Evening Song Farm

04/14/2026

Hey locals! It's that annual time of year when I use social media to remind you that today and tomorrow are the last days to make a pre-order for any plants for your spring and summer garden! Certified organic veggie, herb, flower, and native shrubs available at the link in the comments. Do it now. Plants will be available for pickup at the farm between May 19th and June 3rd. Here's to a joyful season of home gardening!

04/11/2025

It's that time of year again, when I finally remember to remind you that that there are less than 10 days left to pre-order any certified organic veggie, flower, herb, elderberry, or willow starts for your garden. The ordering platform closes on April 20th, with details to come for plant pickup in late May. Here's to all your 2025 garden dreams coming true!

https://openfoodnetwork.net/evening-song-farm-plant-sale-pre-order/shop

05/23/2024

All the certified organic veggie, herb, flower, elderberry, and willow plants that we start for your garden are on display for a self-serve situation outside our barn at 48 Nice Road in Shrewsbury until June 2nd. We have already sold out of a few varieties, so swing by sooner than later for the best selection. You may be thinking, "Wait, Evening Song Farm's barn is only for CSA members... can I come buy plant starts if I am not a CSA member?" Great news, YOU CAN! We love imagining all the amazing summer gardens these plants will get to be in all around the area. Please feel free to come swing by for a visit now through June 2nd even if you aren't a CSA member. (Cash, check, or Venmo payments.)

05/13/2024

Did you miss the 2024 garden start pre-order window, and you really want some Evening Song Farm plants for your garden this season? Swing by the barn (48 Nice Road in Cuttingsville) between May 22nd and June 2nd to pick out certified organic veggie, flower, herb, elderberry, and willow starts for your garden.

(It's a self- serve situation: you can leave cash, check, or Venmo payments at the barn. We can accept EBT cards for the veggie starts. Send us a message to find a time that someone can be available to run the card.)

04/18/2024

Only a couple days left to pre-order garden starts for your summer garden!
https://openfoodnetwork.net/evening-song-farm-plant-sale-pre-order/shop

02/26/2024

Hey local community! If you keep a garden, you can pre-order certified organic veggies, herbs, flowers, and some shrubs here: https://openfoodnetwork.net/evening-song-farm-plant-sale-pre-order/shop

We grow plants in peat-free soil and have a wide selection to choose from. Fun new offerings this year are some willow varieties. For the past several years we have used different willow types as a key part of our climate adaptation practices, strategically planting willows in places where we move water off our growing fields, and it's been super cool to see the results of the erosion management during more frequent high intensity rain events that are common in the era of climate crisis. Are there vulnerable erosion spots on your property? Willows can be an exceptional tool to help you slow down water movement in vulnerable areas. Added bonus is that we love to use them for flower crowns!

Anyway, check out all the plants, and get your spring gardens packed with all the veggies, flowers, and herbs of your dreams.

02/06/2024

Every CSA season, we partner with NOFA-VT to provide subsidized CSA shares to about 25 low income families in our community. We know that the impact of this program on the families that participate is a big benefit to their ability to access fresh, local, certified organic produce, that might otherwise be out of reach. We get to talk directly to these families about how it has improved their health, expanded their kids' diets, made them more adventurous in the kitchen, and most importantly, stretched their limited food dollars. Each year, the demand for this program increases, and this year, the available funds are much smaller at the moment. (In fact, there is currently $0 earmarked with the Farm Share Fund for participants who want to choose Evening Song Farm, so we have a ways to go to raise this year's funds!) You can make a tax deductible donation to the Farm Share Fund at NOFA, and if you mentioned Evening Song Farm, that donation can go straight to a family in this community. Even $9 supports a small family for a week. Spread the word if you are unable to donate.... and thank you!
https://www.nofavt.org/special-funds

07/22/2023

https://www.eveningsongcsa.com/weekly-csa-newsletter/8thweekofthesummer-csa-dec1-dl5c12-2rm9w-xltwm-6twtx-mkzzk-xm97f-e79nc-kwp8n-ke67j-xpslz-22bz7-p499f-39a63-4463z-6nwne-x8w5f-hpax4-xah7p-lc3ad-tg455-zdle9-hzghr-bzllz-khdwc-2nyfp-98m54

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

07/17/2023

https://www.eveningsongcsa.com/weekly-csa-newsletter/7thweekofthesummer-csa-dec1-dl5c12-2rm9w-xltwm-6twtx-mkzzk-xm97f-e79nc-kwp8n-ke67j-xpslz-22bz7-p499f-39a63-4463z-6nwne-x8w5f-hpax4-xah7p-lc3ad-tg455-zdle9-hzghr-bzllz-khdwc-2nyfp

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

07/12/2023

Hey community near and far! Thanks for all the messages asking how we are doing in light of all the catastrophic flooding around Vermont. The short answer is that the farm is fine. Over the years of managing a hillside farm, we have done a lot of earth moving around our fields to manage water flow for large storms, and walking around the fields Monday, we could see that for the most part, it was working pretty well, with only some touch ups needed. We are feeling incredibly grateful to be so high up on this hill away from the river valley. Our hearts are tender and overwhelmed for all the folks that this storm hit so hard. It will take a long time for some folks to be visually ok, and possibly much longer to be emotionally ok. I was surprised that it was such an emotional day for me, given our safety on the hill.... Our experience with Irene is still lodged pretty loudly in my body despite thinking I have done plenty of healing work on that over the years.

It was clear at bedtime last night that our kiddos wanted the full Irene story... we have given them plenty of the cliff notes over the years, always in the feel good story version: "Our farm was destroyed by a hurricane, but our community was awesome, so we moved it up a hill, and everything is ok, hooray!" But last night, I gave them the full story, with all the scary parts and emotions, and wild details from that morning 12 years ago, all the way through all the beautiful and myriad ways our family, friends, neighbors, CSA, and community kept us afloat as we rebuilt a farm. I took breaks during the story when it scared them, to remind them that we are here, 12 years later, on this safe, abundant hillside, and every pause I took to bring them back to the present, was also re-grounding my own body from a day of having my nervous system perpetually activated from such similar weather conditions.

Sending love to everyone affected by this storm, and I hope your healing can begin after all this cleanup.

(PS- This pic is not from Monday.... the wind from the rainstorm a couple days ago took down those beautiful maples.)

05/31/2023

Hey community! There is quite a waiting list for NOFA-VT's Farm Share Fund program that provides half price CSA shares to low income Vermonters. If you are able to donate (even a small amount) or share this post, please do. We have been participating in this program for over a decade, and during that time, we have experienced a 400% increase in families who have joined our CSA program with the help of NOFA-VT from our first year participating to now. Donations to NOFA-VT are tax deductible, and if you mention our farm, Evening Song Farm, in the donation, that goes directly to families who get veggies right here, which is important: we are the only CSA farm within an hour radius partnering with NOFA-VT to provide these subsidized shares. Link is in the comments to donate. Don't feel bad if you can't donate. We are all doing what we can to make the world brighter!

04/08/2023

We want to clarify that last week's newsletter was an April Fool's joke.... we got several congratulatory emails, sorry for the confusion!

This week is just April 8th, so no jokes in here...

This Week’s Availability This week we will have spinach, green curly kale, baby kale, baby chard, baby lettuce, claytonia, baby arugula, pea shoots, parsley, red beets, yellow beets, carrots, onions, daikon radishes, watermelon radish, kohlrabi, and red and yellow potatoes. *carrots, onions,