Volume 25, Week 11

Full share &🐲 green 🐲half shares

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

We are halfway through our 25th season!

And shares will continue to get bigger (and heavier) as we move through tomato, corn, squash, and potato season. Please plan accordingly!

A note on share contents

Windflower sends us the list of share contents early in the week, a few days ahead of our Thursday distribution. While we aim for accuracy, changes to this list may occur due to any number of factors, as was the case with last week’s eggplant - that’s organic farming! We appreciate your flexibility.

This week’s share

  • Tomatoes

  • Basil

  • Garlic

  • Sweet peppers

  • Sweet yellow onions

  • Assorted lettuces

  • Kale or choy or chard

  • Squashes or cucumbers

  • Sweet corn or green beans

  • Fruit: Cantaloupes from our friends at Denison Farm, or peaches from Yonder. 

  • Extras: bread, eggs, mushrooms

News from Windflower Farm

Delivery #11, August 13, 2026

We celebrated the completion of the roof on our new equipment barn yesterday afternoon. No falls, no unintended holes in the roof, straight, and true. Like so many building projects, this one took much longer than anticipated, but it came out relatively well and we are pleased. Soon, we’ll have indoor spaces to park our tractors. And more space in which to organize the many do-dads that a vegetable farm requires. While we were working on this project, a neighbor’s 19th century post and beam barn was coming down. The oak beams were hand hewn, solid, and full of character. But the structure was no longer needed. A crew from Pennsylvania took it down to resurrect it as a home in the Texas Hill Country. But first it would be taken to a warehouse in Pennsylvania, cleaned up, rebuilt to ensure it meets structural standards, and then shipped south. Last year a microburst damaged several barns in our neighborhood, and the roofing steel from this barn will be used in their restoration. As for our barn, siding is next. During the winter, we purchased rough cut lumber sawn at another neighbor’s mill, and it is now dry enough to turn into shiplap. I can’t wait to get started!

But first things first: we must finish harvesting our onions and shallots and transplanting the successions of beets, lettuces and other greens that are waiting in our greenhouse. And then we should get started on the potato harvest because we’d like to put these in shares soon.

Have a great week! Ted

 
Veronica