Pictured above: Clem’s Organic Butterbaby Squash
Hello chefs,
This week we’re reintroducing Clem’s Butterbaby Butternut squash - a petite butternut variety small in size but not small in flavor. In fact, its concentrated butternut flavor makes it a more appealing product in the kitchen beyond its miniature size. I have a story about them in the highlights with more information for you to sink your teeth into.
I am also very excited to be bringing in Wild Hope’s green bell peppers - they are the best green bells I’ve ever had, they lack in traditional vegetal bitterness, and have a sweetness to them. They’re also surprisingly juicy and firm in texture. Truly delicious for something as simple, humble, and basic as the bell pepper.
For a limited time, if you order banana peppers you’ll be receiving Dorr Farms’ mixed Baby Banana peppers. Something truly seasonal and fleeting. These peppers boast a beautiful assortment of flavor and color.
Lively Orchard apples are just beginning to take off this season. If you want real, authentic and reliable apples for the fall and winter seasons you should not look further than Lively Orchards, who we proudly support. The air and soil these trees are growing in is what sets these apples apart from the rest of the region. Cool mountain nights help these apples develop natural sweetness while fortifying the fruit with its signature tight flesh so that these apples have exceptional texture as well as flavor. Current varieties available - Ginger Gold (my favorite with a beautiful sweet-tart balance) and Gala. More to come as the season progresses, keep an eye on the influx of varieties as the weeks go on into the fall.
COMING SOON
- Lively Orchards apples
- Amaranth greens
- Matt Fry’s peppers
- Prickly pear (Late September)
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
- NEW Butterbaby butternut squash
- Jimmy Nardello peppers
- NEW Green bell peppers - Wild Hope
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Mini Spaghetti Squash
- Appalachian Gold potatoes - reg and baby
- Italian green peppers, Carmen
- Anaheim peppers (subtle heat)
⚠️ **Highlights of the week**⚠️
NEW! Butterbaby Butternut Squash - Clem’s Organic Gardens (Appalachia - NC)
A true miniature butternut, Butterbaby produces small, remarkably uniform fruits — tan skin, deep orange flesh, running about a pound each. That consistency alone makes it a rare find for a professional kitchen where portion control usually means trimming down, not simply plating whole.
But size isn’t the reason we’re excited.
Clem grows these in the alluvial soils along the Davidson River — the same ground that gives his potatoes and root crops their depth. Winter squash spend months on the vine building sugar and dry matter before harvest, so soil, water, and time all show up in the finished fruit. That’s especially true here: the flesh cooks down smooth and creamy, with a sweetness and nuttiness that variety trials have repeatedly ranked above Honeynut for flavor.
The skin is thinner than a standard butternut, too — less fabrication, less waste, more usable yield per case.
For the Kitchen
• Roast whole until deeply caramelized, split, finish with cultured butter
• Halve and roast as a composed individual vegetable course
• Confit in olive oil or brown butter
• Purée for soups, sauces, ravioli filling, or mousseline
• Roast and glaze with maple, cider, chile, or warm spice
• Grill over live fire, finish with acid and herbs
• Stuff halves with grains, mushrooms, sausage, or whatever’s in season
The uniform size means a whole or half squash lands on the plate as an intentional portion, not an oversized afterthought.
Butterbaby gives you the density and flavor of a good butternut in a format built for the plate — and grown by someone whose ground does as much work as the seed.
Small squash. Not small flavor.
Green Bell Peppers - Wild Hope Farm
We are now bringing in our green bell peppers from Wild Hope Farm. The flavor is spectacular and the texture is even better. There’s a subtle sweetness and minerality to the profile that I’ve not tasted in other green bell peppers we’ve supplied. I can sit down and eat an entire pepper by itself, it’s so enjoyable. There’s quality so truly second to none and we’re proud to have these peppers available to you.
Baby Mixed Banana Peppers - Dorr Farms
For a limited time, if you buy banana peppers you will receive these exclusive Mixed Baby Banana Peppers grown by Dorr Farms. Its value lies in its diversity of flavor, each pepper harvested in their different stages presents unique flavors, thus something unique to the plate. The red peppers will lean more fruity, sweet and smoky while the more yellow introduces, grassy vegetal flavors.
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 (through October)
🤝 Partner Farms: 🤝
-Fruit
——Apples - Lively Orchards
———Ginger Gold
———NEW! Gala
——Scuppernongs (bronze native grapes)
——Muscadines (purple native grapes)
——Cantaloupe
——Watermelon
———red seedless
———yellow seedless
-Tomatoes
——Heirloom slicer mix - Clem’s, Dale Acre
——Grape, red
——Red round - Osage, Rabun Gap GA
——Gold slicer
——Roma
——Tomatillos - Hickory Bluff
-Beets
——Gold
——NEW Davidson River Red
——NEW Baby Davidson River Red
-Carrots
——Bolero - Clem’s
——Baby Bolero - Clem’s
-Butterbeans and Field Peas - Johnny McNair
——Speckled butterbeans
——Pinkeye field peas, fresh
——NEW Zipper Cream peas, fresh
-Potatoes
——Adirondack Red (red skin, pink flesh) - Dorr
——Pontiac (red skin, white flesh) - Dorr Farms
——Pee Dee sweet potatoes - Dixon Farms
——NEW! Appalachian Gold - Clem’s
——NEW! Baby Appalachian Gold - Clem’s
-Peppers (sweet / not hot / mild)
——NEW! Green Bell - Wild Hope Farm
——Red Bell
——NEW! Italian green, Carmen (frying pepper)
——NEW! Jimmy Nardello - Wild Hope
——Shishito - Wild Hope
——Tequila (mixed)
——Baby Banana peppers (mild/hot) - Dorr Farms
-HOT Peppers
——Jalapeños - Dorr Farms
——Serrano - Dorr Farms
——Cowhorn - Dorr Farms
——NEW! Anaheim (low heat) - Wild Hope
-Squash & Zucchini
——Zucchini - Dorr Farm and others
——Yellow Squash - Dorr Farm and others
-Hard squash
——NEW! Butterbaby Squash - Clem’s
——NEW! Mini Spaghetti squash - Clem’s
——Autumn Frost butternut - SC
——Delicata - SC
——Acorn - SC
-NEW! Eggplant
——Italian Purple
——Fairytale - Wild Hope
-Sweet corn - Dale Acres
-Cucumbers, Kirby
-Blue Lake Pole Snap Beans
-Broccoli - Southeast (SC, GA)
-Pecans (fresh, shelled, halved) - Johnny McNair
Coming soon:
MORE COMING SOON
….let us know if there is something else you are interested in that isn’t on our list