THE BEET: VOLUME 19; WEEK 22
FULL SHARE & GREEN HALF SHARE
PICK UP TONIGHT
5pm–7:30pm at JACK Theater
18 Putnam Ave (between Grand and Downing)
Please wear a mask and practice social distancing!
Thank you for joining us this season!
As you know, today is the final pickup of the 2020 season. We want to thank you for being a part of this most unusual season, and for your patience as we sorted out our temporary location and the new logistics of pickup. We appreciate your feedback (if you want a chance to give us some more, here's a link to our survey!) and your enthusiasm, and we look forward to seeing you in the spring. If you're interested in learning more about the core group, have a community event you'd like us to publicize, or just have something you'd like to share, drop us a line at information@clintonhillcsa.org.
All our best wishes,
The Clinton Hill CSA core group
Your feedback informs decisions regarding distribution, communication, and share contents. If you haven't already, please take a few minutes to fill out our brief end of season survey - we want to hear from you!
Sign up for your winter shares!The winter share consists of four monthly deliveries beginning November 21st. You'll receive a big box filled with greens, winter vegetables, fruit, and goodies like cider, jam, and honey. You can also sign up for egg and maple shares!
If you are able, please consider donating to JACK Theater, our generous distribution host. You'll be directly supporting mutual aid work in our community, and helping to ensure that JACK will be able to continue to offer more of their adventurous programming in the future.
The News from Windflower Farm
Distribution #22, Week of November 2, 2020
Hello for one last time this season from Windflower Farm (where just a few winter CSA shares are still available!)
This week’s share
Cabbage
Kale
Lettuce or Swiss chard
Parsley (or cilantro)
Onions
Shallots
Garlic
Peppers
Sweet potatoes
Carrots
What’s new on the farm
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is an increasingly vital part of organic farming, and hundreds of small farms in the Northeast thrive because of CSA members like you. Thank you for being a part of our CSA - we hope you enjoyed the experience. I’d especially like to express my gratitude to the volunteers who spend countless hours organizing the CSA. Their work in recruiting members, maintaining websites, managing distributions and in performing countless other tasks is the critical stuff that makes the CSA work. If you think that you’ll be with us next year, consider joining the core group at your pick-up site.
We at the farm are celebrating our last CSA delivery. As you know, the season comes to an end this week. Victoria, our distribution coordinator, hosted us at her house around a bonfire to celebrate the end of the season. The farm team has been working long days since early March and are ready for a break. I’m very proud of them. Much of the staff will be back at it in a couple of weeks to prepare the first winter boxes. Snowfall bookended the farm season, with a couple of inches in early May, just after planting, and a couple more just last week. Candelaria and her sisters, who are new to snow, had a brief laughter filled snowball fight. Soon, they’d be in the warmth of Central Mexico. For us, there are winter projects that we’ll now have time to turn to, Jan in her studio, and Nate and me in our workshop.
Jan and I hope you have a healthy and happy fall and winter season. We look forward to seeing you before long.
Take care, Ted and Jan
Recipes
Two very straightforward recipes to end our season: steamed sweet potatoes with tahini butter, and a basic recipe for cabbage braised with garlic and chili flake!
As our season (and this newsletter) comes to an end, remember that you can always find recipes, storage tips, and more information on our website!