Volume 24, Week 20

Full share &🌙 yellow🌙 half shares

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

Winter Share Registration is OPEN!

Sign up for your winter share by November 1st! There’s only one pickup this year (more on that in Ted’s letter), but it’ll be a good one. You’ll get a big pre-packaged box containing greens, storage vegetables like onions, carrots, squash, potatoes, beets, leeks, etc, along with fruit and apple cider, just in time for Thanksgiving! As always, there’s an option to add eggs, grains, or maple products. These sell out quickly, so sign up soon!

Please fill out our end of season survey

Member feedback helps us make decisions about pricing, extra shares, distribution logistics, and more - please take a moment to fill it out!

Bring a dish to share at our end-of-season celebration!

As we tiptoe into October and the last few weeks of the CSA season, we still have something to look forward to: our legendary end-of-season Halloween potluck! This year, the party will be on our last pickup, on October 30th, and one day before Halloween. We’ll have fun activities for kids, including decorating their very own pumpkins, and lots of spooky decorations.

Here’s the potluck part: you can sign up to bring the dish of your choice.  Don’t forget to drop it off before 6pm so it has lots of time to be enjoyed by your fellow CSA members, and in a disposable container (unless you know you’ll be at the distribution site when we close at 7:30). 

Questions? You can reach out to the potluck organizer, Sarah Chinn, at sarahchinn67@gmail.com.

This week’s share

  • Broccoli

  • Sweet potatoes

  • Yellow potatoes 

  • Leeks

  • Lettuce

  • Escarole 

  • Braising greens 

  • Chiles

  • Delicata squash

  • Sweet peppers

  • Garlic

  • Carrots from Denison Farm

  • Fruit: Macintosh apples from Yonder Farm. 

  • The last maple and grain shares will be delivered this week. If you ordered them, please pick them up!

  • Extras: bread, eggs, granola, mushrooms

News from Windflower Farm

Delivery #20, week of October 13, 2025 

Our frost sensitive vegetables were zapped late last week when temperatures dropped below freezing for several hours. Among the ruined crops were snap beans, summer squashes, peppers, eggplants, and basil. We were not heart broken. This is the normal for a first killing Frost in the Northeast. We harvested what we could ahead of the cold and will send some combination of them this week. And then it's on to more seasonal vegetables, including sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, carrots, beets, and butternut and delicata squashes.

On Saturday, Nate and I had the farm to ourselves and we spent it working on fall cleanup projects. We picked up drip irrigation lines from bean and leek and sweet corn beds. Using a hydraulic winder mounted to the back of the John Deere, we rolled the lines onto galvanized spools and tucked them away for reuse next year. We then spread compost and prepared ground for the garlic and onion planting slated to begin on Sunday, when much of the farm team would be reassembled. 

First on their morning to-do list was harvesting lettuce, probably the last of the season, a mix of braising greens, and escarole, out of which you'll be able to make a nice bean soup. By noon Salvador, Candelaria and their daughter-in-law, Lizet, had begun planting onions into the mulched beds where our last planting of zucchinis had been growing as recently a day before. When we deploy plastic mulch, as we often do for zucchini, we like to get as many uses out of it as we can. We'll plant more of next year's onions into beds that have been growing other crops on mulches, including butternut squash and cucumbers.

Daniel and Martin spent the afternoon washing and sanitizing tubs and then washing potatoes. Later in the day, in preparation for a rainy next day, the guys quickly pulled leeks enough for what would amount to 500 bunches once they are trimmed and cleaned up. It takes a good deal of time to do the processing, and everyone will be glad to be doing it in the greenhouse out of the October rain.

 Winter CSA Share 

For nearly 20 years, we have offered a winter CSA share, but this year's will be a little different. The drought left us with a significantly smaller fall harvest than usual. We will have just enough of a crop for only one truly bountiful delivery, and we will make it on the Saturday before Thanksgiving (November 22nd). This "Thanksgiving Share" will consist of a wide variety of storage vegetables, including butternut squash, red and yellow onions, leeks, garlic, potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots, and beets, plus an abundance of fresh greens (spinach, kale, lettuce) from our high tunnels, apples and cider from the Borden Farm, and optional grains, maple products and eggs from neighboring farmers. Click on the following link to learn more about this year's winter share and to register: Windflower Farm's 2025 Winter Share. We hope you’ll be able to join us.

Have a great week, Ted

 
Veronica