Spring Growing Guide 2025
Lettuce
Kale Mix
Our Our Kale Mix combines mild lettuces (green and red crystal, rhone, and red romaine) with young, tender kale leaves. Unlike mature kale, these early-harvested greens are mild and never bitter. Read more about our Kale Mix, its health benefits, and ways to use it.
Superfood Lettuce Blend
This blend is loaded with nutrient-rich greens. It includes pea shoots, red and green bok choy, kale, and Swiss chard. Learn more about our Superfood Lettuce Blend here.
Farm Crunch
Our Farm Crunch is 100% green crystal lettuce, which is crispy and hydrating. Its sturdiness makes it a perfect lettuce to wilt for a cooked salad, or to use on top of hot sandwiches and burgers, as it will hold its crunch even with the heat.
Arugula Mix
Our Arugula Mix combines the bold, peppery bite of arugula with the crisp, mild taste of green and red crystal, and rhone lettuces. Learn more about our Arugula Mix, how it benefits your health, and ways to incorporate it into your diet this spring.
Root Vegetables
Onions
Perfect for the season, we grow spring onions, also known as scallions, green onions, or salad onions, which we harvest early before their bulbs fully develop. They have a milder, more delicate flavor than larger onions. Learn more about how to use onions in your springtime recipes here.
Bok Choy
Bok choy is a leafy green vegetable that belongs to the mustard family along with other cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, cabbage, and kale. It has a mild, slightly peppery flavor with a little sweetness. Read all about bok choy’s amazing benefits and ways to use it here.
Turnips
We grow Hakurei turnips, which are a small, round, bright white variety that does not have any of the bitterness of the more common varieties. They are slightly sweet and tender so you can eat them raw. Learn about how we grow turnips and ways to use them here.
Carrots
Our carrots are colorful and have a sweet and earthy flavor. They are perfect for snacking on raw, but can be used in so many way. Learn more about our organic carrots and why incorporating them into your diet is healthy and delicious.
Celery
Our celery is green and pink, so it is not only beautiful, but also tender and flavorful. Like many of our root vegetables, we harvest the celery young, when nutrients and flavor is at its peak. Learn about our pink and green celery here.
Microgreens
Broccoli
Packed with nutrients (up to 40 times more than mature broccoli), broccoli microgreens have a mild, slightly peppery flavor with a fresh crunch. They’re loaded with sulforaphane, a powerful antioxidant that supports cellular health. Learn more about broccoli microgreens here.
Sunflower
Sunflower shoots are nutty, crisp, and a good source of vitamins and mineral. Their hearty texture makes them a perfect addition to salads, sandwiches, or as a crunchy snack on their own. Read more about sunflower shoots, ways to use them, and their many health benefits here.
Seasonal Specialty Microgreen Mix
Our Seasonal Specialty Microgreen Mix changes with the season, and our spring 2025 version has broccoli microgreens, red sorrel, and purple shamrock, making it not only colorful, but also deliciously citrusy, which is perfect for spring.
Sunflower + Marigold
This special springtime blend combines sunflower shoots with the edible leaves and flowers of the marigold plant. Sunflower shoots are earthy and crunchy, while marigold has a citrus (slightly peppery) flavor.
Pea Shoots
Pea shoots are baby pea plants, their flavor earthy. They are a hearty shoot which means you can cook them or eat them raw. They have a ton of vitamin C, as well as many other nutrients and minerals. Learn more about how we grow pea shoots here.
Broccoli + Stock Flower
This exciting mix combines broccoli microgreens with white, pink, and purple edible stock flowers that also have a broccoli-like flavor. Broccoli microgreens are up to 40 times more nutritious than mature broccoli—this colorful blends is beautiful and healthy.
Herbs
Mint
Mint is such a delicious springtime herb. It’s perfect for adding to drinks, making tea, or adding into salads. It also keeps your brain sharp and your breath fresh. Learn more about the mint we grow, its health benefits, and ways to use it here.
Chives
Chives have that delicate, not overpowering onion flavor making it an amazing garnish for so many dishes. It has all of the benefits of crops in the onion family as well. Read more about our chives here.
Living Basil
When you buy basil at the grocery store, do you notice that it wilts and turns brown in just a day or so? That’s because once basil is harvested, it quickly loses its color and texture. So we deliver a living basil plant, which can sit in your kitchen, its leave ready to be harvested fresh as you use it. If you want to plant it or keep it alive, we can help. Just read our living basil crop guide here.
Parsley
Parsley is an essential fresh herb to have in the kitchen. It has many health benefits and adds flavor and depth to recipes whether you use it in cooking or raw. Read more about our fresh, organic parsley here.
Dill
Dill is great for springtime recipes. A little goes a long way, and our dill is harvested at its peak so it is fresh and flavorful. Learn more about the benefit of adding dill into your diet, as well as unique ways to use it here.
Cilantro Microgreens
New this spring are our cilantro microgreens. They will have an intense cilantro flavor, but be tender, perfect to add raw on top of tacos, salads, and more.
Area 2 Farms for Locals
Your food should be equally accessible and nutritious. Which is where we come in. At Area 2 Farms, we grow fresh organic produce within 10 miles of you.
