We Have Lettuce! And Don't Forget the Bread!

Just wanted to let everyone know that we have some really good lettuce available right now.  If you would like some lettuce or other veggies that we have available now, you can send me an email or call, to put in an order.  We will not be bringing any veggies to our craft shows that we will be attending, unless someone puts in an order for something.

The salad mixes that we currently have available are:
~ Just Lettuce Mix- A mix of about 12 different varieties of lettuces.  Many different colors, and shapes.  The below picture is a picture of our Just Lettuce Mix.
 ~ Lettuce and Greens Mix- A mix of a variety of different lettuces, swiss chard, collards, and a variety of different kales.
~ Spicy Salad Mix- A mix of a variety of different lettuces, and a variety of different spicy mustard greens.
~ Lettuce and Endive Salad Mix- Two different types of endive, mixed together with a variety of different lettuces.
~ Lettuce and Romaine Salad Mix- A mix of a variety of different lettuces, and Baby Green Romaine.
~ A Little Bit of Everything Salad Mix- A mix of all of the above.  Lettuce, kale, swiss chard, collards, romaine, endive, and mustard greens.

~ Bagged Greens Stir-Fry and Salad Mix- A mix of swiss chard, collards, and a variety of different kales.  Can be added to a salad or used for a stir-fry.
~ Bagged Mixed Kale- A mix of about 8 different varieties of kale.

We also currently have available:
~ Turnip Bunches
~ Mixed Radish Bunches
~ Pac Choi
~ Chinese Cabbage
~ Scallion Bunches
~ Mixed Colored Carrots
~ Mustard Green Heads

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Order your Thanksgiving bread now!

I am now taking orders for our Onion Bread, Garlic Herb Buns/Rolls, and our Garlic Braided Bread, for Thanksgiving.  Depending on where you live, we do deliver our bread, and will be doing so Thanksgiving week.  Send me an email or give me a call and we can work something out.

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Don't Forget to come to one of our craft show's that we will be attending throughout November and December, and pick up one of our gift baskets for your family or friends, for the holidays.  We can personalize the baskets with almost any color you would like.  What would be better than to show up at your families house on Thanksgiving or Christmas with a basket of pasta, jams, jellies, and recipes, to say thanks for welcoming us into your home.

2014 Lettuce

This past Saturday I began picking lettuce for my first market of the year at Valley City Farmers Market.  This weekend I will have lettuce for both Valley City Farmers Market and the start of Brunswick Farmers Market.  Here are some pictures of the different varieties of lettuce that I am growing this year.

Romaine Lettuces:

The following lettuces are in my Ark of Taste Mix:

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Salad Mixes Available for 2014:

Just Lettuce Mix

Ark of Taste Lettuce Mix

Spicy Salad Mix

Lettuce and Greens Salad Mix

Lettuce and Romaine Salad Mix

Lettuce and Spinach Salad Mix

Lettuce and Endive Salad Mix

Our Lettuce Mixes

Here is a list of most of our bagged salad mixes that we have available at our markets right now:

Romaine and Lettuce Salad Mix Contains leaf lettuces such as:  Black Seeded Simpson and Red Sails. Romaine:  Red Romaine and Baby Romaine. The romaine adds a little different taste and texture to the salad.

 

Looseleaf Lettuce Salad Mix Contains leaf lettuces such as:  Black Seeded Simpson, Red Sails, Royal Red, Prizehead and some others. This mix is a combination of the large looseleaf lettuce types.  Perfect for those who just like regular lettuce.

Ark of Taste Lettuce Mix Contains lettuces such as:  Grandpa’s Admire’s, Speckled, Tennis Ball, and Amish Deer Tongue. All these lettuces are on the Ark of Taste List, a organization that established to preserve rare vegetables, fruits, etc. that are of exceptional taste.  And this mix is definitely exceptional!

Spicy Salad Mix Contains lettuces such as:  Black Seeded Simpson, and Red Sails. Contains spicy greens such as:  Ruby Red Mustard, Golden Frill Mustard and Suehlihnug Mustard. If you like mustard greens and spicy food this is the mix for you. We also sell mustard greens, in bunches so you can also buy them that way, and add them to whichever other mix you wish.

Lettuce and Greens Salad Mix Contains lettuces such as:  Black Seeded Simpson and Red Sails. Greens such as:  Swiss Chard, Red Russian Kale, Dinosaur Kale, Green Leaf Gailan, and Bulls Blood Beet Greens. Greens add a little extra taste to the salad, to make it a little different than the average salad with just lettuce.

Just Lettuce Salad Mix Contains lettuces such as:  Black Seeded Simpson, Red Sails, Royal Red, Bronze Arrowhead, Mascara, Dark Lolla Rossa, Tango, and Prizehead. The above are just some of the lettuces that are in our just lettuce mix.  This year we have well over a dozen different varieties of lettuces that we grew, a lot of new varieties and some of our regulars. Together these lettuces are such a beautiful combination of colors and shapes.

Lettuce and Herb Salad Mix Contains lettuces such as:  Black Seeded Simpson and Red Sails. Herbs such as: Lemon Basil, Cinnamon Basil, Sweet Basil, Licorice Basil, Lemon Balm, and Chervil

First Farmers Market of the Year Pics

Here are some pictures from Saturday's farmers market at Valley City.

 Our bagged lettuce and greens salad mixes.

This week our mixes included our Just Lettuce Mix, Spicy Salad Mix, Lettuce and Greens Mix, 

and our Ark of Taste Mix.  We also had spinach, mixed kale, mixed mustard greens and a couple of other

individual bagged lettuce varieties.

 Mixed varieties mustard greens bunches and mixed varieties kale bunches.

 

Picture of our table at the market.

We should have available at the next market:

Radishes

Turnips

Red, White, and Yellow Scallion Bunches

Garlic Scapes

Mixed Mustard Green Bunches

Mixed Kale Bunches

Swiss Chard Bunches

Yellow and Green Snow Peas

Beet Bunches

Bagged Salad Mixes:

~Just Lettuce Mix~

~Spicy Salad Mix~

~Lettuce and Greens Mix~

~Ark of Taste Mix~

Bagged Spinach

Bagged Mustard Greens

Bagged Kale

Peanut Butter Dog Treats

White Sandwich Bread

Plant Pictures

I have been meaning to take some pictures, and finally did.  The picture below is of my plants that I have started under lights in my basement.  Some eggplant, celery, peppers hot and sweet, and lots of tomatoes.

This is a picture from in my hoop house outside of broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and brussels sprout plants.

Hopefully I will get a chance to get them in the ground soon, since they should have already been planted.

Some kale plants in the hoop house, waiting to go into the ground.

 

Some mustard green plants.

Some cute little Mexican Sour Gherkin Cucumber plants.  These guys have the cutest little cucumbers that are not even dime sized.  I need to transplant them into larger pots and start to train them up a trellis in my hoop house, hopefully I will be able to add them to some of my salad mixes.