Pictured above: Bradford Watermelon
Hey chefs,
The second Bradford okra field is ready to begin harvest. We are ready to really crank on em. We’re hopeful to have some of our family Bradford watermelon harvested in the next 10 days, fingers crossed!!
We’re done with Wild Hope Lettuce and starting up sungold tomatoes at the end of the week. Also finished with blackberrries for the season, they seem to be holding up poorly in the heat. Be on the lookout for some gold ball sized heirloom eggplant varieties at the end of the week too!
As always, if there’s anything you’d like us to trial, grow, or source for your menu, we’d love to hear from you.
COMING SOON
- Green apple eggplant (Lao Green Stripe Heirloom)
- 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
- Ozette potatoes - Fry Farm
- Sungold tomatoes - Wild Hope Farm
- 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 Amaranth greens - Fry Farm
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NEW Lao green stripe eggplant (a little bigger than golf ball size)
- NEW Orange crush eggplant (uniform golf ball size) - coming midweek
- NEW Petite new potatoes, mixed - Fry Farm
⚠️ **Highlights of the week**⚠️
Bradford Okra
The second (much larger) field of our family okra is going to begin harvest this week. That means a whole lotta okra coming fresh out of the field every morning. Please use our okra on your menu! Not only is it spectacularly flavorful, large and tender but it’s also a menu magnet. Fried okra appetizers, shareable and sides tend to sell like nobody’s business in the summer in the south. Generally, southerners are attracted to okra featured on menus, fried or not, so it can be a huge staple for anyone looking for a hot item this season. We’ll have our okra, fresh, into October! If you anticipate high volumes every week then we’ve got some wonderful prices coming your way with standing orders. Just ask! (Or see the Promotions section).
Bradford Watermelons (Patch Notes) - Coyote Melons
Fingers crossed we’ll have our first crop of Bradford Watermelons available in 4 years! We should be getting them in the 10 days if we can keep them going just a little longer. We’ve put in a ton of effort in the patch this year to get these melons to harvest. Currently in a war with the local coyotes who are scratching and biting into our precious watermelons. I can say we ate one this afternoon (7/4) that was a little underripe but oh, so good! Thick tender and succulent rind with that lush red flesh and signature Bradford watermelon flavor. Keep your eyes peeled for the next patch note on these watermelons which hopefully means we have some available for you!
New! Amaranth Greens - Fry Farm
Before spinach became the world’s most recognized leafy green, much of the world relied on amaranth. Cultivated for thousands of years across Central America, Asia, and Africa, amaranth has long been prized as both a grain and a vegetable. While the grain often gets the attention today, the greens remain one of the finest cooking greens you’ll find.
Matt Fry’s amaranth is harvested while the leaves are still young and succulent, giving them a remarkably tender texture. The leaves are broad and delicate with vibrant green tones and subtle burgundy highlights, cooking down quickly while maintaining their body.
The flavor sits somewhere between spinach and young beet greens—earthy, slightly nutty, with a gentle mineral sweetness and none of the assertive bitterness found in many brassicas. The stems are equally usable, remaining tender and juicy rather than fibrous.
Flavor & Texture
- Tender, succulent leaves
- Mild earthy sweetness with light nuttiness
- Silky when cooked, crisp when young and raw
- Tender stems with excellent eating quality
For the Kitchen
- Quick sauté: Garlic, olive oil, and a squeeze of lemon is often all it needs.
- Braised: Excellent with beans, field peas, or smoked meats.
- Soups & curries: Holds its integrity while enriching broths.
- Raw: Young leaves make an excellent addition to mixed salads.
- Pasta & grains: Fold into risotto, farro, or fresh pasta just before serving.
Unlike spinach, amaranth holds onto more of its texture during cooking, making it especially useful where you want a green that doesn’t simply disappear into the pan.
It’s one of those crops that deserves far more attention than it receives—a traditional food throughout much of the world, thoughtfully grown by Matt Fry, and a reminder that some of the oldest vegetables are still among the very best.
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
-Bradford okra
🤝 Partner Farms: 🤝
-Peaches - McLeod Farms
-Onions, Santee Sweet (dried) - Dorr Farms
-Carrots, Yaya - Wild Hope Farm
-Carrots, Baby bolero - Clem’s
-Carrots, bolero - Clem’s
-Blueberries - Bluefield
-Blackberries - Dorr Farms
-Plums, tart - SC
-Cantaloupe - Dorr
-Watermelon
——red seedless - Dorr
——yellow seedless - Dorr
——orange seedless
-NEW! Amaranth greens (country spinach) - Fry Farm
-Beets, Golden
-Beets, Red
-Beets, Badger Flame - Fry Farm
-Baby beets, Badger Flame - Fry Farm
-Butterbeans and Field Peas - Johnny McNair
——Green butterbeans, fresh
——Speckled butterbeans
——White acre, fresh
——Pinkeye field peas, fresh
-New potatoes
——Red (sizes: A, B, C)
——White (A, B, C)
——Red & white mix (A, B, C)
-NEW! New Potatoes, Fingerling red n purple - Fry Farm
-NEW! New Potatoes, Petite mixed - Fry Farm
-NEW! New Potatoes, Upstate Abundance (Row 7) - Fry Farm
-Potatoes, Adirondack Blue - Dorr Farms
-Potatoes, Adirondack Red - Dorr
-Potatoes, Pontiac (red skin, white flesh) - Dorr Farms
-Radish, purple Daikon - Wild Hope
-Broccoli - Southeast (SC, GA)
-Pecans (fresh, shelled, halved) - Johnny McNair
-Jalapeños - Dorr Farms
-Sweet corn - GA, SC
-Blue Lake Pole Snap Beans
-Summer squash medley - Fry Farm
-Baby squash medley - Fry
-Zucchini - Dorr Farm and others
-Yellow Squash - Dorr Farm and others
-NEW! Patty Pan squash (yellow, green, and swirl mix)
-Italian purple eggplant - Dorr Farms
-Green Bell peppers - Dorr Farms
-Red Bell peppers
-NEW! Heirloom Shishito peppers - Dorr Farms
-Cowhorn peppers - Dorr Farms
-Banana peppers - Dorr Farms
-Cherry tomatoes, heirloom mix - Hickory Bluff Berry Farm
-Heirloom tomatoes, mix - Clem’s and Hickory Bluff
-Grape tomatoes
-Cherry tomatoes - Dorr Farms
-Red round tomatoes - Dorr Farms
-Gold tomatoes
-Roma tomatoes - Dorr Farms
-Tomatillos - Hickory Bluff
-Pee Dee sweet potatoes - Dixon 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