Volume 24, Week 15
Full share & 🪲 green 🪲 half shares
218 Gates Avenue between Classon and Franklin
(IMPACCT Brooklyn at the Gibbs Mansion)
5:00 to 7:30 pm
Fort Greene Granola will be popping up again this week with fresh batches of their super-healthy Original and Faraway Spice flavors in addition to their new invention, Ballpark Classic , a blend that combines the nostalgic flavors of a baseball stadium (peanuts, Cracker Jack, pretzels, etc.) into one salty-sweet snack!
The new member waitlist is now open for the 2026 season! If you know someone who’s interested in joining the CSA, they can now add their names to the waitlist! We will reach out to waitlisters in early spring as spots become available. Feel free to share this link with anyone who might want to add their name to the waitlist: https://clintonhillcsa.org/join. Please note: current CSA members will receive priority registration for 2026 and do NOT need to join the waitlist - it’s for new folks only!
Reminder if you can’t make it to distribution: You're always welcome to have a friend or family member pick up for you if you can't make it. If you have a half share, please use our half shares google group for easy swapping (simply send a message to chcsahalfshare2025@clintonhillcsa.org). . But remember that if you don't pick up, your share doesn't go to waste! Any extra produce is given to our friends at IMPACCT Brooklyn, who distribute it to the clients they serve, and to a local church with a soup kitchen.
And if something comes up (it happens!) and you can’t make a work shift: Please email volunteer@clintonhillcsa.org so we can find a replacement and reschedule your shift!
This week’s share
Lettuce
Arugula
Garlic
Yellow onions
Sweet Peppers
Winter squash (Delicata)
Tomatoes
Parsley
Potatoes
Sweet Corn
Fruit: the last of Yonder Farm's peaches
Extras: bread, eggs, granola,
News from Windflower Farm
Delivery #15, week of September 8, 2025
A much-anticipated weather system late last week delivered just one tenth of an inch of rain, and so our drought continued. The lawn is brown, as are the trees out the kitchen window. Some golds and reds are evident as the fall foliage season gets underway. It is Saturday afternoon and once again we await the arrival of a system that is supposed to bring rain. I have withheld a spray of the fungus Spinosad, which would reduce flea beetle populations in our arugula and broccoli, in the understanding that rain would wash off the expensive material. In the meantime, Nate has been wiring a voltage converter that will enable us to bring an old well online. It might rain and it might not, but irrigation goes on. What a year!
Daniel, whose grandfather Ezequiel was our first foreign employee nearly twenty years ago, has worked with his extended family on our farm ever since his high school graduation. There is very little on the farm that he can’t do, and that extends to his role as our delivery truck driver. He became a citizen last year and he married Lizet, a young woman from his hometown of Laguna Prieta in Guanajuato. Lizet joined our field team last year and is working on her tractor driving skills and English language proficiency. Daniel and Lizet have just received promising news from USCIS regarding Lizet’s petition for permanent residency (aka, a green card) - a final determination interview has been scheduled for late October. It is hard to overstate what this petition means for the economic future of this young couple. We are cautiously optimistic.
We attended a Town Hall last night featuring Maryland congressman Jamie Raskin who came to Glens Falls to give a boost to the campaign of Blake Gendebien, who is trying to unseat Elise Stefanik, our representative in Congress. Of obvious interest to me are both that Blake is a dairy farmer who recognizes the challenges associated with my kind of business and that he appreciates and values the role of our guest workers and the vital importance of treating them with dignity and respect.
Tired of waiting for this latest weather system to develop, I’m about to prepare beds for the last field seedings of the season. Nate has made a blend of the seeds of several mild mustard greens, kales, and choy and will sow them shortly afterwards. I’ll also prepare for the last of our transplants, including kale, choy and lettuce. After a difficult summer greens season, made especially hard by the combination of hail and heat and drought, the late summer is shaping up to be better for greens. Radicchio, spinach, arugula, lettuce, escarole, bok choy, Swiss chard, mustard mix, and Red Russian kale are all coming during the next few weeks. Just as I was heading out, it started to rain, delivering just a quarter inch in total, but enough to make plants happy and to keep us out of the field for the rest of the day.
Have a great week, Ted
Recipes
Corn chowder (from “New England dot com” - you know it’s good!). This squash galette is a bit of a project, but you could certainly cut corners (frozen puff pastry, ie), or go fully rogue on the flavor profile (fig jam instead of spicy yogurt, apples and blue cheese?) and end up with something lovely. Let us know how it goes ;)
Did you know? Our website has recipes, food storage tips, and information about the vegetables you might come across in your share!