*loading up bins from the harvest, photo by Adam Ford*

This Week’s Availability

This week we will have:

Greens: baby lettuce, spinach, baby kale, bok choi, tokyo bekana, green cabbage, mesclun mix, and mini head lettuce
Roots: carrots, yellow potatoes, rutabaga, red beets, chioggia beets, watermelon radish, daikon radish, and Gilfeather turnip
Alliums: garlic, shallots, and leeks
Herbs and Miscellaneous: parsley

Click here to order your veggies for a delivered bag to Ludlow or Rutland

*fields of cover crops and cabbage plant residue in the open field, photo by Adam Ford*

Details for the Last 2 Weeks of the Season

Because the holidays make our normal schedule funky, here is the upcoming schedule for your planning:

This week: The barn will be set up with veggies Monday from noon to 8pm, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday (T/W/Th: 9am to 8pm). All delivered bags will happen on Friday this week, none on Wednesday.
Week of the 30th: The barn will be set up with veggies Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday (9am to 8pm). All delivered bags will happen on Friday that week, none on Wednesday.

Farm News

These days we are all looking forward to our January and February production break when we use that time to slow down a bit and also get caught up on all the invisible work of running a farm. Honestly, it always goes faster and is more full than we expect, and before we know it, we are seeding tomatoes and peppers to germinate under grow lights in a warm seed starting room that is an extra root cellar cooler during the rest of the year.

This week we did a lot of harvesting, and Cindy kept working on building new tables for our prop house renovation. Ryan had an invigorating time at the New England Fruit and Vegetable Conference, and we all held it down here expertly.

This weekend marks the winter solstice and the shortest daylight hours of the year, and we can always mark that time just by being observant of the tunnel greens this time of year. Their regrowth slows waaaaay down this time of year with the reduced total sunlight time. And as those daylight hours slowly increase, so does the greens’ speed of regrowth. By the time we are in full swing harvesting for the spring CSA share in March, sometimes it’s hard to keep up with all the regrowth as the plants burst with the energy from the longer days. Until then, I am looking forward to taking a cue from my plant buddies, and to rest a bit more during the darkness, and not feel the need to have as much output as the rest of the year.

Have a great week,

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

Cabbage Soup