Category: Farmers Market Report

Baby Green Artichokes Grower: Life’s a Choke Description: Baby Green artichokes are roughly two inches in diameter when harvested. Their tender firm leaves form a compact floret with pistachio and lime green tones throughout. Baby Green artichokes are nearly chokeless, though they will still contain needle-like thorns on the tips of the artichoke’s outer leaves. A …

Fava Tendrils Grower: McGrath Farms Description: Fava tendrils are the thread, leaflet and blossom of the fava bean plant. They have the flavor of fava beans with the grassy sweetness of the plant’s foliage. They are overlooked and underused as a culinary commodity, but their sweet unique flavor and appearance should revere them otherwise……<<Read more about …

English Peas Grower: McGrath Farms Description: Peas like beans are divided into two categories: those with edible pods and those without. The pea we are familiar with known as the English pea, green pea, and garden pea, falls into the latter category. Most commercial peas are called English Peas or garden peas. Today, of all the …

Lambs Quarter Grower: Coastal Organics Description: Not as sweet nor as juicy as common spinach, wild spinach, also know as lamb’s quarter, offers an even greener, earthier, mineral flavor. Some describe the taste of young, wild spinach as reminiscent to asparagus. Producing triangular velvety-textured leaves, the entire plant, including the stems, is edible. Small black edible …

Baby Parsnips Grower: McGrath Family Farms Description: These parsnips are harvested at a baby stage and resemble a white carrot. Pale yellow, the parsnip is more irregular in shape than its cousin, the carrot. Under its knobby skin is a creamy, smooth root with a firm texture. Usually marketed without its leaves, the green leaves closely …

Sanguinelli Blood Oranges Grower: J.J.’s Lone Daughter’s Ranch Description: Sanguinelli blood oranges are roughly rounded in shape with a semi-thin, smooth red-blushed peel that clings to its juicy and sweet, segmented flesh. The flesh is stained with a brilliant and consistent dark bing cherry color and though its flavor supreme, as with most blood orange varieties, …

Lyon Artichokes Grower: Life’s a Choke Description: The Lyon artichoke is the most imposing of all artichoke varieties, weighing in at an average of 1-2 pounds each. Its appearance is bold, its sharply tapered, thorned leaves forming a tight rounded floret. The Lyon has a long and dense roughly 7″ stem that when cooked is also …

SUMO citrus Grower: Suntreat Description: The SUMO CITRUS™ is a large mandarin, with a distinctive bump-like projection at its stem tip and quintessentially easy-to-peel skin. Its beneficial characteristics include: it is seedless, extremely sweet with a juicy forward flesh. It sections easily as it contains less albedo (the white netting covering individual sections) than other varieties………<<Read …

Pencil Asparagus Grower: Life’s a Choke Description: Pencil asparagus are varieties that are cultivated and harvested young specifically for their thin, tender spears. Their stems are pistachio green capped with purple- green cruciferous tree-shaped tips. They have a sweeter and more delicate grassy flavor than their more mature counterparts. Cooked pencil asparagus develop notes of toasted …

Pink Turnips Grower: Coastal Organics Description: Baby Pink turnips have both edible roots and greens. Each root is attached to three to four deep pink stems that flow into strap shaped, vein-textured green leaves. The roots are globular and average about one to two inches in diameter. The exterior color of the root is magenta pink …