What's in Season

New season local Strawberries from Bullarto get started this week - just $4.90 punnets, direct from Adam at Wombat Organics. Another couple of weeks for Florian’s snow peas, and won't be too long before his rouge de marmande tomatoes start.

Still a month to the end of Spring but starting to see more signs of seasons changing - eggplant, tomato, cucumber, snow peas and valencia oranges - all starting to make an appearance from Vic growers.

A few changes to the Vic boxes now zucchini, onions and cabbage are arriving. We should see more new season produce arriving in the coming weeks. Florian from Mount Franklin starts his season this week, with Oak and Cos Lettuce picked for you.

This week the Mixed Choice will get a taste of Gippsland Artichokes (last week's recipe will be useful), and new season Purple Broccolini bunches.

It’s usually a slow time for produce in Spring - counterintuitive maybe, but growers are busy raising seedlings and planting rather than harvesting. Which is why it's always nice when we get something new at this time of year.

A bumper crop of Chinese Greens from Colac is coming through this week, and plenty of Baby Cos Lettuce and Asparagus from Mornington and Pakenham areas.

Spring continues with the asparagus and broad bean seasons kicking off, and early lebanese cucumber from Labertouche in Gippsland.

The difference in a week. For the Vic boxes, gone are the carrots, cabbage and swede, and in comes asparagus, broad beans, lebanese cucumber and baby cos lettuce. For the Mixed Choice boxes, we still get the choice of produce from up north so expect celery, onions, eggplant, bullhorn capsicum as well as a selection from Vic growers including fennel, broccoli, parsnip and cauliflower.

Citrus from the winter season is still happily with us, and this week we have all the varieties back with blood orange, tangelo and Afourer mandarins. Asparagus from Gippsland has arrived, and from up north sweet corn, snow peas and eggplant are our pick.