Pictured above: Taylor Turnip Tops
Welcome back to our weekly farm blog, chefs!
Taylor Turnip tops are back on the menu from our farm. This green is extremely rare and special, the greens are so great that that the plant doesn’t even produce an edible root crop. All of the energy goes into making the tops.
Dorr Farms is loaded with fresh sweet corn and hand picked green beans, they will be harvesting fresh broccoli later this week.
COMING SOON
- Brussels sprouts
- Kohlrabi
- Rainbow Chard
- Green cabbage
- Orange beets (pending)
- Rutabagas
- Purple top turnips
- Charleston Wakefield cabbage
- Dutch Fork pumpkins
- persimmons
SPECIAL REQUEST: We kindly urge you to consider adding at least one of our own Bradford Farm grown crops to your weekly orders. We are working with quite a number of other farms to bring you the best access to regional flavor that we possibly can, but the heartbeat of our farm is our homegrown crops. We can’t exist without moving our own crops too. So please review the crops we offer under Bradford Farm Crops below and consider adding one or more of them. It helps us a ton.
Important Notes
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Heirloom, ancestral Red Ripper peas
- Kale and red chard
- Prickly pears
- Southern mustard greens and rapa greens from Dorr
- Bolero carrots
- parsnips
- watermelon and rainbow daikon radishes
- Rosaine Little Gem Lettuce from Wild Hope will resume mid week
⚠️ **Highlights of the week**⚠️
NEW! Taylor Turnip Tops - Bradford Farm
Taylor Turnip Tops—the finest turnip tops we’ve ever grown, tasted, or shared with a kitchen. Unlike the common turnip greens most folks know, these beauties carry none of the bitterness. They’re mild, bright, and tender enough to enjoy raw. Their pencil-thin, stringless stems are sweet, crisp, and juicy—an unexpected pleasure for anyone who thinks they know turnip greens. It’s this unique quality that keeps chefs coming back to them every year.
These seeds came to us years ago from our dear friend Bill Taylor, whose family had stewarded them quietly for generations. When we grew our first seed crop, it was clear: this wasn’t a standard turnip at all. They don’t make a root—only greens. But when the greens are this remarkable, you’ll never miss the bulb.
Like many heirlooms we tend, the Taylor Turnip Top had never left Bill’s family garden, never been offered beyond their fence line, and certainly never been plated in a restaurant—until now. Sharing this variety with chefs and diners is one of the most meaningful ways to keep rare flavors alive. Your creativity and your menus are what turn preservation into a living, breathing tradition.
When you purchase and serve these greens, you help protect an at-risk heirloom and support the ongoing work at Bradford Farm—traveling the country to find vulnerable seeds, reviving them, saving them, and placing them back into the hands of thoughtful cooks. It’s a partnership we’re deeply grateful for.
If you’d like a deeper look into the story, The Post and Courier published a wonderful piece on the Taylor Turnip Top—well worth the read.
Green Beans (hand harvested) - Dorr Farms
Maynard Dorr has fresh, hand-harvested green beans this week. They are sweet, juicy, snappy and very delicious. He managed to harvest 5 bushels this weekend, first come-first served - listed as blue lake green beans.
Broccoli - Dorr Farms - by the end of the week
By the end of the week, Dorr expects his fall crop of broccoli to come in. Freshly cut everyday.
DISCOUNTS & PROMOTIONS
Heirloom tomatoes - mixed flat - Clem’s and Dale Acres
Buy 2 flats - $5 off
Buy 4 flats or more - 10% off
Standing orders
- Reference - a la carte price - $55 each
- 1 flat per week - $53
- 2-3 flats per week - $51 each
- 3-5 flats per week - $49 each
- 6+ flats per week - $47 each
Reach out to us if you’d like to get included on this deal!
Field peas and butterbeans - standing order options
A la carte price for comparison - $59 per bag across all varieties.
Option 1: Sign up for a weekly recurring order of any field pea or butterbean for 12 weeks - $57/ bag
Option 2: Sign up for weekly recurring order of any combination of 2 or 3 bags for 12 weeks - $56/ bag
Option 3: Sign up for weekly recurring order of any combination of 4 bags or more for 12 weeks - FREE Winter Squash Sample Box (Value of $30) + 1 free bag, $55/bag every week after (total value of at least $280)
*note - you can switch varieties of peas and peas anytime, any week. Just notify me!
