Full share &🧀 yellow 🧀 half shares

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

Halloween is around the corner…

Once again, the Clinton Hill CSA is celebrating Halloween in style! The last distribution of the season on October 26th will also be our Halloween party: expect costumes, decorations, pumpkins, and our annual potluck - we'd love it if you could bring a treat! You can sign up at the sign-in table or via this google form to let us know what you're bringing - thanks for you help making the CSA super-spooky!

Sign up for work shifts - only 4 weeks left in the season!

Believe it or not, we’re in the final third of our CSA summer season. If you haven’t 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 week’s share

Carrots
Potatoes
Rosemary
Peppers
Summer squashes
Tomatoes
Oakleaf lettuce
Pumpkin
Mixed mustard greens
Fruit: Yonder Farms ‘Gala’ apples
Extras: eggs, bread, granola, mushrooms

News from Windflower Farm

As the days become shorter and the mornings colder, there is renewed urgency in our work. We expect overnight temperatures in the low 40s this week. I was surprised this morning to see so much orange and yellow in the sugar maples across the front lawn. Reds are popping out on the hillsides. The farm season will soon be over, and there is still much to do: there are fall crops to harvest, a winter share to prepare for, and a farm to clean up.

This is how we’ll occupy ourselves over the next five weeks. We should wrap up strawberry planting this week. Sweet potato and “Irish” potato harvests are nearing their mid-points and we should complete them by mid-October. Tomatoes are winding down and we’ve begun to remove plants that have run their course. We hope to remove all the tomato vines and peppers from our caterpillar tunnels and greenhouses and winterize them by the end of October. We’ve seeded winter greens (kales, Swiss chard, tatsoi and spinach) and should plant them into the beds vacated by summer vegetables in the next couple of weeks. The over-wintering onions have also been seeded, and we’ll plant them, along with Bob’s garlic, into newly composted beds once the winter greens are in. We will continue to plant cover crops as fields become emptied of their vegetable crops, a project we’ll wrap up by late October. Field clean-up is well underway: irrigation supply lines are being bundled and labelled, drip tape is being spooled for reuse next year, row covers are being balled up and marked for their next best uses, and mulch is being picked up. Our goal is to have the farm ready for the winter by the time we make our last deliveries at the end of October.

Winter share information will come in the next News from the Farm.

Have a great week,

Ted

Recipes

Fall food: Pumpkin risotto and pasta e fagioli (uses carrots, tomatoes, and rosemary!),

Since we’re getting apples again: discover the strengths and weaknesses of each apple variety, and learn which are best for pie, sauce, crisps, and eating raw!

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

Volume 22, Week 18