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Greetings, local food lovers!
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Place your order from Western Maine Market today for pick-up or delivery this Friday or Saturday.
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New and Returning Products
GLUTEN FREE! Double Delicious Corn Muffins
Menu Group: Food
Section: Baked Goods
Category: Muffins
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Vendor: Whitehill Farm
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The same recipe as our regular Double Delicious Muffins ...with all gluten free ingredients! Delicious, but simple! Made with Cream Corn - made from scratch with local sweet corn and cream - and Certified Organic Corn Meal. Great for any meal.
Blackberries
Menu Group: Food
Section: Fruits and Berries
Category: Blackberries
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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First of the season Old Fashioned Blackberries - ouch!
A box of Band-Aids is helpful when picking, but they are oh so good.
Never sprayed
Fresh cilantro
Menu Group: Food
Section: Herbs
Category: Cilantro
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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Cilantro has a wonderful and unique taste, a bit like a lighter, citrusy version of parsley. Excellent and important addition to Mexican, Asian or Middle Eastern dishes.
Condiments
Menu Group: Food
Section: Preserved Foods
Category: Condiments
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Vendor: Whitehill Farm
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Hot Pepper Jelly! A sure fire attention getter! Perfect with cream cheese ...get creative! Made with our own sweet and hot peppers, Cider vinegar, cane sugar, and fruit pectin.

Smoking' Steak Sauce! Tomatoes, honey, tabasco, mustard, and smoke ...a winning and zesty combination! Fabulous as a steak sauce, barbecue finishing sauce, or just about any place that you like to light up with flavor!
Raspberry Jam
Menu Group: Food
Section: Preserved Foods
Category: Jams Jellies Butters & Spreads
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Vendor: Whitehill Farm
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Summer in a jar! Brilliant red berries from our farm and Counterpoint Farm in Jay. Perfect for morning toast or PB & J!
Pickles
Menu Group: Food
Section: Preserved Foods
Category: Pickles
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Vendor: Whitehill Farm
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Cleopatra's Cucumber Chips! A true tangy taste treat! Apparently Queen Cleopatra of Egypt credited including pickles in her diet with contributing to her health and legendary beauty! These beautiful slices are tangy and sweet, a real treat!

{Pictured) Sweet Mustard Pickles! A delightful alternative to sours. Sweet and tangy.While searching for a good sour mustard pickle I found this delightful SWEET Mustard recipe ...definitely is NOT a sour! Sweet and tart and very satisfying. Made with our own Certified Organic cucumbers.
Herbal UNSalt
Menu Group: Food
Section: Salt and Spices
Category: Organic Spices
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Vendor: Whitehill Farm
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Simple and tasty, and a great salt substitute. Sweet basil, summer savory, celery seed, sage, thyme, marjoram, and a touch of kelp, all ground into a tasty powder.
Fresh Green Beans
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Beans
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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First of the season! Naturally grown.
Beets
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Beets
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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Grown naturally.

Dark Red Beets, Traditional

Medium to Large Red Cylindrical Beets: Sweet, light red cylindrical beets. Hard to beat!

Red, Yellow, and Pink beets with greens: One of each for you to try! Traditional dark red beet, sweet, mild Yellow beet, and pink Chiogga beet with concentric rings of white and red when cut. All with greens makes for a nice bunch.
Bok Choy - full head
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Bok Choy
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Vendor: Shady Maple Farm Products
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Great for stir-fry or soup. The white stems can also used raw in salads, or cook the greens likes kale or spinach. Full heads.
Broccoli - Large Heads
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Broccoli
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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Very Nice heads!
Grown using IPM, Integrated Pest Management, starting with row cover, and using minimal pesticides when swede midge detected in the field. There is NO organic agent to control this pest. It has been a month since any pesticide was used on the current crop of broccoli !
Large Green Summer cabbage
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Cabbage
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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Perfect for summer salads, slaws, or cooked dishes."
Conventionally grown
Carrots - Orange
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Carrots
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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First of the season Fresh! New! Small to Medium sized. Sweet. Naturally grown as is all our produce.
Celery
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Celery
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Vendor: Shady Maple Farm Products
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5 Stalks, Not recommended for fresh eating as stalks, but EXCELLENT for salads or cooking.
Cucumbers
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Cucumber
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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Itachi - Japanese long white cucumber: A white cucumber! Grows very large and long, but best when harvested while thinner which is the way we grow and harvest them. Very nice, mild flavor with good crisp texture.

Medium green cucumbers
Purslane
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Greens
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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Succulent leaves and stems are high in Omega-3 Fatty acids and Vitamin C. Try them raw in salads, steamed, cooked into soups, stews or vegetable dishes.
Find a great recipe for Potato Salad With Purslane and Fresh Herbs at http://gourmetfood.suite101.com/article.cfm/purslane_the_best_vegetable_youve_never_had
Peppers
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Peppers
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm

Violet sparkle sweet pepper: Purple-streaked, pointed sweet peppers. Lovely and tasty!


Vendor: Whitehill Farm

(Pictured) Czech Black peppers! Stunning glossy black, beginning to ripen red! Delicious at any stage.. About as hot as jalapeños ...great for stuffing or stir-fry. Even Czech BLACK peppers are brilliant red when they are truly ripe!
Summer Squash
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Squash - Summer
Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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Naturally grown

A pair of medium sized yellow Zephyr

A 3 pack Sampler: Try a Magda - light green and pear shaped, Zephyr - yellow with green tip, tender, not at all like the old yellow crooked neck squash, and the more typical green zucchini. All Medium sized and tender.
Rainbow chard
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Swiss Chard
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Vendor: Shady Maple Farm Products
Zucchini
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Zucchini
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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Dark green zucchini - Medium: The dark skin is high in antioxidants! Great for salads, stir fries, grilling. Naturally grown.


Vendor: Shady Maple Farm Products

Some striped varieties, some all green. Medium Sized.
Sunflowers
Menu Group: Home and Garden
Section: Cut Flowers
Category: Sunflowers
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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varied colors & sizes. Sunflowers available in pale or golden yellow, russet red or autumn brown. Flower size and stem length varies. Please state any preferences in Order Note--no guarantees, but we'll do our best.