Our Fresh Produce.
Organic and heirloom seeds are sourced and used for all our produce.
Basil -
Sweet Genovese - ORGANIC
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Genovese basil is a cultivar of Ocimum basilicum (sweet basil). It is one of the most popular basils for culinary use, particularly for its use in pesto, the traditional genoese sauce. The name "Basilico Genovese" is protected by the European Union with the Denominazione di Origine Protetta certification. Genoese basil is produced in the provinces of Genoa, Savona and Imperia.
Green Ultra Butterhead Lettuce - ORGANIC - Heirloom Vegetable.
Traditional butter lettuce that grows into a head of soft, light green leaves. Butter lettuce has a delicious, buttery flavor that is good to use in salads or on sandwiches. It also works well for lettuce wraps because of its large, soft leaves. Unlike other varieties of lettuce, butter lettuce is rich in vitamins and nutrients like Vitamin A and Vitamin K
Fordhook Giant Swiss Chard - Beta Vulgaris var. cicla.
So called for its large dark green, crinkly spinach leaves. It has broad glossy ribs. A year round vegetable. If you have eaten swiss chard, you have probably eaten Ford Hook Giant. This is a very common and well known variety that has been a market leader for years. In the world of hearty greens. This relative of the beet is a superb source of vitamins A, C, and K, as well as magnesium, potassium, and iron. It makes a colorful and tasty side dish, or a nutritious addition to pasta, soup, quiches, and more.
Ashley Cucumber - Cucumis Sativus
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Plant produces excellent yields of 25cm long pale green cucumbers. Excellent slicing cucumber for salads. Well-known heirloom open pollinated cucumber that has been grown for years in most vegetable gardens, and excellent for slicing. This variety is a prolific producer of medium size 25cm fruits that are darker than other cultivars.
Garlic Chives - Organic.
Garlic Chives Allium tuberosum It is a lovely alternative to normal chives. This is the fastest way to add some flavour to a bland dish or to spruce up a salad. The mild garlic flavour of Garlic Chives is also great in a cream cheese.
Serrano Chilli Pepper - Capsicum Annuum
This hot pepper measures in at 3000 scoville units. It is great to use in salsa, fried, or pickled. Serrano Peppers typically measure 4 cm long.
Birds Eye Chilli Pepper
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The African Birds eye Chili, is different to the Thai Birds Eye. Whilst similar in look and texture, the heat is more intense and it is more flavoursome.
Little Gem Butterhead Lettuce - ORGANIC - Heirloom Vegetable
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Very small, green, romaine-type. One of the very best-tasting lettuces. A superb heat-tolerant variety that is sure to please.
Cilantro
Coriander Culinary - Coriandrum Sativum
An indispensable ingredient in Indian Cooking, Coriander is an annual herb. It is also known as dhania, all parts of the plant are edible, but the fresh leaves and the dried seeds (as a spice) are the parts most traditionally used in cooking.
Raw coriander leaves are 92% water, 4% carbohydrates, 2% protein, and less than 1% fat (table). The nutritional profile of coriander seeds is different from the fresh stems or leaves. In a 100-gram reference amount, leaves are particularly rich in vitamin A, vitamin C and vitamin K, with moderate content of dietary minerals (table). Although seeds generally have lower content of vitamins, they do provide significant amounts of dietary fiber, calcium, selenium, iron, magnesium, and manganese.
Sweet Florence Fennel - ORGANIC
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Fennel is a hardy, perennial, umbelliferous herb, with yellow flowers and feathery leaves. It is indigenous to the shores of the Mediterranean but has become widely naturalized in many parts of the world, especially on dry soils near the seacoast and on riverbanks. It is a highly aromatic and flavourful herb with culinary and medicinal uses and, along with the similar-tasting anise, is one of the primary ingredients of absinthe. Florence fennel or finocchio is a selection with a swollen, bulb-like stem base that is used as a vegetable.
Gourmet Salad Bowl Red Lettuce - Organic
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"Red Salad Bowl" is a large fast-growing rosette lettuce with very burgundy-green crimped leaves. This award-winning variety produces large, slow bolting, non-heading plants with sweet, succulent red leaves.
Flat Leaf Parsley - ORGANIC
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Flat/Plain Leaved has dark-green, deeply cut, flat leaves which have a very fine flavour, making this variety a culinary favourite.
Roma Tomato - ORGANIC - Heirloom Vegetable.
The VF Variant is the most common of the roma cultivars. It is the tomato of choice in Italian dishes. It is a plum tomato, with a very firm texture. The tomato is a meaty, egg- or pear-shaped tomato that is available in red and yellow. It has few seeds and is a good canning and sauce tomato.
Rocket - Eruca Sativa
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Not to be mistaken with wild rocket, it is rich in vitamin C and potassium. It has been grown in the Mediterranean area since Roman times and before the 1990s it was usually collected in the wild and was not cultivated on a large scale. In addition to the leaves, the flowers (often used in salads as an edible garnish), young seed pods and mature seeds are all edible. It has a rich, peppery taste, and has an exceptionally strong flavour for a leafy green. It is generally used in salads, often mixed with other greens in a mesclun, but is also cooked as a vegetable or used raw with pasta or meats in northern Italy. The perfect garnish for the popular Carpaccio dish.
Wild Rocket - Sylvetta - ORGANIC
Diplotaxis erucoides is an annual herb growing to 0.5 m . The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) and are pollinated by Insects. Leaves are edible and used raw or cooked. A mustard-like flavour very different from Sweet Rocket. They can be added to salads for a wild and rustic flavour.
Rainbow Spinach - ORGANIC - Heirloom Vegetable
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A stunning looking Swiss chard (spinach) which tastes as good as it looks. A kaleidoscope of colours, this vegetable can be grown year round in semi to sunny conditions.
Thyme - ORGANIC
An aromatic herbaceous plant, it has dark green leaves and small white flowers. Grown in the full sun, it is a year round herb. The interesting health benefits of thyme include its ability to relieve stress, reduce respiratory issues, improve heart health, boost the strength of the immune system, protect against chronic diseases, stimulate blood flow, and prevent fungal infections.