Pictured above: Carolina Wild Rose Blossoms
Howdy chefs! Moving into next week we are excited to tell yah that strawberries and asparagus are finally on this week! We’ve made them available to order a la carte if you wish. For those who already have standing orders placed don’t add your commitment to the rest of your order unless you would like to add that quantity to your standing on the next delivery.
Heirloom tomatoes are just around the bend! It’s about to be tomato sandwich season for us haha! Moving into collards now, we need our next collard crop to have at least 1 more solid week to grow and gain in size. Which means we are out of both collard options until that crop is ready for harvest. We are sorry for the inconvenience. To shine a light on things, we’ve brought back banana peppers and Italian eggplant.
New ingredient! Here for maybe another week: Carolina Wild Roses (Blossoms or Petals).
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, available for standing order or a la carte on the order form. We only have 6 cases per week.
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
- Monetta Heritage Asparagus and Dorr/Hickory Bluff Strawberries!
- Eggplant and banana peppers return
- FL: Kirby cukes, red rounds tomatoes, grape tomatoes, Roma tomatoes are back!
- New! Edible Flowers - micro - Bradford collard
- New! Edible Flowers - Carolina Wild Rose
- New! Eggs** Organic - Wild Hope Farm
- Bradford collards *OUT for 1 weeks
- Speckled butterbeans, fresh-frozen - Johnny McNair
- NEW! Purple Hull Crowder peas, fresh-frozen - Johnny McNair
- NEW! Kale, mixed - Loose leaf - 3lbs
⚠️ **Highlights of the week**⚠️
New! Edible Flowers - Carolina Wild Rose Blossoms and Petals
Growing wild alongside our fields, these Carolina Wild Rose blossoms are a quiet marker of the Southern spring — one of the first true signs that the season has turned. You’ll find them along fence lines, field edges, and open ground, blooming briefly and without ceremony. They don’t last long, and that’s part of their value.
Each bloom opens wide — clean white petals, bright yellow center — carrying a soft apple–pear floral note that’s subtle and fresh. The petals have structure; they hold their shape rather than dissolving, giving you something you can actually work with on the plate.
There’s a long tradition of wild roses appearing at the edge of cultivated land. Not planted and not forced, just emerging where conditions are right. They’ve always signaled transition, that brief window where the landscape softens and resets.
“The wild roses lean against the fence posts,
and the field seems to be breathing them in,
their pale faces lifted to the sun,
simple, stubborn, and entirely themselves.”
— Wendell Berry, Leavings
Culinary uses are numerous!
- Crudo / raw fish: Float whole blossoms for a clean, aromatic finish
- Fresh cheeses: Scatter petals over ricotta, chèvre, or burrata
- Desserts: Pair with strawberry, rhubarb, or citrus
- Infusions: Steep into simple syrup, honey, or vinegar
- Spring plating: Use whole or in petals — they hold their form and read clearly
These are delicate, but not fragile — a seasonal Southern ingredient that brings both structure and restraint. Best used fresh, while the bloom is open and the fragrance is still present.
Blossoms - 12ct shell
Petals (loose) - 0.5 oz shell
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 *OUT
-Bradford collards whole plant *OUT
-Winter Charleston Wakefield cabbage (SlowFood AOT) *OFS (returns ~4 weeks)
-Hybrid green cabbage
-Purple cabbage
-Shredded hybrid cabbage
-Shredded purple cabbage
🤝 Partner Farms: 🤝
-Green garlic - Wild Hope Farm *OUT
-NEW! Farm eggs, organic - Wild Hope
-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 *OUT FORS SEASON*
-Broccoli
-Watermelon radishes - Clem’s
-Pecans (fresh, shelled, halved) - Johnny McNair
-Jalapeños - FL
-Zucchini
-Yellow Squash
-NEW! Italian purple eggplant
-Green Bell peppers
-Red Bell peppers
-NEW! Banana peppers
-Grape tomatoes
-Red round tomatoes
-Roma tomatoes
-Tomatillos
-Pee Dee sweet potatoes - Dixon Farms
-Beets, Golden
-Beets, Red
Coming soon:
- Early April: Santee Sweet Onions (Dorr)
- Heirloom Tomatoes
- Heirloom cherry tomatoes
- Blueberries
- Rhubarb*
MORE COMING SOON
….let us know if there is something else you are interested in that isn’t on our list