6th Week of the Summer CSA season: Week of July 12th
Katie, Galen, K2, and Kara harvesting in the open field, photo by Adam Ford
CSA Balance Due
If you haven’t already paid, your balance is due. 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.
sugar snap peas plants are loaded! photo by Adam Ford
Peas on CSA display, photo by Adam Ford
This Week’s Availability
This week we will have sugar snap peas, green beans, garlic scapes, purple kohlrabi, basil, parsley, green cabbage, red cabbage, caraflex cabbage, radishes, red beets with greens, baby lettuce, spinach, fresh oregano bunches, mini romaine head lettuce, green curly kale bunches, lacinato kale bunches, zucchini, summer squash, slicing cucumbers, Japanese cucumbers, and fresh carrots.
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.
If you have any trouble using the online to order your veggies this week (or change your pickup location, or skip this week, or anything…) reach out to us. It’s easy to help.
morning glory, photo by Adam Ford
snapdragon, photo by Adam Ford
Did you know?
Did you know that the farm is location less than a mile off route 103 about half way between Ludlow and Rutland? We aren’t too far out of the way from trips between Ludlow and Rutland, so if you ever want to drop by the barn one week instead of order a bag, check it out! It can be fun to pick out your own veggies in case something looks more exciting than you expected, or you want a certain size of something, or just want to see where your food comes from…
rhubarb patch, photo by Adam Ford
Molly’s helpful barn signage, photo by Adam Ford.
Farm News
Another wildly busy week and photo tour for this week’s farm news, enjoy!
Wishing all a beautiful week,
ESF Team: Ryan, Kara, Molly, Taylor, K2, Galen, Katie, Cindy, Miguel, Vanessa, (and Sky and Soraya)
harvesting 225 salad turnip bunches for the Farmacy Program… this program, facilitated by the Vermont Farmers’ Food Center, provides weekly, fresh veggies as a prescription from their doctor for low income folks with a health diagnosis that would benefit from fresh veggies, photo by Adam Ford
Cindy and Ryan making plans for all the things… these days one of the many projects they are working on is getting a second walk in cooler set up for the barn…. sometimes during the year, our single walk in cooler upstairs is just not enough space for all the veggies, photo by Adam Ford
Is kohlrabi new to you? You peel off the thick outer skin, and there is a sweet, crunchy veggie in there to enjoy raw or cooked. Some folks have described it like jicama, and we use it that way, just like carrot sticks to dip in hummus, photo by Adam Ford
It took us so long to get around to transplanting our leeks this year that some of the labels were gone or worn away, so here is a bed of leeks, variety unknown… which is not too big a deal… we will harvest these first instead of rely on them for storage or later harvest, photo by Adam Ford
One of the NRCS (Natural Resource Conservation Service) programs that we are a part of is to provide habit for native pollinators around the farm, and this box is one of dozens of solitary bee boxes Cindy put up around the farm this season. She made 3 different designs to encourage 3 different types of native pollinators to make these vegetable production acres their home. And we also have a bunch of new bat houses around as well. We love encouraging as much biodiverse life as possible to thrive around this work, photo by Adam Ford
carrot who lost its top, photo by Adam Ford.
grape to be trained over the bee arbor, photo by Adam Ford.
cucumber jungle, photo by Adam Ford.
newly cover cropped field in the foreground, photo by Adam Ford
The 450 feet of eggplant we planted early in the Chocolate Factory this season never rooted into the soil. We are perplexed as to why. The plants were big and gorgeous when they went in. The soil was adequately watered and fertilized. The tomato plants that are growing right next to them are fantastic. But they never sent roots beyond the transplant into the soil. So we slapped any remaining plants we had in a little space outside to see if any of them grow, and here is a little eggplant flower, photo by Adam Ford
nasturtium, photo by Adam Ford
Ryan and Cindy tarpoing where we are done harvesting, photo by Adam Ford
cucumber flower, photo by Adam Ford
It would be nice to snag these weeds while they are small, photo by Adam Ford