Pictured above: Green strawberries, available now!
Happy Easter weekend everybody! Things are really buzzing now at the farm with all this sunshine and warm weather! We did get one little surprise in the wee hours of the morning this past Sunday with a frost that set our Bradford okra back. We have replaced the dead plants and the new crop is catching on. We’re excited and hopeful for our earliest crop of Bradford okra ever! If all goes well, we are looking at early May.
We’ve also started our Bradford watermelons with cautious expectation. We’ve planted them in the collard rows which will give them some protection as they get started. By the time we harvest the collards, the watermelons will be taking off! This will be our first Bradford Watermelon availability in four years🙏🏻.
We have some more exciting crops to share with you next week — A very rare and special, heirloom corn, an update on our Wicker White cucumbers, Hanson lettuce and we have an extremely rare heirloom cantaloupe in the plans.
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!
- NEW! Green strawberries - Dorr Farms
- Edible Flowers - micro - Bradford collard *OUT FOR SEASON - thank you for making our first ever micro flower crop a success!!
- Eggs, Organic - Wild Hope Farm
- NEW Bradford collards bagged/chopped are back!
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NEW Bradford collards whole plant are back!
⚠️ **Highlights of the week**⚠️
NEW! Strawberries, Green - Dorr Farms & Hickory Bluff Berry Farm
Harvested before ripening, these green strawberries offer a completely different expression of the fruit — one that leans savory, structured, and bright. Pulled early while still firm, they carry a crisp texture with a flavor that sits somewhere between cucumber, green apple, and a barely-there strawberry note.
These come from the same fields producing the ripe fruit, but they’re selected intentionally at an earlier stage — when acidity is high, sugars are low, and the flesh is tight. That makes them incredibly useful in a kitchen looking for contrast, not sweetness.
Flavor & Texture
- Firm, crunchy bite
- High acidity, low sugar
- Fresh, green, slightly herbal finish
- Holds structure under knife, salt, and acid
They behave more like a vegetable than a fruit.
For the Kitchen
- Pickled: Holds shape beautifully; takes on vinegar and spice without softening
- Sliced raw: Use in place of green apple or cucumber for acidity and texture
- Crudo: Adds brightness and structure alongside raw fish
- Salads: Pairs well with herbs, greens, and fresh cheeses
- Chutneys & relishes: A sharper, more restrained base than ripe strawberries
- Light roasting: Softens slightly while maintaining integrity
Green strawberries give chefs a different tool — something that references strawberry without relying on sweetness.
From the same farms producing some of the most flavorful ripe berries in the region, these offer the other side of the crop — early, sharp, and highly usable in savory work.
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: ✅
-Bradford collards bagged/chopped (NEW spring crop)
-Bradford collards whole plant (NEW spring crop)
-Edible Flowers (NEW)
——Micro - Bradford collard blossoms - 50ct & 100ct *OUT FOR SEASON
-Kale, scotch curly
-Kale, mixed varieties - loose leaf *limited
-Gilfeather Turnabaga no Tops (Slow Food AOT, heirloom) *very limited
-Winter Charleston Wakefield cabbage (SlowFood AOT) *OUT (returns ~3 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! Monetta Heritage Asparagus - Monetta Asparagus Farm
-NEW! Strawberries - Dorr Farms & Hickory Bluff Berry Farm
-NEW! Green Strawberries - Dorr & HBB
-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)
-Stampede Sunchokes - Clem’s Organic Gardens
-Broccoli - Southeast (SC, GA, FL)
-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 - April 10th
- Rhubarb - late April
MORE COMING SOON
….let us know if there is something else you are interested in that isn’t on our list