It’s about that time again this year…our “Basket of the Week” is now available! We offer a basket of the week, which is our local grown product. It includes what is currently in season, and has veggies and fruit when available. The baskets are the 1/2 bushel with handle size and weigh from 25-30 lbs depending on veggies. The cost is $32 and we add fresh-free range eggs for an additional $3.50. You are not obligated to purchase every week as a CSA ** but they will be available each week.
We have had request for “Single” size for our customers and are going to try and accommodate them as well. We will have a smaller size basket this year, it will be in the peck basket, which is 1/4 bushel. They will be half the price, $16. But believe it or not, the larger basket is about perfect size for a family of 4 (2 adults and 2 children) if you cook nightly.
Please note this picture is just a sample, not what is currently available. They are comprised of the fruits and veggies grown in current season. Example… this weeks’ basket (full size) might have a couple zucchini, yellow squash, new potatoes, cucumbers, kale, Swiss Chard, green onions, radishes, broccoli, cabbage and of course strawberries.
Baskets are available by pre-orders ONLY, via e-mail @ val@russellveggies.com and Face Book Message
** CSA ~ Community Supported Agriculture ~ this is where you invest your dollars in the spring and reap the benefits of a certain farmers yield throughout his growing season. CSA are generally delivered/picked up on a continuous weekly basis.
Strawberries, strawberries, strawberries at the market on Saturday! Along with the berries there will be… Swiss chard, spinach, and kale. Broccoli for the first time this year, green onions and beautiful radishes. We will also have a variety of lettuce… Italian blend, Red Sails, Simpson Elite and Grand Rapids. Kenny has been cutting mint and cilantro so we will bring some of that too.
We will have some fresh herbs … basil, dill, parsley, cilantro, oregano, thyme, sage, a few tarragon and rosemary. Kenny will be bringing some Heirloom tomato plants, several varieties of peppers and some egg plants.
Don’t forget to pick up your farm-fresh, free-range eggs at the market. Just a reminder that we have been selling out early each week… so come early or pre-order to make sure you get the items you need.
Thanks for supporting us with your purchases at the market,
Val & Kenny
As most of you know we had strawberries earlier this week, seems they wanted to be ready before we did… therefore we will probably not have berries this Saturday. If the weather cooperates there could be a few. However we will have available this week… Swiss chard, spinach, and kale. Asparagus for the final week, green onions, rhubarb and beautiful radishes. We will also have a variety of lettuce… Italian blend, Red Sails, Simpson Elite and Grand Rapids. Kenny has been cutting mint and cilantro so I guess we will bring some of that too.
We will have some fresh herbs and a few flowering plants (at sale prices) available this weekend. We have basil, dill, parsley, cilantro, oregano, thyme, sage, a few tarragon and rosemary.
Don’t forget to pick up your farm-fresh, free-range eggs at the market. Just a reminder that we have been selling out early each week… so come early or pre-order to make sure you get the items you need.
Thanks for supporting us with your purchases at the market,
Val & Kenny
Strawberries are ready!
Anyone want strawberries early this week? Kenny and I have been in the patch all morning picking. They won’t last till Saturday. With rain expected this week we probably won’t have them Saturday morning. They are kinda fickle and don’t do we’ll in the extreme heat and rain.
I will be at the market from 4-7 on Wednesday with Strawberries and a few other items. We have some asparagus, green onions, radishes and a few new heads of ithaca lettuce; that’s about it for us on Wednesday. If you want to pre-order just send me a quick e-mail and I will be sure to set them back for you.
A few other vendors will be there as well… Laura from Road Side Stand will be there with her fresh bread, and word has it there will be “Strawberry Bread” available. Chef Walker will also be at the market cooking up his goodies. Valerie, the honey lady will also be there. There may even be another vendor there with homemade crafts.
Hope to see some of you there. Have a great week!
Greetings from Coco Beach, Florida. Once again I am on the road (Kenny said… the last time until at least October) visiting with family. Rest assured Russell Veggies will be open for business bright and early Saturday morning at the New Albany Farmer’s Market. Kenny and Gary along with the rest of our crew will be hard at work taking care of our awesome patrons.
There will be NO pre-orders this week (that’s my department and I’m slacking my duties) but they will continue next week… uninterrupted thru September!
Available this week… Swiss chard, spinach, and kale. A variety of lettuce… Red Sails, Simpson Elite and Grand Rapids. Kenny will have radishes, green onions, asparagus, and rhubarb. If Kenny remembers to cut this week there will also be fresh mint. Strawberries should be ready for the Memorial weekend!
We will have plenty of fresh herbs and garden plants available this weekend. We have basil, dill, parsley, cilantro, oregano, thyme, sage, tarragon and rosemary. Kenny also has a nice variety of heirloom tomatoes, grape and cherry tomato plants.
Don’t forget to pick up your farm-fresh, free-range eggs at the market; we have quail eggs available as well.
Thanks for supporting us with your purchases at the market,
Val & Kenny
Reminder: My friend Valerie Shealy’s local honey will also be available this weekend.
