Volume 24, Week 16

Full share & 🐤yellow🐤 half shares

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

Submit your recipes! As we move into the final six weeks of our summer season, we want to know what you’ve been cooking with your Windflower fruits and veggies! Your recipe may be featured in the Beet, and if 15 minutes of CSA fame isn’t incentive enough, know this: everyone who enters will automatically be entered into a raffle to win some covetable culinary prizes!

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!

Spice popup this week!

Hi! I’m Bhavna, a Fort Greene neighbor and founder of Sourcery, a Brooklyn-based spice company that sources fresh, seasonal spices directly from small family farms in India, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. I started Sourcery two years ago, inspired by memories of cooking with my grandmother in India—and the disappointing reality of stale, flavorless grocery store spices after moving to the U.S. I wanted to reconnect with the bold, vibrant flavors I grew up with and support the farmers behind them through a more transparent and fair supply chain. I’ll be popping up at your CSA with a selection of these fresh spices—come say hi and sample my spices!

This week’s share

  • Butterhead lettuce

  • Lacinato kale

  • Mustard mix

  • Garlic

  • Tomatoes

  • Sweet Peppers

  • Beets

  • Sweet corn

  • Chiles

  • Green beans

  • Adirondack Red potatoes

  • Fruit: Yonder Farm’s Bartlet pears

  • Extras: bread, eggs, granola, mushrooms

News from Windflower Farm

Delivery #16, week of September 15, 2025

September is a wonderful month. My favorite: cool nights, warm days, dry weather. Rain would be welcome, but there is nothing in the ten-day forecast. Fortunately, our irrigation hardware and our schedules seem to be working. They are stressed and could stand improvement, but they have been satisfactory. Perhaps we’ll take a trip to California this winter to see how they water their crops in that near-desert landscape. It is also our good fortune that Nate, our chief irrigation engineer, is young and is still holding up well, if looking a little tired. An additional reason to enjoy the cooler weather of September is that heating up the kitchen for meal preparation is pleasant once again. Last week, Jan made an incredible ginger-carrot soup and this morning she made sweet potato lasagna (this time with cardamom and cinnamon). Carrots and sweet potatoes will be in your shares very soon: carrots from our friends at Denison Farm and our own sweet potatoes once they’ve been cured in our hothouse. Summer comes to a close at the end of this week. Tomatoes will gradually be replaced with potatoes and winter squashes will take the place of summer squashes and zucchinis. After another week of pears, your final five fruit shares will consist of apples, mostly varieties good for eating out of hand, but also apples suitable for baking.    

 

Have a wonderful week, Ted

 
Veronica