Menu Group: Food

Section: Baked Goods

Category: Donuts

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Vendor: Charlies Donuts

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This week's flavors: glazed, cinnamon sugar, strawberry glazed, plain (no glaze or topping).
Box of 6: Please specify your preferences in order notes or else we will include 2 cinnamon sugar, 2 glazed, 2 strawberry

Menu Group: Food

Section: Eggs

Category: Chicken

Vendor: Maine Homestead Project

Our hens are fed Organic, soy free feed and pasture all summer. Once the snow sticks, they return to their winter coop until spring returns. They are a happy bunch, and we do our best to keep them that way year-round.

We know the price of eggs are high, but we have to raise our prices here, our feed costs have gone up to $34/bag. Please help us to keep our hens, which are the only Organic, soy free, pasture raised eggs available here. We appreciate all the support!

Menu Group: Food

Section: Herbs

Category: Chives

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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm

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Add a bit of zest to salads, soups, potatoes, all sorts of dishes with these slender, green, mild members of the onion family.

Menu Group: Food

Section: Meat

Category: Beef

Vendor: Depot Street Meats

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Belted Galloway beef. Grass Fed and finished. Dry aged for 14 days for a tender and flavorful cut!

(pictured) Porterhouse-Thick cut and beautiful marbling!

Steak Tips

Stewmeat

Menu Group: Food

Section: Mushrooms

Category: Other

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Vendor: Hemlock Hill Farm

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Grown with love in New Vineyard Maine. Superb flavor, texture, and medicine for your brain too! Enjoy the flaky-crab like texture of this delectable mushroom. Lion's mane is also used medicinally to fight against cognitive decline and neurodegenerative disorders. Yes, medicine should taste this good!

Menu Group: Food

Section: Vegetables

Category: Spinach

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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm

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Nice to have fresh greens this time of year! Grown in our green house without synthetic fertilizers or pesticides.

Menu Group: Plants and Seeds

Section: Vegetable Starts

Category: Eggplant

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Vendor: Whitehill Farm

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Little Fingers

Nadia Hybrid: (70) Classic Italian shape with rich dark purple-black skin. Will set fruit even in cool weather. This may be the substitute for Dusky.

(pictured) Pingtung Long: (60) OP Tall and sturdy plants profit by staking. Beautiful 11" long lavender fruits are slender and tender. A chef pleaser.

Menu Group: Plants and Seeds

Section: Vegetable Starts

Category: Peppers - Hot

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Vendor: Whitehill Farm

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PLEASE NOTE: Whitehill Farm seedlings will be delivered on the 31st of May!

Arapaho Cayenne is the largest most prolific cayenne we've ever grown! A truly beautiful and prolific cayenne. It dries beautifully and grinds into a brilliant red powder.

Czechoslovakian Black Chili (65) OP Mildly hot, fruits are so dark a green that they appear to be black! Stubby 2" fruits are shaped like jalapenos and ripen to a dark red. One of our favorites for fresh use.

Early Jalapeno Hybrid (75) 2 to 3 1/2" long sausage-shaped dark green fruits. This is a hot one... ideal for Mexican dishes. Compact and sturdy plants.

Hot Paper Lantern, bright red habanero! Finally an easier to grow Habanero! Hot paper is a dramatic red in the pepper patch and really hot to match!

Long Red Narrow Cayenne (72) OP Bountiful harvest of wrinkled pencil-slim 5" long and 1/2" thick fruits. Dark green, ripening to bright red. Flavor is red hot! Dries well and makes a great powder.

(pictured) Matchbox: (75) OP Roberta Bailey, longtime seed saver and seed grower for FEDCO, has done the work to grow out, select, and stabilize Super Chili Hybrid (owned by Monsanto). She found some unlikely parentage (Hungarian Hot Wax and Hot Banana) but succeeded! A perfect substitute for Super Chili. Common Ground Fair blue ribbon winner for us year after year.

Maya Habanero, unique, easier to grow, and H O T !!!!! This text is all true! "Not your typical habanero look but you'll definitely taste the heat! Fruits are very attractive and have the same fruity/hot combination, but with slightly lower Scoville ratings than their red habanero cousins. Plants are tall, 36" uniform, high yielding and provide good cover for fruits. Performs well in cooler climates."

NuMex Big Jim (75) OP Spectacular 7-9" long frying pepper ripens from green to red. Use for canning or freezing, roasting, or drying for chili powder. Medium heat.

