Crops

Beets

• Bulls Blood - A delicious globe-shaped beet. Deep red in coloration. Especially sweet when cooked.
• Chioggia - an Italian Heirloom beet with white and purple to pink to red rings of alternating color. They have a a sweet peppery flavor and are smooth and mild tasting. They are beautiful in a salad.
• Detroit Dark Red - An old fashioned classic with the best beet flavor
• Golden Detroit - The beets turn deep yellow when cooked, and do not bleed like red beets. The roots retain their sweet flavor during cooking! The green leaves with yellow stems can be used in salads when young and can be cooked as greens when mature.

Broccoli

• Diplomat

Celery

• Giant Red - More powerful flavor than green celery. The hearts are pink and cream colored.

Chard

• Rainbow Mix - Red, yellow, pink, and white stems, green and red leaves, great flavor.

Eggplant

• Mangan - Glossy black with a dark calyx.
• Millionaire - New this year. Asian-style with a black calyx

Favas

• Casine (Italian Farm House) - Big, fat favas with wonderful flavor. They are available only in June
• Sweet Lorane - A small fava with tightly packed pods. It's later than the larger favas, and is available for just a few weeks in July.

Kale

• Galega De Folhas Lis - Large savory Portuguese kale. Smooth loose leaf variety with excellent flavor.
• Lacinato - Vigorous and flavorful, beautifully savoyed leaves are light and fresh.
• Rainbow Lacinato - Wonderful color variety, vigorous and hardy. Deliciously crisp, sweet and savory.
• Redbor - Bold magenta, with a smooth and crisp flavor.
• White Russian - Very hardy and water tolerant. Dissected leaves are delicious and flavorful.

Peas, Snap

• Blizzard - New to us this year. A variety that was once widely available and very popular, then inexplicably dropped by the commercial seed trade. Fedco has brought it back.
• Oregon Sugar Pod II - Developed at OSU, this is the best tasting and most prolific edible pod pea.

Peppers, Hot

• Bulgarian Carrot - Thick orange skin, beautiful on the bush but better in soups or other softening cooking methods. Hot as you know what.
• Fish - African American heirloom pepper. The ?secret? ingredient used around Chesapeake Bay for crab feasts and spiced shrimp.
• Hungarian Hot Wax - A few notches down from jalapenos, these peppers are a lovely yellow-green variety that add heat and color to your life.
• Orange Thai - Inch long, hotter than Red Rocket, fine flavor. We sell them dried in hanging garlands and in small packages.
• Piccante Cayenna - Bright red, long pepper. Classic cayenne flavor.
• Serrano - Great for salsa! This pepper is hotter than a jalapeno with thicker flesh. No need to remove the seeds.
• Shishito - This pepper is great pickled or roasted. They have a tiny bit of heat and are good for people trying to build up a tolerance for hot peppers.

Peppers, Sweet

• Alma Paprika - Creamy colored and sweet with a hint of spice. It turns orange when fully ripe.

Sorrel

• Garden Sorrel

Squash, Winter

• Bonbon - Buttercup type, very good flavor, stores well
• Boston Marrow - A large, bright orange squash, easier to cut into than most, wonderful flavor.
• Carnival - Bright orange, green, and white acorn squash, the favorite small squash
• Delicata - Another old Oregon favorite, small torpedo shape with dark green and tan stripes
• Marina di Chiogga - Heirloom from the region of Venice. A squat dark green pumpkin shape with a rough furrowed surface. Dry flesh, good for ravioli.
• Pennsylvania Dutch C
• Sweet Meat - An Oregon classic, big light blue-green pumpkin shape, very sweet. A favorite of many customers
• Sweet Reba - The best acorn or Danish squash
• Uncle David - Uncle David's Dakota Dessert Squash. Sweet enough to make a pie without adding sugar. But not just sweet. It has an intense complex true squash flavor.

Collards

• Champion

Oregano

• Italian Oregano - Definitely more robust

Sage

Spigariello

• foglia liscia
• Foglia Riccia

Parsley

• Curly "Darki"

Chicory

• Green Frisee Endive - Very Finely cut curly leaves

Thyme

• Thyme de Provence

Starts

Peppers, Hot

• Habenero - great for sauces, extreme salsa or adding a lot of spice to just about anything. Great for competitive eating purposes, but you better start practicing now!

Lettuce

Brussels Sprouts

• Roodnerf - One of last open pollinated varieties around. Plump brussels sprouts with great flavor.

Oregano

• Italian Oregano - Definitely more robust

Sage

Tomato, Paste

• Striped Roman - Long and pointed, red with orange stripes, meaty substance, and great flavor. Good for sauces or slicing.

Parsley

• Curly "Darki"

Catnip

• Catnip - This strain has been endorse by cats from coast to coast including Mr. Kitters, Gabriel, the late lamented Jasmine, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Fluffy, Lillian, and so many others

Lovage

• Lovage