Monthly Archives: July 2019

Farm Share Recipes

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Love the Farm Share but don’t know how to cook your veggies? Don’t want to cook the same recipes over and over?

3 Tips to Utilizing Your Farm Share Contents

  1. Make juice for smoothies
    Don’t always know what to do with your veggies? Hate beets but love their nutrients? Juice em’! Juicing is an effective way to extract nutrients from veggies without having to make a dish with the vegetable. Add your juice to a smoothie or drink straight to utilize your veggies quickly!.
  2. Experiment with veggie noodles
    Veggie noodles are easy to make and taste delicious! Try spiraling your zucchinis with a spiraling tool to make your pasta dishes lighter and more nutritious. Spiraling tools are simple and don’t have to be expensive. I got my hand held spiral tool for under $5.
  3. Add veggies to simple dishes
    Adding veggies to dishes you wouldn’t normally is the key to using them all. Add extra scallions to an omelette, or to guacamole. Add your leafy greens to a smoothie. Make salsa, and more!

Discover a variety on our recipes page.

Welcome!

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Welcome to the blog for the UMass Lowell & Mill City Grows Farm Share Program!

UMass Lowell is committed to climate neutrality as an institution and is a leader in sustainable education, research and innovation. Sustainability is a core commitment in the University’s comprehensive strategy to manage growth and respond to societal needs. As a result, UMass Lowell has seen a dramatic transformation that has generated impressive results and woven sustainability into every aspect of campus life.

Mill City Grows is a non-profit organization that fosters food justice by improving physical health, economic independence, and environmental sustainability in Lowell through increased access to land, locally-grown food and education.

Together we have formed the UMass Lowell & Mill City Grows Farm Share Program. Our program aims to provide the UMass Lowell community with locally-grown, farm-fresh produce that promotes sustainable urban agriculture food systems and ensures community benefit. As a result, the UMass Lowell community will have the opportunity to receive a variety of organically-grown produce weekly that is packed with vitamins, nutrients, antioxidants, and fiber while supporting urban food systems.

By combining our expertise, it qualifies our on campus Urban Agriculture site to be designated as a working farm and allows us to start over 40,000 seedlings in the campus greenhouse per year. Our partnership not only provides food for not only the Farm Share, but also to the community of Lowell.

Here we will be posting healthy recipes that use the produce members receive in their bins, photos of events throughout the season, weekly veg posts, farm updates, and more!

Learn more on the UMass Lowell Office of Sustainability Website.