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Greetings, local food lovers!
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Place your order from Western Maine Market today or early tomorrow for pick-up or delivery this Friday or Saturday.
New and Returning Products
BANANA CHOCOLATE CHIP Jumbo Cafe-style muffins
Menu Group: Food
Section: Baked Goods
Category: Muffins
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Vendor: Happy Snowman Alpaca Farm
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Ingredients: Sugar, chocolate chips (sugar, chocolate, cocoa butter, milkfat, soy, natural flavors), bananas, all purpose flour, vegetable oil, eggs, baking powder, banana emulsion, vanilla extract, baking soda, cinnamon, and sea salt.

Allergens: Eggs, milk, wheat, soy
These are made with the same perfect banana recipe I've used for 40 years... just with added chocolate chips for more fun!
Calming Chamomile Tea
Menu Group: Food
Section: Coffee and Tea
Category: Tea
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Vendor: Whitehill Farm
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Certified Organic and hand harvested, blossoms only. Chamomile blossoms all hand harvested at Whitehill Farm. Makes a soothing and calming tea!
Extra large sized eggs
Menu Group: Food
Section: Eggs
Category: Chicken
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Vendor: Whitehill Farm
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For when a "Large" egg isn't quite enough! Significantly larger than regular large eggs ...large eggs weigh 55-60 grams and extra large are 65 grams and up! Golden yolks just like regular large eggs.
Clingstone peaches
Menu Group: Food
Section: Fruits and Berries
Category: Peaches
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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Clingstone = flesh of peach does not freely separate from the stone. All early peaches are clingstone. Clingstone are the first to ripen. Just as good as free stone, but you will need to cut the flesh from the pit. Juicy and sweet. Fully ripe when light finger pressure feels some "give" or softness of the peach. Avg of 1.5 lbs in a quart, 5-6 peaches.

The only spray has been a copper spray in the fall and again in the early spring to help control fungal diseases.
Early Plums
Menu Group: Food
Section: Fruits and Berries
Category: Plums
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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Tasty even when yellow with shades of pink; ripe or over ripe if you wait until fully purple.
The trees have been sprayed with a copper solution in the fall and early spring to control fungal diseases.
They have also been sprayed in the early spring with Surround, a kaolin clay suspension to help limit damage from the plum curculio
Tabouli salad
Menu Group: Food
Section: Prepared Foods
Category: Salads
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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Made with our tomatoes and parsley; water, organic bulgur WHEAT; extra virgin olive oil, organic lemon juice; local or our onions, scallions, and/or chives; local garlic; our mint, sea salt, and black pepper. Keep refrigerated.
Cold Blueberry Soup
Menu Group: Food
Section: Prepared Foods
Category: Soups
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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Made with our homegrown blueberries. Call it soup and use a spoon or call it a smoothie and drink it. Either way, it's delicious and refreshing. Available unsweetened or with honey
Ingredients: our no spray blueberries, yogurt (cultured Pasteurized organic whole milk, pectin, vitamin D3, live active cultures), orange juice. Nutmeg can be added on request.
Tzatziki
Menu Group: Food
Section: Prepared Foods
Category: Vegetarian
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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A cucumber dip with Greek yogurt & dill. Contains our homegrown or local cucumbers, Greek yogurt, garlic, dill, olive oil, vinegar, salt, and pepper.
Beautiful Golden PEACH Jam
Menu Group: Food
Section: Preserved Foods
Category: Jams Jellies Butters & Spreads
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Vendor: Whitehill Farm
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Golden peaches transformed into a delicious jam. Locally grown peaches lovingly canned here at Whitehill Farm!
Dark Red Beets
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Beets
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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No spray, naturally grown.

