Volume 24, Week 10

Full share &šŸŒ½ yellow šŸ§ˆhalf shares

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

A reminder about work shifts:

Members with full vegetable shares are required to complete (2) two-hour work shifts for a total of four hours.  Members with half vegetable shares must complete (1) two-hour work shift. 


This is a great opportunity to learn more about how your CSA works, and to get to know other members! Your work shift is a commitment that you agreed to when you signed up, and households that do not complete their shifts will not be able to join the CSA again in the future. Children are welcome on site when their parents are doing their work shift commitment; our youngest members can be very helpful, and we only ask that you bring snacks and other things to keep them busy. Sign up here:

For those who find volunteering on site to be a problem, we may have other opportunities. Please email volunteer@clintonhillcsa.org for more information.

This weekā€™s share

  • Sweet peppers

  • Fennel

  • Red onions

  • Magenta lettuce

  • Tomatoes

  • Basil

  • Sweet corn

  • Carrots from Denison Farm

  • Fruit: plums from Yonder Farm

  • Extras: bread, eggs, granola, mushrooms

News from Windflower Farm

Delivery #10, Week of August 4, 2025

I love sweet corn fresh off the plant and raw and eat quite a bit of it in the field. In this way itā€™s cool, crunchy and sweet. This first batch is running small because of the lack of rain, but it has most of the qualities that Iā€™m after. So far, Iā€™ve found very few bugs, but that doesnā€™t mean there arenā€™t any. A sweet corn tip: because insects get under the corn husk primarily by travelling down the silk channel, they are most often found feeding near the tip of the ear. The best way to deal with the potential problem of finding ā€œwormsā€ in your corn is to cut off about two inches of the ear tip before husking. There isnā€™t any corn worth eating at the tip anyway. The presence of these insects is difficult to detect, but a quick removal of the tip means youā€™ll never have to worry about it. Now, if you find a hole in the side of the husk, you are probably dealing with a corn borer, and thatā€™s messier. We make every effort to feed those ears to the chickens, but the holes are sometimes hard to detect, and some will slip through. Insects are interesting, and if you are curious, peel the husk back and find out whatā€™s going on inside.

We are harvesting our storage onions this week. Half the crop spent the week in windrows on the tops of their beds to kickstart the curing process. Weā€™ll place these in crates and tuck them in the greenhouse to complete curing. Today, we are pulling the second half of the crop and will leave them in windrows for the next several days. Field drying like this shrinks the onionā€™s neck tissue and can stop or slow the spread of any disease from leaves to bulbs. The hailstorm that took place here three weeks ago mowed the tops off most of our onions. Unfortunately, they hadnā€™t quite attained their full size, but they are still good, and we are sending some of the red ones this week in bunched form.   

Have a great week, Ted

Recipes

Coming into CORN season! Here are a number of brilliant ideas from Smitten Kitchen, of which the corn cacio e pepe and Mexican-style corn chowder stand out!

And for those still have last weekā€™s (and the week beforeā€™s) beets shriveling in their crisper - pickle them and make this legendary sandwich

Did you know? Our website has recipes, food storage tips, and information about the vegetables you might come across in your share!

 
Veronica