Shealy Farms ~ Floyds Knobs, Indiana
This weekend I will have a Mother’s Day Gift Corner set up to help you finish your last minute shopping. There will be handcrafted items made by Val (with a little help from Kenny) as well as mini rose bushes, geraniums, and herbs. We will also have a few of Kenny’s Grilling Planks, my freshly made Blackening Spice , homemade jams and local honey. Stop by and check out our variety, cards and gift wrapping will be included.
I think Spring has finally sprung and it’s about time to start your herb and vegetable gardens. We will have plenty of fresh herbs and garden plants available this weekend. We have basil, dill, parsley, cilantro, oregano, thyme, sage, tarragon and rosemary. Kenny also has a variety of other plants including tomatoes. I will also have some great Mother’s Day gift ideas available.
This week we will be taking orders for the greens we have available… baby lettuce, spinach, and kale. Kenny should have some radishes again this week. Just a reminder that we have been selling out early each week… so come early or pre-order to make sure you get the items you need.
Don’t forget to pick up your farm-fresh, free-range eggs at the market; we have quail eggs available as well. I plan on having some of my Strawberry Balsamic Jam and Spiced Blueberry Jam at the market Saturday.
Thanks for supporting us with your purchases at the market,
Val & Kenny
Reminder: My friend Valerie Shealy’s local honey will also be available this weekend.
Live from Atlanta… another crazy busy week. I traveled south for the NCAA Final Four with “the girls” so I’m posting from here tonight. Congratulations to the Louisville Cardinals on their win!
Kenny is at home working, he planted broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage last week and is planting our “candy onions” this week for the market. He just keeps working and I keep traveling, what a guy! I’ll be home just in time to get the greens washed and the eggs packed for market on Saturday.
This week we will be taking orders for the greens we have available… baby lettuce, spinach, and kale. Don’t forget to pick up your farm-fresh, free-range eggs at the market. We have quite the variety… brown, green and quail eggs too. Just a reminder that we have been selling out early each week… so come early or pre-order to make sure you get the items you need.
My friend Valerie Shealy’s local honey will also be available this weekend.
Thanks for supporting us with your purchases at the market,
Val & Kenny
Saturday April 27th will be Russell Veggies’ second annual Recycle event. Anyone who wishes to recycle any previously used items acquired from us (or others) is asked to bring them to the New Albany Farmer’s Market on that day. We recycle most any items our customers bring, join us and help reuse, reduce and recycle.
Recycling facts that may interest you…
- About one-third of an average dump is made up of packaging material!
- The U.S. is the #1 trash-producing country in the world at 1,609 pounds per person per year. This means that 5% of the world’s people generate 40% of the world’s waste.
- The highest point in Hamilton County, Ohio (near Cincinnati) is “Mount Rumpke.” It is actually a mountain of trash at the Rumpke sanitary landfill towering 1045 ft. above sea level.
- Out of every $10 spent buying things, $1 (10%) goes for packaging that is thrown away. Packaging represents about 65% of household trash.
- Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours — or the equivalent of a half a gallon of gasoline.
- More aluminum goes into beverage cans than any other product.
- Because so many of them are recycled, aluminum cans account for less than 1% of the total U.S. waste stream, according to EPA estimates.
- An aluminum can that is thrown away will still be a can 500 years from now!
- There is no limit to the amount of times an aluminum can be recycled.
- We use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum soda cans every year.
- At one time, aluminum was more valuable than gold!
- If you had a 15-year-old tree and made it into paper grocery bags, you’d get about 700 of them. A busy supermarket could use
all of them in under an hour! This means in one year, one supermarket can go through over 6 million paper bags! Imagine how many supermarkets there are just in the United States!!! - The average American uses seven trees a year in paper, wood, and other products made from trees. This amounts to about 2,000,000,000 trees per year!
- The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years.
- Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the U.S.
- Americans use 85,000,000 tons of paper a year; about 680 pounds per person.
- The average household throws away 13,000 separate pieces of paper each year. Most is packaging and junk mail.
These recycling facts have been compiled from various
sources including the National Recycling Coalition, the Environmental
Protection Agency, and Earth911.org. While I make every effort to provide
accurate information, I make no warranty or guarantee that the facts presented
here are exact. We welcome all polite corrections to our information.
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What a wild and crazy couple of weekends… most of you know that my nephew plays basketball for the Borden Braves and I have been following him since he began playing ball at age 4. (He’s the young man that worked for us last summer at the farmer’s market) Cody and his team had an awesome year, they successfully won their way to Indiana State Class 1A Champions. I am so proud of them and wanted to share this awesome photo with each of you.
Now lets get back to farmer’s market news… this week we will be taking orders for the greens we have available… baby lettuce, spinach, and kale. Don’t forget to pick up your farm-fresh, free-range eggs at the market. We have quite the variety… brown, green and quail eggs too. Just a reminder that we have been selling out early each week so come early or pre-order to make sure you get the items you need.
My friend Valerie Shealy’s local honey and fresh pecans from their South Carolina farm will be available this weekend.
Thanks for supporting us with your purchases at the market,
Val & Kenny