Available Extra-Large, Medium to large, or small to medium
Broccoli - Medium To Large Heads
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Broccoli
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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Very Nice heads!
Grown using IPM, Integrated Pest Management, starting with row cover, and using minimal pesticides to control swede midge for which there is no organic control.
Carrots - Orange
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Carrots
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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Grown naturally.
Cauliflower - White florets
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Cauliflower
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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Grown using IPM management - ie. limited pesticide use depending on presence of Swede Midge which prevents head formation.
Fresh Celery Leaf
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Celery
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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Leafy celery with skinny stalks, great for flavoring soups, stews, casseroles, salads, roasts.... try it in this recipe for Celery Leaf Salad with Honey Vinaigrette or http://www.laurieconstantino.com/all-about-leaf-celery/ [Tomato Sauce with Celery and Mint.]
Radicchio head
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Greens
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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Similar to dandelion greens in taste, radicchio can be eaten raw and is also great drizzled with a bit of olive oil and salt and briefly braised, served as a side dish or under an entree. Learn more about radicchio here: www.delish.com/cooking/recipe-ideas/a33484611/what-is-radicchio/ and find recipes here: www.marthastewart.com/286437/radicchio-recipes
Onions
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Onions
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Vendor: Shady Maple Farm Products
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Red, White, or Yellow Highlander onions
Certified Organic! Czech Black peppers
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Peppers
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Vendor: Whitehill Farm
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Stunning glossy black! Delicious at any stage. About as hot as jalapeños ...great for stuffing or stir-fry. Even Czech BLACK peppers are brilliant red when they are truly ripe, but tasty at all stages!!
Certified Organic! "Healthy Sweet" heirloom peppers
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Peppers
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Vendor: Whitehill Farm
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Beautiful Healthy peppers are sweet, thick walled, juicy, and perfect for salads and roasting. They ripen from a pale green to yellow, orange, and then a deep red.
Antohi heirloom peppers
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Peppers
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Vendor: Whitehill Farm
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Certified Organic! Beautiful sweet Antohi Roumanian peppers are sweet, thick walled, juicy, and perfect for salads and roasting. They ripen from a yellow, to a warm orange, and finally red. Tasty at all stages! Traditional heirloom that was brought to the US in 1991.
Summer Squash
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Squash - Summer
Summer Squash
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm
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Magda - flavorful, medium size, Pear shaped. Very good! More flavor than green Zucchini and even more than yellow Zephyr

Zephyr - yellow with green tip - medium: Distinctive with a green tip - tender and, we think, the best of any yellow summer squash. Naturally grown.

Zucchini - dark green - medium size: The dark skin is high in antioxidants! Great for salads, stir fries, grilling. Naturally grown.
Tomatoes
Menu Group: Food
Section: Vegetables
Category: Tomatoes
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Vendor: Porter Hill Farm

A mix of cherry tomatoes: Grown naturally in our greenhouse - no spray, and nothing synthetic touches these tasty cherry tomatoes. Red, Pink, Orange, and Yellow. All fully ripe and ready to eat.

A mix of Red and Yellow Salad Tomatoes: Intermediate size between cherry and slicing. Each a FULL mouthful, but great also in salads, Shish Kabobs. Grown naturally in our greenhouses. Very colorful and tasty!

Heirloom quality slicing tomatoes: Grown Naturally in our greenhouse. 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. Most pink, some yellow/orange, some yellow/orange with red streaking.

Sun Peach Cherry Tomatoes: Better than Sun Gold? How could that be!
Related to Sun Gold


Vendor: Shady Maple Farm Products

Cherry Tomatoes-variety of colors

Heirloom-mixed varieties

Red Slicers


Vendor: Whitehill Farm

(pictured) JUST Sun Gold Cherry Tomatoes! A pint! Organic! The BEST and sweetest cherry tomato! Pint box of Sun Golds. We'll put that pint of gold into a paper bag so you won't lose a single one!
Sunflowers
Menu Group: Home and Garden
Section: Cut Flowers
Category: Sunflowers
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Vendor: Rasmussen Farm
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varied colors & sizes, now available by the dozen