13th Week of the Summer CSA season: Week of August 30th

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.

If you get an email reminder that CSA payment is due: make that payment, let us know when you will be able to, or let us know if the amount due seems wrong. It adds a lot of extra computer time to try to repeatedly follow up with folks individually, so this is a simple way to lighten our administrative work. (Some of the auto emails have been a little funky, so we are happy to answer those questions if you get a weird one.) Thank you!

Elderberries, photo by Adam Ford

This Week’s Availability

This week we will have heirloom tomatoes, beefsteak tomatoes, paste tomatoes, grape tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, husk cherries, elderberries, fresh shallot bunches, sweet onions, celery, fennel, garlic scapes, purple kohlrabi, basil, parsley, cilantro, green cabbage, baby lettuce, spinach, arugula, pea shoots, green curly kale bunches, lacinato kale bunches, zucchini, summer squash, garlic bulbs, jalapenos, new potatoes, and spaghetti squash.

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.

Farm Photo Tour

Our family is away from the farm this week, but Adam has taken his usual weekly round of beautiful photos. Here they are!

And big shout out to the entire Evening Song Farm team who held down the farm in our absence and kept everything humming. We are so lucky to be vegetable farmers that get to escape and take our kids to the beach for a week. (It’s not common for veggie farmers to get away in the summer, and certainly wasn’t a part of our earlier farming career.) Thank you, team!

Water on a leaf of fall red cabbage. Photo by Adam Ford

This is a new variety of grain corn, Glass Gem. It’s known for it’s beautiful, multicolored, translucent kernels. Photo by Adam Ford

Morning glory arch, photo by Adam Ford

Fall lettuce seedlings germinating in trays, photo by Adam Ford

Tithonia, or Mexican Sunflower, in the flower garden. Photo by Adam Ford

Jake and Cindy have gotten a good bit of the siding completed. Photo by Adam Ford

Tomato season, photo by Adam Ford

This tomato plant bent under its own weight after the final trellis clip. Photo by Adam Ford

Mist on the strawberry plants in the greenhouse, photo by Adam Ford

Brussels sprouts growing well in the grown-in-place rye/vetch mulch, photo by Adam Ford

We repurposed this old bandsaw to cut the necks off of the garlic bulbs… saves our wrists and hands from injuries from the repetition of cutting thousands of garlic heads, photo by Adam Ford

Hose in the prophouse, photo by Adam Ford

Wild clematis grows thick in some of the corners of our farm, photo by Adam Ford

We love the new look for the pellet hopper, photo by Adam Ford

What a stinker! Our melon plants this year suffered heavily from predation. We still haven’t identified the culprit, but woodchuck seems most likely. Though it won’t be a banner melon year, we’ll likely have some melons available over the next week or two. Photo by Adam Ford.

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