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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
Heirloom Gravenstein apples
Menu Group: Food
Section: Fruits and Berries
Category: Apples
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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Never sprayed. Apples from an ancient tree on our property. We love them for fresh eating, pies, applesauce, and in our raw cranberry relish. Not cosmetically perfect, but pretty good-looking for unsprayed apples.
Fedco says: "Tender crisp aromatic richly flavored juicy firm tart flesh. Outstanding eating and cooking. Rated very good to best by Beach in Apples of New York.... Thin tender skin, striped with yellow, red and orange."
King of the North purple grapes with seeds
Menu Group: Food
Section: Fruits and Berries
Category: Grapes
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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Dark purple grapes with seeds, tart and juicy, good for fresh eating, juice or jelly.
Plums for processing
Menu Group: Food
Section: Fruits and Berries
Category: Plums
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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Enough for a batch of jam.
Freshly ground Certified Organic corn meal
Menu Group: Food
Section: Grain Products
Category: Grains and Flours
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Vendor: Whitehill Farm
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Freshly ground Certified Organic cornmeal. REALLY tasty! Corn bread recipes included!

Mixed colors: Italian Florianni corn - which is a beautiful orange with a creamy yellow interior; Oaxacan Green - yellow/white with flecks of green; Kentucky Rainbow as well.

(pictured) Yellow: all yellow heirloom flour corn mix.
Fresh Basil
Menu Group: Food
Section: Herbs
Category: Basil
Vendor: Fairbanks Farmstand & Nursery
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(Pictured) Fresh Basil: Big bunch of basil! The photo is from the field. I will harvest to order!


Vendor: Whitehill Farm

Pesto special! Bag of 2-3 whole lush Basil Plants! Chubby, compact and lush, perfect for pesto! Whole plants, cut at the ground and bagged! Genovese basil at it's best! Pesto, anyone?
ORGANIC Turkey Basting Herb Mix
Menu Group: Food
Section: Herbs
Category: Herb Blends
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Vendor: Whitehill Farm
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A hearty blend of thyme, sage, parsley, fennel, ground pepper, allspice, mustard, chervil and savory. Makes a delicious basting mix for roasting poultry. Pan gravy made from the drippings is delicious!
Raw cranberry relish
Menu Group: Food
Section: Prepared Foods
Category: Vegetarian
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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A delicious, raw cranberry relish chock full of vitamin C! Made with cranberries, our homegrown apples, clementines or mandarins, and sugar. All raw. We make it tart, with half the sugar called for in the original recipe, but you can easily stir in extra sugar if you prefer it sweeter. We grab a fork and eat it by itself, straight from the container. So yummy!
3 Bean Salad
Menu Group: Food
Section: Preserved Foods
Category: Pickles
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Vendor: Whitehill Farm
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Sweet and tart traditional pickle: onions, celery, sweet peppers, green, yellow and kidney beans. Great for Thanksgiving.
Pickled Sweet Peppers
Menu Group: Food
Section: Preserved Foods
Category: Pickles
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Vendor: Whitehill Farm
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A great side to go with almost anything! Beautiful yellow, orange, and red ...Turkish Corbaci peppers (Certified Organic). Contains peppers, cane sugar, vinegar, and spices.
Hamburger Chips
Menu Group: Food
Section: Preserved Foods
Category: Pickles
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Vendor: Whitehill Farm
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The perfect dill slices for a burger. This is a dill pickle with enough flavor to stand up to catsup or steak sauce! Our our Certified Organic cucumbers and garlic, with vinegar, sea salt, dill seed, and spices.
Dilly Beans
Menu Group: Food
Section: Preserved Foods
Category: Pickles
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Vendor: Whitehill Farm
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THE FIRST OF THE 2023 CROP! Maine specialty ...unique Dilly Beans! Traditional Maine specialty! Carefully hand packed, seasoned with dill, garlic, and a hint of heat. Made with our own Certified Organic snap beans.
Luce's Pure Maine Maple Cream
Menu Group: Food
Section: Sweet Stuff
Category: Maple
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Vendor: Luce's Maine Maple Syrup
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Luce's Maple Cream, is purely just our maple syrup cooked and whipped into a delicious thick creamy maple spread. Also called Maple butter. The only ingredient is our maple syrup, no dairy, or other additives. Our cream is perfect on toast, bagels, cookies, ice cream, eaten right out of the tub and so much more!

Refrigerate after opening. It will separate over time. If it does, just stir the maple syrup back into the creamy part again.
Broccoli florets
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Broccoli
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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Grown using IPM, Integrated Pest Management, starting with row cover, and using minimal pesticides when the swede midge is detected in the field. There is NO organic agent to control this pest. Broccoli.
Broccoli is the favorite food for this pest. Left untreated all heads and florets are lost!
Frozen sweet corn
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Corn
Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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GMO-free, no spray. Latte bi-color corn, grown with seed from Fedco. Husked, scalded four minutes, and chilled soon after harvest to get you the sweetest corn possible, then packed and frozen.

Frozen corn on the cob: Ready to heat and eat - or cook a bit more if you prefer.

Frozen sweet corn kernels: Enjoy our corn without the fuss of husking and dealing with the cobs. Great on its own or in salsa, soup, or other dishes.
Asian greens - Delicious!
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Greens
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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A mix of mildly spicy Asian greens. Great raw or for braising.
Braising Mix of young spinach, arugula and kale
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Greens
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Vendor: Shady Maple Farm Products
Certified Organic hot peppers
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Peppers
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Vendor: Whitehill Farm
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Certified Organic!

Aji Limon a.k.a. Hot Lemon Peruvian peppers! Related to Habaneros! Brilliant yellow, with a unique citrus flavor. Right up there in the hot department! Beautiful and dangerous!

(pictured) Gorgeous Bulgarian Carrot hot peppers! Just like the "real thing"! NICE and hot, with a complex flavor that's excellent for stir-fries, tacos, and fajitas.
Peppers
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Peppers
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Vendor: Fairbanks Farmstand & Nursery
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(pictured) Shishito: Finally starting to come on! Fun and surprising Shishitos! Pan fry them in a bit of oil, slice for salads or tempura batter them. Every once in a while you get one with a bit of heat, but never too overwhelming.


Vendor: Porter Hill Farm

Lunchbox Peppers - mix of small sweet red and yellow peppers


Vendor: Rasmussen Farm

Sweet peppers, mixed colors
Tomatoes
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Tomatoes
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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All Red Cherry Tomatoes: Grown naturally in our greenhouse.

SALE - slicers for processing: A mix heirloom and hearty greenhouse tomatoes. All very ripe or cosmetically imperfect with green shoulders or splits. Geronimo, Martha Washington, Rose de Berne, Berkley Tie Dye, Valentia, and Damsel. Good for sauce, salsa, juice or dehydrating. A bargain for these tasty beauties.


Vendor: Shady Maple Farm Products

Heirloom-mixed varieties