Strawberries

Strawberries are available beginning late May or early June, depending on the weather. Strawberries are available for you to pick or already-picked at our market at 7010 East Raymond Street. They are available already-picked at our Johnson County location.  Our strawberries have a wonderful flavor and lots of juice. The varieties that we grow are intended for local consumption, not for shipping far away. Shipping varieties do not contain the tenderness or the juice that farm market varieties do; therefore, there is a big difference in taste. Shipping varieties remind one of strawberries but for full, rich flavor, farm market varieties are much superior.

 

Sweet Green Peas

Sweet green peas, including sugar snap peas and English shell-out peas, are planted at our Raymond Street location. Sugar snap peas are meant to be eaten with the pod. They are sweeter than snow peas as found in Oriental dishes, which are also meant to be eaten with the pod. Sugar snap peas can be cooked like a green bean or eaten raw in salads or with a dip. The English shell-out peas are designed such that you eat only the seed inside and throw away the pod. You may pick your own or purchase them already-picked at the Raymond Street market. They are available already-picked at our Johnson County location.

The following items are available at our Raymond Street location only:

Sweet Corn

 

We hope to be able to harvest the early corn by the fourth of July! The corn varieties that we offer include yellow, white and bi-color. They are know as "double se" corns, which means that they have a very tender paricarp (the covering over the individual seeds) and are easily chewed. "Sweet and tender" are words that describe our corn. There are those who visit our market almost daily for fresh sweet corn. It's kind of habit-forming. It's a habit that one can exercise from the first picking until the end of September as we plant for a full season of enjoyment.

Green Beans

Green beans will be available for you to pick or already-picked at our Raymond Street market in early July. We offer Blue Lakes, Festina, a stringless variety similar to Blue Lake, Roma, a flat Italian bean, Kentucky Wonder Bush Beans and White Half Runners, a somewhat shorter bean with a slight string and plenty of flavor. The bean varieties that we select are referred to as Home Garden or Farm Market varieties. They can be thought of as gourmet as they are low in fiber, more tender, with pods that set over a longer period for extended harvest. We put out a second and often third planting of beans so that we can offer them to you in mid- to late-summer as well.

Beets & Cucumbers

Beets and cucumbers are usually available at about the same time as green beans. We plant Ruby Queen beets, an early, excellent quality beet, characterized as tender, fine grained and sweet. We plant slicing and pickling cucumbers. The picling cucumbers have a very tender skin. There are those who prefer to use pickling cucumbers (unpickled) rather than slicing cucumbers for salads.

Peppers

Bell, Sweet Banana, and Cubanelle peppers and the following varieties of hot peppers: Hot Hungarian; Red Cherry Hot; Anaheim; Hot Portugal; Serrano Chili; Mitla (a Jalapeno type of pepper); Long Red Cayenne; Super Chili; Super Cayenne; Tabasco; Thai Hot and Habanero (40 times hotter than Jalapeno). Peppers are usually available for picking beginning mid-July and lasting until frost.

Cantaloupes

Those Indiana cantaloupes! Wow! The flavor! We usually obtain cantaloupes from southern Indiana in early July and the ones that we grow are ready mid- to late-July. The flavor difference between the locally grown and shipped in varieties is tremendous.

 

 

 

Tomatoes

Tomatoes, including a round red variety call Celebrity Supreme, a yellow variety called Carolina Gold, Italian, cherry and grape tomatoes, are generally available in early August. We select our varieties based on taste and other qualities such as disease resistance and resistance to cracking. Celebrity Supreme has a taste similar to the old-fashioned Rutgers but has much greater disease resistance. It is a variety designed for consumption near where it is grown, not for shipping. Varieties that are meant for shipping have less juice and flavor than do varieties that are meant for local consumption.

Greens

Mustard and turnip greens are typically ready to harvest by late September.

 

 

 

 

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Frozen Food Ordering

If you are interested in purchasing frozen foods, please print off the form on this website, call 317-357-2989, or pay us a visit and one of our staff will be there to help.

Twice each season, once in June and once in September, we place an order for frozen fruits, vegetables, and other items from Coloma Foods in Michigan. We have found their products to be of excellent quality and we recommend them to you.

To take advantage of this opportunity for high-quality, convenient frozen products, simply complete an order sheet, complete it, bring it in and pay the 50% deposit and you will be notified when your order has arrived at our market.

We do not have adequate freezer space to hold your order for a lengthy period. We do have space in our refrigerated units but this will not hold the product in a frozen state, so we ask that you be prepared to pick up your order as it arrives.