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Greetings, local food lovers!
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New and Returning Products
Assorted Fresh Donuts
Menu Group: Food
Section: Baked Goods
Category: Donuts
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Vendor: Charlies Donuts
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This week's flavors: glazed, chocolate, cinnamon sugar, plain

Please include your preferences in order notes or else you will receive
2 glazed, 2 cinnamon sugar, and 2 chocolate for an order of 6,
1 glazed + 1 cinnamon sugar for an order of 2,
Chuck Steak--bone in
Menu Group: Food
Section: Meat
.Category: Beef
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Vendor: Depot Street Meats
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Bone-in Chuck steaks from our grass fed and finished belted galloway cattle. We love them marinated and on the grill but also great pan-fried in cast iron or in the broiler. Marinate for most tender results and try this recipe: https://heygrillhey.com/grilled-chuck-steak/
Mushroom lovers mix, 1LB box
Menu Group: Food
Section: Mushrooms
Category: Maitake
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Vendor: Hemlock Hill Farm
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For the fungophile mycophagists. A full pound of mixed seasonal gourmet mushrooms. Our strains change throughout the season. A great way to experience some of the specialty varieties we grow in addition to our usual oyster and shiitake mushrooms.
Bok Choy-small
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Bok Choy
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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Avg wt 0.4 lb. Very nice in stir fry or use he stems raw as part of a cold "Chinese" salad - excellent with fresh radish and oil and vinegar! Fresh from our greenhouse. Grown without synthetic fertilizers or pesticides.
GREENS!
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Greens
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Vendor: Fairbanks Farmstand & Nursery
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(pictured) Stir Fry Cabbage: Medium sized leaves of Tokyo Bekana, a Chinese cabbage. Eat cooked or raw.


Vendor: Porter Hill Farm

Beet Greens: .new crop! Some with small beets About 3/4 lb
Naturally Grown Very sweet.

Colorful mix of chard - new, young leaves, Nice 1/2 lb bunch. Naturally grown. White, red, pink.


Vendor: Rasmussen Farm

Nettles: .
Nutritious, delicious, and beneficial to your health, these stinging nettles lose their sting when cooked but should be handled with care when raw. Great in soup.
Kale, Mixed varieties
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Kale
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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Grown naturally in our greenhouse
Fresh lettuce
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Lettuce
Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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Fresh lettuce - mixed varieties: Different varieties of green with some red also. Large, full leaves, not "micro". Naturally grown in our greenhouse.


Vendor: Whitehill Farm

Beautiful and tender green Oakleaf lettuce! Certified Organic.
Small fingerling potatoes
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Potatoes
Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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Last of the 2023 crop. A medley of colorful fingerlings, including French Fingerling, Papa Cacho, Red Thumb, Rose Finn Apple, Peanut, & possibly a Magic Molly or two. Fingerlings are "prized for their interesting colors and exquisite flavors" says the Maine Potato Lady. Excellent roasted or steamed and tossed with butter & parsley.
It's late in the season, but they are still in good shape.
Rhubarb- tasty spring rhubarb
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Rhubarb
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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Strawberry-Rhubarb pie? Rhubarb bread?
Grown without synthetic fertilizers or pesticides.
Spring Salad Turnips
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Turnips
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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Both Red and White spring turnips. Like a spring radish but without the bite. To be eaten raw, usually in a salad, but they also lend themselves to a stir fry!
Grown Naturally in our Greenhouse.
Avg 4/bag
Elderberry Plants
Menu Group: Plants and Seeds
Section: Berry Plants
Category: Elderberry
Vendor: Hemlock Hill Farm
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2 yrs, #2 pot, Cultivar elderberry selection. Grows 8-10' H, 8-10' spread.

Adams: particularly vigorous, produces large berries that make for easy picking.

Johns: . The Johns variety of elderberry originated in the Nova Scotia Experiment Station. It has large berries that make up large clusters. Johns ripens slightly before Adams, and is a highly vigorous grower.

York: produces heavy crops of extra large fruit clusters, maturing 1 to 2 weeks after Adams. Fruit is high in vitamin C & individual fruits are the largest of any variety.
Royalty purple raspberry plant
Menu Group: Plants and Seeds
Section: Berry Plants
Category: Raspberry
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Vendor: Hemlock Hill Farm
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1+ yrs, 1-gal pot The best purple raspberry variety. Plants are vigorous, hearty, and disease resistant. Tall canes produce large berries with excellent flavor. Self pollinator. Ripens late season (august).
Flower Seedlings
Menu Group: Plants and Seeds
Section: Flowers Annual
Category: Asters
Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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(pictured) Crego Mix China Aster seedlings: Fedco says " Bold ostrich-feather blooms hold well in wet or cold conditions. 2' plants with 4" flowers in violet, lavender, pink, rose and fuchsia. Maule in 1915 asserted that they 'surpass in size and beauty any other aster we have ever seen.' 'Pleasing, stately, handsome and vigorous,' concluded H.W. Buckbee in 1927."

Calendula, Pacific Beauty Mix

Zinnia: Banary's Giant or Cactus Bright


Vendor: Shady Maple Farm Products

Sunflowers, Variety Pack
Ornamental Shrubs
Menu Group: Plants and Seeds
Section: Shrubs Ornamental
Category: Dogwood Shrub
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Vendor: Hemlock Hill Farm
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(Pictured) Redosier dogwood 2+ yrs, 1-gal pot Great flowering ornamental shrub. Compact and upright, will mature at 8-10'. Green foliage gives way to compact white flowers. Brilliant red stems provide vibrant winter color and are frequently used in arrangements. Will tolerate wet soils.

Common ninebark shrub, 2+ yrs, 1-gal pot. Native flowering ornamental shrub. Dense round clusters of white flowers turn to pink pods that persist on the plant. Provides visual interest to the garden in all 4 seasons. 8-10' mature height. Flowers are a favorite of pollinator insects.
Vegetable Seedlings
Menu Group: Plants and Seeds
Section: Vegetable Starts
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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Brussels Sprouts: For 2024 we're growing two varieties: Nautic and Speedia. State your preference in the order note or let us choose what looks best.

Cauliflower, "Symphony"

Chard: Fordhook or Bright Lights "rainbow chard"

Ground Cherries: People who recognize these tasty treats say, "My grandmother used to have these!" These sweet, delicious, orange fruits are the size of small cherry tomatoes. They're great eaten out of hand as snacks, can be used to make pies or jam, and I first saw them as garnishes, with the husks peeled back decoratively, in a restaurant in Europe. Some folks say they taste a bit like pineapple. They are related to tomatillos and also have husks, but the fruits are sweet, and the plants spread out closer to the ground. Harvest late in the season, when the husks turn yellow,and the fruits drop from the plants. Don't eat the immature green fruits. Plants should be spaced 18-24" apart.

Winter Squash

Tomatoes - new varieties added to list


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