12th Week of the Summer CSA Season: August 12th

Aug 9

Written By Evening Song Farm

*Row of cherry tomatoes and celery, photo by Adam Ford*

This Week’s Availability

This week we will have:

Greens: baby lettuce, pea shoots, green curly kale, lacinato kale, rainbow chard, head lettuce, green cabbage, caraflex cabbage
Roots: red beet bunches, yellow beet bunches, loose yellow beets, carrot bunches, loose carrots
Alliums: garlic, garlic scapes, loose yellow onions, fresh sweet onions, fresh red onions, scallions, shallots
Herbs: parsley, basil, sage
Miscellaneous: Rhubarb, celery, fennel
Fruiting crops: slicing cucumbers, Japanese cucumbers, pickling cucumbers, green zucchini, yellow summer squash, cherry tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, beefsteak tomatoes, roma paste tomatoes, jalapeno peppers, eggplant

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

*Is this what it looks like when onions are in love? photo by Adam Ford*

Farm News

This week we transplanted some of the last of the fall transplants when we put napa cabbage and another round of beets in the ground. We also started the massive seedings in the prop house of all the winter greens!! Despite doing this year after year, it’s a little wild to me that just as the tomatoes start rolling in, we are putting tiny little seeds in trays for greens that we will harvest in December. (As someone whose favorite season is NOT winter, I am not amused when my work in August ties me to December.)

The team got all the garlic clipped and stored, and brought in the next round of onions to cure… all the red onions are in the prop house drying down for storage. Many of the fields used for spring crops have been cover cropped for the fall and winter, and we continue to direct seed greens outside for fall greens harvests.

Our family is getting all our ducks in a row to hit the road for Wisconsin later this week for our dear friend’s celebration of life. (We wrote a tiny bit about losing this friend in this newsletter back in November.) The longer we are away from the farm, the more work it takes to be ready to be away, but we have been preparing for a little bit now, setting up all the winter greens seeding, cover cropping fields, setting up supplies for elderberry harvesting and freezing, making all the lists ever… We are incredibly grateful to have the team of farmers who work here to be able to be away during the summer season. It’s not very common for veggie farmers to step away this time of year. To some degree our brains and hearts have already been out in Wisconsin for most of this growing season, which is why most of my CSA newsletters this year have been kinda boring. It’s hard to reflect on the intricacies/joys/challenges of food production during a grief journey, so I’m grateful the seasonal pictures can fill the gap while my words feel like they are on an extended vacation.

Have a great week, and hats off to all the team here steering the ship while we are gone,

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

Creamy Tomato Basil Chicken with Angel Hair