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By Katrina Margolis
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Powisset Farm has always been both a place of respite from busy, technology-filled lives, as well as a pillar of the Dover community and an example of the town’s rural nature. Last year, as an experiment, Powisset offered a pop-up café. Due to its success, they brought it back during Springfest, where its popularity led to the farm running out of everything they were selling.
Now, Powisset Farm offers their Café on the first and third Saturday of every month until September. Open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the café is a beautiful and delicious way to enjoy some time on the farm and enjoy its spoils.
“We’re very excited about it,” said D.A. Hayden, General Manager for Charles River Valley. “It takes everything that our farmers are harvesting - that we’re also selling at the farm stand or through the CSAs - and brings those vegetables in and cooking with them, so it really is a farm to table concept.” Hayden, who manages 17 properties, said she loves to come out to Powisset on Saturdays to serve as a sous chef. “It’s a female chef, which is very important because this farm was owned by Amelia Peabody, so we are all about strong women!” she added.
The menu changes each time depending on what has been harvested on the farm. On Saturday, July 14, the café featured a quiche made with garlic and Swiss chard, a flatbread with bok choy and cucumber in a light pickling, topped with fresh cilantro, and a carrot and coconut soup.
“It gives people a chance to be fully engaged in what this farm is all about,” Hayden said. “People come and they wander around the farm and they pick flowers and they look at the animals and then they come in and have something to eat!” She added that three women took a five mile walk and decided their reward would be to end up at the Café for something to eat. “We had a couple this morning who cycled here from Hingham – how they did that, I have no idea – but they were very hungry when they got here! So they tried everything. It was great.”
Beautifully decorated with flowers from the farm, the food is both delicious and affordable. A slice of quiche with salad is a mere seven dollars. They also offer a variety of drinks including iced coffee, iced tea, lemonade, and hot coffee.
