11th Week of the Summer CSA Season: August 5th

Aug 2

*kale and chard field through the trees, photo by Adam Ford*

This Week’s Availability

This week we will have:

Greens: baby lettuce, spinach, pea shoots, bok choi, green curly kale, lacinato kale, rainbow chard, mini romaine head lettuce, green cabbage, caraflex cabbage
Roots: red beets, yellow beets, carrot bunches, loose carrots, red radish, new red potatoes, new yellow potatoes
Alliums: garlic, garlic scapes, loose yellow onions, fresh sweet onions, scallions
Herbs: parsley, basil, cilantro, sage
Miscellaneous: Rhubarb, celery, fennel
Fruiting crops: slicing cucumbers, pickling cucumbers, green zucchini, yellow summer squash, cherry tomatoes*

*Tomatoes! Sigh… the highly anticipated, but this year frustrating slow, jewel of any veggie garden. They are still pretty slow, but this week we think we will have enough to list cherry tomatoes on the platform for ordering. We won’t have enough to list each variety separately, so if you order cherry tomatoes it may be a pint of red, orange, rainbow, grape, or even an heirloom slicer substitute if they don’t pump themselves out well enough.

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

Farm News

This week the team harvested, trimmed, washed, and laid out all the garlic to cure in the prop house for the next few weeks. It’s always a big task, and it feels good to get that accomplished. We finished renovating the strawberry patch to hopefully have another great year for pick your own strawberries next June. We tucked in a few more fall plantings of kales, lettuces, and kohlrabi. We continued to pick a way at a few weeding projects, and got the dried up old pea vines removed and trellises rolled up so we can prep those beds for their next crop.

Busy weekend keeping up with odds and ends over here, so enjoy a photo tour below instead of a longer farm news update!

Have a great week,

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

Roasted Yellow Beet Hummus

I started caramelizing an onion or two and adding it to the recipe above…. so, so good.