Volume 25, Week 5

Full share & 🍈 green 🍈 half shares

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

Slow news week!

Stay cool out there, and have a safe holiday weekend!

This week’s share

  • Lettuce – Romaine and a leaf type

  • Red Russian kale

  • Ruby Red Swiss chard

  • Zucchini or summer squash

  • Cucumber

  • Garlic scapes

  • Beets with tops

  • ‘Happy Rich’ broccolini

  • Red or yellow onions

  • Fruit: Strawberries from Yonder Farm. Windflower Blueberries coming soon!

  • Extras: eggs, bread, and mushrooms

News from Windflower Farm

Delivery #5, July 2, 2026

To take the edge off this week’s heat, we have been irrigating everything. Yesterday, we hit the field greens and the tunnel tomatoes and peppers. Today, our focus has been on onions and potatoes, two of my favorite vegetables to grow and to eat. Your fall onions are on a silver mulch this year, which is supposed to reflect the light, and with it the heat, and to confuse an insect called thrips, which is a tiny nocturnal bug that does outsized damage to organic crops, rasping and sucking and leaving the wounded plant susceptible to infection. The silver mulch, something of a spectacle, has caused passing cars to slow. But it has been a cool spring until recently, and time will tell if it was a mistake to use a cooling mulch. Weeding has had to be confined to overcast days because of the reflectivity of the mulch. Everyone wears sunglasses and, if just for a minute, we are the cool kids. We are watering the onions with drip irrigation, all the water in the right spot, two hours the equivalent of a ¾ inch rainfall. These short nights of the year are triggering the onions to form bulbs, and they need all the water they can get. Now on to the potatoes.

I hope you have a Happy Fourth of July!

Take care, Ted

Recipes

Holodnik, a cold and creamy beet soup from Eastern Europe, and some options for your garlic scapes.

Still have last week’s kohlrabi? Make a pickled slaw - and make it your own with garlic scapes, jalapenos, different spice combos, etc :)


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

 
Veronica