1st Week of the Fall CSA Season: Week of October 15th

Oct 10

Written By Evening Song Farm

Painted Mountain grain corn is gorgeous, and also culinarily functional… In this house we have used the kernels for necklaces, earrings, Christmas tree garlands, tortillas, empanadas, and corn bread, photo by Adam Ford

This Week’s Availability

This week we will have:

Greens: green curly kale, lacinato kale, rainbow chard, caraflex cabbage, green cabbage, bok choi, arugula, baby lettuce, spinach
Roots: red beets, yellow beets, carrots, watermelon radish, red potatoes, yellow potatoes, French fingerling potato, sweet potatoes, daikon radish, Gilfeather turnip, rutabaga
Alliums: garlic, yellow onions, sweet onions, red onions, scallions, shallots, leeks
Herbs: cilantro, thyme, sage
Miscellaneous: celery, fennel
Fruiting crops: red roma paste tomatoes, midnight roma tomatoes, green tomatoes, jalapeno peppers, shishito peppers, red carmen sweet peppers, green carmen peppers, tomatillos, spaghetti squash, delicata squash, butternut squash
This week, you can order some items in bulk if you do any preserving. We listed bulk red carmen peppers, bulk green carmen peppers, jalapeno peppers, roma tomatoes, midnight 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

*Jalapenos, aji ricos, French fingerlings, photo by Adam Ford*

Farm News

Thanks for signing up for the Fall 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.

At the end of this week we finally had a hard, killing frost for the season. We covered everything that needed to be covered for outdoor fall harvesting and said goodbye to frost sensitive plants for the season. But with the magic of row cover, we will still enjoy several weeks of outdoor harvest before we have to reply completely on what is available to harvest in the tunnels. I don’t enjoy saying goodbye to the summer crops, but I do enjoy spending evenings in the kitchen making various flavors of hot sauces, roasted peppers, and zacuska for the winter when we pull all the peppers from the plants. It’s fun to take in the various smells of each pepper whether they are roasted, dried, fermented, or sauteed. (If you have any desire for bulk peppers of any variety, this may be the last week that’s available.)

The coolers are rapidly filling with 25-pound bags of storage crops. Every year, I see the pallets of veggies packed tightly in the coolers and root cellars for the winter, and it surprises me every time, that we do, indeed, go through all of this with the fall and spring CSA seasons. In the next couple weeks, we will prepare garlic fields for planting and get those tucked in for the season.

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)

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.