CSA Balance Due

If you haven’t already paid, your balance is due. You can pay online through your account, mail a check to Evening Song Farm 48 Nice Road, Cuttingsville VT 05738, or leave a check in the CSA cash box at the barn. It’s very cool to pay in smaller chunks, just let us know what your payment plan is. You can also email or call us to pay with EBT.

If you get an auto email about a balance due, either pay that, or reach out if you think it’s wrong. It helps reduce our computer work load if payments are taken care of when a notice goes out. Thanks!

*Tokyo bekana in the middle row, mostly harvested out red and green head lettuce rows to the right, with baby kale on the farthest right bed, photo by Adam Ford*

This Week’s Availability

This week we will have leeks, green kohlrabi, baby lettuce, mini lettuce heads, spinach, claytonia, baby bok choi, green curly kale, parsley, red beets, yellow beets, carrots, garlic, yellow onions, purple and white daikon radishes, baby kale, mesclun mix, green napa cabbage, watermelon radish, celeriac, green cabbage, and red and yellow potatoes.

Click here to order your veggies for a delivered bag

Ordering closes at noon on Tuesdays for Wednesday bags, and at midnight on Wednesdays for Friday bags.

You do not need to fill out the form if you plan to come to the barn on Wednesdays or Thursdays to pick out your items yourself.

CSA pickup and delivery days and times

Farm News

Ryan’s been busily working on the 2023 seed order. We always plan to have our seeds ordered by the end of December or early January, because it’s not uncommon for some specific varieties that we rely on to sell out. And here’s something fun: Our farm participates in a Community Supported Seed (CSS) program with High Mowing Seeds… which is a similar concept to a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture.) We pay them a CSS payment in early December, and that translates into discounted seed cost that we use through the winter seed ordering season. It’s an important program for the seed company to secure those committed purchases early in the seed purchasing season, and it’s a win for us to have a way to bring down the vast cost of our (thousands of dollars) seed budget each year. Plus High Mowing Seeds is a very cool company, so we like supporting their CSS program.

We harvested out almost the last of the cold hardy leeks before this single digit cold snap. (We left a very small section that we covered up under some extra snow as insulation to see if they are harvestable in the next warm spell. Based on their variety, we believe they will be, but we will see! Always experimenting.)

Managing the weekly harvest during the fall share is a very precise little dance, to make sure we have enough of everything each week, but that we also don’t over harvest anything, so that the wide variety lasts throughout the fall season. And it seems to be going pretty well; in terms of looking ahead for the next 3 weeks of season… looking like we will still have a very wide variety coming out of the tunnels through the end of this season. Then the greens are dormant for a few weeks, which is when we take a little break for ourselves, before they start picking back up as the sunlight returns. Many of the greens we have cut during this fall season (like spinach and mesclun mix) will regrow to cut during the spring season, and some things that were cleared out as they were harvested (like lettuce heads and bok choi) will make space for new seedings and transplantings in February and March to augment the regrowth of the other greens for the spring share. We couldn’t run this size of a CSA program without all 3 of these tunnels managed very precisely. Ryan and I used to do all the crop planning collaboratively, but over the years as this farm has gotten wilder, and we have divided up our responsibilities more, he is completely in charge of managing the flow of the tunnel plantings and harvesting and turning over beds… and even though my brain used to be involved in that when we managed a single tunnel and a smaller CSA membership, it amazes me all the details he has to pay attention to to make it all work.

We hope you are having an enjoyable holiday week. We dried some papalo this summer, and added some pinches of that summer brightness to some Hanukkah latkes this week. Non-traditional, but strong recommend. We hope the winter solstice, Hanukkah, and the Christmas season have been as joyful and grounding as possible.

Have a great week!

ESF Team: Kara, Ryan, Galen, Taylor, Molly, Cindy, Katie, K2, Sky and Soraya