*Our family was away on vacation this week, but it looks like the flower garden is exploding! photo by Adam Ford*

CSA Balance Due

If you haven’t already paid, your balance is due. You can pay online through your account (with a card or e-check ACH payment), mail a check to Evening Song Farm 48 Nice Road, Cuttingsville VT 05738, leave a check or cash in the CSA cash box at the barn, send money with Venmo @eveningsongcsa, or use EBT. It’s very cool to pay in smaller chunks, just let us know what your payment plan is.

This Week’s Availability

This week we will have yellow beets, red beets, parsley, caraflex cabbage, mini green cabbage, carrots, scallions, baby lettuce, green curly kale bunches, lacinato kale bunches, slicing cucumbers, Japanese slicing cucumbers, pickling cucumbers, zucchini, yellow summer squash, purple kohlrabi, fennel, celery, garlic, basil, Asian eggplant, Italian eggplant, tomatillos, green tomatoes, green beans, elderberries, fresh sweet onion bunches, cherry tomatoes, plum tomatoes, and heirloom tomatoes.

Make sure you list a preferred subsitution this week especially: we are making our best guess of what we will be available next week from our vacation away from the farm.

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 Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays to pick out your items yourself.

CSA pickup and delivery days and times

Farm News

Our little family has been on a beach adventure for the week, and the amazing team of farmers at Evening Song Farm have been holding it all down, as they have whenever we take our beach week away… it’s so cool that we are able to get away for a whole week in the summer, as veggie farmers. When we started farming years ago, we were under the impression that the only break we could take would be deep in winter, but to help protect against burn out long term, I decided years ago that I needed to touch the ocean every summer. The first few years it was hard and stressful to disappear for that long, but this team rocks, and they manage it all like the pros they are. Thank you Galen, Taylor, Katie, K2, Cindy, Molly, and the volunteers (Alice, Lillie, and Miguel), who help make this a reality for us.

So I am only writing a brief newsletter this week, to fully soak up our time away… Here’s a quote from my summer reading, Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book, Braiding Sweetgrass:

“In the Western tradition there is a recognized hierarchy of beings, with, of course, the human being on top—the pinnacle of evolution, the darling of Creation—and the plants at the bottom. But in Native ways of knowing, human people are often referred to as ‘the younger brothers of Creation.’ We say that humans have the least experience with how to live and thus the most to learn—we must look to our teachers among the other species for guidance. Their wisdom is apparent in the way that they live. They teach us by example. They’ve been on the earth far longer than we have been, and have had time to figure things out.”

Maybe that’s why I need to come to the ocean every year to sit still and breathe slowly…. the oceans have been here the longest, and have “figured things out” over billions of years. So just sitting here and being is the rest I need, a little stillness before going home to resume learning from the plants.

Looking forward to be back at at the farm. Have a great week.

-ESF Team: Ryan, Kara, Molly, Cindy, Galen, Katie, K2, Taylor, Vanessa, and Bryan (and Sky and Soraya)

Weekly Recipe

Cream of Celery Soup