10th Week of the Spring CSA Season: Week of May 7th

May 4

*tomatoes and head lettuce in the tunnel, photo by Adam Ford*

This Week’s Availability

This week we will have:

Greens: baby arugula, baby lettuce, bok choi, spinach, curly kale, kale rapini, rainbow chard, parsley, and green cabbage
Roots: fresh red radishes, rutabaga, Gilfeather turnip, red beets
Alliums: onions, scallions, leeks
Miscellaneous: Rhubarb
Seedlings for your garden: onions, leeks, parsley, thyme

Starting this week, we will make a few varieties of seedlings available each week. This week, the ones available (onions, leeks, parsley, and thyme) are all cold hardy and can be planted at any point.

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

*laying more tomatoes out to transplant, photo by Adam Ford*

Farm News

This we we got all the onions transplanted, and continued doing more rounds of seeding in the prop house. We weeded the blueberry rows, forked out perennial weeds from different fields, and prepped next week’s transplanting fields with mulch and compost.

This time of year, I love watching the buds on the fruit trees change just a little bit every day as I walk past them on my long commute between my house and the barn. Up close, their change is subtle and slow, but taking in the whole tree, the change is discernable, with more green and white filling out the negative space every day. Watching plants do their magic never gets old for me. I walk through the prop house every night before putting our kiddos to bed, just peaking at how all the baby plants are doing, marveling at their commitment to thrive, starting from just a packet of genetic instructions in a tiny seed to unfold into these distinctly unique plants. I love looking at them closely, pretending I can see photosynthesis in action. Every time I slow down and watch them be, just doing exactly what they should in total stillness in their pots as they wait to go into the ground, I think of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s writing : “Sometimes I wish I could photosynthesize so that just by being, just by shimmering at the meadow's edge or floating lazily on a pond, I could be doing the work of the world while standing silent in the sun.” (For the avid readers of these newsletters, I will limit my reference of that quote to just once a year, I promise!)

Have a great week,

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

Spinach Coconut Soup

Whoops, I just noticed that last week’s newsletter had an old repeat recipe that I thought I swapped out before publishing! This is the recipe I meant to put in last week.