Hattie’s Garden delivery/pickup service continues to bring you fresh and wholesome food. We are now taking orders for the Saturday, August 21 Pickup/Delivery Service.

The deadline for placing your order is Tuesday at 8PM. We suggest you place your August 21 order as soon as possible to be sure you get what you want, as we do run out of some things.

What’s Available through the Online Order System

The following items are available now to order for pickup or delivery on Saturday, August 21.

Hattie’s Garden has a bounty of delicious Brandywine, Cherokee Purple and Pineapple Bicolor heirloom tomatoes. These are excellent heirloom varieties and are picked to give you the very best flavor. The cherry tomatoes are producing nicely, and we have nice mixed pints of black and red cherries for you.

You may purchase them through the order form, or visit the Garden on Thursday from 10 to 4, or Saturday from 9 to 2; or visit us at Wednesday Historic Lewes Farmers Market (HLFM) from 8 to 11, located at Kings Highway across from Crooked Hammock Brewery from 8 to 11 a.m. That way you can pickup out your own. If you know the day or days you plan to eat your tomatoes, we are very good at picking out just the right ones for you.

We are also harvesting wonderful shishito peppers. While they look a lot like a hot pepper that you might use to add some spice to your meal, shishitos are actually a meal on their own — or a snack, at least. Store them in your crisper drawer for up to a week or more. For longer term storage, you can freeze them whole.

To prepare, heat olive oil in a wide skillet over medium heat until hot but not smoking. Turn the peppers frequently, until they become softer and the skin begins to brown and blister. After several minutes, once they are adequately browned, remove them from the pan and sprinkle with good salt and a squeeze of lemon.

In addition there is plenty of beautiful basil. For pesto, you may want to order our bunches of basil, but for use with your tomatoes, you should get plenty from our 2 ounce bags of basil. For one lb. quantities of basil, contact Hattie directly.

We have both Russian Red Garlic and Phillips Garlic hardneck garlic, and a selection of other herbs. We are also very pleased to be offering Freeman’s corn for our pickup/delivery service and for pickup at the garden during our open hours. This corn is often lauded as the best in the area. It’s the same corn sold at the intersection of Robinsonville and Plantation Rd.

From Totem Farms, we have red okra, plenty of herb selections, and a good assortment of microgreens to choose from. 302 Aquaponics has plenty of produce, herbs and tilapia fish.

Dittmar Family Farms is offering nice spaghetti squash as well as butternut squash. Their whole free-range chickens and chicken liver are excellent.

Chapel’s Country Creamery has added pasture-raised pork in addition to their premium pastured-raised ground beef. We have available for you bacon, link sausage, loose sausage, ham slices, nice thick pork chops and scrapple. If you are interested in other cuts, let us know. And of course, they have delicious aged and fresh cheese made on their farm using milk from their grass-fed cows.

AlaskaWild Seafoods family-run business has Pacific Cod, Pacific Rockfish, and Sockeye Salmon fresh frozen directly from the boat and flown to the east coast every week. Their smoked salmon is now back in stock.

King Mushrooms offers a large assortment of fresh mushrooms, including some difficult to find exotic varieties that have amazing health benefits.

Rounding out the line-up are wonderful free-range chicken eggs from Twin Posts and honey from Chrissy’s Bees (part of Stag Run Farm).

Where and When to Find Us This Week

You can find us this week at the Wednesday Historic Lewes Farmers Market (HLFM) from 8 to 11, located at Kings Highway across from Crooked Hammock Brewery from 8 to 11 a.m.

We will be open at the Garden for the purchase of produce, herbs and flowers on Thursday from 10 to 4 and on Saturday from 9 to 2.

Look for an email on Tuesday, detailing what we will have available at the Wednesday HLFM and at the Garden on Thursday and Saturday.

Don’t forget the deadline for placing your order this week is Tuesday at 8PM

Yours in the Garden,