Salad Radish

Raphanus sativus

From red to white to purple to little snow-tipped breakfast radishes, salad radishes are all harvested when small, crisp, spicy, and sweet! Typically available in fresh bunches with their greens (which are delicious cooked) in the shoulder seasons of spring and fall in the PNW.

Radishes from Gathering Together Farm

La Reyna del Rábano

How to bunch the perfect bunch of radishes with Eva ❤️

Eva and the other women on our team have taught me (and so many others) everything I know about how to create the perfect bunches that we see at the farmers market.

She’s always coming up and checking on the size, telling me when my bunches are too big or too small, bringing me to the area of the field that is best, showing me todas las mañas, the tricks and techniques that make each radish and leaf fall right into place.

We often take bunches of greens for granted, but the way that chard leaves must fold over each other differs so greatly from the way moss parsley must nestle perfectly together, which differs still from the perfect bunch of carrots or radishes. To harvest food is such a skillful, artful, specialized profession that most of us know very little about. I’m so grateful to have learned alongside Eva and so many others over the years, and I know that I’ve just scratched the surface.

Next time you see a twist tie, remember the hands that harvest. We’ll see you at market this weekend with these bunches beauties and so many more ❤️

—originally published for Gathering Together Farm on Instagram here.

Radish Recipes