Local Organic Vegetable Plants

No matter the current selection in this Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) box, you can rest assured you'll be getting the freshest, tastiest produce of the season straight from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

No matter the current selection in this Farm Share box, you can rest assured you'll be getting the freshest, tastiest produce of the season straight from Hudson Valley. Later on in the summer, you'll receive produce such as squashes, cucumbers, peppers,...

Valuable home remedy with stimulant, blood pressure-regulating, digestive and anti-flatulent properties. Dried powder adds zest and piquancy to soups, sauces, egg and meat dishes. Heat: 30,000-50,000 Scoville units.

Adapts well to different growing situations and does well in spring or autumn. A beautiful spinach with succulent oval dark green leaves that stand upright, ready for easy harvest.

A commercial Italian variety bred for compactness and uniformity. Leaves are dark green, somewhat smaller than standard sweet varieties. Excellent for pot production or for field production.

Thistlelike flowerheads colour silk, wool, rouge and are used as a saffron substitute in rice dishes. (False saffron) Important source of good quality cooking oil, and yellow or red dyes.

An heirloom seed that produces a pear-shaped golden-yellow fruit, resistant to splitting and cracking.

Royal Horticultural Society Award Winner in 2010. Colour persists at any temperature or age. (Onion green; Bunching onion) Attractive green stalks look like they have been dipped in wine! Bulbs are stained a deep purple.

Spread 18in (45cm). Prefers well-drained, moist, loam in full sun. Leaves provide a unique seasoning for meats and dressings. Korean mint is a warming herb known to help clear fevers and also aid in digestion, chest ailments and many other conditions.

Ht. 90-120cm/3-4ft. Each pod contains 5-7 flat oblong beans for fresh or dry use. When the glossy green pods are 10-18cm/4-7in long they are ready to shell. Grow like garden peas. An English heirloom grown since at least the 1800s.

(Shamrock squash; Triangle squash) An old Australian variety with a deeply lobed shape like a shamrock. The skin is blue-green and shiny, and the flesh is deep orange, succulent and sweet.

Beautiful yellow-orange beefsteak tomato with a tangerine shape, meaty flesh and a sweet tart flavour. Indeterminate vines. Excellent slicer, up to 10cm/4" across. Introduced to the American market by Burpee in the 1930s.

An heirloom variety believed to be over a hundred years old, a legacy of the Cherokee Indians. Resembling a beefsteak tomato in size and shape, with dramatic, dusky pink-purple fruit.

(White Bell) Sweet bell pepper with 3 or 4 lobes and crisp, medium-thick flesh. Fruits mature from a beautiful translucent white to pale yellow to scarlet red, and are delicious in any colour.

Good eaten fresh out of hand, or boiled, steamed or stir-fried. Sugar Snap is an exceptional variety that produces sweet, succulent pods that can be allowed to mature to produce peas.

(Ye kui) Edible plant with traditional use as a medicinal herb. The seeds too are edible; when green and immature they have a nice nutty taste and can be cooked or eaten raw though they are a bit of a chore to harvest.

(Chinese mustard; Indian mustard) A splash in the salad bowl and in the garden! Brilliant maroon leaves with light green midribs are both delicious and strikingly ornamental. Can even be grown in containers.

White skinned pumpkin with dark orange flesh, suitable for jack-o-lanterns and pies! Great halloween novelty, as outer skin can be painted on mature fruits of 30cm/8-10”, weighing about 10-16lbs/5kg.

Grows to 120-150cm/4-5ft, so some staking is required... Thick, succulent light green edible pods with a distinct, sweet flavour. Excellent for stir frys, steaming, freezing and fresh in salads.

Suited for greenhouse and field production. Excellent for pesto and other typical basil uses. Ht. 75-80cm/30-32". A large leaf basil has high oil content and hence a stronger aroma and flavour than other varieties.

Heirloom variety of rose-coloured with white radish with crisp, tender mildly pungent flavour that is wonderful in salads, sliced thin on buttered bread, as a garnish or appetizer.

5cm/2” fruits are good pickled or dried for seasoning. This is a good one! Mushroom shaped, thin walled, green to bright yellow, fiery hot taste similar to Habanero types. If you like heat and flavour...

Delicious when steamed slightly and served drizzled with plain or herb and garlic seasoned butter. Holds its crisp, mild flavour long after maturing, never becoming hollow at the heart.

Leaves are fine to medium in thickness and dark blue-green in colour. It is uniform, upright, and very vigorous. Excellent for the fresh, processing, and potplant markets. Highly resistant to diseases and is tolerant of thrips and leaf tip burn.

Good flavour and resistant to powdery mildew. Pickling cucumber developed at Cornell University with white skin and black spines, 8-12cm/3-5" long.

Its glossy leaves are painted with veins of creamy white which, according to tradition, originated from the milk of the Virgin which once fell upon a plant. Striking plant. Important tonic herb for the liver.