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