17th Week of the Summer CSA Season: September 16th

Sep 12

*Stickney and Vanessa harvesting baby lettuce, photo by Kara*

This Week’s Availability

This week we will have:

Greens: baby lettuce, spinach, green curly kale, lacinato kale, rainbow chard, head lettuce, caraflex cabbage, bok choi
Roots: red beets, yellow beets, carrots, watermelon radish, red potatoes, yellow potatoes
Alliums: garlic, yellow onions, sweet onions, red onions, scallions, shallots, leeks
Herbs: basil, sage
Miscellaneous: celery
Fruiting crops: cherry tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes*, beefsteak tomatoes, roma paste tomatoes, juliet tomatoes, green tomatoes, jalapeno peppers, shishito peppers, carmen sweet peppers, green carmen peppers, tomatillos, husk cherries, spaghetti squash

*The heirloom tomatoes are slowing way down, so we may have to substitute them for beefsteak or roma if you order them, so indicate your sub preference in the order form.

This week, you can order some items in bulk if you do any preserving. We listed bulk green carmen peppers, red carmen peppers, jalapeno peppers, beefsteak tomatoes, roma tomatoes, 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

*trays and trays of winter greens waiting to be transplanted into tunnels, photo by Kara*

Farm News

This week we got to send out a pallet’s worth of tomatoes and another pallet’s worth of baby lettuce to the Vermont Food Bank for distribution throughout their various charitable food site partners around the state. Super cool to see great quality, fresh, safe produce making its way into the food chain that supports less food secure community members. We also continued to seed the rest of the winter greens, and continued transplanting some of the earlier winter greens transplants into the tunnel. We removed several of the pepper beds from one of the tunnels, and prepped those beds for winter greens. Next week will be a big week for removing more plants from the high tunnel, and possibly also get to start getting a jump on some of the bulk storage carrot harvest. This year the fall crops seemed to grow really well, so unless the tops of the plants are deceiving us, it looks like we may get to have some nice big harvests.

Including this week, there are four more weeks of the summer CSA season, so if you are thinking of continuing with the fall CSA season, now is a good time to start signing up for that.

Have a great week,

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

Fried Green Tomatoes

Since first using this recipe above, I have shifted to just putting some high heat cooking oil on a tray, and then laying the breaded green tomatoes on the oiled tray, and air frying them in my toaster oven on the air fryer setting, and then flipping them halfway through until they crsip up nicely on each side. Much less oil and hands on cooking time!