lettuce

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If you’re getting tomatoes and lettuce for your burgers, expect them to cost around 20% more than they did last year — and make a plan for how you can use any leftovers.

From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026

They banked almost 500,000 seeds from 19 species, including relatives of lettuce, parsnip, strawberry, radish, quinoa, blackberry, alfalfa and several species used as fodder crops for livestock.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026

Among her many years toiling in the fields, she cut and packed lettuce, picked cherries and planted watermelon seeds across the Central Valley.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026

In the early 1970s, he launched a nationwide boycott of iceberg lettuce.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

Even in her shapeless dress, even with dirty hands and feet, she looked positively rich as she handed me Aunt Pretty’s basket, which she’d filled with lettuce, onions, and cucumbers.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney