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!

This Week’s Availability

This week we will have husk cherries, shallots, sweet onions, celery, leeks, seed garlic, purple kohlrabi, cilantro, baby lettuce, spinach, pea shoots, baby bok choi, green curly kale bunches, lacinato kale bunches, red beets bunches, yellow beet bunches, Chioggia beet bunches, carrots, caraflex cabbage, Italian peppers, zucchini, garlic bulbs, green tomatoes, spaghetti squash, mini butternut, delicata squash, purple and white daikon radishes, baby kale, arugula, mesclun mix, green napa cabbage, jalapeno peppers, green serrano peppers, and red and yellow potatoes.

Click here to order your veggies for a delivered bag

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.

CSA pickup and delivery days and times

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.

Fall CSA Sign Up

The Fall CSA season is ready for sign ups. If you want to continue getting newsletters, even if you aren’t doing the fall share, you can sign up with that link and select “newsletter only” to continue hearing from us each week.

Please finish paying for your summer share to reserve a spot for the fall share. Due to the demand for fall share, and time it takes to follow up with unpaid CSA seasons, we aren’t able to reserve a spot in the next CSA season if the previous season hasn’t been paid for. Thanks!

Farm News from Ryan

This week felt like a sweet reprieve…we’ve finished all of our winter high tunnel planting, and it’s a little too early for us to begin the big fall harvest. Our team decided to celebrate by taking Thursday off from farmwork to enjoy the stunning day. What a treat! After several months of focusing our energy on keeping up with the needs of our farm, it’s a wonderful change to enjoy a beautiful day and move a bit more slowly through the world.

Thank you to everyone who picked flowers and herbs from the pick-your-own garden this year! While the flower garden by our home avoided frost entirely, the pick your own garden was thoroughly frosted last week. A few hardy flowers remain, but for the most part that garden is onto its next phase…the slow but thorough process of returning seeds and organic matter to the soil. This next year I’m looking forward to using the same beds and allowing many of the flowers to reseed themselves...we’ve seen interesting combinations of colors and patterns in self-seeded flowers, as a result of the pollinating insects distributing pollen across the floral community to create new combinations. Looking back at this summer’s flower garden, I really enjoyed the pick-your-own herb section, which was a chance to grow many herbs that we otherwise wouldn’t have grown. We cooked with a lot of summer savory and papalo this summer…they were fun! (Kara made a delightful lacto fermented hot sauce with lots of paplo in it.) Another personal joy of this garden was the chance to make arches out of willow branches for the morning glory vines to climb over. I was surprised at how thoroughly the morning glory vines overtook the slender willow frames. The entryway arch was repaired with posts and string several times before Cindy finally installed a sturdy frame to tie the enormous mass of morning glories to. The willow dome in the center collapsed in September, and was not repaired in the midst of other farm responsibilities: preparing and planting high tunnels, finishing the new barn, harvesting and washing vegetables. It was a pleasure each morning to see hundreds of delicate morning glory blooms; brilliant in the morning dew and faded by the afternoon sun.

This week brings back some of the late summer and fall greens: baby kale mix, arugula, mesclun mix, white and purple daikon radish, and napa cabbage. We have two whole fields growing brussels sprouts that look wonderfully healthy, but are still a couple weeks away from being fully sized up…late autumn looks to be an excellent brussels sprout season. Carrots, while tending toward the smaller size, have been wonderfully sweet and tender. We’ve been enjoying both the delicata and butternut squash, and the beets right now are really amazing…large and tender with beautiful greens. Tomatoes have wrapped up for the year, and we’ll have a few more weeks of Italian sweet peppers, more green than red. Wishing that you all may be healthy and nourished during this transition season of falling leaves.

ESF Team: Ryan, Kara, Molly, Vanessa, Cindy, Taylor, Katie, Galen, K2, Sky and Soraya