⚠️ **Highlights of the week**⚠️
NEW Yellow Sweet Corn- Florida
This beautiful crop of yellow sweet corn is just coming in season in mid-state Florida! We are glad to be able to offer this crisp, sweet, and super fresh crop so early in the spring. We are still a couple months away from our own crop, so until then we will work with great farmers a little further south of us and a lot warmer to bring you the very best the east coast has to offer.
$56/bushel
Bradford Farm American Groundnuts
Apios americana, American Groundnut is an indigenous foodway of eastern North America. The sprawling perennial vine produces a chain of potato-like tubers below ground that are harvested
after a killing frost. They are denser than potatoes and have 3 times the protein which makes them more versatile, yet because of their starch content can do anything a potato can. They are round in shape which makes them far easier to work with than sunchokes or ginger with all those crevices.
They are fantastic fried as chips, mashed like potatoes, shredded like hash browns, added to soups, and oven roasted. But my favorite way is Groundnut Hummus! Better than chickpeas!
They are traditionally a wild foraged crop with sporadic availability if at all. But I’ve been developing an agricultural method to cultivate, select for productivity, ease of harvest, and scalability for the past 10 years to give this wonderful native food a chance in the spotlight for local chefs. Each year we have a modest crop that sells very quickly. I have a long way to go with this crop, but it’s a plant that I believe is truly worth it.
Here’s Henry Thoreau waxing eloquently on Apios americana:
“Digging one day for fishworms, I discovered the groundnut (Apios tuberosa) on its string, the potato of the aborigines, a sort of fabulous fruit, which had often since seen its crumpled red velvety blossom supported by the stems of other plants without knowing it to be the same. Cultivation has well nigh exterminated it. It has a sweetish taste, much like that of a frostbitten potato, and I found it better boiled than roasted. The tuber seemed like a faint promise of Nature
to rear her own children and feed them simply here at some future period. In these days of fatted cattle and waving grain - fields, this humble root, which was once the totem of an Indian tribe, is
quite forgotten...” Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Below is our full availability for this week.
Key:
** - limited availability
*OUT- currently out of stock
*OFS- out for season
NEW- recent addition
✅ Bradford Farm Crops: ✅
-American Groundnuts
-Bradford collards whole plant
-Bradford collards bagged/chopped
-Hybrid green cabbage
-Purple cabbage
-Shredded hybrid cabbage
-Shredded purple cabbage
Charleston Wakefield cabbage *OUT
——next crop mid April
🤝 Partner Farms: 🤝
-NEW Green tomatoes- Florida
-NEW Yellow Sweet Corn- $56/bushel Florida
-NEW Kirby Cucumbers- Florida
-NEW Italian Purple Eggplant - Florida
-NEW Jalapeños- Florida
-NEW Green Bell peppers- Florida
-Pecans: local shelled: Johnny McNair Farm
-Broccoli
-Scotch Curly Kale: Ricky James Farms
-Curly Mustard *OUT
-Field peas and butterbeans fresh frozen: Johnny McNair Farms
——Fall- Iron and Clay
——Pinkeyes
——Speckled Butter beans
-Grape tomatoes
-Cherry tomatoes *OUT temporarily
-Red round tomatoes
-Roma tomatoes
-Pee Dee sweet potatoes- Dixon Farms
-Green zucchini
-Yellow squash
-Beets- red
-Beets- golden
-Purple top turnips: Ricky James Farms
Coming soon:
-Asparagus- Monetta Farms 10-12 days
-Strawberries- 2 weeks
-Santee sweet onions- 2 weeks
-Spring onions- 1 week
-Lettuce- various types
-Microgreens/sprouts- early April
-spring radishes
-Spring carrots- 2 weeks