*nicely mulched footpath between the baby lettuce rows… this spring’s weeding projects have been drastically minimized by all the mulching efforts of last year… super fun! photo by Adam Ford*

This Week’s Availability

This week we will have:

Greens: spinach, mesclun mix, baby lettuce, pea shoots, curly kale, lacinato kale, baby kale, baby chard, cilantro, parsley, and green cabbage
Roots: carrots, yellow potatoes, rutabaga, Gilfeather turnip, red beets, watermelon radish, daikon radish
Alliums: onions and shallots

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

*the colors and lines of tunnel greens never get old for me, photo by Adam Ford*

Farm News

Last week we potted up trays and trays and trays of baby basil plants, as well as some sage and other little tender seedlings that were ready for their bigger containers, and we seeded the next round of everything. The propagation house will probably be fully filled within two weeks, so then hopefully some of the earliest seedlings will be ready for their transplanted homes outside. A seeding of beets and scallions look ready to move outside soon!

The most exciting part of this week was that my brother, Bryan, and Aunt Vanessa arrived from Colombia. Galen and Katie will also fold into the work next week. It’s fun to get our full crew back for the spring season, mostly because it’s such an eager and bright time of year to scuttle around like a garden fairy getting all our ducks in a row for a successful season. My favorite part of the garden fairy season is getting all the plants that we grow for sale to other peoples’ gardens ready. It takes a lot of spreadsheets, label printing, meticulous seeding, and organization for it to all fall into place, but somehow year after year, it works. Which is great, because it brings me great joy to imagine all the gardens these little plant babies will get to thrive in after they leave.

The fields in cover crops continue to inch towards the sun as they green up. This week we will do some outdoor work in the fields, prepping some with landscape fabric, and others for transplanting.

Have a great week,

-ESF Team: Ryan, Kara, K2, Cindy, Taylor, Leah, Natalie, and Hannah (and Sky and Soraya)

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