1st Week of the Summer CSA Season: Week of May 27th

May 24

Written By Evening Song Farm

*tomato and cucumber trellises, photo by Adam Ford*

This Week’s Availability

This week we will have:

Greens: baby lettuce, pea shoots, arugula, rainbow chard, mini romaine, green cabbage, parsley
Roots: potatoes, beets, carrots, rutabaga
Alliums: green garlic, scallions
Miscellaneous: Rhubarb
Plant starts: tomatoes, peppers, flowers, herbs, and veggies

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

*fresh spring beets in a few weeks! photo by Adam Ford*

Farm News

Thanks for signing up for the Summer CSA Season! If you are brand new, and have any questions about how it works that aren’t answered in the weekly email or on the website, please feel free to reach out.

Our outdoor plantings of early spring greens and crops are slow and more affected by foliar disease and nutrient uptake from all this cool, wet weather. We usually have a few more things to harvest this time of year, but the weather has been putting a damper on our planned harvests. So we brought in another week of Juniper Hill Farm’s storage veggies (potatoes, beets, and carrots, all certified organic) to add to what we are harvesting until the outdoor plantings really start booming.

It’s been a busy week keeping up with transplanting and field prep during a wet, cold, gray week. A lot of our time is spent hustling seedlings to various pre-orders and locations. And this week the team caught up with trellising the cucumber and tomato plants in the tunnels as they reach for the sun through the clouds. This week we will continue transplanting outside and prepping fields mulch and compost for all the transplants.

Have a great week!

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

Usually we put a weekly recipe here…but the first week of the season I like pointing out that all the recipes that we post are archived on the recipe page of the website. You can search by vegetable, season, or ingredient. Only 30 recipes are listed under each season, but if you use the search function with a vegetable, way more recipes show up with that vegetable.