Volume 25, Week 14

Full share & 🍋‍🟩green🍋‍🟩 half shares

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

You too can attend a county fair

If Ted’s letter has you longing for a taste of country life, check this out: https://columbiafair.com

Happening through Labor Day, and only a 3 hour drive - rides, livestock, giant pumpkins, demo derby…give it a try!

Call for bags!

Once again we are asking for BAGS! If you have extras laying around - canvas, plastic, reusable, whatever - we’ll take them!

Reminder for volunteers

We couldn’t run the CSA without you! All members are required to complete work shift(s) (2 two hour shifts for members with full shares, and one two hour shift for members with half shares). Your work shift is a commitment that you agreed to when you signed up, and households that do not complete their shifts will not be able to join the CSA again in the future. Children are welcome on site when their parents are doing their work shift commitment; our youngest members can be very helpful, and we only ask that you bring snacks and other things to keep them busy. 

If you have not yet signed up for a work shift, you may do so here.

If you have questions about work shifts, please reach out to volunteer@clintonhillcsa.org.

This week’s share

  • Tomatoes

  • Basil

  • Sweet Peppers

  • Garlic

  • Yellow onions

  • Redleaf lettuce

  • Lacinato kale

  • Swiss chard

  • Summer squashes or beets or yellow wax beans

  • Fruit: Bartlett Pears

  • Extras: bread, eggs

News from Windflower Farm

Delivery #14, September 3, 2026

The borders of our fields hint at the end of summer: goldenrod, Joe Pye weed, boneset, fall asters. Wild grapes threaten to pull our fence down. After this week there will be eight deliveries left in the CSA season. Tomatoes, summer squash, sweet corn, beans and other warm weather crops are slowing down. Even weeds are slowing. But fear not, in their place we’ll soon send winter squashes (acorns, butternuts, delicatas), potatoes, leeks, sweet potatoes and carrots, the cool season vegetables that make it a joy to be in the kitchen again.

It was County Fair week last week, the most important cultural event of the summer here. Every farm family attends, many for the entire week. Chairs, hammocks and coolers are spread throughout livestock barns and days of visiting commence, interrupted only by trips home to attend farm chores. This is an agricultural fair: farmers bring their prized animals and pulling tractors and 4-H kids show their projects and their new abilities.

Jan and I went on Friday afternoon. After watching the draft horse agility show, we went directly for our favorite fair treat: maple milkshakes. There are some 50 maple producers in the county and sugar maple stands are abundant. One of the longest food lines was at the Argyle Firehouse’s booth where chicken BBQ was the main attraction. I felt ridiculous ordering my Caesar salad. We saw a pumpkin the size of a compact car in the 4-H building. And a picture of one of our sheep. Our young neighbor William, a budding photographer, had taken it the week before, along with a picture of MaryJane’s yellow barn next door, and won blue ribbons for both! Isaak, another neighbor, who washes vegetables for us on Wednesdays, won several ribbons again this year. He said his most prized blue ribbon was the one for his cut flower arrangement.    

The candidate running to replace Elise Stefanik in Congress – who I’d like to see win in November – is a dairy farmer (campaign motto: “Send a farmer to Washington to return common sense to Congress”). He participated in the fair’s milking contest in a display of great agricultural skill and good humor. He and his six-year-old partner didn’t win, but this is dairy country, and competition was tough.  

Have a great week, Ted

 
Veronica