Volume 24, Week 21
Full share & 🥒 green 🥒half shares
218 Gates Avenue between Classon and Franklin
(IMPACCT Brooklyn at the Gibbs Mansion)
5:00 to 7:30 pm
Tonight is the last pick up for green half share members. Yellow and full share members - we’ve got one more after this! Thank you all for a wonderful season!
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
Red onions
Yellow onions
Lettuce
Cabbage
Kale
Arugula
Sweet potatoes
Garlic
Delicata Squash
Carrots from Denison Farm
Fruit: Sweet Maia apples from Yonder Farm
Extras: bread, eggs, granola
News from Windflower Farm
Delivery #21, week of October 20, 2025
We've been wrapping up the planting of next year's onions and garlic this week. They've gone into mulched beds – twenty-two 400-footers so far - and soon we'll cover them with the floating row covers that will keep them snug until spring. Your CSA shares will include the last of our fall 2024 crop.
The growing season is winding down quickly. Cover crops are taking off. Most of our storage crops have either already been harvested or will be soon. You can still find stray beds of beets, kohlrabi, leeks, cabbage, broccoli and greens, but they will be brought in this week or next. We'll clean up greenhouses, tuck irrigation supplies away, and then the CSA season will be over.
We will soon turn our attention to a half-built equipment barn. The trusses and steel have arrived. We hope to have the roof finished by Thanksgiving.
If you are a half-share member of our CSA and pick up on odd-weeks, this week's share will be your last of the season. Thank you for being with us. We hope you have enjoyed your CSA experience. Feel free to send a note any time sharing your thoughts.
If you are as disappointed as we are that the CSA season is coming to an end, you might be interested in our Thanksgiving Share. Find out more here: Windflower Farm's 2025 Winter Share. The 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. We hope you can join us.
Have a great week,
Ted
Recipes
The Moosewood Cookbook’s carrot and almond soup, reposted by Denison Farm, who grow our carrots - they get it! Also - braised cabbage, and a million ideas for sweet potatoes
Did you know? Our website has recipes, food storage tips, and information about the vegetables you might come across in your share!