Volume 24, Week 22
Full share & 🌼yellow🌼 half shares
218 Gates Avenue between Classon and Franklin
(IMPACCT Brooklyn at the Gibbs Mansion)
5:00 to 7:30 pm
To our members -
We want to thank every one of you from your part in the 2025 CSA season. Thank you for showing up in the rain and on the hottest summer days. Thanks to all of you who unloaded the truck, arranged the produce bins, and cheerfully greeted fellow members during your work shifts. Thanks for sharing your cooking tips and for trying vegetables you’ve never seen before. Thanks for letting us admire your dogs and children, and for getting your kids excited about fresh, healthy produce. Thanks for expressing your concern about Windflower during a challenging season for the farm. We’re glad you’re part of our community, and we can’t wait to see you in 2026!
— your Clinton Hill CSA core group
The forecast looks wet tonight, so we are skipping our end of season potluck - distribution will run as planned, though! A few final news items:
Winter Share Registration is OPEN - sign up SOON to secure your share!
Sign up for your winter share by November 1st! 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!
Food resources for New Yorkers receiving SNAP benefits
SNAP benefits, which provide food assistance to hundreds of thousands of households across New York City, are at risk of delay starting November 1st unless federal funding is restored, creating potential a food insecurity crisis in our communities.
We’ve compiled a list of food pantries, free fridges, and other resources here. We will update this page with more resources and information as the situation develops. If you have any questions or would like to get involved or make a donation, please don’t hesitate to reach out.
This week’s share
Lacinato kale
Cabbage (pointy or round green)
Kohlrabi (About the kohlrabi: This is a big storage variety and will keep for a month in a plastic bag in your fridge. It's excellent peeled, cut into sticks and eaten raw. Try it with your favorite dip, ranch dressing, hummus, or with salt and olive oil. Sweet and crunchy!)
Sweet potatoes
“Irish” potatoes
Yellow onions
Swiss Chard
Bok Choy
Shallots
Butternut squash (from Denison Farm)
Fruit: Crimson Crisp apples from Yonder Farm.
Extras: bread, eggs, granola, mushrooms
News from Windflower Farm
Delivery #22, week of October 27, 2025
This evening, after the harvest and just before dark, three of us headed out to seed down still more cover crops, each in our own old John Deere. The seeding window will close in mid-November and we are feeling some urgency to get these final beds covered. My job was to till under the newly harvested beds of broccoli, kohlrabi, and various greens and herbs, Nate’s was to spread his mixture of cereal and leguminous seeds using his whirlybird, and my brother’s task was to follow him with the cultipacker, the roller that ensures a good seed to soil contact. Colors in the hedgerows framing these fields were the last of fall - all burnt oranges and yellows.
The harvest has been wrapped up, the farm has been cleaned up (mostly), the Alliums are all planted and covered, and the sheep have been shorn and relocated to their winter home. The to-do list is becoming smaller as our 26th season comes to a close.
Winter plans are coming together for the farm team. Salvador and Candelaria will leave for Tennessee to visit their kids at the end of the week, and Daniel and Liz, who last week received the happy news that Liz’s green card application had been approved, will help us with the barn roof and the Thanksgiving share before heading to Mexico for the winter. Andrea and Jason will redouble the effort to find a farm of their own. Kage will turn to his list of home renovations. Nate and I have equipment to work on and are considering some winter travelling, and Jan will be felting with the wool from Nate’s sheep and catching up on a backlog of farm finances.
This week’s share is the last of the season. Four important housekeeping items before signing off. First, you’ll find a link to our survey page here: 2025 CSA SURVEY. I’m asking you to take a few minutes to help us become the best CSA we can be. Second, you’ll find a link to our Thanksgiving Share page here: Windflower Farm's 2025 Winter Share. There is still time to lock in your box of Delicata and butternut squashes, root vegetables, fresh greens, apple cider, Honey Crisp apples and more. Third, there are many people to thank. Very important among them are the organizers in your neighborhood who make this work and without whom we’d not have this special thing called CSA. Thank you one and all! Fourth and finally, there is you. All of us at Windflower Farm thank you for being with us. For trusting us with a big portion of your food dollars. For putting up with us through light weeks and heavy. And for being as interested as you are in food and farming and being part of our supportive CSA community.
I wish you and yours a healthy and happy holiday season, Ted