Seasonal Produce Guide:

Seasonal Produce Guide

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Spring

Green Almonds • Apricots • Artichokes • Asparagus • Avocados (Fuerte • Gwen and Pinkerton) • Beets • Blueberries • Cabbage • Cardoons • Carrots • Cherimoyas • Citrus (Grapefruits • Meyer Lemons • Pink Eureka Lemons • Bearss Limes • Mandarins • Blood Oranges • Cara Cara Navel Oranges • Pummelos and Tangelos) • Cherries • Dandelion • Fava Beans • Fennel • Fiddlehead Ferns • Green Garlic • Grape leaves • Herbs (Dill • Leek-Chives • Italian Parsley • Tarragon and Mint) • Lettuce • Mushrooms: Yellow-Footed Chanterelles, Hedgehog, Morel and Porcini • Nettles • Spring Onions • Parsnips • Passion Fruit • Peas (English) • Potatoes (New) • Radicchio (Treviso) • Radishes • Ramps • Rapini • Rhubarb • Romanesco • Sapotes • Snap Peas • Sorrel • Stinging Nettles

• Strawberries • Watercress

Summer

Amaranth • Apricots • Arugula • Asian Pears • Avocados (Hass • Lamb Hass and Reed) • Bay leaves • Beets • Berries (Blackberries • Raspberries, etc.) • Cherries, Chickpeas (Green) • Citrus (Eureka Lemons • Bearss Limes • Key Limes • Valencia Oranges) • Corn • Cucumbers • Currants (Red) • Edamame • Eggplants • Figs • Garlic • Grapes • Grape Leaves • Herbs (Basil • Lemon Verbena • Summer Savory • Wild Fennel) • Lambs Quarters • Leeks • Mangoes • Melons • Nectarines

• Okra • Onions (Maui and Walla Walla) • Passion Fruits • Peaches • Peanuts • Peppers • Plums • Potatoes (New)

• Purslane • Radicchio • Shallots • Shell Beans • Snap Beans • Snap Peas • Spinach (Bloomsdale) • Squash Blossom

• Summer Squash • Swiss Chard • Tomatoes • Watermelons

Fall

Almonds • Apples • Artichokes • Arugula (Wild) • Asian Pears • Avocados (Hass and Reed)

• Bay Leaves • Beans (Shell and Dried) • Beets • Broccoli • Broccoli Rabe • Brussels Sprouts

• Cardoons • Celery Root • Chiles and Sweet Peppers • Citrus (Buddha's Hand and Key Limes)

• Corn • Crosnes • Red Currants • Dates (New Harvest) • Eggplants • Grapes (Autumn Royale and Concord) • Kiwifruits • Mangoes • Mushrooms (Chanterelle • Crimini and Porcini)

• Mustard Greens • Nuts (New Harvest) • Okra • Olives • Peaches (Indian Blood) • Pears

• Peppers • Persimmons (Fuyu and Hachiya) • Pomegranates • Quinces • Radicchio (Treviso)

• Rapini • Rutabagas • Spinach (Bloomsdale) • Snap Peas • Sweet Potatoes • Swiss Chard

• Tomatillo • Winter Squashes

Winter

Arugula • Avocados (Gwen) • Brussels Sprouts • Cabbage • Cardoons • Carrots • Cauliflower

• Celery Root • Cherimoyas • Citrus (Blood Oranges • Grapefruit • Mandarin Oranges • Meyer Lemons • Pummelos • Tangelos and Washington navels) • Dates • Dragon Fruit • Escarole

• Fennel • Kale • Kohlrabi • Cress • Leeks • Mushrooms (Black Trumpet • Chanterelle • Yellow-Footed Chanterelles • Nettles • Parsnips • Pears • Puntarella • Radicchio • Radishes

• Rutabagas • Sapotes • Sorrel • Sweet Potatoes • Swiss Chard • Treviso • Turnips • Winter Squash

Sources:

1. The San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmers' Market Cookbook by Christopher Hirsheimer and Peggy Knickerbocker (Chronicle Books, 2006)

2. The Santa Monica Farmers' Market Cookbook by Amelia Saltsman (Blenheim Press, 2007)