LAST Week of the Spring CSA season: Week of May 31st

May 27

Please finish paying for the spring CSA season now. This is the last week of the spring season, and we need to have all payments completed before a season ends. Thanks!

This Week’s Availability

This week we will have red radish bunches, baby lettuce, cilantro, mini Romaine heads, spinach, mescun mix, pea shoots, rhubarb, green garlic, chioggia beets, onions, daikon radishes, watermelon radish, yellow potatoes, and if you pickup at the barn, we will have various veggie, flower, and herb seedlings out to select as items.

Green garlic are like garlic flavored scallions. Use the entire plants: the green and white parts.

*onions and beets are sourced from Juniper Hill Farm, also certified organic

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 Wednesdays or Thursdays to pick out your items yourself.

CSA pickup and delivery days and times

*cucumber plant climbing the trellis, photo by Adam Ford*

*tomatoes are setting fruit, photo by Adam Ford*

Sign up for the Summer CSA season now

Now is a good time to sign up for the Summer CSA season if you haven’t already. If you pick up at the barn, and the online tool is cumbersome, just email me the size share you want to do for the summer, and I can add you.

(And if you pay in installments with checks, feel free to send all the checks at once for the season, dated for when you want them deposited. Also, consider paying with cash, check, e-check, or even Venmo…. Credit card fees are a surprisingly large amount of our annual expenses.)

Farm News

Thank you for being part of the spring CSA season! We couldn’t run this farm without such a large, supportive CSA, so thank you for being part of the foundation that makes this place hum. It’s hard to remember that during the first few weeks of the spring CSA season, we were harvesting greens in a cold, cold tunnel with freezing fingers, and a heated wash station… and now we are getting ready to plant the last round of tomatoes soon! Veggie farming certainly keeps us in tune with the seasonal changes around here. If you do the summer CSA with us, now is the time to sign up for the summer CSA. If you take the summer off, have a great season!

Another frosty night this week, but much “warmer” than last week’s 23 degrees. This time we didn’t have to tuck in everything, because the predicted low temperature of 30 was high enough for the tender, baby cold hardy transplants… we only had to double cover the strawberries and zucchini that are outside, as well as the basil, peppers, and tomatoes that are in our unheated tunnels. Dragging row cover over fields of plants is one of the more un-fun tasks of veggie farming, but it’s much less fun to lose early spring plants, so we whine about it, and then get on with the task.

*row covers keeping everything safe from the mild frost this week, photo by Adam Ford*

*Insect netting keeps the flea beetles off of the broccolini seedlings, photo by Adam Ford*

*we snuck a row cover over the recently transplanted peppers, just to be safe, photo by Adam Ford*

*Vanessa moving all the plants on display back outside the barn that we tucked inside the barn for the cold night, photo by Adam Ford*

This week the team got a lot of transplanting done: basil, sweet peppers, picnic peppers, and celery. They also caught up on all the tomato and cucumber trellising of the early plantings of those crops. We packed at least 80 of the plant pre-orders, and moved out a lot of the (non-pre ordered) plants in front of the barn for folks to pick out as CSA or extra items. Getting plants out this time of year makes these particular weeks especially busy and wild, but it is incredibly fun to imagine all the bountiful, well loved home gardens these plants are heading off to! It’s definitely my favorite time of year, despite the chaos it brings to our work flow.

Have a great week,

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