14th Week of the Summer CSA Season: August 26

What a bountiful time of year, photo by Adam

This Week’s Availability

This week we will have:

  • Greens: baby lettuce, arugula, pea shoots, green curly kale, lacinato kale, rainbow chard, head lettuce, green cabbage, caraflex cabbage, spinach

  • Roots: red beet bunches, yellow beet bunches, carrot bunches, loose carrots

  • Alliums: garlic, yellow onions, sweet onions, red onions, scallions, shallots

  • Herbs: parsley, basil, sage

  • Miscellaneous: Rhubarb, celery

  • Fruiting crops: slicing cucumbers, Japanese cucumbers, pickling cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, beefsteak tomatoes, roma paste tomatoes, juliet tomatoes, jalapeno peppers, green beans, shishito peppers

This week, you can order some items in bulk if you do any preserving. We listed bulk heirloom tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, roma tomatoes, green beans, pickling cucumbers, and onions. If you pick up in the barn, feel free to send us an email to order bulk items with the volumes you want, and what day we should have it ready in the barn, and we will give you your total and where to find it in the barn.

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

Looking down at the tunnel field, photo by Adam Ford

Farm News

This week we are away while our team does an amazing job managing all the details of the farm. What a gift to be able to leave during this big harvest season. We are excited to be back next week. Have a great week!

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

Simple Cucumber Salad

Lettuce to harvest this week, photo by Adam Ford

cherry tomatoes in the barn, photo by Adam Ford

cucumbers climbing up the tunnel, photo by Adam Ford

shishito peppers, photo by Adam Ford

We spray so many bins every day as they cycle through vegetables, photo by Adam Ford

Hot streak tomato, photo by Adam Ford

Elderberry umbel, photo by Adam

Leah on the tractor, photo by Adam Ford

Dibbling a tray for seeding, photo by Adam Ford

Flowers in the field, photo by Adam Ford

verbena flowering at the end of a crop field, photo by Adam Ford

red onions dried down, photo by Adam Ford

Cherry tomatoes ready for CSA bags, photo by Adam Ford

Seedlings and drying onions, photo by Adam Ford

Squash: what a productive plant, photo by Adam Ford

Sunflowers for pollinators, photo by Adam Ford

Lettuce planting for winter harvest, photo by Adam Ford

So many tomatoes, photo by Adam Ford

So much beauty, photo Adam Ford

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