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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
Large Eggs
Menu Group: Food
Section: Eggs
Category: Chicken
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Vendor: Whitehill Farm
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Lots of nice large eggs, all different shades of brown ...and the occasional green one!. Our older layers are still giving us nice eggs and the new flock is now laying more actual large and nice large eggs, more large than mediums and smalls! They are all enjoying goodies: veggie scraps - coming from the House AND EXTRA greens and trimmings from cooking.
Steak
Menu Group: Food
Section: Meat
Category: Beef
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Vendor: Depot Street Meats
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Belted Galloway beef. Dry aged for 14 days for a tender and flavorful cut!

Skirt Steak--perfect for fajitas and stir-fry!

(pictured) T-Bone--Thick Cut! - beautiful marbling!
Beets with greens
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Beets
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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Small to medium beets; Nice greens.
Naturally grown
Expect about 4 beets or about 1 lb total beets and greens.
German Butterballs potatoes
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Potatoes
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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Small yellow potatoes. The Maine Potato Lady's favorite potato! An all-purpose, slightly mealy potato with yellow flesh and golden skin.
Mostly baby-size potatoes, the last of the 2023 crop.
Rhubarb
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Rhubarb
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Vendor: Shady Maple Farm Products
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Freshly picked bunch
Slicing Tomatoes

(Actual tomatoes for eating this week!! - See below for seedlings.)
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Tomatoes
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Vendor: Fairbanks Farmstand & Nursery
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~1.5 lbs per quart. These plants were started in January and have been growing in the heated greenhouse since March, they are just starting to ripen and they are sooooo good! Thank you for supporting local season extension!!!!
SEEDLINGS

Morning Glory Seedlings
Menu Group: Plants and Seeds
Section: Flowers Annual
Category: Morning Glory
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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1 vining seedling
Piracicaba - Non-heading Broccoli Seedlings
Menu Group: Plants and Seeds
Section: Vegetable Starts
Category: Broccoli
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
Fedco says: "About halfway between a heading broccoli and a broccoli raab, these succulent tender small green heads with very large beads make delightful raw eating. Very loose heads, lots of side shoots, sweet stalks. Even the fairly large leaves make excellent greens. Garden writer Barbara Damrosch found it equally delicious steamed."
Cucumber seedlings
Menu Group: Plants and Seeds
Section: Vegetable Starts
Category: Cucumber
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Vendor: Fairbanks Farmstand & Nursery
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Marketmore 76 Seedling: provide a huge bang for the buck! This variety is especially noted for large, juicy, and tasty cucumbers, Marketmore cucumbers are resistant to most cucumber diseases. Excellent raw, in salads, or for pickling.

(pictured) National Pickling: Open-pollinated. Introduced in 1929, the result of a 5-year collaboration between the National Pickle Packers Association and the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station. Suitable for both small pickles and dills. Not quite as early as Northern Pickler, but tending to hold quality over a longer season, the firm black-spined dark green fruits are usually quite sweet, rarely bitter. Plants are vigorous dependable producers.
Eggplant seedlings
Menu Group: Plants and Seeds
Section: Vegetable Starts
Category: Eggplant
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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We grew four varieties this year, all Fedco seed: Diamond, Gaudi, Rosa Bianca, or Rosita.
Please user the Order Note at checkout to indicate your preference.
See descriptions at https://www.fedcoseeds.com/seeds/eggplants
Squash seedlings
Menu Group: Plants and Seeds
Section: Vegetable Starts
Category: Squash - Winter
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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Buttercup - Uncle David's Dakota Dessert: 95 days Fedco seed: https://www.fedcoseeds.com/seeds/uncle-davids-dakota-dessert-organic-buttercup-1630

Deklicata

Hubbard: Very large, grey blue, football shaped winter squash - our favorite for flavor.

Marina di Chioggia: Warty green heirlooms, delicious. https://www.fedcoseeds.com/seeds/marina-di-chioggia-specialty-heirloom-squash-1673

Sunshine - sweet, lovely orange Kabocha. These are oh so sweet and delicious - but the bugs think so too. Row cover is highly recommended to protect them from squash bugs & cucumber beetles.
Tomato Seedlings
Menu Group: Plants and Seeds
Section: Vegetable Starts
Category: Tomatoes
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Vendor: Shady Maple Farm Products
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Blush - Larger cherry/plum type. Yellow with orange streaks. Delicious!

Goldie Yellow

Jaune Flamme-Sweet and Fruity, similar to a very large sungold.

Mandurang Moon - Yellow Cherry Type

Pantano Romanesco Slicer

Pruden's Purple Slicer

Roma - paste type

Rose de Berne - Rose-pink Swiss Heirloom Variety

Rutgers Slicer

Sungold cherry


Vendor: Rasmussen Farm

Green Grape Tomato: Tasty large green cherry / grape tomatoes, 70 day determinate

Green Zebra
Zucchini seedlings
Menu Group: Plants and Seeds
Section: Vegetable Starts
Category: Tomatoes - Cherry
Vendor: Fairbanks Farmstand
Modena: Glossy dark green fruit. Slightly earlier than Raven. The very open upright plant habit ensures easy unscratched harvest and no squash dragging in the dirt. Mild nutty flavor and fine-grained texture add to Modena’s refinement.Â