Volume 25, Week 6

Full share & 💫yellow💫 half shares

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

Do you have a passion for graphic design?

We are looking for a member with graphic design skills to help us update our tote bag design to commemorate our 25th season! It’ll involve 1-2 hours of work, and will count toward your work shift requirement. If you’re interested, please reach out to information@clintonhillcsa.org for details!

This week’s share

  • Oakleaf or butterhead lettuce

  • Ruby Red Swiss chard

  • Zucchini or summer squash

  • Cucumbers

  • Garlic scapes

  • Bunched beets

  • ‘Happy Rich’ broccolini

  • Red onions

  • Extras: eggs, bread

  • Fruit: Strawberries from Yonder Farm

News from Windflower Farm

Delivery #6, July 9, 2026

The irrigation goes on. Nate has been installing drip lines on virtually everything. We’ll put drip lines on the potatoes, too, eventually, but for now we are using a large water gun on an irrigation reel that had been in the defective pile until recently. The mechanism that automatically retracts the hose had broken. Nate, who likes to tinker with all things electric, has brought it back to life by replacing the original turbine with an electric motor, a solar panel, and associated parts, and it now works better than new. The same weather that has produced an abundance of greens has made for a healthy potato crop. Walking between rows of waist high potatoes, I search for escaped weeds, high stepping across rows to pull large pigweeds and lambsquarters. I spot a few Colorado potato beetles and consider making an application of my special brew – a fungus, a plant root extract, and dishwashing soap - but I hold off for now. Three of our four potato varieties are in full bloom, telling me that new tubers are now being formed. The blossoms are white, pale lavender and shades of rose, depending on the variety, and each plant is a magnificent bouquet, something unexpected from the humble potato. These might not conjure fields of tulips in Holland or rolling rows of lavender in Provence, but they bring joy to this vegetable farmer’s heart.

I hope you have a great week!

Take care, Ted

 
Veronica