Pick-Your-Own Milpa Garden
Come pick fresh produce from a local garden. Free entry. Our only request is that you pick double. We donate half of the pickings to a local food pantry
Greens and Grains
Arugula
Arugula is served raw in salads, but can also be used in pesto, on top of sandwiches, pizzas, or pastas. It can also be sautéed, which helps to mellow out its strong flavor, and then added to soups, pastas, or simply served on its own.
Harvest May 18-July 17
Balady Berseem Clover
Clover has medicinal herb claims for menstrual cramps, & asthma. Clover leaves and flowers are edible and can be used in salads, tea, infusion, garnish, sprouts
Harvest May 18-July 17
Brown Mustard
Use the greens raw in a salad, or sauté them. The seeds can be roasted, crushed, or ground to create a rub or sauce
Harvest July 17+
El Caballo Spinach
Spinach leaves have many uses including, salads, smoothies, stir-fry, dips, curries, cream sauces, soups, pasta, or to replace basil in pesto.
Harvest May 18-July 17
Flax
Flax seeds can be ground into meal and added to other foods. The plant’s true-blue color can be used to make a dye. Boiling the flower can produce other colors. (Planted as a cover crop here)
Harvest Greens: May 18 - July17
Harvest Seeds: July 17+
Hubam Sweet Clover
Clover has medicinal herb claims for menstrual cramps, & asthma. Clover leaves and flowers are edible and can be used in salads, tea, infusion, garnish, sprouts
Harvest May 18-July 17
Impact Forage Collards
Much like a cabbage, Collards are often cooked with smoked or salted meats, onions, vinegar, pepper, and salt. Braise them, stir them into soup, cook them into a stir-fry, shred them into a casserole, or puree them into pesto.
Harvest June 17-July 17
Magenta Sunrise Swiss Chard
Chard can be steamed or sauteed, and it’s great in soups, stews, casseroles, frittatas and quiches. Young leaves can be eaten raw in salads.
Harvest June 17-July 17
Mancan Buckwheat
The most edible part is the seed or grain which can be used as a replacement for other grains. It has a pretty flower that can be a filler for bouquets. It is also good for honey pollen
Harvest July 17+
Sweet Corn
You can eat sweet corn directly off the cob, or you can slice it off and use it in recipes. You can also bake or BBQ the cob.
Harvest July 17+
Beans and Pods
Desparado Green Beans
After picking, you can remove the stem end tip, also known as "topping" the bean. You can eat the beans right away or blanch and freeze them for up to a year.
Harvest June 2-June 17
Keystone Winter Pea
Early peas can be eaten fresh, while later peas can be shelled and used in soups, salads, and stir fries. Pea shoots can be eaten raw in salads or cooked in stir-fries. Pea vines are also edible and can be steamed or sautéed.
Primarily a cover crop
Mung Beans
The leaves, pods, and tubers are all edible. When the pods start to dry out or change color, they are ready to dig up and can be eaten raw, boiled, or roasted. You can blend mung beans into a batter.
Harvest July 17+
Red Ripper Cowpeas
Young cowpea pods can be eaten fresh, canned, or frozen65. They can also be used in bean salads, soups, cakes, and vegetarian gravies. Dry cowpeas need to be soaked and boiled before eating.
Harvest July 17+
Spring Forage Peas
Early peas can be eaten fresh. Later peas can be shelled and used in soups, salads, and stir fries. Shoots can be eaten raw in salads or cooked in stir-fries. Vines can be steamed or sautéed.
Harvest June 2-June17
Twilight Black Beans
Black beans can be used in soups, salads, and dips. They can be braised, roasted, sautéed, fried, or simmered.
Harvest July 17+
Gourds and Root Vegetables
Butternut Squash
Butternut squash can be stewed, pureed into soup, used to replace pasta like macaroni and cheese, or meatless Parmesan
Harvest July 2+
Celebration Pink Radish
Raw radishes can be used in salads, sandwiches, tacos, and many other ways. Enjoy them pickled, roasted, grilled, or sautéed. Plus, even the radish greens are edible.
