Fresh Cut Herbs

If you are interested in making your own basil butter, you can come down to our markets and pick up some of our many types of basil, just look for my newly built herb display unit.

 

Right now we have the following basils available:

~Blue Spice Basil (one of my personal favorites, has a very unique beautiful vanilla like smell, a little milder than regular basil)

~Lemon Basil (adds a wonderful lemon flavor to dishes which you would normally add lemon, for example chicken dishes, or pasta)

~Lime Basil (can be used similar to lemon basil)

~Cinnamon Basil (has a stronger anise like flavor)

~Sweet Basil

~Genovese Red Freddy Basil (a new one for this year and also one of my favorites, beautiful large purple leaves)

~Mixed Basil Bunches

Other herbs include:
~Thyme
~Oregano
~Wild Oregano
~Marjoram
~Spearmint

This year we lost a lot of our different types of herbs due to all the rains this spring, so there are quite a few different kinds that we do not have this year, but hopefully we will have a larger variety next year.

Herbs and Their Uses

I just spent some time today doing a little research on herbs, so that I will have some charts printed out, to hand out this year at the markets.  I ended up (so far) with three different charts: herbs and vegetables, herbs and their cooking uses, and a herbs and health chart. 

Here are the some of herbs that I am growing for this market season.  They will be available at the market as fresh cut bunches.

Basil, Sweet
Basil, Gevonese
Basil,  Lemon
Basil, Cinnamon
Basil, Opal
Basil, Anise
Cilanto
Dill
Oregano
Wild Oregano
Spearmint
Tarragon
Fennel
Thyme
Rosemary
Lovage
Chervil
Parsley (Three different varieties)
Marjoram
Sage

 I know there are some varieties that I forgot but those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.  So this year at market when you are picking up your favorite veggies do not forget to get some herbs to add to your favorite dish.

Here is the vegetables and herbs chart.
 

Vegetable	Herbs
Asparagus	Chervil, Dill, Tarragon
Beets	Basil, Fennel Seeds, Tarragon, Coriander
Broccoli	Dill, Mint, Oregano
Cabbage	Dill, Fennel Seeds, Mint, Thyme, Coriander
Carrots	Basil, Chervil, Fennel, Parsley, Thyme, Coriander
Cauliflower	Basil, Dill, Fennel, Thyme, Paprika
Celery	Basil, Chervil, Dill, Lovage, Parsley, Paprika
Cucumber	Basil, Borage, Dill, Mint, Parsley, Tarragon, Coriander
Green Beans	Basil, Chives, Dill, Lovage, Oregano, Rosemary
Eggplant	Basil, Oregano, Parsley, Rosemary, Thyme
Kale	Caraway, Dill, Marjoram, Tarragon, Thyme, Coriander
Kohlrabi	Basil, Chervil, Chives, Dill, Fennel, Lovage, Parsley, Coriander
Leeks	Dill, Lovage, Sage, Thyme, Paprika
Onions	Basil, Parsley, Thyme, Paprika
Peas	Chervil, Chives, Dill, Mint, Parsley, Rosemary, Thyme
Peppers	Basil, Lovage, Oregano, Parsley, Rosemary, Thyme
Potatoes	Chervil, Marjoram, Parsley, Rosemary, Sage, Thyme, Paprika
Pumpkin	Celery, Chives, Sage, Thyme
Radishes	Basil, Borage, Chives, Dill, Lovage, Mint, Parsley
Spinach	Basil, Chives, Dill, Lovage, Thyme,
Squash, Summer	Basil, Chives, Dill, Marjoram, Oregano, Coriander
Squash, Winter	Celery, Marjoram, Parsley, Sage, Thyme
Sweet Corn	Basil, Cilantro, Parsley, Rosemary, Thyme
Sweet Potatoes	Sage, Thyme
Swiss Chard	Lovage, Marjoram, Parsley, Paprika
Tomatoes	Basil, Cilantro, Dill, Oregano, Parsley, Rosemary, Paprika
Turnips	Basil, Borage, Dill, Marjoram, Parsley, Rosemary

Fresh Cut Herbs at Market

 I have finally made something to display my herb bunches in at the market.  For years now I have been trying to figure out a good way to display my cut herbs, and have tried may different ways, but nothing seems to work very well.  So for the past 4 or 5 years I have been thinking of building something to display them in and have finally done so.  I can not wait till I get it completely done (still have to do finishing touches and stain it), and am so excited to get to see how it looks and works at the markets.  I am going to see how it works this season and may end up building another one next winter.