Vegetable Profiles

Vegetable and Herb Identification

Here are featured vegetables and herbs that are commonly found in our CSA boxes with links to read more about them, their cultural and culinary significance, and associated recipes. We hope this page will help you easily identify the vegetables in your boxes.

Book Recommendation: Every Grain of Rice: Simple Chinese Home Cooking by Fuchsia Dunlop (an amazon affiliate link) has an amazing glossary of Asian vegetables with their Chinese characters and mandarin names in pinyi. Reference pages 328-334 for detailed info and a picture guide if you need help further identifying items in your box.

Leafy Greens

We grow these all year long

HEARTY Brassicas

We grow these all year long

Roots

We encourage everyone to use the radish and turnip tops as greens. We grow roots all year long, with some spring and fall specific varieites.

  • Korean Ponytail Radish

  • Taiwan White Luobo

  • Chinese Emerald Luobo

  • Scarlet Turnip

  • Hakurei Turnip

  • Japanese Daikon

  • Korean Bora Mu

  • Korean White Mu'

  • Taiwan Carrots

  • Rainbow Carrots

  • Watermelon Radish

  • Shunkyo Radish

  • French Breakfast Radish

  • German Butterball Potatoes

  • Sweet Potatoes

Fruit

Late June-October

  • Chamoe

  • Sugar Baby Watermelon

  • Yellow Watermelon

  • Cape Gooseberries / Poha Gooseberries

  • Strawberries

EDIBLE FLOWERS & TEAS

  • Juhua / Chrysanthemum Tea for Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)

  • Tong Ho / Chrysanthemum Flowers

  • Bachelor Buttons

  • Nasturtium Flowers

  • Garlic Chive Flowers

  • Cilantro Flowers

  • Gem Marigolds

Winter Squash

This is harvested end of the summer, cured, and then distributed in our October shares.

  • Winter Melon / Dong Gua

  • Black Futsu Squash

  • Kabocha, Blue and Green

  • Kuri, Red and Blue

  • Delicata Squash

  • Butternut Squash

  • Jack-o-Lantern Carving Pumpkins

Aliums & Aromatics

Herbs

We have found that our herbs are one of the more challenging items in our boxes due storage. However, they are a signature part of our program both culturally and agriculturally - the majority of herbs are a cut-and-come again crop that allows us to plant once and harvest the entire season.

Choys

We grow 20 different varieties of choy on our farm all season long.

Mustards

Mustards are grown in Spring, Fall and Winter. Mizuna can grow year round.

Tomatoes

June-October

Summer Squash

June-October

Eggplant

July-October

Summer Crops

July-October

Cucumbers

June-October

Peppers

June-October

VegetablesLeslie Wiser