Volume 22, Week 15
Full share & š green š half shares
218 Gates Avenue between Classon and Franklin
(IMPACCT Brooklyn at the Gibbs Mansion)
5:00 to 7:30 pm
Sign up for work shifts - signup link fixed!
Good morning all! Last weekās Beet contained a broken link to sign up for workshifts - sorry about that! If you havenāt already, please sign up for work shifts today! As a reminder: all CSA members who complete their required work shift hours (4 hours for full shares, 2 hours for half shares) will be entered in a raffle at the end of the season! If you have any questions about fulfilling your work hours, please reach out to volunteer@clintonhillcsa.org
This weekās share
Tomatoes
Parsley
Peppers
Potatoes
Oakleaf lettuce
Arugula
Mixed kales
Bicolor sweet corn
Squash
Fruit: Pennsylvania peaches the last of the stone fruits for this year, complements of Yonder Farm. Next week, weāll send Peteās apples.
Extras: eggs, bread, granola
News from Windflower Farm
Augustās September-like weather has given way to Septemberās August-like weather. Sweaters have gone back on the hook and broad brimmed hats have again come out. The 2023 growing season continues to amaze with its meteorological roller coaster.
Field corn and soybean fields here seem to have gone off in one of two directions this year: they are either stellar or sad. Well-drained fields with ample nitrogen are on target to be very high yielding. But in poorly drained fields, crops are spindly, yellow and uneven. The exact locations of tile drainage lines can be discerned from the road. Corn growth is wavy, with tall, green, robust plants growing where the tiles are, and yellow, short and anemic plants growing in the in-between spaces. Unevenness can be seen in our last sweet corn field. The second planting went in just prior to a nitrogen-leaching rain, and the third planting went in during a drier stretch of weather. As a result, the size of the ears in the third planting will be much bigger. The good news is that size and flavor seem to be unrelated.
Candelaria has made tamales for us, using a recipe that was her motherās and her motherās before that. She is a fabulous cook and knows that I love almost everything she does in her kitchen. I will take some tamales with me during my drive to the city tomorrow. Iāve come to consider my Tuesday delivery route to be something like a working vacation: a cooler full of good food, wonderful people to interact with, an excellent book on tape or good music to entertain me, a picture-window view, air conditioning and not a single important decision to make.
Nate has put together an Instagram posting showing how we grow and harvest potatoes here. Heāll post it in the next day or two. Weāll send potatoes again in a couple of weeks, along with Rosemary. But itās still summer for now, and more eggplant, summer squash and corn will be coming, along with peppers, tomatoes and salad greens.
Take care, Ted