Pictured above: Bradford watermelons
Hey chefs,
Throwing out there again: We’ve gone in and added 4 new filters to make it easier, simpler, and more efficient to find what you’re looking for. The new filters:
- Heirloom Lineup (all in stock heirloom ingredients)
- Historic Ingredients & Varieties (the greatest historic ingredients and flavors of the past)
- Slow Food Ark of Taste (all in stock ingredients featured on the Slow Food Ark of Taste)
- Southern Heritage (Southern classics, heirlooms, staples)
COMING SOON
- White queen heirloom tomato (white skin/ white flesh)
- Plate de Haiti heirloom tomato (red)
- Amish paste tomato (heirloom, SlowFood Ark of Taste)
- African “Nutmeg” Cantaloupe - Bradford Farm (heirloom)
- Fish peppers (heirloom, Slow Food AOT)
- Heirloom Ground Cherries - Bradford
- Baby Davidson River red beets - Clem’s
- Davidson River red beets - Clem’s
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
- PROMO Bradford okra
- NEW Davidson River Red beets - Clems
- NEW Baby Davidson River Red beets - Clems
- NEW Figs, Celeste (Sugar figs or Honey figs) - Hickory Bluff
- NEW Bradford watermelon
- NEW Makah Ozette Potato (Heirloom Fingerling) - Fry Farm
⚠️ **Highlights of the week**⚠️
NEW! Bradford Watermelons (Patch Notes)
The time has come! Our Bradford watermelons are out of the field now and we’re opening up orders for them this week. There will be an allotment - each order is capped at 2 melons.
My Great-great-great grandfather bred this watermelon over 180 years ago. It has a delicate and succulent deep pink flesh that is sweet and refreshing. The aroma once cut fills the room and is intoxicating. The rind is thick, but so tender that it is eaten raw like crisp cucumbers. It was bred to have the perfect rind for pickling. It has been recorded in numerous publications and hailed by chefs and the public as quite possibly the best watermelon in existence.
NEW! Davidson River Red Beets and Baby Beets
I assure you these are not your standard red beets. Grown in the rich, flood-plain soils along the Davidson River, they take on a concentrated sweetness with less of the earthy bitterness that chefs often associate with conventional red beets. Their texture is tighter, with a clean snap when raw, and they roast down to a dense, jewel-toned flesh that holds color without tons of bleeding. You should notice a brighter finish on the palate—sweet, mineral-driven, and balanced—ideal for dishes where the beet’s flavor needs to shine without overpowering. Clem’s beets are primo— the best of the best.
NEW! Figs, Celeste (or Sugar Figs/ Honey Figs) - Hickory Bluff
Known throughout the South as the “Sugar Fig,” Celeste has been the benchmark for fresh-eating figs for generations. First brought to the American South centuries ago, it became the region’s defining fig thanks to its exceptional sweetness, reliability in hot, humid climates, and ability to produce consistently beautiful fruit where many Mediterranean varieties struggle.
Our Celeste figs come from Hickory Bluff Berry Farm, where long summer days allow the fruit to fully develop its rich sugars before harvest. Beneath their dusty violet-bronze skin lies a rose-colored interior with notes of honey, melon, dried fruit, and, when left to fully tree-ripen, subtle hints of Concord grape. Unlike many figs, Celeste possesses a naturally closed eye, helping the fruit resist splitting and souring even during Southern humidity.
The flesh is dense, silky, and remarkably jammy while maintaining enough structure for both savory and sweet applications. Fresh burrata, country ham, blue cheese, roasted duck, pork, and aged balsamics all find a natural partner in Celeste, while its concentrated sweetness also lends itself beautifully to preserves, tarts, and wood-fired desserts.
Few fruits capture the flavors of a Southern summer quite like a tree-ripened Celeste. It is one of those ingredients that requires very little intervention—simply harvest at peak ripeness and allow its natural sweetness to carry the dish.
NEW! Ozette Potatoes (Makah Heirloom) Slow Food Ark of Taste - Fry Farm
Revered as the oldest continuously cultivated potato in North America, this extraordinary fingerling traces its lineage to Spanish explorers who established a small fort at Neah Bay, Washington, in 1791. When the settlement was abandoned, the Makah Nation adopted the potato and became its faithful stewards, preserving the variety in their coastal gardens for more than two centuries.
Modern genetic research has revealed that the Makah Ozette followed a unique path into North America. Unlike nearly every other potato grown in the United States—which arrived through Europe—the Makah Ozette appears to have traveled directly from South America with Spanish expeditions before finding its permanent home on the Olympic Peninsula. It remains one of the few living links between Indigenous agriculture and the earliest European exploration of the Pacific Northwest.
Until the late 1980s, the Makah Ozette was virtually unknown outside of the Makah Nation. Its survival is owed entirely to generations of Indigenous growers who continued cultivating the variety long after it had disappeared from commercial agriculture. Today, thanks to the efforts of the Makah Nation, Slow Food, regional farmers, and chefs, this remarkable potato has been preserved as one of North America’s most significant heirloom crops.
The Makah Ozette produces long, irregular fingerlings with creamy white flesh, a dense yet silky texture, and an exceptionally rich potato flavor accented by earthy sweetness and subtle notes of roasted chestnut. Unlike many modern fingerlings bred for appearance and yield, this historic variety was preserved solely because of its cultural importance and exceptional eating quality.
