What we grow
Customer Testimonials
Don't take it from us - listen to what our customers have to say about our fresh farm produce!
"Your green garlic rocked my pasta!" - Ross
"They are just like the carrots I used to taste on the farm as a kid; they are sweet, and taste, taste! Store carrots can never measure up to them." - Ruth
"The best cucumbers in the whole wide world!" - Alexis, referring to lemon cucumbers
"I think the yard looks absolutely awesome, and my tenant loves the weekly produce!" - Cathy, landlady of an NUA farm plot
"Your flower bouquet stayed fresh on my table all week." - Kathleen
"The flowers have too long of a shelf life." - Sylvia
"It looks like a French intensive garden on a table." - Simon, referring to market display
Season-Long Produce
As on any farm, our produce availability varies with the seasons. However, we try to supply the following items fairly consistently from spring to fall:
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Mesclun Salad Mix A mix of 20+ heritage varieties of lettuce |
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Spicy Salad Mix Red mustard or arugula (depending on the season) added to our Mesclun Salad Mix |
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Multicolour, Multipurpose Mix A mix of baby greens without the lettuce, such as rainbow chard, Red Russian kale, mizuna and beet greens |
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Mizuna Baby frilly leaves, slightly nutty flavour, and tenderest when small |
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Red Russian Kale Baby- to medium-sized decorative leaves with pink stems, great for salads or cooked (not always available) |
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Rainbow Chard Sweet baby- to medium-sized leaves with magenta, crimson, peach, canary, coral, and white stems, delicious raw or steamed |
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Radishes Easter Egg blend (shown left), White Icicle and French Breakfast varieties usually available |
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Scallions Grown from seed, our scallions are always popular at the market |
Spring Produce
These items are usually only available in the springtime:
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Spinach Baby- to medium-sized leaves, field-washed and bagged (also available in fall) |
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Arugula Baby- to medium-sized leaves, sweeter in cooler weather and spicier as they mature (also available in fall) |
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Rhubarb Often in short supply, our gigantic red stalks are an attention-grabber in the spring market display |
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Sugar Snap Peas A sweet delight, available only for a few weeks from late spring to early summer (also available in fall) |
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Cilantro One of the cooler-season herbs, grows quickly and is available for only a few short weeks (also available in fall) |
Summer Produce
Most of these items are also available in the fall as well:
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Edible Flowers [Illustration shows only a subset of our varieties] Nasturium, viola, calendula, California poppy, cornflower and marigold are available most of the summer and fall |
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Mesclun Mix with Edible Flowers A colourful alternative to the standard Mesclun Mix; edible flowers are sprinkled into the mixed lettuce |
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Cucumbers Pickling, field and lemon varieties, available from mid-July onwards |
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Beets Deep red, Chioggia (also known as "candy-stripe"), and rainbow bunches available starting early to mid-July |
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Carrots The very sweet Nantes Coreless variety and rainbow bunches starting mid-July |
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Tomatoes This year we are growing the large and flavourful Brandywine and Cherokee Purple, as well as the heirloom Doukhobor variety, Black Cherry, and sweet Sungolds |
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Head Lettuce Several varieties of head- and leaf-lettuces available, including Romaine, Sierra, Grand Rapids and Merlot |
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Garlic Scapes The young flower stalks of garlic plants, tender and delicately flavoured, from late spring to mid-summer |
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Head Garlic This year we have the Persian Star and Italian Red varieties and a handful of new additions, available later in the summer |
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Green and Purple Beans Slender, tender and tasty! Different varieties offered separately or mixed, available from late July onwards |
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Herbs Dill, flat-leaf parsley, curly parsley available from early summer onwards, with basil coming later on |
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Fall Produce
In the fall we continue to have many spring and summer items mentioned above, as well as a couple fall highlights:
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Potatoes A first attempt this year, we will be marketing the Russian Banana (a fingerling) and Russian Blue varieties |
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Squash Varieties this year will include butternut, delicata, gold nugget, and Ronde de Nice, some harvested as babies to be prepared much like zucchini |
Have an idea for a different crop? Let us know if there’s a particular variety of vegetable or fruit you’d like to have and we’ll do our best to integrate it into our crop plan for the following year.
