*baby lettuce growing in the field, photo by Adam Ford*

This Week’s Availability

This week we will have leeks, spaghetti squash, delicata squash, butternut squash, purple kohlrabi, red and yellow beet bunches, Ailsa Craig sweet onions, shallots, carrot bunches, garlic, green cabbage, red and yellow potatoes*, sweet peppers, painted mountain flour corn**, jalapeno peppers, green curly kale, lacinato kale, arugula, baby lettuce, spinach, mini romaine lettuce, parsley, heirloom tomatoes, beefsteak tomatoes, roma tomatoes, tomatillos, and husk cherries!

*Beginning this week our potatoes are sourced from Atlas Farm, a certified organic farm in Deerfield, Massachusetts. Since we expanded our CSA last year, we’ve begun sourcing production of some our storage vegetables to certified organic farms with larger landbases and more specialized equipment. We’ve also been able to focus more on crops that we grow well, like salad greens, and make those available to other local farmstands. We see this type of cross-pollination as a valuable part of our local food ecosystem.

**Painted Mountain Flour Corn is a grain corn that can be used for decoration or to grind into corn flour. When Soraya was about 1, it was one of her favorite sensory toys, the smooth colorful kernels and crispy crinkly husk.

Painted Mountain Corn. Photo by Adam Ford — *painted mountain corn, photo by Adam Ford*

Bulk vegetables available for processing

When we have bulk amounts available with veggies, we like to pass along our wholesale prices to CSA members in case you want to do some processing. Below are the current wholesale prices for certain veggies. If you are interested in getting a bulk amount of anything, send us an email. Thanks! (This is likely the last week for bulk tomatoes available.)

Roma tomatoes: $28 for 10 pounds, $50 for 20 pounds

Beefsteak Tomatoes: $28 for 10 pounds, $50 for 20 pounds

Onions: $20 for 10 pounds, $35 for 20 pounds

Green Curly Kale: $14 for 5 bunches, $24 for 10 bunches

Lacinato Kale: $14 for 5 bunches, $24 for 10 bunches

Garlic: $12 per pound

Jalapenos: $6 per pound, $25 for 5 pounds

CSA Bag Delivery Order Form

Fill out the delivery form by noon on Tuesdays.

CSA pickup and delivery days and times

Fall CSA Sign Up

If you haven’t already, now is a good time to sign up for the fall CSA share. We prioritize making space for current and past CSA members, and lately our CSA seasons fill up fast, so don’t wait too long to jump on it.

Farm News

It was more of an adventure than we planned to get the rented soil steamer here from a farm in New Hampshire, but it made it here, and we got it working on Monday, and we were able to steam one full tunnel before the end of the week. We are eager to see how it should improve disease pressure this winter.

We also transplanted two full beds of lettuce as soon as the steamer was done, and then jumped into lots of other winter transplanting. This is a busy time of year, wrapping up the summer, and getting everything seeded and transplanted on time for winter production…. no slowing down here in the fall!

Have a great week,

-ESF Team: Kara, Ryan, Katie, Taylor, Cindy, Grace, Morgan, and Molly

Weekly Recipe: Baked Delicata Slices