Volume 24, Week 3

Full share & 🐛green🐛 half shares

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

Fruit starts this week! More updates:

  • CSA Swag Alert: Order Windflower Farm Hats (available for a limited time only!), or pick up a Clinton Hill CSA tote at distribution.

  • Bring bags! Some items may be bunched or packed in plastic, but you will need tote bags to bring your share home! We’ll have a limited number of Clinton Hill CSA totes available for sale for $10 - cash and venmo accepted. Also - if you have extra reusable bags around, bring them to distribution! We like to keep a stash on hand ;)

  • Overwhelmed by half share emails? Let’s sort this out!

    • When responding to a swap request, please just reply to the sender and wait for confirmation - no need to reply to the full group!

    • Want to minimize the number of emails you get? Go to groups.google.com and click on "my groups," then find "CHCSAHalfShare2025." Under subscription, you'll see several options for receiving email, including a daily digest and an option to receive no email at all. You'll also see, on the far right, to the left of the star, an option to leave the group entirely. You can also unsubscribe by sending an email to chcsahalfshare2025+unsubscribe@clintonhillcsa.org. 

  • The shares get bigger! It’s still early in what has so far been a cold and wet growing season, so your pickup may feel a little light these first few weeks. Fear not, this will soon change!

    We plan to host local makers at pop-ups throughout the season where you can purchase items a la carte, such as spices from Sourcery. Keep an eye on the Beet and on Instagram for announcements about other pop-up shares!

This week’s share

  • Red or green lettuce

  • Hakurei (sweet white) turnips

  • Red Russian Kale

  • Mixed mustard greens

  • Bunched onions

  • Garlic scapes

  • And radishes!

  • Fruit: Strawberries 🍓

  • Extras: eggs, bread, granola! The first maple and grain deliveries come NEXT week, June 19

News from Windflower Farm

Delivery #3, Week of June 9, 2025

It continues to rain too much (more than 3 inches last week), but I’m not going to complain about it this week.

Black locusts have been in blossom this past week, which seems a little late to me and makes me wonder if the cool and wet spring has had anything to do with it. They have a sweet fragrance and an appearance resembling the white blooming horse chestnut, at least from a distance. Gardeners following the planting advice in the Farmers’ Almanac will tell you that the locust bloom indicates that it’s now safe to set out tomatoes and other frost sensitive vegetables. We planted our first tomatoes on April 25th, nearly six weeks ago, into the protected environment of a high tunnel (essentially a greenhouse without a heater) and they are now nearly shoulder high and full of small green fruits. In this cool year, tomatoes will be slow to start – look for them in CSA shares in about four weeks.

In early May, we also planted cucumbers, another frost sensitive vegetable, in a high tunnel. We conducted a trial of this last year with mixed results. The plants produced well at first, but they were invaded by striped cucumber beetles and went down prematurely due to a disease they carried. This year, we wrapped the entire tunnel with an insect screen and, although some beetles have found their way inside, the planting appears healthy and small fruits are getting their start. We have trained the cucumber vine to climb up a single trellis wire and they are now up to my waist. Small quantities of cucumbers should be in shares soon. Field cucumbers are about two weeks behind them.

Have a great week. Best wishes, Ted

PS. Windflower Farm hats are once again available for purchase. If you would like one or two hats, please preorder them here: Windflower Farm's Hat Order Form. We'll be closing the order form within the next couple of weeks and we'll send them on the truck to your site a little later this summer. Stay tuned!

Recipes

Coconut chickpea and turnip curry (pro tip: sub turnip greens for spinach ;))

Did you know?

 
Veronica