Rainbow Tomatoes 50.00 / flat (NOV)
   Cosmetic 2nds 30.00 / flat (NOV)
   Fully Ripe 3rds 20.00 / flat (NOV)
Rainbow Cherries 12.00 / qt. (NOV)
Baby Fennel Bulbs 12.00 / 2lb (NOV)
Baby Summer Leeks 12.00 / 2doz  (DEC)
Red/Green Onions 12.00 / 2doz  (DEC)
Garlic Scapes   4.00 / 1lb  (DEC)
Green Soy Beans 10.00 / 2lb (OCT)
Fresh Flageolet Beans 10.00 / 2lb (OCT)

Rainbow Swiss Chards 27.00 / 3lb  (NOV)
Rainbow Sweet Kales 27.00 / 3lb  (NOV)
Bloomsdale Spinach 21.00 / 3lb  (NOV)
Wild Rapini 27.00 / 3lb  (NOV)
Wild Dandelion Leaves   9.00 / 1lb  (NOV)
Shanghai Bok Choy   1.00 / head  (NOV)
Red Treviso Chicory   1.00 / head  (NOV)
Sugarloaf Chicory   3.00 / head  (NOV)
Baby Arugulas 12.00 / 300g (NOV)
Baby Cresses 12.00 / 300g (NOV)
Hot Mizuna Mustard 12.00 / 300g (NOV)
Red Mizuna Mustard 12.00 / 300g (NOV)
Fordhook Mustard 12.00 / 300g (NOV)
Puntarella Chicory   9.00 / 1lb  (NOV)
Chervil Leaves   8.00 / 100g (NOV)
Fava Bean Leaves 12.00 / 300g (NOV)
Mint Tips 22.00 / 100g (DEC)
Sorrel Leaves   9.00 / 1lb (APR)
Huckleberries 12.00 / 1lb (OCT)
Elderberries 12.00 / 1lb (OCT)
Sun-Dried Tomatoes 70.00 / 2lb (APR)
Smoke-Dried Tomatoes 80.00 / 2lb (APR)
Puffball Mushrooms   9.00 / 1lb (OCT)
 

 
Fingerling Potatoes 20.00 / 4lb  (APR)
Ratte Potatoes 20.00 / 4lb  (APR)
Roseval Potatoes 20.00 / 4lb  (APR)
Black Finger Potatoes 28.00 / 4lb  (APR)
All Blue Potatoes 16.00 / 4lb  (APR)
Red Carrots 16.00 / 3lb  (APR)
Purple Carrots 16.00 / 3lb  (APR)
Black Carrots 16.00 / 3lb  (APR)
Yellow Carrots 14.00 / 3lb  (APR)
White Carrots 14.00 / 3lb  (APR)
Orange Nantes Carrots   9.00 / 3lb  (APR)
Golden Beets 16.00 / 4lb  (APR)
Candy-Cane Beets 14.00 / 4lb  (APR)
White Beets 14.00 / 4lb  (APR)
Red Cylinder Beets 14.00 / 4lb  (APR)

Baby White Turnips 14.00 / 3lb  (APR)
Red Turnips 14.00 / 3lb  (APR)
Amber Turnips 14.00 / 3lb  (APR)
Red Valentine Radish 14.00 / 3lb  (APR)
Green Flesh Radish 14.00 / 3lb  (APR)
Black Icicle Radish 14.00 / 3lb  (APR)
Red Icicle Radish 14.00 / 3lb  (APR)

 
 

 
Baby Salad Greens   25.00 / 300g
Seedling Salad   25.00 / 300g
Edible Flower Mix   22.00 / 35g
Edible Flower Petals   22.00 / 35g
Sunflower Seedlings   22.00 / 400g
Buckwheat Seedlings   16.00 / 300g
White Radish Seedlings   16.00 / 400g
Burgundy Radish   “     9.00 / 100g
Pea Tendrils   10.00 / 100g
Pea Shoots     9.00 / 100g
Chickpea Seedlings     9.00 / 100g
Popcorn Seedlings     7.00 / 100g
Fenugreek Seedlings     9.00 / 100g
Red Cabbage Seedlings   14.00 / 100g
Coriander Seedlings   18.00 / 100g
Crimson Chard Seedlings18.00 / 100g
Golden Chard Seedlings    18.00 / 100g
Bulls Blood Seedlings    18.00 / 100g
Borage Seedlings    14.00 / 100g
Green Basil Seedlings    14.00 / 100g
Purple Basil Seedlings    18.00 / 100g
Red Amaranth Seedlings   12.00 / 50g
Onion Seedlings    10.00 / 50g
Fennel Seedlings    10.00 / 50g
Dill Seedlings    10.00 / 50g
Red Stem Purslane    10.00 / 50g

 

*Garnishing Leaves     22.00 / 50g  
Garnishing Leaves you should try:  red amaranth, red orach, nasturtium, oxalis, yarrow, lavenders, gem marigold leaves, saltwort, peacock kale, sweet cicely,
anise hyssop, lemon verbena… or just ask for a custom blend
 
and Coming Soon!

