Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly. Dill – the taste of Gramma’s home cooking – especially pickles! As an herb, it belongs to the parsley family of plants. With such lacy, feathery green leaves, Dill is gracefully pretty. Fresh dill licorice-like flavour, with notes … Read More
Cilantro
Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly. Add a mild, aromatic ethnic flavour to your meals! Cilantro (the seeds of which are called Coriander) is a cooking staple in Mexico, the Caribbean, Thailand, as well as in Asian, where Cilantro is called Chinese Parsley. It … Read More
Chives
Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly. An herb well-known for its long green shoots that are used as a seasoning like a very mild onion. Not surprisingly, they are a member of the Allium family, related to the onion and leek. Chives are a … Read More
Basil
Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly. Talk about fresh fragrance and intense flavour! Of course, fresh is always better with culinary herbs. Basil’s captivating spicy-sweet aroma is a cross between licorice and clover – so lovely that it is commonly used as a base … Read More
Swiss Chard
Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly. A very economical vegetable, since both the rippled leaves and stalk of chard are edible. In fact, the crunchiness of the stalks can replace celery in many recipes. Belonging to the same family as beets and spinach, Swiss … Read More
Winter Squash
Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly. Meet the winter gourd family. Due to their mildly sweet flavour and fine texture that showcases in fall, they show up in many harvest recipes. Fall is when their rinds have hardened, and they keep well under the … Read More
Summer Squash & Zuchinni
Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly. Yes – you may intrerchange summer squash with zucchini in your recipes…just in case you’re wondering. The biggest difference is that zucchini is the only one Ralph’s Farm Market offers year round. The appearance of all the varied … Read More
Rutabaga
Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly. Don’t let rutabaga be the root vegetable that gets lost in the shuffle. Resembling an overgrown turnip but has pale yellow flesh while the turnip has white, a coarser, firm texture, which makes it hard to cut. Typically … Read More
Peas – Snap & Snow
Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly. Do you remember summers growing up, sitting on the porch shelling peas for dinner? Well that was Garden Peas. Shelling won’t happen when eating Snow or Snap peas. Pod peas are grown to be eaten with both the … Read More
Peppers – Hot Jalapeno Chile
Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly. If hot is your acquired comfort zone for cuisine, then you’re well acquainted with hot pepper, also called ‘chile’. One of the most popular chilies because of its hot and spicy punch and because of the ease in … Read More