Mixed Greens
June’s NH Harvest of the Month: mixed greens!
There are so many types of greens available such as arugula, spinach, romaine, radicchio, leaf lettuces, bibb, frisée, endive, mesclun or spring mix, mache, and oak leaf varieties. Many are mild in flavor but some are spicy or bitter like arugula and radicchio.
Lettuce is specific species of plant and includes butterhead, crisphead, romaine, and loose-leaf. Egypt and Iran are considered the center of lettuce origin.
Khobbeizeh, or Malva Parviflora, is a wild green in the mallow family that grows throughout the Middle East and North Africa. A common way to prepare it is to chop it up and cook it with olive oil and onions.
Saag is a cooked mixed greens dish from Northern India and can be made with spinach, raab, mustard greens, fenugreek leaves, garlic and spices.
Gado Gado is an Indonesian salad made with vegetables and greens and served with a peanut sauce.
This webpage includes a variety of educational materials, activities, recipes, and more about mixed greens for use at home, in youth or family programming, in the classroom, and in the cafeteria. For more New Hampshire Harvest of the Month resources for June, click here.
Home Kit for Mixed Greens
Teacher, families, youth programs, and anyone
interested in incorporating mixed greens into activities,
meals, and learning can use this home kit. This kit includes information, cooking tips, recipes, mini-activities, and more.
Download here (in English)
Download here (in Spanish)
Download here (in French)
Poster for Mixed Greens
Display your love for mixed greens! Download the
New Hampshire Harvest of the Month poster at the
link below. The file is in PDF format and is sized to
print on 11×17 inch paper.
Videos about Mixed Greens
“Healthy Recipes from NH
Farmers Markets: Spinach,” UNH Extension
Books about Mixed Greens
Just Try One Bite by Adam Mansback
and Camila Alves McConaghey
So You Want to Grow a Salad by Bridget Heos
Lesson Plans for Mixed Greens
Developed in partnership with UNH Extension, NH Farm to School, and the UNH Education department, the Harvest Lessons lesson plans and curricular activities can be used by education professionals to incorporate mixed greens into dynamic, long-lasting learning in the classroom and other education-based settings.
Lesson plan supplement
Click to download the lesson plan supplements to support learning through the activities in the lesson plan.
India
Mixed Greens Recipes for
Home Cooking
Saag Paneer
Simple Green Salad
Fattoush Salad
Spinach Saag
Somali Salad with
BizBaz Dressing
Iraqi Sumac Salad:
Summag Salad
Mixed Greens for
School + Institutional Food Service
Find Mixed Greens in
New Hampshire
NH Department of Agriculture, Markets
and Food’s Farmers’ Markets, including
Winter markets, Farm Stand, and
CSA listings
UNH Extension’s Farm Products map
NOFA-NH’s Organic Farm and Food map