Full share & 🍋 yellow🍋 half shares

218 Gates Avenue between Classon and Franklin
(IMPACCT Brooklyn at the Gibbs Mansion)
5:00 to 7:30 pm

Please read: an important message about work requirements!

In order to participate in the CSA for the Winter Share or the 2023 season, your household must complete your work requirements. Members who have not completed a shift this season recently received an email from volunteer@clintonhillcsa.org. Please reply to and/or email volunteer@clintonhillcsa.org with any questions regarding work shifts or interest in alternative volunteering opportunities to fulfill your commitment. Our CSA can't function without member volunteers--please schedule your shift now!

The Winter Share is LIVE

Details and sign up link are in Ted’s letter - read on to sign up!

Last call for Raffle entires and Halloween!!

You have 15 hours to submit your recipes! All entries must be received by October 20! The raffle winner will be announced here, in the Beet, on October 27th, and can claim their yummy prizes at pickup on October 27th or November 3rd!

Submit your recipe + photo here! Feel free to reach out to information@clintonhillcsa.org with any questions!

And if you’re interested in contributing to our Halloween potluck please reach out to Sarah (sarahchinn67@gmail.com) ASAP!! The festivities will take place during distribution on October 27th

This week’s share

Leeks
Fennel
Broccoli
Sweet potatoes
Red onions
Garlic
French breakfast radishes
Butternut squashies
Green leal lettuce
Arugula
Salad mix
Fruit: apples ‘n’ pears
Extras: mushrooms, bread, eggs, Lewis Waite deliveries!

A message for members with FRUIT SHARES: Next week (GREEN) you will receive the fruit share that did not arrive on September 28 (also green). Thank you for your patience, flexibility, and understanding!

News from Windflower Farm

Distribution #20 - Week of October 17, 2022

We roasted our first sweet potatoes this weekend. We put a couple of pounds in the oven at 400 degrees and it took about an hour for the caramelized juices to start oozing out, indicating that they were ready to serve. Unlike winter squashes, which often require sweetening despite our best intentions in the field, a fully cured and completely baked potato is always sweet eating, at least in my experience. We were not disappointed. More will come your way in this week’s share. The Delicatas and acorn squashes are now mostly gone from our root cellar. Butternuts, the buff colored, creamy textured, slightly hourglass shaped squashes, are up next. Both butternuts and sweet potatoes make excellent and creamy soups. We did not have enough time to harvest and process ginger this week, so it will not be a part of shares until next week and the week after. Potatoes, garlic and leeks (sounds like another soup!) will also make up part of the last two shares.

Our primary greenhouse is empty once again. We finished planting the overwintering onions on Thursday and the winter greens on Friday. Over the weekend, we began to plant onion sets and garlic. It’s not a fast process – the sets are placed in the ground by hand one plant at a time, each set producing just one onion or garlic bulb – but the work will soon be done. Until today, the weather had been perfect for these tasks. A light, cold rain is falling this morning, and no one wants to work outside. The packing shed is crowded with people doing the produce sorting and counting for our Tuesday delivery. The sugar maples across the road are losing their leaves, and signs of November are beginning to peek through.

Winter share news

It’s winter share signup season! A few years back, my friends at the Stanton Street CSA in the Lower East Side introduced me to the idea of “vegetable fatigue,” which they say can occur any time beginning around week 18 or 20 in the CSA season. Vegetable fatigue is a lack of enthusiasm for dealing with fresh vegetables. I completely understand. Going out to eat is the only remedy. A week or two to clear out the refrigerator helps.

Nevertheless, at the risk of wearing out our welcome, we offer a winter share. We finished planting our winter greenhouses on Friday morning. These are the greens that fill out the winter share. In total, we’ve planted four caterpillar tunnels and three high tunnels to a mix of choy, various kales and spinach – that’s twenty-three 140’ beds of greens. Every month, shares include a large bag of greens.

The winter share consists of three monthly deliveries that will include approximately 2 lb. of our organically grown greens (including spinach, a variety of kales and bok choy) and 8-10 lb. of our storage vegetables (including carrots, red and yellow onions, winter squash, a variety of potatoes, beets, leeks, sweet potatoes, shallots, popcorn and more), along with 4-6 lb. of fruits, and either apple cider, Deb's homemade jelly made from her organic berries or local honey - all packed to fit in a returnable box - for $174.00

This year, we will only be offering three monthly deliveries instead of four. We have fewer crops going into storage and our farm team would like some time off.

We are minimizing our use of PLASTIC BAGS! We’ll pack loose where we can and use paper bags where we need packaging. Our GOAL will be to use zero plastic bags, but, because we want your salad greens to arrive fresh and we don't have an alternative to plastic, we may use one plastic bag per month.

OPTIONAL shares include the EGG SHARE and MAPLE SHARE from Davis Family Farm and a GRAIN SHARE from Hickory Wind Farm (editor’s note - other extra shares, such as bread, mushrooms, and herbal medicine are organized separately - announcements regarding winter installments of these shares will be forthcoming!).

Our deliveries are timed to coincide with the deliveries made to your CSA pickup site by Lewis-Waite Farm.

If you would like to sign up for the winter share, please register here: Windflower Farm's 2022-2023 Winter Share (wufoo.com). Current Carrot Plan members: we have funds to subsidize $100 of limited winter shares, so your total cost will be $74. If you are interested and a current Carrot Plan member, please request a subsidized share in the notes section of the Wufoo signup form.

Have a great week, Ted

Recipes

Remember these for winter: Sweet potato pie, massaman curry, and 68 ways to use your FENNEL!

Keep submitting your recipes, you may see them here or on our Instagram!

Volume 21, Week 20