Takenotsume is a beautiful and relatively mild Japanese pepper. Takenotsume presents fabulous flavor with a gentle heat that is nicely between a jalapeño and a habanero. A bonus is that the plants are beautiful and the peppers are presented in lovely "bouquets"!

Thai Hot (75) OP Extremely hot and originally from Thailand. There are two types of peppers currently called "Thai". This is the classic type that produces very small conical fruits on small compact plants. Tasty and ornamental!

Yatsufusa: Traditional Japanese pepper also known as "Chiles Japones". Fruits are 2" to 3" and are in upright clusters. Ripens from green to red. Great for stir-fry and mature fruits dry well. One of our old faves.

Menu Group: Plants and Seeds

Section: Vegetable Starts

Category: Peppers - Italian

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Vendor: Whitehill Farm

Jimmy Nardello: (75-90) OP Prolific producer of large 6-8" long thin-walled green fruits ripen further to be bright red and sweet. Great for using fresh, frying, freezing, pickling, or drying.

Menu Group: Plants and Seeds

Section: Vegetable Starts

Category: Peppers - Pimiento & Paprika

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Vendor: Whitehill Farm

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Boldog Hungarian Paprika(71) OP Sweet and slightly spicy paprika pepper good enough to eat fresh, use for cooking, and to dry for paprika powder. Bears lots of 6x4" tapered, 2-lobed bright red fruits. Blue Ribbon winner at the 2008 Common Ground Fair!

Leutshauer Paprika: A lovely drying pepper grown for 200 years in Hungary. It originally came from Leutschau, Slovakia. Medium-hot paprikas have great flavor, are terrific for drying, and make a delicious spicy powder.

(pictured) Pimento Elite: heart shaped, fire engine red, and thick juicy flesh. Thick and juicy flesh makes an absolutely wonderful addition or Asian dishes and roasted vegetables!

Pimento L (90-95) OP Strong upright plants bear well - the fruits are 3 to 4 1/2" long, heart shaped and an absolutely brilliant red. Like so many pimentos, the fruit walls are thick and sweet for wonderful fresh eating. This will be the sweetest pepper you

Sweet Paprika (75-80) OP Bright red sweet fruit with a rich and almost spicy flavor.

Menu Group: Plants and Seeds

Section: Vegetable Starts

Category: Peppers - Sweet

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Vendor: Whitehill Farm

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(pictured) Ace Hybrid(55) Great for northern areas. Sets fruit even in poor conditions. Fruits are green and eventually mature to red.

Baron Hybrid green bell. Reliable and tasty! A really nice sweet green pepper that produces well here in Maine.

California Wonder (75) OP Long a favorite of home gardeners. Produces chubby 4-lobed crisp, sweet bells. A good midseason basic green pepper.

Chablis Sweet Bell Pepper. Lovely Bell peppers ripen from pale yellow through orange and finally to red. Lovely flavor at any color!

Flavorburst Hybrid (75) 4-6" blocky bells ripen from green to a gorgeous golden orange. Satisfying brisk pepper flavor with a hint of citrus.

Healthy (62) OP Sweet Russian pepper. 30" plants produce triangular fruits that ripen from yellow to red. Early, reliable, tasty, and ripens even in cool summers.

King Crimson Sweet Bell (60 green- 70 red) Finally another sweet pepper that really ripens red! Thick walled, 4-lobed and blocky fruits, are crisp and tasty. Uniform enough to be a good market variety. Developed by High Mowing Seed Co. in partnership with Cornell University.

Menu Group: Plants and Seeds

Section: Vegetable Starts

Category: Tomatoes - Beefsteak

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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
Those listed in 6-packs may be available as single plants on request.

Aunt Ruby's German Green: Delicious, large, green beefsteak tomatoes. One of our favorites.

Grandpa's Cock's Plume: Red tomato - most notable to us for its ability to thrive in a year when everything else in our tomato garden succumbed to late blight.

Nepal (black tomato)


Vendor: Whitehill Farm
PLEASE NOTE: Whitehill Farm seedlings will be delivered on the 31st of May!

Apricot Brandywine (78-I) OP Deep apricot-orange slightly flattened large fruits shaped just like the traditional pink Brandywine. Their flavor is sweet and slightly fruity and the texture is firm yet juicy! Potato leaf plant.

Beefsteak (85-I) OP a.k.a. Crimson Cushion or Red Ponderosa Very old productive variety. Fruits are slightly ribbed, and can easily average 1#. Definitely a candidate for a sturdy tower! Introduced in 1892.

