If you think it’s too late to join a CSA, think again.

Every year, I miss out on the CSAs because by the time I get around to thinking about joining, they are all filled up. This year, a wonderful local farm is bringing delightful produce to all the procrastinators out there. Delivered right to your door, even! There’s no excuse not to join this year.
By popular demand, Silverbrook Farm is offering a new CSA in the Cambridge/ Somerville Area. Silverbrook is a family-owned farm on the SouthCoast of Massachusetts, providing organically grown, conventional and Certified Organic produce to CSA members. It’s a beautiful place to visit if you’re in the Dartmouth/Westport area - also a gorgeous place to ride your bike! However, if you’re sitting infront of a computer, there are lots of great pictures on their website.

This CSA is a seven farm collaborative providing 20 weeks of produce, fruit, vegetables, bread and other farm products. Your share will be delivered to your door at your home or office by NAP’s pedal-powered trucks.

Click here to join!

Post questions / comments here or contact us for more information.

Exciting news today. We now have an article in the Christian Science Monitor!

Thanks a ton to Mark Clayton and the rest of the CSM staff for taking the time to come down and see what we’re about. There’s a few great shots of Wenzday in action, holding armfuls of cheese and chocolate. Let me say that again. Armfuls of cheese and chocolate. Do we have great jobs or what?

Now that you’re hungry, you should also be sure to see the people who make those armfuls. Taza Chocolate and Fiore DiNonno both recently started up with us, so we’d love you to check them out. They’re great local companies that make delicious stuff, and supporting them supports us. And your taste buds.

On another note, it’s a beautiful day. Go eat some cheese and chocolate, then burn it off on your bike. Everyone wins! 

We need some information from customers as we develop our delivery service with Harvest Co-op. We have a poll that you can take, which will give us some simple feedback!

Its short, easy, and you will help us to build a better service for you.

Thanks, and have a great day!

Hello all-

Welcome to the New Amsterdam Project’s new website and blog.

We are excited for the opportunity to keep you in touch with Project developments, ideas, and projects. It will also be a great place to hear feedback from readers, so don’t be shy with comments!

At the moment we’re busily developing new relationships with organizations in the Boston-metro area, and I’m excited to share information about our developing opportunity with Harvest Co-op. Harvest has two locations centrally located in Jamaica Plain and Cambridge, and both have good pedestrian, bike, and public transportation access.

Here’s where N.A.P. comes in: we want to deliver your groceries from the store to your house. I know there have been plenty of times when I’ve gone a little crazy in the bulk section and then had to lug it all the way home. N.A.P. is developing a delivery option for Harvest that will enable shoppers to arrive, find purchases, and after paying for them they will be collected at Harvest until delivery time. Then (kind of by magic) N.A.P. will transport groceries to your house!

Our electric-assist tricycles can carry up to 800 pounds of cargo, so don’t worry about buying too much. Its a great way to get your groceries home without a carbon footprint or back strain.

We need feedback from customers: when you shop, when would you like groceries delivered, and any questions or comments.

We will begin delivering from the Cambridge store (JP we love you too, and we’re looking to expand in your direction).

Come meet us at the Cambridge store! We will be tabling at Harvest in Cambridge during the coming week. Come chat with us, check out a trike in person, and help us move towards a more pedal-powered future.

Cheers!

“Radio Netherlands” did a story about New Amsterdam Project that is being broadcast worldwide.

http://www.wereldomroep.nl/actua/regio/amerikas/080317_vs_fietsen

There is a video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am3CeGutnaA

Why New Amsterdam?

New Amsterdam is what we were. New Amsterdam is what we can become. New
Amsterdam can be American cities that are strong, cohesive, clean, safe,
healthy, and vibrant. New Amsterdam can mean movement that is mindful,
fun, sensible, clean, healthy, and constructive. New Amsterdam can refer
to a movement to establish and sustain healthy movement. New Amsterdam
can mean energy independence. New Amsterdam can mean reversing the need
for self-destructive foreign engagements predicated on the need for oil.
New Amsterdam can mean cultivating the health and virtue of our people.
New Amsterdam was our past. New Amsterdam can be our future.
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