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Hi,
Farm News
Summer vacations are over - school starts this coming week in Miami-Dade. Are you looking for healthy options to pack for school or office? quick meals to prepare in the heat? There's an abundance of fruit, herbs to help you spice up your meals, eggs, heirloom beans, and responsibly-raised tilapia to complete your protein needs, honey to provide a sweet finish, and more...
We're getting to the last of our JUMBO-sized our
Donnie avocados. We also have
Hardee with a maroon skin, and
Russell with a loooooong neck full of flesh.
We have
Diamond River longans and some
Kohala longans - get some of each to compare these two varieties.
Our "
Not Your Hana's Bananas", are cooperating with a nice harvest. These are awesome, full of flavor, little fat bananas, totally unlike those you find at the stores nowadays. They're naturally a single serving size and fit perfectly in a lunch bag
We still have some pretty amazing
Gold Nugget and Keitt mangoes available, but t not for long. They're at the end of their harvest. Mangoes freeze really well both for fresh eating and for cooking later on.
Bignay/Antidesma is a small berry that grows in clusters. Its intense flavor makes it a perfect candidate for making wine (at which it excels). I personally like to make a spread (butter) by simply boiling it down slowly, with some organic raw sugar, until it's nice and thick. We haven't had a harvestable crop in a few years, so we're excited to be able to offer it.
Jakfruit is happy in the rainy season. Take advantage of our labor-we offer cleaned pulp ready to eat. Buy extra - it keeps in the freezer perfectly for a quick snack.
Carambolas are love the warm rainy weather too. We have sweet light-colored
Fwang Tung,
Arkin, as well as other
sweet and tart varieties. Dried carambolas are awesome and quite addictive - dry them yourself or pick up some of ours.
The smaller
Pantin (aka Key West) mameys are still available.
Persian limes are juicy! Use these to add zing to your guacamole (and help keep the bright color of the avocados). Make a simple yet incredibly good salad dressing with freshly-squeezed lime juice, honey, some water to dilute and a pinch of salt.
Not too many veggies around, so check out the baby sunflower greens (great salad recipe here), peashoots, nopales (cactus pads), and Paradise Farms' oyster mushrooms and baby arugula.
Proteins? YES! Heirloom Frijol de Seda, Rachel's and Abigail Farm Eggs, responsibly-raised Tilapia (no chemicals or antibiotics, small operation, not high-density, biofilter water which is used to water/feed young mangrove plants for habitat restoration projects) - WHOLE-YOU CLEAN - easy to do - watch this quick video . And for your pets - raw Redland-raised goat milk (per Florida law, labeled for pet use only, not for human consumption). These goats are fed certified organic feed.
Spice everything up with some summer herbs & spices - ripe allspice berries (I call these Nature's Altoids®), curryleaf, lemongrass, garlic chives, mint tips, hoja santa, betel leaves, basil (sweet and Thai), Florida Keys Sea Salt, gomasio, and Moroccan-style preserved citrus pickle with just a bit of heat to spice things up.
If you hadn't checked lately, we have our
local Wildflower and Tropical Fruit farm honey, but we also have delicious
Palmetto honey from around the Arcadia/Okeechobee area, and
Gallberry honey from North Florida. Try these - each is deliciously unique.
And there are wonderful
Rochelois jams, as well as
Goat Milk Soaps in a plethora of delicious scents! All these products are seasonally made in small batches with Redland-raised ingredients.
There's just too much good stuff to list it all, so you'll just have to click on the webstore, look around, and place your order!
Enrollment is still open for Winter 2015/2016 CSA season
our multi-farm CSA is a great bargain. Enroll now to secure your spot. And thanks to a grant, we offer matching dollars for SNAP/EBT recipients who enroll in our CSA program.
Visit our website
for complete information and to enroll.
Still shipping Avocado gift boxes-but not for much longer
Want to do something nice for your out-of-town friends or relatives? Or perhaps just boast about the amazing avocados we have? You can send them a gift box of our avocados, and even include some liquid sunshine (aka farm honey) in your order.
Place your shipping order, and we'll do the rest. To ensure highest quality, we only harvest and ship on Mondays and Tuesday, and ship 2nd day air.
Please note this is a separate order process - NOT part of our summer webstore.
Mail-order avocados here. Local? near one of our summer pickup sites? Save yourself the shipping and order on the webstore for local pickup, along with all our other summer amazing webstore offerings. See below.
Summer offers
It's summertime, and our webstore is ready to serve you. Check it out-it's easy to order just what you want. Pre-order, pre-pay**, we harvest it for you! Start your order!
We have 4 convenient locations to pick up your order: at the farm in Redland, at Joanna's Marketplace in the Dadeland area, Proper Sausages in Miami Shores, and Lulu's Nitrogen Ice Cream in the OMNI/Edgewater area.
AVOCADOS - JAKFRUIT - "NOT YOUR NANA'S" BANANAS
DIAMOND RIVER & KOHALA LONGAN
MAMEY - LIMES -
CARAMBOLA
Abigail Farm EGGS & Rachel's EGGS - HONEY
LEMONGRASS - ROSEMARY - BASIL - MINT
HOJA SANTA -
ALLSPICE BERRIES
CURRYLEAF -
BETEL LEAF - DRIED HERBAL TEAS
- NOPALES
PARADISE FARMS'
BABY ARUGULA & OYSTER MUSHROOMS
Heirloom dry BEANS
GOAT MILK SOAPS - ROCHELOIS JAMS
RESPONSIBLY-RAISED LOCAL TILAPIA (whole-you clean!)
RAW GOAT MILK (note per Florida law, raw milk products must be labeled "Not for human consumption")
and - MORE -
ANYONE CAN ORDER in the summertime
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE A CSA MEMBER
COMMERCIAL ACCOUNTS - EASILY ORDER ONLINE
SNAP/EBT (food stamp) CUSTOMERS - pick up & pay at the farm**
How it works: When we have something to offer (every couple of weeks or so), we'll remind you with a quick email. Four convenient pickup locations: (1) on-farm in Redland; (2) Dadeland area at Joanna's Marketplace; (3) Miami Shores at Proper Sausages; and (4) OMNI area at Lulu's Nitrogen Ice Cream. Find out more HERE and place your order or type the following into your browser: http://beeheavenfarm.com/ordering/webstore
Shop hours: from 9am Tuesday and all day Wednesday
NOTE: You actually have until 6am sharp Thursday morning.
Your order MUST be completed prior to that time.
Late orders will not be accepted.
Feel free to look around at all the offerings before placing your order.
Pay with bank debit, PayPal, credit, debit card or SNAP/EBT**
You don't need a PayPal account
**EBT customers: You you must pick up at the farm, because we have to run your card when you pick up your order. NOTE: some items (for example, soaps) are NOT SNAP/EBT eligible, and you will need to bring cash or a debit/credit card to pay for those.
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