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Customer Testimonials

Don't take it from us - listen to what our customers have to say about our fresh farm produce!

"Your green garlic rocked my pasta!" - Ross

"I think the yard looks absolutely awesome, and my tenant loves the weekly produce!" - Cathy, absentee landlady of an NUA farm plot

"Your flower bouquet stayed fresh on my table all week." - Kathleen

"They are just like the carrots I used to taste on the farm as a kid; they are sweet, and taste, taste! Store carrots can never measure up to them." - Ruth

Season-Long Produce

As on any farm, our produce availability varies with the seasons. However, the following items we're able to supply fairly consistently from spring to fall:

	Mesclun Salad Mix A mix of 20+ heritage varieties of lettuce
	Spicy Salad Mix Red mustard or arugula (depending on the season) added to our Mesclun Salad Mix
	Multicolour, Multipurpose Mix A mix of baby greens without the lettuce, such as rainbow chard, Red Russian kale, mizuna and beet greens
	Red Russian Kale Baby- to medium-sized decorative leaves with pink stems, great for salads or cooked (not always available)
	Rainbow Chard Sweet baby- to medium-sized leaves with magenta, crimson, peach, canary, coral, and white stems, delicious raw or steamed
	Radishes Easter Egg blend (shown left), White Icicle and French Breakfast varieties usually available
	Green Onions or Scallions Grown from multiplier onion sets until July, and afterwards from seed, green onions are always popular at the market

Spring Produce

These items are usually only available in the springtime:

	Spinach Baby- to medium-sized leaves, field-washed and bagged (also available in fall)
	Arugula Baby- to medium-sized leaves, sweeter in cooler weather and spicier as they mature (also available in fall)
	Rhubarb Gigantic red stalks, always an attention-grabber in the spring market display
	Sugar Snap Peas A sweet delight, available only for a few weeks from late spring to early summer (also available in fall)
[Photo to come]	Cilantro One of the cooler-season herbs, grows quickly and is available for only a few short weeks (also available in fall)

Summer Produce

Most of these items are also available in the fall as well:

	Mesclun Mix with Edible Flowers A colourful alternative to the standard Mesclun Mix; edible flowers such as nasturtium, viola, calendula, California poppy, cornflower and marigold (depending on what's in bloom) are sprinkled into the mixed lettuce
[Photo to come]	Cucumbers Pickling, long green and lemon varieties, available from mid-July onwards
			Beets Deep red, Chioggia (also known as "candy-stripe"), and rainbow bunches available starting early to mid-July
[Photo to come]	Carrots The very sweet Nantes Coreless variety, as well as Atomic Red (peach-red throughout) and rainbow bunches starting mid-July
	Tomatoes This year we are growing the early medium-sized Stupice, the large and flavourful Cherokee Purple, Honeybee yellow cherry, and red Fox cherry varieties
	Head Lettuce Several varieties of head- and leaf-lettuces available, including Romaine, Sierra, Grand Rapids and Merlot
	Garlic Scapes The young flower stalks of garlic plants, tender and delicately flavoured, from late spring to mid-summer
[Photo to come]	Head Garlic This year we have the Persian Star and Italian Red varieties, available later in the summer
[Photo to come]	Green and Purple Beans Slender, tender and tasty! Different varieties offered separately or mixed, available from late July onwards
[Photo to come]	Melons A first attempt this year - fingers crossed the weather cooperates! Personal-sized cantaloupes and seedless and seeded watermelons
		Herbs Dill, flat-leaf parsley, curly parsley available from early summer onwards, with basil coming later on

Fall Produce

Besides certain spring and summer items mentioned above, highlights of the fall include the following:

Winter Squash

Varieties this year include butternut, acorn, delicata, and spaghetti squash

And quite possibly more to come! The fall plantings have not yet been finalized for this year.