Big Rainbow (80/90-I) OP Spectacular big beefsteak, golden orange with bright red streaks, and frequently red on the bottom! Fruits are smooth and sweet and can weigh in at 2#!

Black Brandywine (80-I) OP Large, oval, well-formed fruits are DARK, almost black, and full-flavored. Regular foliage. Usually one of the first of the large tomatoes to ripen for us. In 2010 we will trial the True Black Brandywine, recently rescued by William Woys Weaver.

Brandywine - OTV Strain (78-I) OP Dr. Carolyn Male, tomato specialist, researcher, and editor of Off the Vine, has obtained seed from an old strain of Brandywine that she believes to be the sweetest and creamiest of all. The fruits are a rich red with an orange undertone. Fruits are 12-16 oz. Very productive and more heat tolerant than other strains.

(pictured) Cherokee Purple (80-I) OP Cherokee Indian origin, introduced in Tennessee. Bears 10-12 oz dusky rose/purple fruits that are delicate and a true taste treat. Vines should not be pruned as the delicate fruits sunburn easily

Paul Robeson: (black!) (74-I) OP This Russian tomato was named after the vocalist Paul Robeson. Although trained in the USA, his fame spread mainly in Europe and the Soviet Union. The flesh is firm, sweet, juicy, and a rich mahogany brown!

Menu Group: Plants and Seeds

Section: Vegetable Starts

Category: Tomatoes - Cherry

Vendor: Whitehill Farm

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(pictured) Amy's Apricot Cherry Tomato: 75 days Delicious fruit ...MOSTLY a warm apricot color! Vigorous and productive plants! But… a challenging variety to offer. Plants vary a lot, even after years of vigorous selection by the Southern Exposure Seed folks. It tends strongly toward the intensely fruity, sweet, luscious orange spheres we originally described. Many plants bear red fruits, and a wide range of orange types is present as well, in clusters of 2-12 and sizes of ½ - 1½ in.

Amy's Sugar Gem (mid-I) OP What a find! I admit it, I grew it at first reluctantly, because of the name... but it's a keeper! Large for a cherry, 1" to 1 ½", the bright red fruits have great flavor. And I found that they dry as well as, or better than, Princepe Borghese.

Chadwick Cherry ...a delightful old variety, red, and bursting with flavor! Chadwick is an old variety...sweet/tart and great for salads or snacking!

Dancing With Smurfs ...and yes, they're "blue"! Delightful and unique large cherry tomato that is a dark, almost purple/blue, until it begins to ripen. Very dark shouldered red when ripe. Really tasty to boot!

Gardener's Delight (65-I) OP a.k.a. Sugar Lump This bright red, crack-resistant, sweet cherry yields 3/4-1" fruits that come in clusters of 6-12 right till frost.

Sungold Cherry Tomato ...everyone's favorite! Top of the charts for sweetness! Golden yellow and a burst of great flavor. Comes with some warnings though as they're really liable to split when it rains!

Sunrise Bumblebee "Sunrise Bumblebee (70-I) OP This is our favorite Bumblebee ...bright yellow and orange, slightly oval firm cherries with a bright fruity flavor. They kind of burst flavor!"

Sweet 100 Hybrid (78-I) Round and red at its peak, sweet and tart.

Sweetie Red Cherry is a pop-it-in-your-mouth sweet treat! Sweetie is exactly that, a sweet cherry tomato treat.

Menu Group: Plants and Seeds

Section: Vegetable Starts

Category: Tomatoes - Oxheart

Vendor: Whitehill Farm

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Anna Russian (75-I) OP Tremendous-tasting tomatoes are a dark, deep pink, 6-12 oz, and heart shaped. The foliage is wispy, typical of oxheart type plants.

German Red Strawberry (80-I) OP "Strawberry"-shaped oxheart-type fruits average 10 oz and 3 1/2" long. Solid meat has little juice and few seeds but is long on taste.

Orange Russian No 117 (85-I) Bi-color oxheart, golden yellow with red splotches and streaks. Typical of oxhearts the fruits are heavy and have very few seeds. Sweet fruity flavor.

Orange Strawberry (80-I) OP A truly stunning deep orange oxheart type. 8 oz to 1# fruits are heart shaped and usually blemish free. Like many of the oxhearts, the foliage is wispy!

Russian No 117 (85-I) OP Oxheart type heirloom has wispy foliage and produces unusual double heart-shaped fruit. Fruits can be really large - up to 2#. The flavor is delicious, rich, and complex.

Upstate Pink Oxheart (midseason -I) OP A gorgeous heirloom oxheart. Heavy, deep pink-red and delicious either fresh or for sauce and salsa.

