Don’t have space for a backyard garden? Didn’t inherit your mother’s green thumb? Still want to cook with fresh fruits and vegetables?
Experience farm-fresh flavors at home thanks to the northwest Valley’s Gilcrease Orchard, where you can pick tomatoes off the vine for that summer salad or harvest a medley of root vegetables for a hearty autumn stew.
Squash, peas, carrots, beets, greens and zucchini are ripe right now, and the farm stand has green garlic and asparagus. Gilcrease sells produce for eight straight months, so we found out what’s in season through the year.
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March
Asparagus
Lettuce
Kale
Spinach
Bok choi
Arugula
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April
Asparagus
Lettuce
Kale
Spinach
Bok Choi
Arugula
Beets
Carrots
Onions
Green garlic
Peas
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May
Kale
Spinach
Apricots
Tomatoes
Summer squash
Zucchini
Onions
Garlic
Beets
Carrots
New potatoes
Cucumbers
Green beans
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June
Peaches
Tomatoes
Summer squash
Zucchini
Eggplant
Onions
Garlic
Beets
Carrots
Cucumbers
New potatoes
Vegetable amaranth
Watermelon
Cantaloupe
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July
Peaches
Tomatoes
Summer squash
Zucchini
Eggplant
Onions
Garlic
Gala apples
Watermelon
Cucumbers
Cantaloupe
Vegetable amaranth
Spaghetti squash
Butternut squash
Okra
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August
Pears
Watermelon
Summer squash
Zucchini
Eggplant
Okra
Garlic
Spaghetti squash
Butternut squash
Cucumbers
Cantaloupe
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September
Zucchini
Summer squash
Eggplant
Okra
Garlic
Sweet potatoes
Cucumbers
Butternut squash
Spaghetti squash
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October
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Kale
Spinach
Vegetable amaranth
Eggplant
Cucumbers
Sweet potatoes
Butternut squash
Spaghetti squash
Zucchini
Summer squash
Pumpkins
Carrots
Beets
Okra
Green tomatoes
Green beans
GILCREASE ORCHARD Saturday, 7 a.m.-noon (hours change with the harvest). 7800 N. Tenaya Way, 702-409-0655, thegilcreaseorchard.org.