*the team harvesting beets and carrots, photo by Adam Ford*

This Week’s Availability

This week we will have:

Greens: baby lettuce, pea shoots, arugula, spinach, bok choi, green curly kale, lacinato kale, rainbow chard
Roots: potatoes, fresh beet bunches with greens, fresh carrots with tops, rutabaga, red radishes, salad turnips
Alliums: garlic scapes, fresh onion bunches
Herbs: parlsey
Miscellaneous: Rhubarb
Fruiting crops: sugarsnap peas

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

Important note for Friday Rutland folks: The co-op is closed this week on Friday for the federal holiday. We will be delivering Friday bags to the co-op on SATURDAY this week. (Just this week only.)

Farm News

Well that was super fun to have pick-your-own strawberries here for the first time! I really enjoyed seeing so many happy pickers move through the rows and go home with bright red containers of joy. With luck and good weather, we should have some more pick-your-own strawberries this coming week.

This week we did a big transplanting: cabbages, head lettuce, fennel, kohlrabi, kale, chard, and more. We continued to trellis the tomato and cucumber plants, but are finally falling a bit behind…. which is standard with these crops.. their wildness always exceeds our time capacity to tame them. But we will get there. Next week we hope to catch up on that, and catch up on mulching a few plantings that haven’t been mulched yet.

Word on cucumbers… a couple weeks ago, they aborted a round of flowers, so we seem to be in between cucumber harvests for another week. Weird and annoying, but the plants look great and will pick back up soon.

It’s a busy week of squeezing in farm work, so enjoy a photo tour below, in lieu of a longer newsletter update!

Have a great week,

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

Pea Shoot Garlic Scape Pesto

Sorry to do two pesto recipes in row, but because it is scape season, and that is so short lived, I love making all sorts of pestos with the scapes. I also love doing a garlic scape parsley pesto, and eventually a garlic scape basil pesto when the basil is ready.