Pictured above: Fresh strawberries from Dorr Farm
Hello chefs! Some new announcements to make for this week: First - Florida farms have started to recover from the hard damage they took last month and we will be offering their Kirby cukes and tomatoes again. Purple eggplant to come with that very soon. Second - our whole plant collards and baby collards will be unavailable for a couple of weeks as we wait for our spring crop to be harvested, washed and chopped collards will be available. Third - strawberries are right around the corner, it’ll be here before you know it and the chefs who prepared their kitchens for Dorr and Hickory Bluff strawberries will be the ones who get em. This is the last week to pre-order weekly standings on these exceptional strawberries, they are in very high demand so if you want them for the whole season you better get on your horse and message us about it! Read all about the fruit, the farms and the ordering below in the highlights.
New ingredient! Micro flowers from the Bradford collard. The flavor is pretty awesome for a flower and its just gorgeous on a plate or topped on a speciality drink. We will have 30ct and 50ct packages for this harvested-to-order spring delicacy. Unless you’re a Bradford chef, no other chef in the world has these flowers. They are too special not to use, don’t wait on these - they will be gone!
Wild Hope Farm organic eggs are in for 6 weeks only as they prepare for their spring CSA. If you want some Dadgum fantastic eggs, you can have them now. 1 case is 15doz. eggs for $120, available for 6 week standing order or a la carte via text. We only have 13 cases per week. Most have been called for already.
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 Info
- LAST WEEK to pre-order standings for Monetta Heritage Asparagus and Dorr/Hickory Bluff Strawberries!
- New! New potatoes (red and white, 3 sizes - Reg, baby, tiny/pearl)
- FL: Kirby cukes, red rounds tomatoes, grape tomatoes, Roma tomatoes are back!
- New! Flowers - micro - Bradford collard
- New! Eggs** Organic - Wild Hope Farm
- Baby collards *OUT TEMPORARILY
- Whole plant collards *OUT for 2 weeks
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Bradford Collard Bloom Shoots final week
LATE WEEK ADDITIONS 3/25/26
- Speckled butterbeans, fresh-frozen - Johnny McNair
- NEW! Purple Hull Crowder peas, fresh-frozen - Johnny McNair
- NEW! Edible Flowers - Carolina Wild Rose (Blossoms or Loose Petals)
- NEW! Kale, mixed - Loose leaf - 3lbs
⚠️ **Highlights of the week**⚠️
Strawberries - Dorr Farms & Hickory Bluff Berry Farm - First week of April : Pre-order now by text or email
Last season, these strawberries reset expectations. Chefs who had all but written off the strawberry market — tired of fruit that looked good but tasted like nothing — got their hands on these and had a very different reaction. Fully ripe, deeply sweet, and actually juicy. The strawberry that doesn’t need sugar, doesn’t need help — just a knife and a plate.
This year, both Dorr Farms and Hickory Bluff Berry Farm have refined what they started. They’ve leaned into the varieties that performed best — Camino Real, Frontera, Camarosa, and Medallion — and are continuing to trial new selections, all with one goal: flavor first. And we are proud to be offering the fruits of their important labor.
Something is happening in US strawberries.
The strawberry industry is in a difficult place. Disease pressure has intensified across major growing regions, wiping out entire plantings and, in some cases, rendering established varieties unreliable or unusable. Many of the larger-scale operations and family run strawberry farms have shifted toward reliability, productivity, and predictability over flavor just to survive.
For these farmers, the simple reality is adapt or fall behind.
Dorr and Hickory Bluff have chosen to adapt. They’re not locked into one variety or one system — they’re constantly testing, selecting, and replanting based on what actually tastes good and performs in the field. It’s hands-on, season-by-season work, and it’s why their fruit stands apart.
What You’re Getting
- Fully ripe harvest – picked for flavor, not shipping.
- Ultra freshness - Typically harvested the day before they arrive in your kitchen. Sometimes the morning of.
- High sugar content with real acidity – balanced, not flat
- Juice and aroma that hold up in both raw and cooked applications
- Varietal diversity – different expressions throughout the season
These are strawberries that behave the way chefs want them to — they macerate properly, reduce cleanly, and actually contribute flavor to a dish.
