*Welcome to CSA pickup! Photo by Adam Ford*

This Week’s Availability

This week we will have:

Greens: spinach, baby lettuce, rainbow chard, bok choi, mini romaine head lettuce, green leaf head lettuce, pea shoots, arugula
Roots: fresh red radishes, salad turnips, red beets, yellow potatoes*, daikon radish, parsnips
Alliums: scallions, green garlic, chives
Herbs: parsley, cilantro
Fruiting crops: frozen heirloom and beefsteak tomatoes**, Painted Mountain grain corn
Miscellaneous: rhubarb
some plants: We will list a few more plants than last week for delivery. We don’t list everything we start for sale because it’s too wide of a variety to keep an active inventory for the website. If you want to have access to the full array of seedlings, come to the barn on a Wednesday or Thursday to pick out plants in front of the barn.

*Potato Note: The rest of the storage potatoes are getting hard to sort through for zero blemishes on them. We will start to pack a larger amount of potatoes in the packed bags, and we invite you to take 2 pounds of potatoes at the barn if you pick up here, in hopes that this extra amount will account for any parts you have to cut off. While we prefer to be able to send out impeccable quality vegetables year-round, we also experience making the most of storage vegetables as part of our efforts to address the different ways we can address our climate impact. Most estimates have food waste as contributing 5%-10% towards global greenhouse gas emissions, so in our home, we scrounge every little bit of edible food by cutting off bad spots.

**We vacuum seal the surplus tomatoes in the summer, and they are great for soups, stews, and chilis this way. We have a few bags left!

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

*The barn with seedlings outside, photo by Adam Ford*

Farm News

Thank you for signing up for the summer CSA season! We started our summer season a bit earlier this year, so if you haven’t been doing the spring CSA season with us, you will get a little sense of what the spring CSA season is like until some of the summer hits like cucumbers and sugar snap peas are ready in a few weeks.

We continue to be keeping up with the big transplant push. Last week we got the last of the tomatoes in the tunnel, and also tucked in celery, head lettuce, leeks, and shallots into the fields. We had a couple cold nights, and a light frost this past week, but we are eager to be past the frost season, hopefully soon!

We keep the first week’s newsletter brief since there is so much info to read in the email, so have a wonderful week,

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

The first week of the season, we like pointing out that we have a recipe page with all our past posted weekly recipes, searchable by vegetable, ingredient, or name. Check it out!

Recipe Page