Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly. Whether you juice them or eat them whole, oranges are a nutritious start to your family’s day! A baseball-sized citrus fruit with a tough orange skin containing juicy, segmented flesh. It may have a sweet to slightly bitter … Read More
Orange – Mandarin
Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly. The Christmas orange! Kids and adults alike look forward to this easy-to peel fruit with a thin yellow-orange to flame-orange loose skin (rind). The mandarin appears small, slightly flattened orange, with the most enjoyable, sweetly aromatic tender flesh, … Read More
Grapes
Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly. There is both romance and convenience wrapped up in these healthy small rounds. They feature semi-translucent flesh encased by a smooth skin. Some contain edible seeds while others are seedless. Like blueberries, a protective, whitish bloom covers grapes. … Read More
Grapefruit
Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly. Remember when your mom fed you a half grapefruit for breakfast or the 1980s Grapefruit Diet? If yes, then you might have memories of this tropical citrus fruit’s slightly bitter taste. Grapefruit is usually about the size of … Read More
Oregano
Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly. It’s the flavour of pizza…with a warm, balsamic, and aromatic taste. Easily identified by its oval leaves, purple-ish flowers and pungent scent, the perennial plant is native to the Mediterranean. The Oregano we know & love is 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
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
Potatoes – Sweet & Yam
Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly. A popular Thanksgiving tradition. However, they are high in beta-carotene and other nutrients, so it`d be a sham to only serve them for one feast! Many North Americans have been confused when naming these tasty tuber vegetables. Oftentimes … Read More
Onion – Yellow, White
Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly. Also known as ‘mature onions’, they belong to the lily family of plants. This vegetable is grown for its edible bulb, most often performing a supportive role to flavour a variety of other foods. The yellow onion is … Read More
Lettuce – Romaine
Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly. It’s so indispensable that it always seems to be on our shopping list! Beginning your meal with a salad made of crisp romaine lettuce you will add a variety of textures and flavours to your meal, as well … Read More