Shady Grove Farm at Findlay Market

This is sort of the transition trailer. If you want to become more like the farmer vendors all around, you can get your start here. They have herbs, flowers, and other vegetables that have already been partly grown and now await you to take them and plant them into your own garden. Horticultural adoption.
If I need basil, I’ll often grab a plant, pot it for awhile, then give into the temptation and pick it before it has really matured. But there’s nothing like really, really fresh strips of home-​grown basil with olive oil and fresh summer tomatoes. If you wish to experience it for yourself, grab a couple of pots here and try it.
Plus, if you aren’t very green in your thumb, they’ll happily give you such clear directions that you’d have to try to kill it.