 Busy production schedule this week to get everything in the ground. Here Michael and Mika are hand-planting some barbarella eggplant 😋
When the hose won’t reach, you get creative... 🚿🤷🏻♀️🌱 it worked!
Cherriette radishes getting nice and shiny 😍 We love these in salads, roasted, or sliced thinly on bread (especially @iggysbakery loaves) with butter and salt. How do you like to eat your spring radishes??
Siena Farms, a fifty-acre market farm growing fresh produce for farmers’ markets, restaurants, and a 500-member CSA community, is nestled in the fertile soils of the Sudbury River valley just twenty-five miles west of Boston. Although not certified organic, we use sustainable practices, without chemical herbicides, pesticides, fungicides, or fertilizers. Our year-round in-town farm stores, Siena Farms South End and Siena Farms Boston Public Market, bring fresh produce to the city year-round. Come by for our veggies and other regional conscientiously sourced New England products.
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