For the Kitchen
- Raw: Serve as-is, slice for desserts, or pair with cream, citrus, or herbs
- Macerated: Holds structure while releasing natural juices
- Roasted or reduced: Concentrates into a true strawberry flavor, not just sweetness
- Savory applications: Works with acid, fat, and spice — not one-dimensional
Ordering & Availability
We are now taking preorders for standing weekly commitments beginning the first week of April.
- 1 case = 8 quarts (2 gallons)
- Standing quantities can be adjusted as the season progresses
- Supply is limited and in high demand
If strawberries are something you want consistently on your menu, a standing order is the way to secure them. It allows the farms to plan harvests around your needs and ensures you’re getting fruit each week as the season unfolds.
These are not commodity strawberries. They’re grown for flavor, picked ripe, and spoken for quickly.
NEW! Flowers - Micro - Bradford collard
We’ve officially moved on from our Micro Taylor turnip flowers, the field has been mowed down in order to prep for okra planting! But to carry on with our little spring flower season we’ve got our family collard flowers. The experience of tasting one of these is not that of eating a flower or what you would expect: it has strong notes of savory brassica, a touch of bitterness, and the pedals carry a subtle sweetness. I the flavor is well-rounded and more complex than your average edible flower. Whence we pick the flowers, we leave 5-6 each on their stem so that structure and ultimately freshness can be retained for longer than individually picked flowers.
It also has larger pedals than the turnip flowers, makes an excellent garnish for spring drinks or bright dishes. Pleasing to the eye, and on brand for spring. We have a very small availability window for these - as soon as our collard field is harvested we won’t have the flowers available anymore.
Offering in 100ct and 50ct packages. Harvested the day before or morning of delivery to preserve color, freshness, and as always, flavor.
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: ✅
-Bloom Shoots with flowers, Bradford Collard
-Edible Flowers (NEW)
——Micro - Bradford collard blossoms - 50ct & 100ct
——Carolina Wild Rose Blossoms (White) - 12ct
——Carolina Wild Rose Petals - Loose - 0.5oz
-Kale, scotch curly
-Kale, mixed varieties - loose leaf
-Gilfeather Turnabaga no Tops (Slow Food AOT, heirloom)
-Bradford collards bagged/chopped
-Bradford collards whole plant
-Winter Charleston Wakefield cabbage (SlowFood AOT) *OFS (returns soon)
-Hybrid green cabbage
-Purple cabbage
-Shredded hybrid cabbage
-Shredded purple cabbage
🤝 Partner Farms: 🤝
-NEW! Spinach - Rooting Down Farms *1 week advance*
-NEW! Arugula - Rooting Down Farms 1 week advance
-NEW! Green garlic - Wild Hope Farm
-NEW! Farm eggs, organic - Wild Hope
-NEW! New potatoes
——Red (sizes: A, B, C)
——White (A, B, C)
——Red & white mix (A, B, C)
-Bolero Carrots - Clem’s Organic Gardens
-Bolero Carrots, No. 2 - Clem’s
-Baby Carrots, Bolero - Clem’s *OUT*
-Purple Top Turnips (heirloom, SlowFood AOT) - Ricky James’ Farm
-Stampede Sunchokes - Craig Weiner and Clem’s Organic Gardens
-Brussels Sprouts - Hickory Bluff Berry Farm *LAST WEEK*
-Broccoli
-Watermelon radishes - Clem’s
-Appalachian Gold Potatoes - Clem’s *OUT -Rainbow Daikon Radishes - Clem’s
-Pecans (fresh, shelled, halved) - Johnny McNair
-Jalapeños - FL
-Zucchini
-Yellow Squash
-Green Bell peppers
-Red Bell peppers
-Grape tomatoes
-Red round tomatoes
-Roma tomatoes
-Tomatillos
-Pee Dee sweet potatoes - Dixon Farms
-Beets, Golden
-Beets, Red
Coming soon:
- Purple eggplant
- Banana peppers
- April 1st: Monetta Farm Heritage Asparagus
- April 1st: Strawberries - Dorr Farms and Hickory Bluff Berry Farm
- Early April: Santee Sweet Onions (Dorr)
MORE COMING SOON
….let us know if there is something else you are interested in that isn’t on our list