Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly. Some parents tell their toddlers that broccoli is trees, with the hidden motive of feeding them with nutrition. Veggie Tales, too, has made this vegetable more fun and approachable. With immune-boosting Vitamin C benefit, it’s great that it … Read More
Plums
Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly. Prune Plums Mmm – the Okanagan plum is so smooth and juicy sweet tasting! With a ranging appearance from yellow to almost black, the flesh can taste tart to very sweet and juicy. As a rule of thumb, … Read More
Peaches
Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly. Nothing says “summer” better than the juice of a fresh peach running down your chin! A round, sweet juicy stone fruit with a soft, fuzzy cream or yellow surface skin flushed with red. Perhaps the most celebrated of … Read More
Potatoes – Red, Russet, White & Yukon
Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly. To many, potatoes are a comfort food and a staple of a great home-cooked dinner. It is a good thing they can be cooked by any cooking method desired. Potatoes are generally divided into two categories – waxy … Read More
Rasberries
Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly. The warmer months have arrived when raspberries are at the peak of harvest. Of course, the best raspberries are BC local, since they can be left on the vine until they reach full ripeness. It’s a small, deep … Read More
Onions – Green Scallions
Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly. Scallion and Green Onion (even Spring Onion) are interchangeable terms. This vegetable is a prematurely harvested onion, before the bulb has developed. This young onion has a white base, not developed into a bulb yet, and long, straight, … Read More
Strawberries
Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly. All kids seem to love this summer beauty, being red, sweet, and juicy! In fact, strawberries are the most popular berry fruit in the world. It’s no wonder since they’re a fun size to eat, and can brighten … Read More
Peppers – Sweet Bell
Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly. Whether you call them ‘sweet peppers’ or ‘bell peppers,’ their bell-shaped glossy exterior comes in a wide array of stunning colours, holding a crunchy, sweet taste to make mouths water. Sweet peppers -are botanically related to hot chile … Read More
Cucumbers
Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly. Inside a cucumber is a very pale green flesh that is both moist and crunchy, with edible fleshy seeds. Varieties that are to be eaten fresh are known as ‘slicing cucumbers’. Gherkins cucumbers, usually much smaller than slicing … Read More
Tomatoes
Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly. By themselves or combined with other foods, tomatoes are delicious! In plant families, the deep, rich red coloured tomato is categorized as a berry fruit. Of course, we who eat them consider tomatoes to be a vegetable. Raw … Read More