Lettuce Help You

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Appears in the November 2021 issue.

Carlos and Katie Palomares, owners of Mighty Greens Farms in Elburn, know you’ve been neglecting your salad bowl of late. Don’t be ashamed; it happens every year.

After a summer spent playing giddy matchmaker—sweet lettuces here, microgreens there—you’re probably buying whatever pallid grocery-store greens you could find and calling it a night. Fortunately, the farm’s year-round greens program—available via subscription or farm pickups—allows you to enjoy super-sweet greens year-round.

Frilly Salanova lettuces, ultra crunchy and earthy sunflower shoots, and pepper-flecked Tokyo bekana cabbage.

“It’s challenging to do this all year,” says Carlos, who leverages cold-frame greenhouses, “but with the support of people in the community, we always found a way to make it through.”

Photo courtesy Mighty Greens Farms