What We Grow
In addition to salad greens, cucumbers, kale, and other staples, we grow the fringe stuff. Shishito peppers, ghost chilis, chicories, thai basil, fairy tale eggplants, a rainbow of gnarly tomatoes - the weirder, the better. We’re endlessly fascinated by the beautiful shapes and colors and tastes of heirloom and uncommon veggies, and recognize the high price that our ecosystem, our health, and our food system will pay if those varieties are lost.
Though it takes time, a rigorous organizational strategy, an affinity for experimentation, and a sense of adventure, we’re committed to growing a unique and varied crop of highly unusual, and highly delicious, veggies and flowers for our customers and for ourselves.
We love eating what we grow just as much as we love the process of growing it. We’re always committed to trying new preparation techniques and recipes as our relationship to our food deepens and grows, and we’re always excited about sharing that knowledge with our customers. Please check out the recipe database below for what we’ve learned over the years of eating mostly plants we grow ourselves.
For a calendar of what you can expect at the market across the season, click here.
Why We Grow Organic Flowers, Specifically
We grow organic flowers for many of the same reasons that we grow veggies: to cultivate a deep connection to the earth, to be a positive force in our local economy, to live seasonally, and to nourish whole people. We’re proud to be a part of a growing movement away from industrialized flower cultivation and towards a privileging of fresh, seasonal, and sustainably grown flowers in regional ecologies.
That said, we also firmly believe that ‘because they are beautiful’ and ‘because they remind us to slow down’ are good enough reasons. In our world, in which the primacy of speed and permanence are at odds, flowers are fleeting and gentle markers of time.
Towards that end, and in constant feedback with our veggie growing operation, we work hard to grow an ever-expanding list of unusual blooms. Every year we make new investments in our organic perennial stock, and forage our surrounding countryside for native wild foliage. While we love working with event and wedding designers to craft their seasonal visions, we are most committed to bringing exceptional bouquets to market all season long so that the lush and unusual beauty of our organic flowers can live on in the homes of our market customers.
In turn, you, our loyal customers, are using your spending power to vote against the international industrial flower market - which is less regulated than industrial food and more harmful to the health of our planet and the people that grow them. Instead of being chemical laden, mass produced, and imported from thousands of miles away on refrigerated airplanes, our flowers are healthy, unique, seasonal, lovingly harvested and arranged by us, driven to you in our ratty old truck, and always Certified Organic.
