10th Week of the Summer CSA Season: Week of August 13th

Aug 10

*spider in the scallions, photo by Ryan*

This Week’s Availability

This week we will have

Greens: baby lettuce, endive, pea shoots, green cabbage, mini caraflex cabbage, green curly kale bunches, lacinato kale bunches, rainbow chard
Roots: red beets, yellow beets, carrots, new red potatoes, yellow potatoes
Alliums: onions, garlic, scallions, garlic scapes
Fruiting Crops: slicing cucumbers, Japanese cucumbers, pickling cucumbers, green beans, yellow summer squash, green zucchini, heirloom tomatoes, beefsteak tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, roma tomatoes
Herbs and Miscellaneous: basil, parsley, fennel, rhubarb, celery

We listed several items available for bulk purchasing at wholesale pricing on the “bulk” section of the online platform. (If you look to the left of the screen when you are on the store page, it should have an option to click on bulk items.) This week we have heirloom tomatoes, pickling cucumbers, garlic scapes, onions, cabbage, basil, green beans, zucchini, and summer squash available in bulk amounts if you do any preserving for winter. If you pick up at the barn and want to order any of those items in bulk, just send us an email.

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

Farm News

Well our family had a relaxing and fun vacation at the beach, and it seems like the team knocked it out of the park (as usual) managing the week with us missing. Early in the week, I posted some thoughts on prioritizing rest and joy as a farmer on Instagram that resonated with other farmers…. check it out here if you are interested. It’s been important for us to normalize taking summer vacations as farmers for us to commit to this work for the long haul.

We hauled a hilarious amount of farm produce with us to vacation and proceeded to make delicious meals from our farm veggies and seafood from a local lobster family that just sells their haul out of their garage, and decided to snap some pictures (when we thought of it!) of some of what we cooked this week. We aren’t food photographers, and we missed taking pictures of some other delightful farm vacation meals, but here are a few:

*This is a fish chowder with Evening Song Farm potatoes, onions, garlic, fennel, celery, peppers, goat milk, and basil, with some local haddock.*

*Grilled shrimp with a jalapeno white wine sauce, with Evening Song Farm grilled veggies and basil mashed potatoes*

*Lobster bisque with Evening Song Farm tomatoes, potatoes, celery, onions, garlic, fennel, basil, sage butter, and goat milk, with local lobster.*

We are excited to get back home to see what has grown in our absence. We imagine this week will be the big elderberry harvest week, so reach out if you are looking for bulk amounts to process for your own elderberry syrup.

Have a great week!

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

Weekly Recipe

Bruschetta