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Happy Autumnal Equinox, local food lovers!
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Place your order from Western Maine Market today for pick-up or delivery this Friday or Saturday.

Whitehill Farm is away for the week.

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New and Returning Products
Tree ripened peaches
Menu Group: Food
Section: Fruits and Berries
Category: Peaches
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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Madison (a late variety): Some are fully ripe, others need a few days on the window sill to ripen. Prolong the shelf life of ripe fruit by refrigerating. Grown without pesticide sprays.
A pound is about 3-4 peaches.
Dill heads
Menu Group: Food
Section: Herbs
Category: Dill
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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Add a dill head to each jar of dill pickles
Ground Beef
Menu Group: Food
Section: Meat
Category: Beef
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Vendor: Depot Street Meats
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Belted Galloway Beef--dry aged 2 weeks for tender and beefy flavor
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Pork Chops
Menu Group: Food
Section: Meat
Category: Pork
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Vendor: Shady Maple Farm Products
Farm Raised Red Deer Venison
Menu Group: Food
Section: Meat
Category: Venison
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Vendor: Shady Maple Farm Products
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Liver
Shoulder Roast
Tenderloin
Fresh shiitake mushrooms
Menu Group: Food
Section: Mushrooms
Category: Shiitake
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Vendor: Hemlock Hill Farm
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Grown with love in New Vineyard Maine. Our shiitake mushrooms are freshly harvested and full of flavor. A classic rich tasting mushroom. Excellent in all stir fries and soups.
Available regular size or XL Jumbo.
Beans
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Beans
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm

Fresh green snap beans


Vendor: Shady Maple Farm Products

Blue Coco Pole Beans-Purple in color, yummy flavor!
Beets
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Beets
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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Naturally grown
Mostly Dark Red, Occasional yellow - more mellow

Small, meium, or large beets available.
Bok choy
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Bok Choy
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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A Chinese cabbage with edible stems and leaves. Try it in sesame pac choi or stir-fried pac choi.
Summer green cabbage
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Cabbage
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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med to large for summer cabbage. Beautiful round heads with mildly sweet leaves that are excellent fresh, or stir fried.

Grown using IPM, Integrated Pest Management, starting with row cover, and using minimal pesticides when the swede midge is detected in the field. Swede midge is specially harmful to broccoli but all brassica crops can be affected. Fortunately cabbage does not require as much spraying as other brassicas like broccoli.
Carrots - orange
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Carrots
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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Small to medium and sweet. Naturally grown
Frozen Silver Queen corn kernels
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Corn
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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Silver Queen white corn, an old favorite. Grown with seed from Fedco. GMO-free, no spray. Enjoy our corn without the fuss of husking and dealing with the cobs. Great on its own or in salsa, soup, or other dishes. Scalded and chilled within a couple of hours of harvest to provide the most delicious corn possible. Packed in resealable freezer bags.
Tatsoi
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Greens
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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Use it like spinach - raw or cooked. Find recipes here: www.yummly.com/recipes/tatsoi.
Specialty Produce.com says: "Tatsoi is a very versatile green and may used similarly to spinach, raw, steamed, sauteed, braised or stir fried. It makes an excellent accompaniment to other salad greens such as spinach, arugula, watercress, pea tendrils and mizuna. Its tangy and peppery notes pair well with citrus, crisp cool ingredients such as apple, fennel and mint, warm flavors that are abundantly found in chiles, garlic and allspice. Pair tatsoi with ingredients rich in umami such as scallops, mushrooms, seaweed, sesame and braised meats. Fermented ingredients such as fish sauce, soy sauce and vinegars are also complimentary matches." http://www.specialtyproduce.com/produce/Tatsoi_532.php
Colorful mix of chard
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Greens Chard
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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Nice 1/2 lb bunch. Naturally grown. White, red, pink.
We are close to the end of the season on chard - order Now! Price reduced.
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
Leeks
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Leek
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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No spray. Grown naturally.
Available large or medium
Lettuce
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Lettuce
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Vendor: Shady Maple Farm Products
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Mixed variety of red leaf, green leaf, romaine and more
Onions
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Onions
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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Small to medium sized yellow onions: Naturally Grown; No pesticides, No synthetic fertilizers.
Not a winter keeper but nice to use now.


Vendor: Shady Maple Farm Products

Spanish Sweet Yellow Onions-freshly harvested
Peppers
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Peppers
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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Classic Large Red Sweet Peppers

Large, Long Red Sweet Pepper - Carmen!: Looks like it should be hot, but it is not.
Unique appearing long, large red pepper



Vendor: Shady Maple Farm Products

Cayenne Peppers-Bright Red and HOT!

Jalapeno - on the bigger side

Shishito Peppers - Delicious pan sauteed
Tomatoes
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Tomatoes
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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All grown naturally in our greenhouse

A mix of cherry tomatoes: - no spray, and nothing synthetic touches these tasty cherry tomatoes. Red, Pink, Orange, and White. All fully ripe and ready to eat.

Heirloom quality slicing tomatoes: Hybrids which take their genetic line from old heirlooms, but which have more disease resistance and "cat facing" (ie- less irregular shapes and more edible tomato. Some are true hybrids.

Red Slicing tomatoes: Great for salads or sandwiches.
Usually 3-4 per pound.

Salad Tomatoes - Red Mt. Magic, and Orange Clementine: Larger than a cherry, smaller than a slicing tomato.

SALE - slicers for processing: A mix heirloom and hearty greenhouse tomatoes. All very ripe or cosmetically imperfect with green shoulders or splits. Good for sauce, salsa, juice or dehydrating. A bargain for these tasty beauties.

Sun Peach Cherry Tomatoes: Better than Sun Gold? How could that be!
Yes, as sweet with a slightly different tomato sweetness, and much less prone to splitting. Related to Sun Gold