This Week’s Availability

This week we will have yellow onions, red onions, yellow beets, red beets, carrots, red potatoes, yellow potatoes, watermelon radish, sweet potatoes, mini mixed roots, mesclun mix, spinach, and parsley.

Greens limit:

Mini shares: 2 greens item
Small shares: 3 greens items
Medium shares: 3 greens items
Large shares: 4 greens items
Super shares: 4 greens items

You do not need to use the order form if you are coming to the farm to pick out your veggies from the display cooler.

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Farm News

More and more seeds are getting planted for the long season, warmer crops, so the grow room is being filled up with lots of eagerness for summer. Listening to the sounds of spring as I make may way over to check on the seedlings, it feels like the birds songs are cheering on winter farming efforts that prepare for the summer. Now there are some early onions, parsley, and peppers among the earliest tomatoes and herbs in the grow room. We even started the next 1000 tomato seeds for the second round of summer tomatoes.

We finished transplanting this round of baby greens, but will continue to direct seed some things as winter greens get harvested out. And hopefully sometime in the next couple weeks we will be able to have someone sneak away from the farm to start taking down a section of used greenhouse to get ready to add the extension to our propagation house. That’s the next big project on our list.

The biggest project this week was getting the new website launched… which you are reading from right now. NOFA-VT hooked us up with Anna, who did such an incredible job helping me to overhaul the site and provide a LOT more streamlined information. Now there are handy tabs like "What’s in a CSA Share?” that lists the projected availability of veggies for each CSA season to help you get an idea if each season appeals to you…. and a page for pickup locations for each season so you can plan ahead. Still putting finishing touches on different portions, but we are grateful to have had this overhaul done with Anna’s expertise.

This week for an agricultural spotlight on Women’s History, I just learned about the Women’s Land Army of America, directed by the economist Florence Hall, during World War II. It was originally proposed by Eleanor Roosevelt after she visited and was inspired the Women’s Land Army in Britain, but the USDA rejected the idea, because women weren’t seen as capable of having the “skills or strength” of farm work. (I can’t help it, but there is so much eye rolling going on in my head when I read about our societal acceptance of women farmers. This farm obviously disagrees with that WWII-era misconception, as evidenced by the high number of women farmers here!)

During the war, food production was hampered by the labor shortages, so in 1943 Congress passed the Emergency Farm Labor Program that made space for many marginalized and overlooked groups work as farmers, including an estimated 2.5 million women. The program was under the umbrella of the Crop Corps, but it was administered on a local level through extension services who recruited and sometimes provided training to women to become farmers. But like many farmers, most women learned on the job. I can’t find any accounts of women who participated in this program and then continued a career as a farmers after the war, but with 2.5 million new temporary farmers, I have to believe that many women farmers continued producing food after the war as well.

I can’t help but feel like part of our long term climate solution will need another program recruiting all sorts of new farmers to operate small and medium farms. Perhaps the Women’s Land Army is a framework to re-examine for the future.

Weekly Recipe

We’re working on creating a recipe index on this site so that you can easily search and browse the recipes that we share. Eventually all the historical recipes will be there, and here on out the new recipes will appear there. Here is a link to this week’s featured recipe for quick watermelon radish and carrot pickles.

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Have a great week,

-ESF Team: Kara, Ryan, Molly, Katie, Grace, Taylor, Cindy, and Sam