 
Cardoon   400 / head  (APR)
Giant Kohlrabi   3.00 / head  (APR)
Japanese Sweet Potato 16.00 / 4lb  (APR)
 

 

Fall is Starting!

 

Leafy Greens are at Their Peak!
  
   Fall is the peak season for Leafy Greens.  They lose their summer bitterness and take on cool weather sweetness.  (The sugars are a defense from frosty nights.)  (Speaking of frosty nights, keep in mind that Last-Minute orders cannot be picked on frosty mornings because the leaves need a few hours of thawing to heal.  So please get your orders in early!)
   Leafy Greens to consider are of course our most popular Rainbow of Swiss Chards.  For the cool months also think of our Rainbow of Sweet Kales.  For more traditional menus, heirloom Bloomsdale Spinach is still the richest and creamiest variety – and of course grown in Ontario.  For the most heartwarming flavour we have Wild Rapini which looks so appealingly rustic just tossed on a plate.  For more intense flavour Wild Dandelion is getting to be even sweeter than it is in the Spring.  Shanghai Bok Choy just looks so gorgeous sliced open on a plate.  For red leaves there is Red Treviso Chicory, the unique grandparent of the ubiquitous Radicchio.  For large green leaves perfect for a wrapping there is beautiful Romaine-like Sugarloaf Chicory.
   Any of the above can be served raw.  But the following are best raw in salads or as garnishes.  Baby Arugulas and Baby Cresses both have sharp nutty bites.  Green Hot Mizuna and Purple Mizuna are spicy new forms of this classic mild Mustard Leaf.  For a less deeply cut but frilly leaved heirloom there is Fordhook Mustard.  For an attractive nutty-bitterness there are slender long leaves of Puntarella Chicory.  To tame these leaves consider licoricy Chervil Leaves and tender, buttery Fava Bean Leaves.  To brighten anything there are aromatic Mint Tips and tart, tender Sorrel Leaves.
   Then of course there is the granddaddy of all salads – the amazing Cookstown Greens’ Baby Salad Greens.  It contains many of the above salad greens in hand-selected bite sizes.  To add colour there is an Edible Flower Mix and Edible Flower Petals.  For more textures there are all manor of our soil-grown Seedlings.
 

There is Still a Bit of Summer Remaining
 

 
   Our famous greenhouse grown Rainbow of Heirloom Tomatoes and Rainbow of Cherry Tomatoes are still coming (albeit in smaller quantities) for a few more weeks!  Now is the time to consider working our heirloom Sun-Dried and Smoke-Dried Tomatoes into your winter menus.
   Other summer treats with many many serving possibilities are refreshing Baby Fennel Bulbs, sweet Baby Summer Leeks, and tender curly Garlic Scapes.  Most of our beans have been hit with early frosts.  But the jumbo Chinese Green Soy Beans and delicate fresh easy-to-shell Flageolet Beans are still doing well.
   For your dessert tables we still have sweet (and non-bitter) blue-berry-like Huckleberries and our cultivated deep purple Elderberries.  Consider preserving these in hot simple syrup for serving through the winter with game presentations.
 

Many Roots are Ready     

 
   Even though most of the potatoes throughout the Nottawasaga Valley are long-dead, ours are so healthy they just keep on growing.  Still too tender for machine-harvesting, you can now enjoy luscious hand-dug “new” Fingerling, Ratte, Roseval, Black Finger and All Blue Potatoes.  Now coming out of our fields are sweet and tender Golden, Candy-Cane, Red Cylinder, and White Beets.  Not yet quite up to November richness and sweetness, our Red, Purple, Black, Yellow, White and Orange Nantes Carrots are now growing to just the size you need.  Cool nights have brought on White, Red and Amber Turnips as well as the Red Valentine, Green Flesh, Black Icicle, and Red Icicle Radishes the earliest ever.
   To answer your many requests, Jerusalem Artichokes will be starting again the end of October.  We’ll have to grow more for next summer.