Bradford Farm Availability & Updates 10/27/25-10/31/25

👻 🎃 HAPPY HALLOWEEN 🎃 👻 

Here’s to week 2 of our 2025 crop of Dutch Fork butternut pumpkins!! A rare gem of the south, food historians and chefs have praised this butternut pumpkin as the greatest eater out there. Give this crop a spotlight on the menu and it will soon become a favorite! It just needs a little love and attention. We’re also providing a good deal on these DFPs right out of the gate. See image and description below in our highlights.

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 more than you know.

 

Important info:

• Muscadines - FINAL WEEK
• Okra is running low now, the weather has cooled drastically in the last week and the nights are hauling okra production and our yield is extremely low- might be the final week. We expect to be cutting orders back which means if you order, we might not be able to fulfill it the entire weight. 
  
• Charleston Wakefields cabbages are excelling as a result of the low temperatures, less pest pressure and good maintenance have cut the expected return time from 5 weeks out to now just 1 or 2 weeks away from being available again for the fall and winter! 

⚠️ **Highlights of the week**⚠️ 

NEW! Fall Crop Dutch Fork butternut pumpkin

Use this amazing native crop for anything you would do with a modern hybrid butternut squash, but even better!!!

This rare gem is South Carolina’s very own indigenous butternut squash!!! I got my original seed of this variety from my dear friend and fellow seedsman, Carold Wicker, of Pomaria, SC.  This native of the Upcountry and Middle Country of South Carolina was a major foodway of the Congaree, Catawba, and Cherokee Indians, and is where Pumpkintown, SC got its name! 

Following the Native Americans, the German colonists of the Dutch Fork region of SC maintained this butternut since the 1750s.  It became known as the ‘old timey cornfield pumpkin’ by locals and was planted around the perimeter of cornfields to suppress weeds.  As commercial agriculture advanced in the 20th century, that practice disappeared and so did the pumpkin.  Only a few old seedsmen like Wicker still maintain small patches in their home gardens for local consumption.  Although the German descendants revere it as the best for making pies, it can be used for any recipe that commercial butternuts would be used. It makes a silkier and smoother soup or bisque than commercial butternuts, and is unmatched for baking into pies and breads.  Unlike commercial butternuts, the skin can be used as well, and the seeds can used for pepitas! It’s a great size for stuffing and roasting too.

30# cases $52.50; typically 2-3 per case

NEW! Fall Crop Bradford Family Collards

Available for volume and standing order price incentives (see details below)

Bradford collards, our staple crop on the farm, are superior to every collard on the market. Our family has been growing them since the 1850s. They are completely unlike any of the commercially available collards today. Ours have been selected for 170 years to be sweet, tender, and crisp whether cooked or raw, stems and all. They cook much faster and produce a far more flavorful and tender product.

These are available year round, so feel free to make them a mainstay on your menu!

Whole plant 10# and 15# cases

Bagged/chopped 10# and 20# cases

🔥 Current Deals / Offers 🔥 

Bradford Family collards

• Standing order commitment and volume pricing incentive through January, 2 skips:
• 1 case 15# whole plant collards or 1 case 20# bagged/chopped collards 5% off
• 2 cases 10% off
• 3 cases and up 15% off

Dutch Fork Butternut Pumpkins 

• Standing order commitment through season, 2 skips
• 1 case (30#), 5% off
• 2 cases or more, 10% off!

Key: 

** - limited availability

*OUT- currently out of stock

*OFS- out for season

NEW- recent addition

✅ Bradford Farm Crops: ✅

-NEW 2025 Dutch Fork butternut pumpkin

-Fall 2025 Bradford collards bagged/chopped 

-Fall 2025 Bradford collards whole plant

-Bradford Okra *almost out for season*

-Charleston Wakefield cabbage *OUT 1-2 weeks*

-Hybrid green cabbage

-Purple cabbage

-Shredded hybrid cabbage 

-Shredded purple cabbage 

🤝 Partner Farms: 🤝 

-NEW Watermelon radishes - Clem’s Organic Gardens

-NEW Hakurei Turnips - Clem’s

-NEW Rainbow Daikon Radishes - Clem’s

-NEW Parsnips - Clem’s

-NEW Rapa Greens - Dorr Farms

-NEW Curly Mustard Greens - Dorr Farms

-Fall squash lineup

——Acorn

——Delicata

——Blue Hubbard

——Cushaw

-Appalachian Gold Potatoes - Clem’s Organic Gardens

-Davidson River Red Beets - Clem’s

-NEW Scotch Curly Kale - Dorr Farms

-NEW Turnip greens - Dorr Farms

-Arugula - Wild Hope Farm - per request only 

-**Prickly Pears - Wild Hope - per request only

-Red Chard - Wild Hope

-Red Radish no tops - Wild Hope

-Apples - Lively Orchard

——Gold Rush

——Jonagold

——Fuji 

——Rome (only 7 cases remaining as of 10/26)

——Granny Smith

——Ambrosia

——Senshu (only 1 case remaining as of 10/26)

-Asian Pears - Lively Orchard *Low availability*

-Blue Lake Pole Beans - Dorr Farms

-Muscadine grapes SC *FINAL WEEK*

-Crackerjack Red Seedless watermelon

-Jalapeños - Dorr Farms

-Banana pepper

-Fall broccoli - Dorr Farms and others

-Green butter beans, fresh- Johnny McNair Farm

-Speckled butter beans, fresh- Johnny McNair Farm

-Pinkeye field peas, fresh- Johnny McNair Farm

-White Acre field peas, fresh- Johnny McNair Farm

-NEW Fall peas - Johnny McNair Farm

-NEW Zucchini - Dorr Farms

-NEW Yellow Squash - Dorr Farms

-NEW Kirby Cucumbers - Dorr Farms

-Italian Purple Eggplant - Osage Farms (GA)

-Green Bell peppers

-Red Bell peppers 

-Pecans: Mascot Farms (GA)

-Sweetcorn

-Heirloom tomatoes - Blue Ridge Mtn

-Grape tomatoes

-Green tomatoes

-Gold tomatoes 

-Red round tomatoes

-Roma tomatoes 

-Tomatillos

-Pee Dee sweet potatoes - Dixon Farms

-Beets, Red

-Beets, Golden

Coming soon:

• more from Lively Orchard 
  
• ‘Sugar Lips’™️ (Bradshaw)sweet potato - 1-2 weeks 
• Candy Roaster squash - early November
• Feaster mustard - planted
• Taylor turnip tops - sprouting
• Gilfeather turnabaga - sprouting

LOTS MORE COMING SOON

….let us know if there is something else you are interested in that isn’t on our list