Full share & 🌻 yellow🌻 half shares

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

Welcome to our 25th season! A few back-to-CSA notes -

For distribution:

Bring bags for your share! If you have extra shopping bags at home that you’d like to get rid of, feel free to donate them to our bag stash. We also have a limited number of Clinton Hill CSA totes available for sale for $10 (cash and venmo accepted)

Please be on time! We pack up promptly at 7:30, and all remaining items are donated to IMPACCT and a local food pantry, so please arrive on time to claim your share. If you can’t make it, you can always send a friend (have them give your name) or coordinate a swap via the half share list: CHCSAHalfShare2026@clintonhillcsa.org

Protocol for swapping via the half share list:

If you're interested in a swap, please reply ONLY to the original poster who is looking for a swap. Please double-check that your reply is addressed to the original poster and not the entire group.
There may be multiple people interested in a swap offer. Please do not assume you have been chosen for a swap until the original poster confirms this via email. If you're confirmed, please reply to the original poster so they know you received their confirmation message.
If you're the original poster who has received more than one offer to participate in a swap, once you've confirmed the swap, please respond to the others who offered to swap, so they know you won't be swapping with them.
Please do not reply to a request for a swap with your own request for a swap, even if it's on the same dates. Start your own thread.
Finally, be aware that the high volume of messages during these first weeks of the season will taper off!

And some housekeeping:

Work Shift Reminder: All Clinton Hill CSA members are required to fulfill their work shift commitment:
- 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. For questions about workshifts, contact volunteer@clintonhillcsa.org.
A note about payment: We thank everyone who has made payments early and helped to support Windflower Farm and all our other suppliers of wonderful produce. We encourage you to check your inboxes and make sure you're up to date with payments. Remember that with some extra shares, your invoices may not all come from Windflower Farm, so be sure you're opening the emails that tell you how to pay for your share. And on behalf of Windflower Farm and our other CSA suppliers, thank you!

Coming next week - spice pop up from Sourcery!

Hi! I'm Bhavna -- a Fort Greene neighbor and founder of Sourcery, a Brooklyn-based spice company that works directly with small family farms and tribal foragers in South Asia. I bring in spices seasonally -- harvested fresh, shipped directly from the farm, and packaged here in New York. I started Sourcery 3 years ago, inspired by memories of cooking with my grandmother in India and I couldn't find anything close to those flavors here. The reality is that grocery store spices are often 5+ years old and have lost all their flavor by the time they reach you.

I'm excited to share these beautiful, aromatic spices with the Clinton Hill CSA community and offer a monthly spice pickup for folks who want to cook with them!

Here is how the ordering system and pickup process will work:

Members can place ala carte orders throughout the month, and deliveries will be made June 25, July 30, August 27, September 24, and October 29.

HOW TO ORDER

1. Make your selections via ClintonHillCSA Spices Website

2. At check out, choose the pickup option and select “Clinton Hill CSA”

3. Make your payment

4. Your spices will be delivered on the next upcoming date!

This week’s share

Sweet white turnips
Little cilantro bunches (from our greenhouse)
‘Tropicana’ lettuce
Your choice of arugula or a mustard mix
‘Red Russian’ kale
‘Rongitoto’ spinach
‘Bopak’ choy
‘Crimson King’ radishes
‘Bridger’ green onions
Extras: eggs and bread. Fruit will begin next week!

News from Windflower Farm

Delivery #2, June 11, 2026

Holes will sometimes be found in the greens that we send you. We will try to avoid this, but flea beetles are abundant on most organic farms, particularly in the spring. The good news is that the feeding that produces the holes also results in a biological response by the plant that promotes health in humans. Among the compounds made by the plant are glucosinolates. When these are ingested by us, our own gut bacteria break them down into highly bioactive molecules, including antioxidants involved in detoxification and anti-inflammation. The feeding also produces elevated levels of polyphenols and flavonoids, antioxidants that help neutralize free radicals and lower systemic inflammation.

On Saturday, while Nate was setting up an irrigation reel in a field of potatoes, I was turning a cover crop into the soil. White clover and purple hairy vetch blossoms were flying over the hood of my tractor as I travelled back and forth over the rolling ground. Even the winter rye was in bloom. For many years, we’ve used a permanent bed system to reduce tillage: with tractor tires in the same tracks year after year and raised beds in the same spaces in between. After mowing, I worked on the beds with a small set of discs and a bed shaper. The cover crop residues will be allowed to break down for a couple of weeks, and then I’ll make another pass with my disc-shaper to make the planting beds for successions of sweet corn and beans and lettuce.

From where I was working, I could see Jan in a nearby field mowing grass ahead of the sheep who will summer there. By following the field’s contours, the grass cut by the mower made lovely, curved patterns. Sheep are finicky eaters and prefer second cutting hay over first cutting hay and they prefer a pasture that has been cut not long before over one grown up to seedy and stemmy grasses. I think that they will be happy there when we move them in a couple of weeks. Cottonwood trees were shedding their fluffy white seeds, and they were coming down sideways in the wind, a summer blizzard.

Have a great week, Ted

Recipes

Sautéed turnips with their greens, and anything pesto (tip: add a canned pickled jalapeño with some of the brine to thin it out and brighten it up).

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

Volume 25, Week 2