14th (LAST) Week of the Spring CSA season: Week of June 5th

trellised cucumber plants looking good, photo by Adam Ford

This Week’s Availability

This week we will have fresh carrot bunches, green garlic, salad turnips, bok choi, mini red and green head lettuce, cilantro, mesclun mix, spicy greens mix, spinach, arugula, baby lettuce, rhubarb, and the last week of plant starts for your garden*.

*If you order a bag for delivery, take note that the items labeled as “plants” are for planting, they aren’t veggies ready to eat or cut flower to display.

Strawberries season in the next few weeks! photo by Adam Ford

Farm News

Thank you for participating in the spring CSA season! We are so grateful to be a CSA farm, and you all make that possible. This is the last week of the spring CSA< and the following week is the summer CSA season. If you have not signed up for the summer season, but you plan to, do that now.

It has been a busy week of transplanting leeks, eggplant, peppers, mulching so many beds, and continuing to trellis, that you can enjoy a photo tour for this week’s news. Have a great week!

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

Weekly Recipe

Clover about to be mowed, before transplanting into the clover sod. photo by Ryan

This field of late-fall seeded field peas is growing up to a lush cover crop. Rows have been flattened to prepare for seeding winter squash. photo by Ryan

Then we put a thick layer of compost on top of the flattened peas. The composted rows will be planted to squash, while the strips of cover crop will continue to grow and fix nitrogen until the squash vines spread. photo by Ryan

In a separate field, Bryan used the string trimmer to mow small patches of the clover down to the soil level in preparation for seeding winter squash, photo by Ryan

Soraya watches Cindy move the display cooler from the old spot to the new spot, photo by Ryan

starting to expand the CSA pickup zone in the barn, photo by Adam Ford

mulched scallions, photo by Adam Ford

spinach, photo by Adam Ford

Ryan loading buckets of fertilizer, photo by Cindy

crimson clover is probably the most beautiful cover crop we grow, photo by Ryan

walking the goats out to a new pasture in the morning, photo by Taylor

Bryan bringing mulch to spread on a bed before transplanting, photo by Cindy

mulched kale field, photo by Ryan

cucumber flower soon to be cucumber in my salad, photo by Adam Ford

Those mowed patches are topped with about 5 gallons of compost, and will be seeded to winter squash and grain corn. The clover will be mowed until the squash vines get too long. photo by Ryan

looking up through the cover crop towards the barn, photo by Cindy

Ryan fashioned a way to hitch our cart to the electric UTV so that we can pull more bins when we harvest, photo by Ryan

seeding fall cabbage, photo by Adam Ford

Bryan and Ryan planting ginger, photo by Adam Ford

the beautiful corn seed we save for planting, photo by Ryan

here’s a beautiful weed we found in the rye cover crop, photo by Ryan

Galen driving landscape fabric in from the field, photo by Katie Stickney

team harvesting radishes last week, photo by Adam Ford

Soraya helped transplant tomatillos, photo by Ryan