Halloween is behind us, Thanksgiving not too far out, days are an hour shorter now, and deer season is half over. Our crops are changing too, so have a look at our availability for this first week of November.
Here’s the Cliff notes: two new additions to our apple offerings- Pink Lady and Arkansas Black! Fresh, crisp and sweet Dorr Farms green beans and crunchy jalapenos! McNair fresh Fall peas! Okra is done, sadly. Might be the last week for muscadines, but we will just play that one by ear.
Lots of great root veg available, winter squashes and leafy greens, with more coming in the weeks ahead!
Looking forward to delivering the next five days of flavor!
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 - MIGHT* BE FINAL WEEK
- OKRA has concluded, thank you for a great, long season.
- Charleston Wakefield cabbage will be ready to go in 1 week!
⚠️ **Highlights of the week**⚠️
NEW! Arkansas Black Apples - Lively Orchards
A Southern heirloom and culinary staple in its native region (Arkansas). The Arkansas Black is small, dense, and glossy—beautiful dark red skin, looks black in some areas. Bright white and very dense flesh that is absolutely packed with intense apply flavor. Grown in the crisp mountain air of Hendersonville, the fruit comes off the tree firm and tart, then mellows as it rests, developing a deep, winey sweetness that chefs love for baking and aging. Stephanie Lively’s trees grow in mineral-heavy soil that gives each apple a bolder flavor.
Roast or bake them and they turn into something rich, balanced, and complex. Think cider, tart, or pork pan sauce. Arkansas Black is a connoisseur’s apple and it’s unforgettable once you’ve worked with it.
NEW! Pink Lady Apples - Lively Orchards
Crisp, vibrant and bright, Pink Lady is the apple that wakes up the palate. Developed in Australia and now thriving in the cool slopes of the Blue Ridge, this variety ripens late, soaking up the last stretch of fall sun. The result is that perfect tension between sugar and acid—sweet enough to eat raw, sharp enough to make a dish pop.
Stephanie Lively’s Pink Ladies are picked at peak maturity, giving them that signature blush skin and tight, juicy crunch. In the kitchen, they’re built for precision: slice thin for salads and cheese boards, dice for fresh slaws, or let them roast just enough to caramelize the edges while keeping their structure. This a chef’s go-to apple for flavor and presentation.
🔥 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
-Charleston Wakefield cabbage *OUT 1 week*
-Hybrid green cabbage
-Purple cabbage
-Shredded hybrid cabbage
-Shredded purple cabbage
🤝 Partner Farms: 🤝
-Watermelon radishes - Clem’s Organic Gardens
-Hakurei Turnips - Clem’s
-Rainbow Daikon Radishes - Clem’s
-Parsnips - Clem’s
-Rapa Greens - Dorr Farms
-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
-Scotch Curly Kale - Dorr Farms
-Turnip greens - Dorr Farms
-Arugula - Wild Hope Farm - per request only
-**Prickly Pears - Wild Hope - per request only
-Red Radish no tops - Wild Hope
-Apples - Lively Orchard
——NEW Arkansas Black
——NEW Pink Lady
——Gold Rush
——Jonagold
——Fuji
——Rome (only 6 cases remaining as of 10/26)
——Granny Smith
——Ambrosia
-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:
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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