15th Week of the Summer CSA Season: Week of September 1st

Aug 28

Written By Evening Song Farm

*morning glory wall, photo by Adam Ford*

This Week’s Availability

This week we will have:

Greens: baby lettuce, green curly kale bunches, lacinato, rainbow chard, pea shoots, arugula, green cabbage, spinach
Roots: new red potatoes, red beet bunches, yellow beet bunches, carrots
Alliums: scallions, yellow onions, red onions, sweet onions, fresh garlic bulbs, shallots, leeks
Herbs: sage, parsley, basil tops, bulk pesto basil
Fruiting crops: zucchini, summer squash, slicing cucumbers, pickling cucumbers, Japanese cucumbers, heirloom tomatoes, beefsteak tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, roma tomatoes, tomatillos, shishito, jalapeno
Miscellaneous: rhubarb, celery

Crop Report

Carrots are back, baby! And we’ll have them straight through the winter all the way into the spring. They look awesome. Some weeks the aesthetic quality of arugula suffers from the flea beetles that like to make holes in the leaves. This week’s harvest looks great. Shishito peppers are a fun new harvest this week as well. They are delicious as a simple side dish, blistered in hot oil and served piping hot with a little salt. Yar… the storm on Friday blew down the green bean trellis, and the jury is out whether we can still harvest from them.

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

*lacinato kale, rainbow chard, pole beans, photo by Adam Ford. The pole bean trellis was blown down on Thursday evening’s storm, bringing the end of the green bean season*

Farm News

We have been distracted with our attention on caring for our kiddo who has been at Dartmouth for treatment for a temporary illness, so our apologies for all the emails and phone calls we are behind on responding to, and for any details that slipped by with orders and requests this week. Our brains will be back online when he’s back home this coming week. We are thankful that he is doing well while he is here.

On the farm our team did a knockout job this week busting out the major weeding projects before the annual weeds set seeds in the soil. We seeded a couple more fields to cover crops that will protect the soil this fall and winter, and will grow vigorously next spring, growing a mulch and fixing nitrogen in the soil for next summer’s crops. And we even prepared and seeded the first bed in our high tunnels for winter crops, seeding scallions that we will harvest beginning next March.

Have a great week,

-ESF Team: Kara, Ryan, Vanessa, Taylor, Katie, Galen, Leah, Natalie, Cindy, Amelia, Morgan, Hannah, and Grandpa Jim the delivery guy (and Sky and Soraya)

Kale Falafel