*Morning glory vines on the arch, photo by Adam Ford*

This Week’s Availability

This week we will have:

Greens: baby lettuce, spinach, arugula, green curly kale, lacinato kale bunches, bok choi, green cabbage, Napa cabbage, mesclun mix, and mini head lettuce
Roots: carrots, yellow potatoes, rutabaga, red beets, yellow beets, chioggia beets, watermelon radish, daikon radish, and Gilfeather turnip
Alliums: onions, garlic, shallots, and leeks
Fruiting Crops: delicata squash and mini butternut squash
Herbs and Miscellaneous: fennel and Painted Mountain corn

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

*It looks pretty good to be a goat, photo by Adam Ford*

Farm News

Farm work this week settled into a feeling of more ease as we have the vast majority of the season’s work behind us. After the earlier weeks of fall, when the bulk harvest of storage vegetables seemed like an endless responsibility, we are enjoying a slower schedule in which we can all take a little extra time off from the strong pace of the summer. Cindy, Leah, and I have gotten the propagation house one step farther along, with drainage installed, the floor smoothed out, and landscape fabric and tables back in place. The original earthmoving to build that propagation house was back in 2012, and it will be such a gift to have a space to work in without mud and weeds. We harvested an abundant crop of the best leeks we’ve ever grown…look for some real beauties the rest of this season.

This week Kara and I are grieving the sudden loss of a dear friend of 19 years, Dave Puig, who lost his life in a work accident near his home in Viroqua, Wisconsin. When we first began Evening Song Farm in 2011 at our original location on Route 103, my college roommate, Dave, and his partner, Feliciana, lived in our home with us and worked with us in the impossible task of being young, inexperienced, and starting a vegetable farm in a new community. It wasn’t easy, and I’m so grateful for that time we spent together. They were with us when that farmland was lost to Tropical Storm Irene, and we’ve stayed close in the years since. Of all of Dave’s many gifts, his capacity for building community was most incredible— at the high school where he had taught and led wilderness expeditions with the students, they literally cancelled school the day after his death for over 100 students to gather and keep a fire going outside school through the night. He touched so many lives in his community who are currently stepping into the many layers of support for his wife, 5-year-old, and 1-year old. We will miss him deeply, and are grateful to be in connection with some of his extended community…slowly and certainly the pain of losing him is transforming into incredible gratitude for knowing him and the friends we’ve made through him.

Wishing that we all may put energy into creating beautiful communities around us,

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

Dilly Bean Stew with Cabbage and Frizzled Onions

This week’s recipe was cooked for us by a CSA member and dear friend, and while eating it, Kara decided it was her favorite soup. Check it out!