Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly. A cousin of the onion, leeks can be substituted in any dish. Resembling an oversized scallion, leeks are long and round in shape. Starting with a white stem at the slightly round root end, the colour becomes increasingly … Read More
Kohlrabi
Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly. Kohlrabi looks more like a root vegetable, and is grown primarily for its bulbous stalk rather than its leaves. This seems to be validated by its name, rabi, which means turnip in German. However, it comes as quite … Read More
Jicama
Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly. As a tuber with a thin brown skin, jicama is considered the Mexican potato, but looks a bit more like an extremely large turnip, ranging in weight from one to six pounds (.5-2.5 kg). Less starchy with fewer … Read More
Fennel – Anise
Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly. Fennel is crunchy and slightly sweet, subtly licorice flavour, playing a refreshing role in both Mediterranean and Italian cuisine. Its fat, celery-like appearance involves either a white or pale green bulb from which stalks shoot upwards, sometimes braided … Read More
Eggplant
Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly. A slightly sweet, tender fruit covered with a shiny skin that comes in a variety of colours, shapes, and sizes. Ralph’s Farm Market offers the most popular, purple with an off-white spongy flesh. Desired for its deeply purple, … Read More
Celery
Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly. Like carrots, onions and potatoes, celery has been a staple amongst our households since all of us had them packed in our school lunches. Celery is a plant belonging to the parsley family; other members include carrots, fennel, … Read More
Cauliflower
Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly. It’s actually a member of the cabbage family with a milk, sweet, almost nutty flavour. The undeveloped flower buds (florets) are joined by a stalk. Since the leaves of the plant shade the florets, the sun is not … Read More
Bok Choy & Siu Tong Choy
Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly. Bok Choy: Bring an Asian flare to dinner with this tasty, nutritious veggie! Also known as Pak Choi or Chinese Chard, it is mild, tender, and crisp with a taste similar to spinach or Swiss chard. Although a … Read More
Bean Sprouts
Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly. Newly germinated beans and peas sprouts are, well, sprouted. They have a firm but tender new shoots of seeds and beans. A fresh, crunchy texture and slightly sweet flavour is their lure. Sprouts can grow from the seeds … Read More
Avocado
Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly. Did you know it’s a fruit? Also known as avocado pears, the Haas avocado have a dark, pebbly skin and are loaded with nutrients and antioxidants. Be assured that avocado is full of good fat – it’s the … Read More