On The Menu!

Hi! We’ll be posting here as often as possible with updates on new veggies available along with what’s still on the market. :)

Ignore the date in the upper left corner; it’s just when we first started doing this! Menu items are current to the date here >>

UPDATED OCTOBER 2, 2025

BASIL per order only — limited supply

Genovese basil - aromatic, delicious, large leaves — use for cooking, garnish, or blend into pesto etc.

CARROTS currently unavailable — more soon!

These Nantes-type Napoli carrots, sown early this spring, are slender and earthy - a colorful addition to any salad.

CHARD per order only — limited supply

Swiss Chard is a champ. Cold weather, hot weather — chard doesn’t care and produces big beautiful tasty leaves for you to braise, sautee, or even enjoy raw. Per order only — Limited supply

CUCUMBERS currently unavailable

With about ten plants in production, we dunk these Marketmore 76 cukes everyday in fresh cool water and lightly rub the prickers from the skin. Juicy and mild flavored, a must-have for salads and snacks.

GREEN ONION (aka Bunching Onion) currently unavailable

Where would any of us be without onions? The world would be a far less delicious place. That’s why these Evergreen Long White bunching onions are a must-have.

LEEKS currently unavailable

Ever had potato leek soup? It’s one of our family’s favorites. With a little dill and some fresh pepper, mmm… Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah — we have leeks! American Flag Leeks, to be exact!

(For those of you asking, what’s the difference between a leek and a green onion? Both are alliums, but leeks are larger and milder and need to be cooked. Green onions can be cooked or eaten raw, used as a garnish, etc.)

LETTUCE per order only — limited supply

The high temps of summer make growing lettuce a challenge, but we have more on the way: Buttercrunch, Flashy Butter Oak, Rouge d’Hiver, and Rumpled Wave, Romaine, and more

KALE per order only — limited supply

Purple kale, dinosaur kale, Lacinato Kale — call it what you want, this is the King of Kale. Blend it into smoothies, sautee it, add it to soups and stews, this hearty green will do whatever you want and pack all the nutrients you need.

PEPPERS per order only — limited supply

These greenies will turn bright red — we grow both a California Wonder Sweet and a Big Red Sweet — but they’re dang tasty right now, too.

TOMATOES

Tomatoes — what everyone wants! We have Fox Cherry, Gardener’s Delight and Honey Drop (cherry variety) plus Purple Heart and Brandywine (slicing) plus a Speckled Roman ideal for stewing / sauce-making. Our new vertical growing method has made for some amazingly tall plants, and the indeterminate tomatoes are ripening daily. Put your order in early to get some!

TURNIP currently unavailable

Enjoy these Golden Globe Turnips raw in salads or in a soup or stew! We like ours with potatoes and local ground beef. Mmmm…

ZUCCHINI starting to run low; limited supply

Zucchinis are funny — one day there’s nothing there and then next day they’re the length of your forearm. Amazing as a side dish or used in baking, these Dark Star are full of flavor and color.

ALSO AVAILABLE in limited supply:

BUTTERNUT WINTER SQUASH

WHITE POTATOES

THYME

CILANTRO

COMING SOON:

Using deep organic methods and row covers inside our two hoop houses (greenhouses) we hope to grow all winter long. Things slow dow, of course, but leafy greens such as claytonia, mache, tatsoi, spinach, bok choy, beet greens, and hearty lettuces are being direct sown or transplanted now. Along with carrots and leeks, we should be enjoying these in the next month or so, and on through the snow!

NOTA BENE:

This is all possible because of you and your support. Thanks so much for your enthusiasm and patronage. All our veg are grown from heirloom seeds — you can always start your own growing from our plants! We make our own compost and use compost from Reber Rock Farm. We never use pesticides or herbicides, and recent soil tests have shown our products to be safe and nutritious.

We will happily take your order any day of the week for Tuesday and Saturday harvests and pick-up. When there is an exception, we will let you know right away!

Thanks,

Tim, Dava, Tatum & Sabine at Mountain Town Garden

Let the veg begin!

I’ve wanted a roadside vegetable stand for a while — so I built one! I used various rough cut lumber and scrap materials I had on hand. It’s 6’ high in the front. Wooden boxes and shelves will finish it up and present the veg for sale. More pics of it in action coming soon!

Say hello to this early veg! We’re in zone 4b (that means cold) so seeing cucumbers and zucchini ten days into June is always great.

Plus, there’s a few other things, like strawberries, curled kale, cilantro, spinach…

Finally, here’s a view of the garden, relaxing after a hard day’s work. More to come — stay tuned!

Don’t forget to check out MOUNTAIN TOWN GARDEN on YouTube — our video on building a predator-proof chicken coop is up to 7k views!

First post, First sign of broccoli

Well, I spent a few minutes messing around with a new website for our gardening and small homestead operation. But I gave up — I already have a website! So, for the time being, right here is the place I’ll be posting updates on our garden and chickens. You can check out the YouTube channel HERE.

Yesterday, June 3, I noticed the first little budding broccoli. We live in Zone 4, so this is significant. (Zone 4 has a relatively late frost-free date and early frost date.) But because we start our plants indoors (“undercover sowing”) we get a jump on things — and it was a warm May, to boot.

Be sure to check back here for updates — more to come!