9th Week of the Spring CSA Season: Week of April 29th

blueberry buds in the barn field, photo by Adam Ford

This Week’s Availability

This week we will have:

  • Greens: green curly kale, spinach, baby lettuce, claytonia, baby chard, green cabbage, pea shoots

  • Roots: red beets, yellow beets, chioggia beets, large carrots*, watermelon radish, yellow potatoes, daikon radish, Gilfeather turnip, parsnips**

  • Alliums: garlic, scallions

  • Herbs: parlsey

  • Fruiting crops: frozen heirloom and beefsteak tomatoes, Painted Mountain grain corn

*This time of year when we start running out of some of the popular storage veggies, we bring them in from another certified organic farm, Juniper Hill Farm. Their carrots are a different storage variety, and they are larger and less sweet, but still a great carrot. I also tend to peel theirs for cosmetic reasons, while usually I don’t peel ours. Just a heads up, since we get A LOT of comments on how much people love the specific carrot variety we grow.

**Most of the spring dug parsnips have surface damage that Ryan wrote about below. It can be peeled off to a predominantly good parsnip. They will take a little more work to clean up than the ones we harvested and stored from the fall.

fields mulched and composted and ready for transplants, photo by Adam Ford

Farm News

Have a great week,

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

eggplants for sale, photo by Adam Ford

snap dragons for sale, photo by Adam Ford

zucchini transplants, photo by Adam Ford

another raspberry row, photo by Adam Ford

and the snow came back this week, ah! photo by Adam Ford

hammock in the snow, photo by Adam Ford

more shoots, photo by Adam Ford

willow buds, photo by Adam Ford

Callie, photo by Adam Ford

corn in our dining room, waiting for a meal, photo by Adam Ford

spinach, photo by Adam Ford

mushrooms in the baby lettuce, photo by Adam Ford

a trellis for the kiwis! photo by Adam Ford

forsythia in the snow, photo by Adam Ford

daffodils in the snow, photo by Adam Ford

are we done with the snow? photo by Adam Ford

ice on the fruit trees, photo by Adam Ford

tunnel transitions, photo by Adam Ford

Echo, photo by Adam Ford

flower garden is slowly waking up with daffodils, photo by Adam Ford

baby kale, photo by Adam Ford

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