*honeybee enjoying a milkweed snack, photo by Adam Ford*

CSA Balance Due

If you haven’t already paid, your balance is due. You can pay online through your account (with a card or e-check ACH payment), mail a check to Evening Song Farm 48 Nice Road, Cuttingsville VT 05738, leave a check or cash in the CSA cash box at the barn, send money with Venmo @eveningsongcsa, or use EBT. It’s very cool to pay in smaller chunks, just let us know what your payment plan is.

This Week’s Availability

This week we will have red radish bunches, fresh yellow beets with greens, fresh red beets with greens, fresh carrots with tops, baby kale, parsley, mini romaine lettuce heads, garlic scapes, green cabbage, rainbow chard, baby lettuce, green curly kale bunches, lacinato kale bunches, baby bok choi, spinach, rhubarb, cilantro, scallions, cucumbers, zucchini, purple kohlrabi, endive, basil, and heirloom tomatoes.

The tomatoes seem to be ripening enough that we think we will have enough for everyone to have an item’s worth this week. (Fingers crossed we are correct!)

What is endive? These are really lovely, flavorful loose heads that are a delightful salad green. Really recommend trying them if you are curious.

Need more ideas for garlic scapes? Really the ways to use them are endless, but the scape season is not. Here are some of the ways we use them:

Blend them in a food processor or blender with some olive oil and salt. Spread that mixture on bread to make a delightfully bright, flavorful garlic bread!
Roast or grill with a little olive and salt to enjoy like some tender, baby asparagus.
Blend them to use anyway you would use fresh garlic: mix them into omelets, quiches, pasta dishes, curries, stir fries, etc.
Blend them and then mix them with shredded zucchini, egg, flour, salt and pepper for garlicky zucchini pancakes
Add a few tablespoons of blended scapes into a biscuit recipe for savory, garlicky biscuits.

Click here to order your veggies for a delivered bag

Ordering closes at noon on Tuesdays for Wednesday bags, and at midnight on Wednesdays for Friday bags.

You do not need to fill out the form if you plan to come to the barn on Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays to pick out your items yourself.

CSA pickup and delivery days and times

Farm News

Last week we worked to play catch up on lots of overdue weeding around the farm, and transplanted a few of the later season large plantings of brassicas. Ryan mowed cover crops that were about to set seed, and we continued the weekly direct seeding that helps us have baby greens each week. We keep sneaking in trellising the wild summer crops when we can.

The quick but intense storm that blew through on Friday afternoon knocked down two of my favorite maple trees at the entrance to our driveway and fully blocked Shunpike Road. One of the trees was mostly dead already, but when it blew over, it took down a very big and healthy maple. Our youngest kiddo, a budding tree defender, really wanted us to leave the one that was alive because as she surprisingly noticed, most of the root ball was still underground and “could still stay alive.” She was truly bummed when I explained that the road needed to be accessed, so the tree would have to be cut.

And it’s another super busy week in July on a veggie farm this week, so instead of a lengthy, written newsletter, enjoy a photo tour of what’s going on around here.

Have a great week,

-ESF Team: Ryan, Kara, Molly, Cindy, Galen, Katie, K2, Taylor, Vanessa, and Bryan (and Sky and Soraya)

Weekly Recipe

A short break from our own recipes… check out the button below to a website that has 10 fun ways to use garlic scapes!

10 delicious garlic scape recipes