19th Week of the Summer CSA Season: Week of October 15th

Oct 11

*the fall head lettuce has been so gorgeous... next week we will send out 2 pallets (784 heads) of these beauties to the Vermont Food Bank, along with a pallet of kale, photo by Adam Ford*

This Week’s Availability

This week we will have

Greens: baby lettuce, spinach, arugula, green curly kale bunches, lacinato kale bunches, rainbow chard, bok choi, romaine heads, green head lettuce, red head lettuce, green cabbage, Napa cabbage, mesclun mix, pea shoots, and brussels sprouts
Roots: carrots, red potatoes, yellow potatoes, rutabaga, red beets, watermelon radish, sweet potatoes, and parsnips
Alliums: onions, garlic, shallots, and leeks
Fruiting Crops: Painted Mountain corn, tomatillos, sweet Italian Carmen peppers, jalapeno peppers, aji rico hot peppers, spaghetti squash, green tomatoes, delicata squash, and green beans
Herbs and Miscellaneous: parsley and fennel

We listed several items available for bulk purchasing at wholesale pricing on the online platform. This week we have garlic, onions, carmen peppers, green cabbage, and frozen elderberries available in bulk amounts if you do any preserving for winter. If you pick up at the barn and want to order any of those items in bulk, just send us an email.

Click here to order your veggies for a delivered bag to Ludlow or Rutland

*December baby lettuce, photo by Adam Ford*

Farm News

This week the team harvested parsnips (we grew a trial bed for the first time since 2011!), as well as the first half of the storage carrots, and got a jump on the storage beet harvest. We tucked in several crops with row cover to keep safe from the potential frosty nights this weekend. If we are lucky we will continue harvesting tender crops like green beans next week from underneath the row cover!

This year I have been involved on a Northeast Organic Farm Association committee to help guide NOFA’s policy and organizing work. Earlier this summer, NOFA asked me to write an article for their NOFA notes and blog to describe the work that the committee has been up to. If that interests you, you can read that here.

This week is the second to last week of the summer CSA season. Try to make up any missed items from this season during these last two weeks. (And reach out if you can’t.)

Busy end of the week for me, so enjoy the photo tour, and the NOFA article above. Also, enjoy the heck out of this week’s less traditional recipe reading below. We had an especially decadent pizza night this week, sneaking in the last of summer crop joys onto our pizza, and I think some of you may like some of the pizza arrangements we do in our house. (Spoiler alert, yes, you should make French fry pizza, and no, it’s not just to score points with your kids… It’s really delicious.)

Have a great week,

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

Weekly Recipe

Want to know what we do with toppings for pizza night?