Volume 25, Week3

Full share & 🍋‍🟩green🍋‍🟩 half shares

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

A work shift update:

Based on our experience in the first 2 weeks with the new truck unloading schedule, we are making a small adjustment to that work shift. We are moving the time slot up by 15 minutes, so it will be from 2:00-2:45 p.m.

If you signed up for an unloading shift for a future date, you should have received an automated notification email about the time change.  Please reach out to volunteer@clintonhillcsa.org with any questions or concerns!

Thank you again for your commitment. We cannot run the CSA without you

Sign up for work shifts here

Spice pop up from Sourcery at today’s distribution

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

  • Green butterhead lettuce

  • Green oak leaf lettuce

  • Arugula OR Mustard mix

  • Dill

  • Potted basil

  • Choy, Kale, or Chard

  • Cucumbers

  • Sweet white turnips

  • Kohlrabi

  • Fruit: Strawberries from Yonder Farm

  • Extras: eggs, bread, mushrooms

News from Windflower Farm

Delivery #3, June 18, 2026

I have just hung up the phone. I was talking with Pete, the 83-year-old Italian proprietor of Yonder Farm, which is where the lion’s share of our fruit share has come from for more than twenty years. He started working on the farm when he was 12 and took it over in his late teens following the death of his father. He has been farming in this small corner of the world for 70 years. His fruit trees and berries are spread out over six farms in Columbia County, and he knows every contour, every variety. His wife, son and two foremen see to the details of the operation. A large crew of Jamaican men do the pruning, mowing, harvesting and packing of the crops. He would like to visit Sicily, but where would he find the time?

Spring is a fraught time for fruit farmers. This year, very cold temperatures followed on the heels of a warm stretch: first a swelling of buds, then a hard freeze for two days. He deployed every manner of safeguard, from fires in wood barrels scattered throughout orchards to overhead irrigation, which produced an insulating layer of ice around sensitive plant parts. In one large orchard, Pete deployed 21 wind machines. They worked especially well because there was a temperature inversion - the machines drove the warm air aloft down into the tree canopy. And in this way, Pete and a team of twenty some men saved his plums and peaches and apples.

It has been dry here. We irrigate every day. Drip in the onions, cukes, squash, tomatoes and peppers, sprinklers in the lettuce, beets, kale and radicchio. Currently, the whirlybird is watering a field of potatoes. We’ve begun to look at weather forecasts for signs of rain, but we are not yet desperate. We found what we are looking for in this evening’s forecast: a high chance of an overnight rain shower. Because it will come with wind likely to pack a punch, we’ll lower the sides of the greenhouses.    

Have a great week, Ted

 
Veronica