Produce, Food & Plants: October 17, 19 & 21
Stop by Hattie’s Garden on Tuesday, October 17 from 1 to 4 and Thursday, October 19 from 10 to 4 for the sale of produce, meat, eggs, cheese, fish and lavender plants.
In addition to our farm hours, you can find us at the Fall Historic Lewes Farmers Market (HLFM) located at the Lewes Elementary School parking lot at 820 Savannah Road on Saturday from 9 to 12.
We now have a large assortment of apple varieties from Stag Run Farm. The following will be available at the Garden this week: JonaGold, Fuji, Liberty, Gibson Golden Delicious, Winesap, Stayman and Honey Crisp. See below for apple descriptions.
At Hattie’s Garden, our arugula is back! We are also pulling sweet, delicious carrots from our garden and harvesting young lettuce mix. Our microgreens are delicious and last a long time. We still have just a bit of ginger left, so if you haven’t gotten yours yet, please stop by.
What’s Available from Hattie
The following freshly harvested produce will be available at the Garden on Tuesday, October 17 from 1 to 4 and Thursday, October 19 from 10 to 4, and at the HLFM Fall Market at the Lewes Elementary School parking lot at 820 Savannah Rd on Saturday from 9 to 12.
- Young Arugula — It’s young, clean and flavorful. Triple-washed and bagged.
- Young Swiss Chard — Bagged. Delightfully tender, young Swiss chard is suitable for salad use or lightly cooked.
- Hakurei Turnips — Sweet, mild white salad turnips are good raw or lightly cooked.
- Bacchus Purple Radishes — These rich colored purple radishes are delicious.
- Chives — Fresh-cut, in bunches.
- Lemongrass — Lemony and herbaceous. Works well in sweet and savory dishes and drinks.
- Ginger — Fresh young ginger is juicy and plump. It’s mild and tender enough to eat raw and, of course, very good for you!
- Young Mixed Lettuce — Triple washed and bagged. Limited.
- Young Carrots — Young Carrots bunched.
- Peppers — Poblano, Carmen red Italian frying peppers , various sweet peppers, and a few hot Jalapenos.
- Shishito Peppers — These popular appetizer peppers are mostly a mild chili pepper, with an occasional hotter pepper. Toss in oil and sear in the skillet, then sprinkle with flaky salt.
Microgreens
- Mixed Microgreens — Mixture of kale, kohlrabi, asian greens, red cabbage.
- China Rose/Daikon Radish microgreens mixture — Outstanding spicy kick that’s a great addition to a salad or on top of a sandwich.
Plants
- Lavender — in 8″ pots
What’s Available from our Other Vendors
We carry the following meat, eggs, cheese, fish and other food products at the Garden on Tuesday, October 17 from 1 to 4 and Thursday, October 19 from 10 to 4.
- Stag Run Farm — This week we have JonaGold, Fuji, Liberty, Gibson Golden Delicious, Winesap, Stayman and Honey Crisp apples. See below for apple descriptions.
- Backyard Jams & Jellies — We have a large variety of jams, jellies, mustards, chutney, no sugar added, and plenty of the popular Beach Plum Jelly.
- Enoch Farms — Sustainably raised, naturally grown, heritage pork. Available this week is Sweet Italian, Spicy Italian, Kielbasa, Chorizo, Breakfast Links, Breakfast Patties, Bratwurst, Scrapple, Porkchops, Bacon and Spare ribs.
- AlaskaWild Seafoods — Flash frozen, wild-caught salmon, rockfish and cod.
- Chapel’s Country Creamery — Farmstead artisan cheese that taste as good as they look. The cows are not given any synthetic growth or production-enhancing hormones, just a lot of love and attention.
- Chrissy’s Bees — Dutch Clover and Wildflower Honey.
- Beach Dog Farm — Pasture-raised, organic fed, unclassified eggs in limited supply.
- Twin Post Farm — Free-range chicken eggs from Princess Anne County.
Stag Run Farm Apples
- JonaGold — a cross between a Jonathan and a Golden Delicious, JonaGold is a large delicious apple. Sweet and tart all-purpose apple.
- Fuji — crisp, firm and dense, juicy and one of the sweetest. Good keeper, and while mostly known as an eating apple, it holds its shape well and so is suited to baking.
- Liberty — These small apples are a cross between a Macoun and a Japanese crab apple. Liberty is a dark red apple with a delightful aroma. Juicy and crisp, fine flesh with a sub-acid flavor. This is a desert apple, great in salads or fresh eating.
- Gibson Golden Delicious — this fresh eating apple has a honey sweet flavor, is crisp and juicy and is an all-purpose apple. This mutation of Golden Delicious is less prone to russetting and has a nice smooth skin.
- Honey Crisp — Well balanced, sweet, tart taste, honey crisp is fantastically crisp and juicy. It’s moderately sharp sub-acid taste is accompanied by mild aromatic characteristic. A good keeper, Honey Crisp is an all-purpose apple.
- Stayman — Around since at least the mid-19th century, Stayman is a medium-sized red apple that is firm, tender, finely textured, juicy, crisp, tart and spicy. It is used as a dessert apple and keeps well.
- Winesap — This small to medium apple is an old cultivar from at least the 18th century. Winesap is sweet with a tangy finish and is an all-purpose apple.
Directions to Hattie’s Garden
Hattie’s Garden is located at 31341 Kendale Rd in Lewes approximately 3 miles from Plantation Road (also known as Rt. 1D), coming inland on either Robinsonville Rd. or Beaver Dam Rd (Rt. 23 South).
Kendale Rd. is a short road (0.6 miles) between Robinsonville and Beaver Dam Road.
The house is fifth on the left from Beaver Dam Rd, and has a large wooden fence in front of house with purple trim.
Park in the graveled area facing the fence.
Yours in the Garden and the Market,