Mesclun de Nice Salad Seed Mix contains a mixture of seeds of seven different types of French heirloom lettuce, of two different French heirloom escaroles and one frisée, plus chervil and roquette. These are pre-mixed and packed into a muslin bag. A smaller muslin bag contains nasturtium seeds. There are enough seeds to plant a five foot row or five-foot square patch 3 times.

Milled and hand crafted in Northern California these Pistaschio Wood Mini-Boards have a beautiful variegated grain and each one is different. Each board comes with a French Vintage Knife sourced from flea markets in France. It is the perfect size, 11.5 inches by 5 inches by 1/2 inch to tuck into a picnic basket or back pack, or to keep in the kitchen for serving a special cheese or to chop a few garlic cloves. Information and care instruction card included.

Vintage French stoneware escargot pots, just right for one snail and lots of garlick parsley butter. Each pot is a little bit different, adding to the charm of this set of 12 pots. Hand washing recommended.

La Vie Rustic's Cranberry Bean Soup Set includes everything you need to make the soup. Rancho Gordo Cranberry Beans, a jar of La Vie Rustic Sel de Thyme, a jar of Herbes de Provence, sprigs of fresh sweet bay laurel, four color recipe card, and an information card about fresh sweet bay.

A collection of 6 different varieties of seeds selected to represent the varied petal and center face colors and petal shapes in Vincent Van Gogh's famous series of sunflower paintings. They are packed in individual letter press packets, each containing 25 seeds. These packets are in a letterpress overpack that also contains a card with complete instructions for planting, watering, pinching, and cutting and caring . See Les Champs section of this website for details about the individual flowers.

Set includes Rancho Gordo Royal Corona beans, La Vie Rustic Sel de Sarriette (winter savory sea salt), Herbes de Provence, fsprigs of fresh sweet bay leaves (they'll dry), and a four color recipe card for White Beans and Ham Hocks (photo by Thomas Kuoh),and an information card .

Sel de Sarriette made with French sea salt and winter savory. An excellent seasoning for beans.

The set includes 12 vegetable seed packets plus 1 flower seed packet, 3 fold out garden maps, one each for spring, summer, and fall planting. The maps have a garden scheme for a small space on one side and complete growing and harvesting instructions on the other. Also included are 13 aluminum plant markers.

Made from French gray sea salt from Guerande in Brittany and French lavender buds, use this spicy, aromatic salt as you would regular salt to season meats, vegetable dishes and even desserts, like chocolate.

Hand-screened Duponi silk European pillow sham, in rose pink, zippered back, by Oakland textile artist, Sharon Spain. Note: pillow insert not included.

Note: Navel Orange zest has been substituted for the Blood Orange Zest; Blood Orange will return in January with the new crop.

Contents: Coarse Sel de Guèrande and Dried Navel Orange and Meyer Lemon Zest

90 grams

ORIGIN: France and California

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In French markets and home gardens, you’ll see an ever-changing array of lettuces in all colors, leaf types, shapes, and sizes. Red, pale green, dark green, variegated, tight heads, loose heads, tall and short - the choice is vast and varied. The ones we have selected here represent a combination of shapes, colors and flavors that will ensure you a wide range of lettuces for your salads. All of them are heirlooms with a long history of being cultivated in French potager and market gardens. The seed varieties marked with a “V” indicates they were described by the famous French seedsmen and horticulturalists, MM. Vilmorin-Andrieux, over 125 years ago in their book, The Vegetable Garden, first published in English in 1885.

Our fresh sweet bay laurel, Lauris nobilis, on branches 6- 8 inches long, is cut to order, gathered into a bunch and wrapped with twine, is shipped within 24 hours or less of cutting. Once you receive it, you can hang it or keep it in a basket in your kitchen or pantry. The leaves will gradually dry. When a recipe calls for 1 bay leaf, double the amount if using a fresh bay leaf. Best of all, use fresh bay leaves in quantity on skewers with pork or lamb or to make an aromatic bed for a potato and onion gratins, or 2 leaves per pot of dried beans.Contents: Five 6- 8 inch long branches of fresh sweet bay laurel and an information card on drying your fresh bay laurel.

A classic version of Herbes de Provence with winter savory, thyme, rosemary, sage, and whole lavender buds.