Harvest July 2+
Crimson Giant Radish
Raw radishes can be used in salads, sandwiches, tacos, and many other ways. Enjoy them pickled, roasted, grilled, or sautéed. Plus, even the radish greens are edible.
Harvest July 2+
Early King Pumpkin
Besides decoration, pumpkins can also be used to make soup, puree, stock, or broth. Pumpkin seeds can be roasted, and pumpkin guts can be used to make compost or fed to animals.
Harvest July 17+
Gold Star Squash
From crispy pancakes to salads, pastas, casseroles, and more, you can do any number of imaginative things with this sweet fruit.
Harvest June 17-July 17
Nitro Radish
Raw radishes can be used in salads, sandwiches, tacos, and many other ways. Enjoy them pickled, roasted, grilled, or sautéed. Plus, even the radish greens are edible.
Harvest July 2+
Payroll Squash (Zucchini)
From crispy pancakes to salads, pastas, casseroles, and more, you can do any number of imaginative things with this sweet fruit.
Harvest June 17-July 17
Pie Pumpkin
Besides decoration, pumpkins can also be used to make soup, puree, stock, or broth. Pumpkin seeds can be roasted, and pumpkin guts can be used to make compost or fed to animals.
Harvest July 17+
Purple Top Turnip
Raw radishes can be used in salads, sandwiches, tacos, and many other ways. Enjoy them pickled, roasted, grilled, or sautéed. Plus, even the radish greens are edible.
Harvest July 2+
Squash Mix
From crispy pancakes to salads, pastas, casseroles, and more, you can do any number of imaginative things with this sweet fruit
Harvest July 2+
White Scallop Squash
Because the skin is edible and thin, you usually don't need to peel scallop squash. There are countless ways to cook it, grill, roast, stuff, steam, pickle, or bake it.
Harvest July 2+
Features Overview
Cucumber
Cucumbers are cool, refreshing, and mild, making them versatile and suitable for many uses. They are good pickled, as skin cleanser, in drinks, soup, juice, and salsa.
Harvest June 2-July 2
Melon Mix
Melons can be eaten in many ways, including in fruit salads, smoothies, sorbets, and more. Melon rinds are edible and contain many nutrients. They can be pickled, stewed, or stir-fried.
Harvest July 2+
Okra
The young, tender green pods can be eaten raw, pickled, fried, roasted, grilled, or crisped. Okra leaves can be added to salads and stir fries. Okra's flowers can be eaten raw in salads or cooked in stir fry.
Harvest June 2- July 2
Watermelon
Watermelon is sweet and juicy. Eat it plain, grill it, put it in a salad or cocktail, or make a gazpacho.
Harvest July 2+
Decoration
Black Oil Sunflower
Seeds can be dried, roasted, ground into nut butter, or added to baked goods, granola, salads, and pesto. Sunflower oil can be used for cooking, salad dressings, and for frying.
Harvest Flower As Blooms, Harvest Seeds July 17+
Decorative Gourd Mix
Not great for eating, but look quite lovely in tabletop decorations all summer and fall.
Harvest July 2+
Russian Mammoth Sunflower
Seeds can be dried, roasted, ground into nut butter, or added to baked goods, granola, salads, and pesto. Sunflower oil can be used for cooking, salad dressings, and for frying.
Harvest Flower As Blooms, Harvest Seeds July 17+
Showy Flower Mix
Not great for eating, but they look quite lovely in tabletop decorations all summer and fall.
Harvest as Blooms
It's an ancient Mayan technique to improve the soil and grow more and better food.
It starts with the 3 Sisters: Corn, Beans, and Squash. These three plants help each other by deterring pests, attracting beneficial insects, and putting nitrogen in the soil. Then the Milpa strategy expands by adding a variety of other fruits, vegetables, and flowering plants to mimic the natural diversity in our environment.
Our hats are off to Green Cover Seed for donating the seed to plant our garden. Their only requirement is for us to donate at least 50% of what we grow.
We are meeting that 50% and then some.
But WE NEED YOUR HELP! We harvest several times a week and are donating almost everything we pick, but we can't keep up. Come join us! Help us feed the world by starting with our local community!
