Volume 25, Week 9

Full share & 🪷 green 🪷 half shares

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

It’s our 25th season!

2026 is our 25th year serving our community with vegetables and more from Windflower Farm. Throughout this season, we'll share announcements here of special events and ways for you to get involved.

Calling all young artists! 

We are seeking original illustrations of CSA fruits and vegetables from CSA members age 0-12 to post during distribution as we celebrate our 25th season! Send submissions to information@clintonhillcsa with the subject line "artwork" - a high quality photo or scan is fine. You are also welcome to bring drawings to distribution! Be sure to include the name of the fruit or vegetable (this can be part of the illustration), and the artist. A list of common share contents can be found here. We'll accept submissions on a rolling basis, and will continue to post them throughout the season! 

Reminder: fresh spices available a la carte from Sourcery

CSA members can order fresh spices from Sourcery and have them delivered to our site! The next delivery date is August 27. To order, make selections here: ClintonHillCSA Spices Website, and choose the Clinton Hill CSA pickup option.

This week’s share

  • Misc. Lettuce

  • Swiss chard

  • Tatsoi

  • Tomatoes

  • Peppers

  • Eggplants

  • Yellow wax beans

  • Golden beets

  • Sweet corn (Corn note: Most ears are free of worms, but they are undetectable until the corn has been husked. Cutting the tips off the ears of your corn prior to husking is an effective way of avoiding the worms altogether.)

  • Fruit: Yonder Farm plums

  • Extras: bread, eggs, mushrooms

News from Windflower Farm

Delivery #9, July 30, 2026

Combine the longest days of the year with heat and ample water. What doesn’t grow!? Sweet potato vines, pumpkin vines, and watermelon vines are all run amok. Paths between the beds have disappeared beneath the jungle. Tomato vines are so tall that step ladders are required to trellis them. It is high season for vegetable growers.

The weeds have grown too. Nate and I hand weeded five beds of beans the other day. It was no small project. Every weed species we’d ever heard of was there, as were a few that were new to us: galinsoga, purslane, lady’s thumb, crabgrass, shepherd’s purse, lambs’ quarters, redroot pigweed, yellow nutsedge, and more. But the beans were in bloom and would soon bear fruit, and nobody would want to pick weedy beans. So, on a hot and steamy day, we spent half the day weeding beans.

If ever there was a time to watch beans grow, as Thoreau claimed to have, that was it. Thoreau tended two acres of beans while living beside Walden Pond, and he apparently earned some cash doing so. Ours was a hands-and-knees weeding, much like his must have been. We yanked and cut and whacked the weeds we had failed to kill with our cultivating tractor. It was gratifying to look back at weed-free beds, stiff knees and sore backs notwithstanding. Beans are a lovely crop - the rows become bushy, filled in and full of flowers in the weeks prior to harvest, their tendrils reaching skyward. Our bean plot was just half an acre, but the effort we’d put into the crop gave us renewed respect for Thoreau the farmer, who succeeded in his work without benefit of modern bean breeding, fertilizer, weed killer, tractor or harvester. By the time we finished weeding, the beans may very well have grown an inch or two. And in this way, we had our very own moment of transcendence.

Have a great week, Ted  

 
Veronica