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.
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)
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