Menu Group: Plants and Seeds

Section: Vegetable Starts

Category: Tomatoes - Paste

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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
Those listed in 6-packs may be available as single plants on request.

Bellstar: 4 oz. round paste tomatoes. They taste good in salads.

Orange Banana

Principe Borghese: Small paste tomatoes, best for drying.

San Marzano: Classic Italian paste tomato

Vilms Plum Paste Tomato: Small plum tomatoes, highly productive, disease-resistant plants


Vendor: Whitehill Farm

Amish Paste

Dix Doights de Napoli, Italian paste tomato

Gaccetta Italian Paste, Maine family heirloom

(pictured) Grandma Mary's (68-I) OP Large meaty 6-10 oz paste tomato. Sets even in cool weather. Seed grown sustainably in Maine. One of our main crops for sauce and catsup every year.

Heinz 2653 (68-D) OP Amazingly early red plum type that often ripens all its 2 1/2 to 3 oz. fruit all at once, and well before frost. Compact plants bear rich red firm fruits.

Hogheart (75-I) OP This is certainly originally from Italy, and for my money is the best paste tomato going! When I first started looking for "no nonsense" paste tomatoes Hogheart was still being selected, here in Maine, for earliness and crack free shoulders. These are huge, often 12 oz! They can make twin fruits, really heart shaped! Excellent flavor.

Milano, a really nice determinate variety ...it delivers its harvest almost all at once! Milano can make a big pot of sauce all at once!

Roma paste tomato

San Marzano (80-I) OP Sets the standard for sauce tomatoes! "Rectangular" elongated pear shape, red, meaty, and averaging 3 1/2". From the San Marzano region in Italy, where the San Marzano tomato is a treasure... a lifestyle... and heritage! Common Ground Fair Blue Ribbon winner for us in 2006 and 2009!

Menu Group: Plants and Seeds

Section: Vegetable Starts

Category: Tomatoes - Slicing

Vendor: Whitehill Farm

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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
Those listed in 6-packs may be available as single plants on request.

Black Prince

Garden Peach: Fedco says: "Yellow fruits blush pink when ripe and have thin fuzzy skins somewhat like peaches, soft-skinned, juicy and very sweet. Light fruity taste is not what you'd expect in a tomato. Burpee in 1893 called it “delicate, melting in the mouth like a grape." For well over a century, savvy gardeners have brought Peach's little 2-4 oz fruits indoors before frost to keep for several weeks. "

Rutgers: Classic, smooth, round, red tomato, great for fresh eating or canning


Vendor: Whitehill Farm

Black Krim (80-I) OP This is a medium-sized slicer, with dark maroon to black flesh and distinctive green-black shoulders! Originally from Krymsk, on the Black Sea. Seed was originally smuggled to the USA before the breakup of the Soviet Union, the first of the tasty black tomatoes.

Black Prince (70-I) OP An old-fashioned slicer saved in Irkutsk, Siberia. Garnet red outside and red to chestnut brown on the inside. Oval fruits sometimes crack in rings on the top, but they are so tender and sweet that it doesn't matter a bit. One of our favorite salad tomatoes.

Box Car Willie (80-I) OP Abundant crop of medium to large-size globes. Named after the country singer, Box Car Willie, who regrettably passed away in 1999. He sang railroad songs... this might be the hobo fave tomato!

Cosmonaut Volkov (72-I) OP Round, slightly flattened red fruits. Prize-winning fruits can weigh up to 2#. Named for a famous Russian cosmonaut who was killed on reentry to the earth

Fourth of July Hybrid

(pictured) Green Zebra (78-D) OP Fruits are a beautiful bright green with yellow stripes when ripe. Small 2-4 oz fruits have a real sweet flavor. Our favorite for early summer salads! Developed the old-fashioned way by Tom Wagner. Green Zebra wins blindfold taste tests every time.

Jet Star Hybrid (70-I) Manageable indeterminate plants produce a lot of bright red globes. Good taste and a hint of acidity. This is also a great market tomato!

Ramapo Hybrid (80-semi-Determinate) Reintroduction from Rutgers University Ag Station. Originally released in 1968. Ramapo produces medium sized excellent table and market quality fruit, has good flavor, and outstanding disease resistance.

Valencia Slicer (76-I) Round, smooth fruits average 8-10 oz. Their meaty interiors have few seeds. This midseason tomato is among the best for flavor and texture. Our own selection of a Maine family heirloom with a Spanish accent.