tunnel field… the area covered in plastic will be the pick-your-own flower garden… after we are done solarizing the weeds, we will plant tons of flowers, herbs, and other little treasures for folks to enjoy this summer, photo by Ryan

CSA Balance Due

If you haven’t already paid, your balance is due this week. 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.

*tractor covered in pollen after mowing down that cover crop! photo by Ryan*

This Week’s Availability

This week we will have radishes, red beets with greens, yellow beets with greens, salad turnips, broccoli raab, pea shoots, baby arugula, baby lettuce, spinach, baby bok choi, scallions, fresh oregano bunches, cilantro, strawberries, carrots with tops, and frozen heirloom/beefsteak tomatoes.

This year’s strawberry patch has surprised us, and this week we won’t have a limit on the number of strawberry items each person can take!

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

If this is your first time ordering with the new platform, and have any trouble using it to order your veggies this week (or change your pickup location, or skip this week, or anything…) reach out to us. We are here to help.

Farm News

Wowee, we are BUSY! May and June are really wild times on a northeast diversified veggie farm… and then add in packing over 100 pre-order plant orders and a twice a week strawberry harvest onto all the transplanting, trellising, weeding, seeding, bed prep, harvesting, washing, packing, and delivering we do this time of year, and it makes us really think about the seasonal work flow and if we need to cut things out to make this time of year less stressful.

What generally happens when we are backed up with this kind of work is that things get delayed… at the moment, there are several things we wish were transplanted in the ground already, but are patiently, patiently, waiting in their trays for us to get to them. And also weeding gets shoved to the back burner, which is a tough decision to make, because it is just making July harder, and future seasons as well. It’s so much easier to knock weeds back when they are small, and especially before they start to set seeds, but there is also only so much we can do in a day. (Years ago, before kids, for some reason it felt ok to work late into the night this time of year with headlamps…. but nothing like having little kiddos to kick that habit!) We hope by next week to at least have all the transplants in the ground, and then work hard to catch up on whatever weeding and trellising we can. Fingers crossed!

Most things are growing really well though, and we are happy with that. It’s always a good feeling to have things producing well despite the backlog of work.

Ryan’s dad is bringing over a new hive of bees later this week that we are looking forward to welcoming to the farm. Late this winter our hives kicked it, likely from overwhelming mite pressure. But last weekend we visited Ryan’s dad’s home when he caught two new swarms, and soon we will have honey bees busily working and humming around here again.

Have a great week,

-ESF Team: Ryan, Kara, Molly, Katie, K2, Taylor, Vanessa, Galen, and, Cindy

Salsa Cruda (-ish)