Hattie’s Garden, located at 31341 Kendale Rd in Lewes, will be open for the sale of produce and herbs on Thursday September 16 from 10 to 2, and Saturday, September 18 from 9 to 2. We will also be carrying additional food items (fish, chicken, cheese, honey, and eggs) from our vendors on the same dates.

You can also find us at the Historic Lewes Farmers Market (HLFM) on Wednesday, September 15 from 8 to 11. The HLFM is located by the Crooked Hammock Brewery on King’s Highway near Dartmouth Drive and Rt. 1.

If these times/dates do not work for you, please email Hattie to make other arrangements.

Our Delivery/Pickup service continues, and you may still place your order for the Saturday, September 18 service until Tuesday at 8 PM. Thank you to all who have already placed their orders. See below for more information.

What’s Available from Hattie this Week

The following freshly harvested produce and herbs are available this week at the Garden during our open hours on Thursday and Saturday, at the Wednesday HLFM, or through our Saturday Pickup/Delivery Service. The deadline for placing your order is Tuesday at 8 PM.

• Beans — Jade Green Beans and Rattlesnake Pole Beans.
• Loose Leaf Lettuce — Freshly harvested, bagged and triple-washed.
• Mesclun — Freshly harvested, bagged and triple-washed.
• Arugula — It’s young and delicious. Triple-washed.
• Easter Egg Radishes — This mix of red, white, rose pink, purple, and bi-color (red top, white base) radishes gives you your own “Easter egg” hunt for the most colorful radish! Eat fresh in salads or add a bit of crunch and color to sandwiches. At the Garden or Market only.
• Hakurei Turnips — Eat them raw (just whole, or chopped/grated in salads), make a quick pickle, or cook with their greens to enhance their natural sweetness (which often is a surprise to those tasting them for the first time). At the Garden or Market only.
• Georgia Jet Orange Sweet potatoes — Perfect for baking. At the Garden only.
• Shishito Peppers — These popular appetizer peppers are mostly a mild chili pepper, but every now and then a particular pod will pack some heat. Makes the perfect finger food when blistered.
• Heirloom Tomatoes — We have a few Pineapple Bicolor, Cherokee Purple and Brandywine tomatoes left.
• Peppers — Various sweet and hot.
• Fresh Hardneck Garlic — We are offering fresh Russian Red.
• Rosemary — A culinary herb best known for its use in poultry dishes, soups, spreads, and teas. At the Garden or order for Saturday pickup/delivery.

What’s Available from our Other Vendors

The following produce and food items from our vendors are available to purchase during our open hours at the Garden on Thursday and Saturday, or through the Saturday Pickup/Delivery Service (deadline for placing your order is Tuesday at 8 PM).

• Stag Run — They are now offering Macintosh, Fuji, Gala and Ginger Gold apples. Stag Run is home to Chrissy Bee’s honey, and we carry their signature Butterbean Honey as well as their popular Wildflower Honey.
• Flying Squirrel Garden — Freshly baked, seasonal fruit pies, made with all organic ingredients. Although they are not on our order form, if you know you would like one, please let Hattie know via email so she can order an appropriate number of pies for Saturday. Both 6″ and 9″ pies will be available for first come customers and those who email ahead. Fruit should be peaches, perhaps blueberries and cherries. .
• AlaskaWild Seafoods — Smoked Salmon, Sockeye Salmon, Alaska Cod and Pacific Rockfish from Alaska sustainably managed waters.
• Chapel’s Country Creamery — Bringing you their new free-range pork and ground beef, as well as a wonderful assortment of fresh cheese from grass fed cows.
• Dittmar Chicken — Chicken liver and whole chickens.
• Twin Post Farm — Free-range chicken eggs.

Pickup/Delivery Service Active Until Tuesday, 8 PM

While you can purchase some produce and food items from our vendors during our open hours at the Garden, many items can only be purchased through our online service. Please refer to the September 18 Pickup/Delivery Service for what is available and other information on placing an order for this Saturday’s service.

Through this service you can order for pickup or delivery on Saturday, the produce and herbs we grow, as well as a variety of other produce, vegetables, and authentic food from local farmers and vendors. Please note the products from the following vendors can only be purchased through our online system.

• King Mushrooms— Fresh mushrooms from their farm in Barclay, MD on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
• Totem Farms — Microgreens and fresh produce.
• Dittmar Farms Produce — Freshly harvested produce.
• 302 Aquaponics — Freshly harvested produce and farm-raised Tilapia.

The deadline for placing your September 18 order is Tuesday at 8 PM.

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. If you don’t see us, you may toot your horn. We could be processing things in the garage or working outside in the garden.

Reminder that you do not need an appointment. Simply show up during our open hours of operation. We prefer cash or checks, and do have the capability to take credit cards if necessary.

Yours in the garden and at the market,