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Produce Info, Storage Tips and Recipes

This Week's Featured Recipes

What's This?

Welcome to the new Produce Info section of our website! We've been accumulating a lot of storage tips, general knowledge, photos, and recipes for all different kinds of produce. This is our effort to make all that available to you, our customers, and even internet folks just passing through.

How Does It Work?

Every week we put about four recipes in our newsletter that we email out to all of our customers, post on our website, on Facebook and Twitter, and distribute on paper to some of our customers that have chosen to receive it that way. You'll find the four recipes from this week's newsletter at the top of this page! Or, you can browse the rest of our recipe archive by produce item in the Produce Info and Tips section of our website.

I Can't Find What I'm Looking For!

So, over to the left you will see a list of many of the types of produce we offer! It's in alphabetical order, and occasionally, split up into varieties (Like "Mushrooms (Crimini)"). But if you're looking for a particular item and you can't find it, first try looking under alternate names (for example, we call Jerusalem Artichokes "Sunchokes", Winter Squash "Hard-Rind Squash", and Summer Squash "Soft-Rind Squash"), and a few items are in more general categories ("Herbs"). If you still can't find what you seek, send us an email and we'll help you out.

Want to Send In a Recipe or a Tip?

From historical tidbits to recipes or storage tips, we want to hear what you have to say about fruits and vegetables. Send us an email or hit up our Facebook page! If we use your contribution in our weekly newsletter, we'll put a free treat in your next delivery.

A note on recipe submissions: We don't mind you sending in a recipe from a blog, cookbook, or other attributable source but if you would, please include the details of that source with the recipe: we like to give credit where it's due!

See a Recipe of Yours Up Here?

We know how difficult it is to develop recipes! We try our hardest to give credit where it is due every time, and if there's an internet link available for the source of a recipe, we'll include that prominently. If we've got your recipe up here, it's because we think it's great and we probably think the source is great too, so we'll do all that we can to get people to buy your cookbook or check out the website that it came from. But if you'd rather we didn't have your recipe up here, simply send us an email and we'll take it down immediately.

Long Term Storage Tips

Don't think you'll get around to eating all that broccoli this week? Why not freeze it! Or how about making some jam out of those fresh, organic strawberries?

Canning, freezing, pickling, and drying can be great ways to save your excess produce for later and cut down on food waste. The National Center for Home Food Preservation has everything you need to know about home food preservation. It's actually easier than you might think!

Want to Learn More?

There are a ton of online resources dedicated to maximizing the stored life of your produce. One of the best ones is from Marita Cantwell at UC Davis's Postharvest Technology Research and Information Center called "Properties and Recommended Conditions for Storage of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables." From optimum storage temperature and humidity to ethylene production and sensitivity for almost every common and specialty crop you can imagine, this is the place to look.