*these cucumbers will be ready to transplant very soon! photo by Adam Ford*

This Week’s Availability

This week we will have:

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

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*the team just tucked these hakurei turnip transplants into the ground, photo by Adam Ford*

Farm News

The team got to put the first few spring transplants in the ground at the end of this week: beets, salad turnips, and bok choi were all tucked in spaces that have been fully harvested in the tunnels. Next week we will continue putting out more beets, as well as some scallion transplants, and maybe some cilantro. Meanwhile, Ryan continues to direct seed weekly successions outside in the fields, and we keep planting more trays in the propagation house. Everything looks really gorgeous, which is always nice to take in. Last spring we struggled with the quality off our potting mix, but this year it’s nicely dialed in.

In non-vegetable production news, I serve on the policy and advocacy committee for NOFA-VT, and lots of very cool work gets shepherded through their policy and advocacy arm. In fact, it’s looking likely that some version of a Farmer Emergency Relief Fund will be passed during this legislative session. We are all a bit surprised at the momentum this bill is seeing, especially with it being the first session putting in effort to push it through. This bill creates a fund to address disaster recovery for farms, which we have seen an increased need for in the past few years. Many other states already have lines in their state budgets for this type of disaster assistance, so it’s pretty cool Vermont may be adding that to our toolkit for our state’s agricultural security. Unrelated to that particular effort, NOFA is also hosting a farmer day of action this week (April 16th) in Middlebury that you can learn more about here. This gathering will be fun, and fun is one way to manage the wildness of this moment in the world.

Have a great week,

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

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