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These lightly spicy baby greens are great for a fresh salad. Fresh greens are packed with essential vitamins and minerals like iron, calcium, and vitamins A, C, and K. Add grated carrots, sliced cucumbers, avocado, or any other toppings of your choice and serve with dressing. Try making your own salad dressing!

Sesame Ginger Vinaigrette

This sweet, tender Asian cabbage is quick and easy to stir fry, saute, or add to a brothy soup. Green leafy vegetables are full of antioxidants and great for your overall health. Bok choy is also a great source of fiber, and vitamins C and E, beta-carotene, folate, and selenium.

Garlicky Bok Choy

These root vegetables are packed with essential vitamins and minerals, and can help lower blood pressure, fight inflammation in the body and even improve athletic performance.

Roasted Beets with Feta

Apple Cider Vinegar Pickled Beets

Borscht

Cruciferous vegetables like cabbage are full of antioxidants and shown to reduce inflammation in the body.

Simple Sauerkraut

Classic Coleslaw

Cabbage Rolls

Carrots are a great source of beta carotene, and can help lower cholesterol and improve eye health. If you’ve never tried a farm fresh carrot before (or even if you have), we recommend snacking on them raw or with your favorite dip. It’s a transformative experience! If you have any left, here are a few recipe ideas:

French Carrot Salad

Slow Cooker Carrot Ginger Soup

Carrot Cake

Celery is full of antioxidants and vitamins that can help reduce inflammation and neutralize acidity in the body. An ideal healthy snack!

“Ants on a log”

Chicken salad

Minstrone

Cucumbers are low in calories but high in vitamins and antioxidants. Full of water, they can help keep you hydrated and have been shown to reduce blood sugar and alleviate some of the complications of diabetes.

Creamy Cucumber Salad

Refrigerator Dill Pickles

A great source of potassium and fiber, eggplants can be easy to prepare:

Eggplant Parmesan

Baba Ganoush

You can eat the entire plant either cooked or raw – the white bulb has a stronger onion flavor while the greens are more mild. Chop them up and use them to top soup, salad, dips, or nachos, for a pop of color and flavor. Green onions are part of the allium family, along with garlic, onions, shallots and leeks, which are high in organic sulfur compounds. Alliums are heart healthy, can help prevent blood clotting, and contain the antioxidant quercetin, which can help prevent cancer and chronic disease.

Kale is a superfood! Packed with vitamins A, B6, C, K, folate, fiber, and more it is one of the healthiest foods you can choose. But it can also be delicious!

Kale Chips

Lemon-Garlic Kale Salad

Sausage potato kale soup

Don’t be intimidated! Kohlrabi is related to broccoli and radishes, and has a similar crunch and kick to a broccoli stem. Full of vitamin C, it is delicious raw or cooked.

Kohlrabi Fritters

Kohlrabi Slaw

Kohlrabi Roasted

Leeks are related to onions, garlic, and shallots – learn all about how to use them here. Leeks are in the allium family, along with garlic, onions, shallots and green onions. Foods in this family are high in organic sulfur compounds, are heart healthy and can help prevent blood clotting, and contain the antioxidant quercetin, which can help prevent cancer and chronic disease.

Potato Leek Soup

Braised Leeks

Pappardelle with Leeks and Spinach

This classic summer vegetable is a staple in southern cooking. It is high in protein, fiber, and vitamins C and K.

Gumbo

Grilled Okra

Fried Okra

Use radishes to add a kick and crunch to a green salad, sandwich, wrap, grain bowl, & more. Or pickle them in five minutes for the perfect taco topping. Radishes are a good source of calcium and potassium, and can help regulate blood sugar, detoxify the body, and reduce the risk for heart disease.

Quick Pickled Radish

Peppers are super high in vitamin C and contain antioxidants called carotenoids that can help reduce inflammation and lower cholesterol.

Stuffed Mini Peppers

Pan Roasted Peppers

Roasted Red Pepper Hummus

Swiss chard is a nutrient-packed green from the beet family. This superfood is an excellent source of vitamin A, K, C, magnesium and beta carotene. You can simply saute it for a delicious side or use it how you would another cooked green.

Eggs in a Nest

Braised Chard

Swiss Chard pasta

Turnips are a great source of vitamins A, C, and potassium. The simplest way to eat turnips is to roast them with salt and butter or oil. The greens are also edible and delicious! Saute them like you would any other cooked green.

Sauted Turnips

Roasted Turnips