Hattie’s Garden delivery/pickup service continues to bring you fresh and wholesome food. We are now taking orders for the Saturday, April 17 Pickup/Delivery Service.

The deadline for placing your order is Tuesday at 8PM. We suggest you place your April 17 order as soon as possible to be sure you get what you want, as we do run out of some things.

Plant Sales are Beginning

Hattie’s Garden will begin the first of our plant sales this week! We will open Thursday from 2 to 5 and Saturday during the regular pickup time from 9 to 2 for our initial plant sales. Watch for an email Tuesday morning to see exactly what we will have available for plants this week. The list should include at a minimum lettuce, arugula, swiss chard, cilantro, dill, additional herbs in 4″ pots and much more.

As we did last year, some produce will always be available at the Garden without needing to fill out an order form, but the most complete list is on the order form and we encourage you to order ahead, especially as we are just at the very beginning of our produce season.

What’s Available through the Online Order System

The following items are available now to order for pickup or delivery on Saturday, April 17.

Hattie’s Garden will be harvesting the first of our young arugula and lots more of the delicious Austrian Winter pea tendrils. We will have mesclun and lettuce mix in another week.

Totem Farms brings you an assortment of nutritious microgreens and is busy bringing on the produce from their high tunnels. This week they have baby kale, a nice light Asian green known as Tokyo Bekana and washed romaine leaves ready for salads. Thier herbs are also making a comeback.

Fresh Harvest Hydroponics has butterhead lettuce, red leaf lettuce and romaine lettuce available.

Nancy’s Café has great menu items including sweets, soups, chilis, quiche, scones and more.

We continue to have an assortment of jams and jellies from Backyard Jams & Jellies and their Autumn Chutney is back in stock.

We have free-range whole chickens and half chickens from Dittmar Family Farms and wonderful free-range chicken eggs from Twin Posts.

AlaskaWild Seafoods family-run business has Pacific Cod, Pacific Rockfish, Coho Salmon, Sockeye Salmon and Smoked Salmon fresh frozen directly from the boat and flown to the east coast every week.

King Mushrooms brings to us a large assortment of fresh mushrooms, including some difficult to find exotic varieties with amazing health benefits. We get fresh honey from Chrissy’s Bees (part of Stag Run Farm), and delicious aged and fresh cheeses from Chapel’s Country Creamery, made on the farm using milk from their grass-fed cows.

What we are Planting

Last week we potted up over 1,000 plants into their 4″ pots. Many tomato varieties, pepper varieties, eggplants and herbs. They will be ready for you soon. We also planted lots of onions out in the garden.

We started more flowers and we started our second batch of tomatoes, eggplants and pepper plants. They will be our final batch this year and will be ready in about five-six weeks. Our first batch should be ready for you in about 10 days to two weeks.

Vermont Compost Potting Soil

Yes, Vermont Compost potting soil is here! You may order it from the order form, or pick it up when you come to the Garden.

We offer two kinds of potting soil in 20 qt. bags: Vermont Compost Fort Lite, (a complete germinating and transplant mix, and is particularly desirable for growers using smaller celled flats or hanging baskets) and Vermont Compost Fort Vee, (a compost-based germination and/or transplant mix, designed for *soil blocks, trays, and pots). There is no better potting soil company that I know of.

Yours in the Garden,