What’s in the Basket in Coming Weeks:

The vegetables shown on this webpage are some of the items contained in our home delivery baskets throughout the year. For actual basket contents, and in order to assist in meal preparation, our customers have access to our “Customer Blog” which explains new vegetables in the baskets, pictures, recipes, descriptions, cooking tips, comments from other customers, and much more!

Be sure to see our Potato and Tomato pages for detailed information on these vegetables

Heirloom Tomatoes:
Our amazing tomatoes arrive, first in smaller quantities, then by the bucket full! Check out our special Tomato Page for more examples of what will be in your basket.

Purple Carrots:
Ancient variety of carrots with purple skin and orange and yellow flesh. Great tasting carrot - raw or cooked. It tastes like a carrot ought to taste! Beautiful!

Yellow Carrots:
We grow several varieties of heirloom yellow carrots. And each one tastes a little different. All yellow carrots are not the same - but most are sweeter than any other variety and best raw because they are moist and crunchy. The best fresh eating carrot we grow is a very pale yellow carrot - almost white with green shoulders - it is a spectacular hard to find heirloom that the kids will love in their lunch boxes!

White Carrots:
In the beginning of modern history, all carrots were either white or purple. The Dutch cross-bred them to orange in the 1800's. The white carrot is spicy and it best cooked. It can easily be distinguished from a parsnip because we package white carrots with other carrots of colour.

Red Carrots:
Our favourite cooked carrot - but also great raw. Amazing rich flavour and brilliant red colour when cooked.

Fingerlings:
Laratte, Rose Finn Apple, Banana, French, Peruvian Purple and more! The best tasting potatoes available anywhere and we bring them to your door year-round. Once you taste the fingerlings, it is very hard to go back to grocery store, mass-produced potatoes! Check out our special Potato Page for more examples of what will be in your basket.

Potatoes:
In addition to the fingerlings, we grow other heirloom potatoes of distinction such as Binjte, Russian Blues, All-Reds and many more. For more detailed descriptions of our potatoes and fingerlings. Check out our special Potato Page for more examples of what will be in your basket.

Swiss Chard:
Ours is in many colours, red, green, white, yellow - but no matter the colour, they are all delicious. Use as you would spinach but the mature stems take longer to cook than the leafy part.

Broccoli:
There is nothing like the taste of fresh broccoli - broccoli which hasn’t travelled half way across the continent to get to your table! And do not cut away the stems (even though thick) - they are fantastic - raw or cooked. We thinly slice the thickest branches and steam them lightly.

Herbs:
During the growing season, we try every week to have a fresh, new herb in your basket. So far this season, we have included chives, garlic chives, parsley, chocolate mint, spearmint, oregano, and there is so much more to come! During the winter, we offer a wide array of dried herbs.

Golden Beets:
Heirloom beet with a golden skin and gold flesh. A real delicacy treasured by the best chefs. Sweet and beautiful!

Chioggia Beets:
Italian heirloom beet with light red skin and spiraled red and white flesh. A wonderful beet! (Sometimes called a “candy-cane” beet).

Bull’s Blood Beets:
Red skinned beets with red flesh with red tops which make a delicious and colourful cooking greens (reds!).

White Beets (Round):
Yes, these are heirloom white beets (white skin and flesh) - sweet and they don’t bleed!

Mushrooms:
Wild mushrooms like chanterelles, shiitake, chicken-in-the-woods, morels, and lobster mushrooms are often found in the baskets during the Summer and Fall. In the winter months, we offer fresh, certified organic, local mushrooms.

Baby Fennel:
Delicate baby fennel which can be eaten raw and used on salads. Wonderful fresh anise taste.

French Red Shallots:
Part onion, part garlic - but entirely delicious and very hard to find!

Garlic:
Beautiful Music - an heirloom red garlic with a mild flavour.

Fennel:
Larger bulbs of fennel are used in many recipes. We love them sauteed in olive oil.

Mangels:
Heirloom Sugar Beets with a yellow/orange skin and white flesh with yellow bands. Beautiful and so sweet! Cook as you would any other beet. And do not forget that the tops are completely edible as a cooking green.

Summer Squash:
Our Summer squash is early this year which is a real delight. We grow over 100 different kinds of summer squash ranging from the miniature squash and patty pans to the larger zucchini and yellow summer squash. Each variety is unique and over the next several weeks, you receive them in all shapes, colours, and sizes. We love them on the grill!

Heirloom Italian Zucchini:
Green and ribbed – the best tasting of all zucchini – “Costata Romanesco” and other heirloom varieties.  Perfect for any use or even raw!

French Filet Green Beans:
The best heirloom green bean of all – originated in France! Tender, sweet, and delicate! The one the best chefs demand!

French Filet Yellow Beans:
The very best yellow bean out there! Tender, sweet, delicious –– and never tough like the yellow beans found elsewhere which need to chainsaw to cut them!

French Filet Red Swan Heirloom Beans:
Beautiful and flavourful red beans (which turn green when cooked) –– the flavour is amazing. This is one of the best beans we grow!! Enjoy!!

Romano Beans:
A very popular, but hard to find, slicing bean.,

New Potatoes
Red and White baby new potatoes as well as baby red “new” French Fingerlings which have a red skin and yellow flesh with swirls of red. For more information on our potatoes/fingerlings, please see our Potato page

Cucumbers:
They come in all colours and shapes from all over the world. We have round yellow ones, white ones, brown ones, yellow ones with little black spikes, and of course green ones and oriental ones. Enjoy trying them all!

Melons:
We grow many types of melons - but the most popular are the Chinese watermelons which have a yellow skin and pink flesh. Melons are placed loose in your cooler - so as to distinguish them from cucumbers which are placed inside your white plastic bags or white baskets. Some of the melons are small (like a cucumber) and white or yellow (like a cucumber). The melons are very sweet this year - like one of our crew said as we were harvesting them - “they taste like candy.”

Sweet Corn:
Sweet corn is the only crop we grow which is not from heirloom seed because heirloom corn, although uniquely flavoured  and delicious, does not store or ship well. In order to fully appreciate heirloom corn, it needs to be eaten immediately after harvest which is hardly practical. Consequently, we grow hybrid varieties which in our opinion have great flavour. The early ears may not be fully filled out, but the later types usually just get better and better. So don’t tire of sweet corn too soon as the later varieties are usually the best.  Our crop will begin in early August and will hopefully extend well into September depending on Mother Nature. Enjoy!!

Swiss Chard	Chanterelles	Yellow Carrots	French Filet Beans
Squash	Chioggia Beets	Carrots	Mangels
Laratte	Bull's Blood Beets	Chioggia Beets	Baby Fennel
Radicchio	French Shallot Greens	Broccoli

Greens: The year-round staple of our basket is our greens. Whether it's our greenhouse grown, or field grown, our greens are a wonderful addition to any meal. We grow many kinds of romaines, leaf lettuces,claytonia, oriental greens, edible flowers, mache, mustards, endive, frisee, kale, arugula, cress, sorrel, beet tops, chards, watercress, and much, much more to include in our very unique blend of salad greens.

Micro-Greens:
Another Bryson Farms exclusive! Tiny greens with varying colours, textures, and tastes are mixed together for an unusual stand-alone salad. Or use them as a "topping" for your baby leaf salad greens to add even more spice! Or use them on sandwiches or soups or as a zesty addition to any dish. Enjoy!!