Volume 24, Week 4
Full share & 🌻yellow🌻 half shares
218 Gates Avenue between Classon and Franklin
(IMPACCT Brooklyn at the Gibbs Mansion)
5:00 to 7:30 pm
Happy Juneteenth! Windflower sites are open for regular distribution on Thursday, June 19th. If you are not able to pick up your share due to the holiday, you're welcome to ask a friend, family member, or neighbor to pick up for you. Please ask them to provide your name when they pick up your share.
CSA Swag Alert: Order Windflower Farm Hats (available for a limited time only!), or pick up a Clinton Hill CSA tote at distribution.
A few pop ups this week!
Hi! I’m Bhavna, a Fort Greene neighbor and founder of Sourcery, a Brooklyn-based spice company that sources fresh, seasonal spices directly from small family farms in India, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. I started Sourcery two years ago, inspired by memories of cooking with my grandmother in India—and the disappointing reality of stale, flavorless grocery store spices after moving to the U.S. I wanted to reconnect with the bold, vibrant flavors I grew up with and support the farmers behind them through a more transparent and fair supply chain. I’ll be popping up at your CSA with a selection of these fresh spices—come say hi and sample my spices! Black Pepper, Cinnamon, Turmeric, Cumin, Coriander, Fennel, Ginger, Nutmeg, Green Cardamom, Black Cardamom, Clove, Mace, Jaggery, Tamarind & Asafoetida/ Hing
Fort Greene Granola is a new artisan granola company based in Fort Greene, Brooklyn that bakes fresh, healthy, homemade granola using locally-sourced ingredients. These include fresh-rolled organic oats from an Upstate family farm, organic maple syrup from a charming little sugarhouse in Vermont, and local organic pumpkin seeds and hemp hearts.
This week’s share
Butterhead lettuce
Purple kohlrabi
Crunchy King radishes
Red Russian kale
Mixed adolescent mustard greens
Garlic scapes
Bunched baby onions
Choice of Happy Rich broccolini, cucumbers OR summer squash
Fruit: Yonder Farm strawberries 🍓
Extras: eggs, bread, granola, mushrooms, and the first distribution of maple and grain shares!
News from Windflower Farm
Delivery #4, Week of June `6, 2025
The arrival late last week of sunshine and warm weather and the forecast of more to come has been welcomed by all of us on the farm. Happy Rich responded by shooting up its Raab-like florets, and summer squashes and cucumbers have begun to put on size. It is likely you’ll get one of these vegetables in your share this week, with more to come soon.
We rarely spray, and never with anything not approved by the National Organic Standards Board. But wet (or humid) and cloudy conditions usually enable diseases to gain a foothold, which appears to have been the case in our high tunnel cucumbers, and I have pulled out my backpack sprayer. We love the promise of greenhouse cucumbers, but so far our lived experience has come up short. Our crop currently has a disease called Angular Leaf Spot, which is caused by a bacterium that can survive on seeds, including those purchased from reputable seed companies. Because our county extension agent is a friend, Andrea and I reached out to him for a confirmation of our diagnosis and management advice. At this point, he told us, our only recourse as organic growers is to remove infested older leaves and to spray elemental copper every week. And so, I sprayed. And I might spray again this week. The chief danger is to the guy operating the sprayer: copper is not something you want to get on your skin or in your eyes. Copper might exist as a surface residue on the cucumber fruit at harvest; it does not penetrate the skin. We will wash your cukes at the farm and you should wash them again at home. If you are concerned, you might consider peeling your cucumbers. In the meantime, our field grown plants are perfectly healthy.
In other news, our organic certification inspection took place last Thursday. Although we won’t receive formal notification from PCO (Pennsylvania Certified Organic, our certifier) for a couple of weeks, it appeared to me to go well, and our exit interview highlighted nothing of concern.
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!