Equally at home in refined tasting menus or rustic preparations, the Makah Ozette rewards simple cooking—roasted until crisp, gently confit, browned in butter, or served alongside seafood, game, and seasonal vegetables. More than a potato, it represents over two hundred years of stewardship, resilience, and one of the most compelling agricultural stories in North America.
DISCOUNTS & PROMOTIONS
Bradford Okra
Standing order pricing, weekly (8+ weeks)
Skips and quantity adjustments are allowed.
10lbs - $4.50/lb
20lbs - $4/lb
40lbs - $3.75/lb
60lbs - $3.50/lb
80lbs - $3.25/lb
100lbs - $3/lb
For standing orders over 100lbs per week contact Theron, Nat or Noah. If you want to sign up for a standing order of okra please let either of us know via call or text!
Heirloom tomatoes - mixed flat - Clem’s and Hickory Bluff
Buy 2 flats - $5 off
Buy 4 flats or more - 10% off
Standing orders
- Reference - a la carte price - $55 each
- 1 flat per week - $53
- 2-3 flats per week - $51 each
- 3-5 flats per week - $49 each
- 6+ flats per week - $47 each
Reach out to us if you’d like to get included on this deal!
Charleston Wakefield Cabbage - Bradford Farm
Standing order prices
- 8 weeks - 1 case (20lbs) - $65 ($3.25/lb)
- 8 weeks - 2+ cases - $60 ($3/lb)
We hope to quickly move through this crop because we honestly have too much to store in our coolers here on the farm. Please reach out to Theron, Noah or Nat to get on board.
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 (spring crop)
-Bradford collards whole plant (spring crop)
-Charleston Wakefield cabbage (SlowFood AOT)
-Hybrid green cabbage
-Purple cabbage
-Shredded hybrid cabbage
-Shredded purple cabbage
-NEW! Bradford Okra (through October)
🤝 Partner Farms: 🤝
-Fruit
——Peaches - McLeod Farms
——Blueberries - Bluefield
——Plums, tart - SC
——Cantaloupe - Dorr
——Watermelon
———red seedless - Dorr
———yellow seedless - Dorr
———Bradford
-Tomatoes
——Heirloom cherry mix - Hickory Bluff Berry Farm
-Heirloom slicer mix - Clem’s and Hickory Bluff
-Grape
-Red cherry
-Red round - Dorr Farms
-Gold slicer - Hickory Bluff
-Roma - Dorr Farms
-Tomatillos
-Sungold tomatoes - Wild Hope
-Beets
——Red
——Gold
——Davidson River Red
——Baby Davidson River Red
-Carrots
——Yaya - Wild Hope Farm
——Rainbow - Fry Farm
-Butterbeans and Field Peas - Johnny McNair
——Green butterbeans, fresh
——Speckled butterbeans
——White acre, fresh
——Pinkeye field peas, fresh
——Dixie Lee peas, fresh
-Potatoes
——Fingerling red n purple - Fry Farm
——Petite mixed - Fry Farm
——Upstate Abundance (Row 7) - Fry Farm
——NEW! Ozette (Makah Heirloom) - Fry Farm *Slow Food Ark of Taste
——Adirondack Blue (blue flesh, blue skin) - Dorr Farms
——Adirondack Red (red skin, pink flesh) - Dorr
——Pontiac (red skin, white flesh) - Dorr Farms
——Pee Dee sweet potatoes - Dixon Farms
——New Red (sizes: A, B, C) - commodity
——New White (A, B, C) - commodity
——New Red & white mix (A, B, C) - commodity
-Peppers (sweet / not hot / mild)
——Green Bell - Dorr Farms
——Red Bell
——Heirloom Shishito - Dorr Farms
——Tequila (mixed) - (coming soon)
——Banana peppers (mild/hot) - Dorr Farms
-HOT Peppers
——Jalapeños - Dorr Farms
——NEW! Serrano - Dorr Farms
——Cowhorn - Dorr Farms
-Squash & Zucchini
——NEW! Patty Pan squash (yellow, green, and swirl mix)
——Zucchini - Dorr Farm and others
——Yellow Squash - Dorr Farm and others
-NEW! Eggplant
——Italian Purple - Dorr
——Casper (White Heirloom) - Dorr
——Tiger Stripe, about golf ball size (Asian Heirloom) - Dorr
——Red Rotanda (Italian Heirloom), golf ball size - Fry Farm
——Fairytale - Wild Hope
-Sweet corn - GA, SC
-Cucumbers, Kirby - Dorr Farms
-Blue Lake Pole Snap Beans
-Radish, purple Daikon - Wild Hope
-Broccoli - Southeast (SC, GA)
-Pecans (fresh, shelled, halved) - Johnny McNair
-NEW! Amaranth greens (country spinach) - Fry Farm
-Onions, Santee Sweet (dried) - Dorr Farms
Coming soon:
- Beets, badger flame - 1 week
- Carrots - 1 week
- Hakurei turnips - 2 weeks
- Appalachain tomatoes - June
- Heirloom cherry tomatoes - 3 weeks
- Rhubarb - late May
- Bradford Okra - 1 week
MORE COMING SOON
….let us know if there is something else you are interested in that isn’t on our list