This time of year we transplant baby lettuce plugs beneath the green curly kale canopy. These kale plants were transplanted back in August, and over the next few weeks, the kale will start to attempt to go to flower to set seed. As it does that, the leaves get smaller and smaller, letting in progressively more light to the baby lettuce understory. The baby lettuce grows well this way, and then when the kale plants are done be harvested and ready to be removed, we have a bed of baby lettuce that is usually not more than a week away from being ready to harvest. This is a fun way we have figured out how to not lose any time between growing different crops in the same bed, photo by Galen Miller.

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
Mail a check to Evening Song Farm at 48 Nice Road, Cuttingsville VT 05738
Send money with Venmo @eveningsongcsa (our profile has our logo pictured)
Email or call us to pay with EBT
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.

Important note: the new software system shuts off the ability for folks to order a delivered bag when payments are a couple weeks late.

The “balance” display on your CSA dashboard isn’t as intuitive as I would hope. If you have questions about your balance for the season at any point, just reach out.

This Week’s Availability

This week we will have spinach, green curly kale bunches, baby kale, claytonia, mesclun mix, parsley, red beets, yellow beets, chioggia beets, carrots, onions, daikon radishes, green cabbage, watermelon radish, kohlrabi, and red and yellow potatoes.

*carrots, onions, and beets are now sourced from Juniper Hill Farm, also certified organic

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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

The team got a jump on transplanting the next round of baby lettuce under the green curly kale canopy. They also continued seeding rounds of pea shoots, and many, many trays of early season greens and beets in the grow room. I re-started some herbs (sage, thyme, and oregano) because I didn’t like the germination on the batch I started last month. Cindy and Ryan have almost the entire new cooler set up, and we imagine it will be in action next week. It will be a cool asset for all seasons once it is functioning. We would like to keep tomatoes and peppers at a more ideal temperature after harvest, which is about 50 degrees, instead of choosing between the cold, cold temperatures of the walk in cooler, or the hot, hot summer air in the barn. And there are also times of year, we just have so many veggies coming in through the cooler before big orders go out, that this addition will really make our lives easier. We participate in the Farmacy Program, run through the Vermont Farmers’ Food Center. This program provides a weekly CSA share of “fresh produce prescriptions for individuals as ‘medicine’ for chronic diet-related health conditions” grown by several Rutland area farms. The weeks that we provide food for this program, it can sometimes nearly take over our cooler, and it makes it pretty tight for us to manage all the harvest for our normal weekly CSA and wholesale orders. So, hooray for getting this new cooler in!

The little tomatoes in the grow room are looking great. We will probably have to pot them up into their bigger containers in about 2 weeks from now. I love that project for many reasons, but especially I love watching 8 trays of little plants turn into almost 60 trays of much larger plants.

There’s been a resident (incredibly cute) little bunny in one of the tunnels this winter that Ryan and I have both spotted hopping away different times that we have uncovered the greens. The first time I saw it, I was super bummed, assuming I would then see a tremendous amount of damage in the greens…. but very curiously, we haven’t noticed anything damaged. Weird. But cool. I am cool with having a cute rabbit find a winter home in the warmth of one of these tunnels as long as it’s finding its winter food outside somewhere. Somehow it got the memo, that we can share this space if it doesn’t start developing a diet of spinach, kale, and mesclun mix!

Next week we will be continuing to transplant lettuce into the tunnels, and getting ready to move a lot more plants from the grow room to the propagation house.

Have a great week,

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