Key:
** - limited availability
*OUT- currently out of stock
*OFS- out for season
NEW- recent addition
(SlowFood AOT)- appears on the SlowFood Ark of Taste for its exceptional qualities, flavor, story, and historical significance and/or usage.
✅ Bradford Farm Crops: ✅
-Bradford collards bagged/chopped (spring crop)
-Bradford collards whole plant (spring crop)
-Hybrid green cabbage *OUT
-Purple cabbage
-Shredded hybrid cabbage
-Shredded purple cabbage
-Bradford Okra (through October)
-NEW! Candy Roaster squash (SlowFood AOT)
-NEW! Taylor Turnip tops (heirloom)
🤝 Partner Farms: 🤝
-Fruit
——Apples - Lively Orchards
———Fuji
———Golden Delicious
———Gala
———Granny Smith
———Ambrosia *OUT
———Jonagold
———Asian Pear (exclusive)
——Scuppernongs (bronze native grapes)
——Muscadines (purple native grapes)
——Cantaloupe
——Watermelon
———red seedless *Almost gone
———yellow seedless *Almost gone
----Prickly Pear - Wild Hope Farm
-Tomatoes
——Heirloom slicer mix - Clem’s, Dale Acres
——Grape, red
——Red round - Osage, Rabun Gap GA
——Gold slicer
——Roma
——Tomatillos
-Beets
——Gold
——Davidson River Red - Clem's
——Baby Davidson River Red - Clem's
-Roots
——Bolero - Clem’s Organic Gardens
----Parsnips - Clem's Organic Gardens
----Turnips, Hakurei - Clem's Organic Gardens
----Radish, Watermelon - Clem's Organic Gardens
----Radish, Rainbow Daikon - Clem's Organic Garden
-Potatoes
——Appalachian Gold - Clem’s
——Baby Appalachian Gold - Clem’s
----Pee Dee Sweet Potatoes
-----Large
-----Medium
-----Jumbo
-Peppers (sweet, savory, or mild)
——Green bell - Wild Hope Farm
----Red bell - Amish
----Italian, Carmen (frying pepper) - Wild Hope
——Jimmy Nardello - Wild Hope *OUT
——Heirloom Shishito - Dorr
——Anaheim (California Green Chile) (low heat) - Wild Hope
-HOT Peppers
——Jalapeños - Dorr Farms
——Serrano - Dorr Farms
——Cowhorn - Dorr Farms
——Baby Banana peppers - Dorr Farms
-Squash & Zucchini
----Zucchini - Dorr Farms
——Yellow Crookneck - Dorr Farms
----NEW! Patty Pan Mixed - Dorr Farms
----NEW! Snow Globe White & Green Ball - Dorr Farms
-Hard squash
——Butterbaby Squash - Clem’s
——Mini Spaghetti squash - Clem’s
——Autumn Frost butternut - SC
——Koginut - Wild Hope
——Delicata Heirloom - Wild Hope & Lake City
——Acorn - SC
——NEW! Cushaw (aka Crenshaw, aka Tennessee Sweet Potato Pumpkin) - SlowFood AOT - Amish
——NEW! Blue Hubbard - Amish
-Greens
——Kale, Scotch Curly - Wild Hope, Dorr
——Kale, Tuscan (Dino) - Wild Hope
——Red Chard, Rhubarb Supreme - Wild Hope
----Mustard, Curly - Dorr
----Rapa- Dorr
-Legumes
----NEW! Peas, Red Ripper (fresh-frozen) - Johnny McNair
----Butterbeans, Green (fresh-frozen) - Johnny McNair, Josh Johnson
----Butterbeans, Speckled (ff) - Johnny McNair, Josh Johnson
----Peas, Pinkeye (ff) - Johnny McNair, Josh Johnson
----Peas, White Acre (ff) - Johnny McNair, Josh Johnson
-Eggplant
——Italian Purple
-Sweet corn - Dorr Farms
-Cucumbers, Kirby - Dorr Farms
-Green cabbage
-Blue Lake Pole Snap Beans - Dorr Farms
-Broccoli - Dorr Farms (soon)
-Pecans (fresh, shelled, halved) - Johnny McNair
Coming soon:
MORE COMING SOON
….let us know if there is something else you are interested in that isn’t on our list