Why Eating with the Seasons Matters (And What’s Fresh Now!)

In a world where you can get strawberries in January and pumpkins in July, we’ve lost a bit of the “magic” of the harvest. At Brookeside Farm, we believe that food tastes better when it grows the way nature intended.

The Benefits of Eating Seasonally:

• Peak Flavor: Have you ever noticed how a vine-ripened tomato in August tastes like sunshine? That’s because it wasn’t picked green to survive a 2,000-mile truck ride.
• Nutrient Density: Plants lose nutrients as soon as they are harvested. By buying local, the time from “field to fork” is cut from weeks to hours.
• Supporting Biodiversity: Seasonal farming encourages us to grow a wider variety of crops, which keeps our soil healthy and our bees happy.