Volume 25, Week 15

Full share & 🍏 green 🍏 half shares

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

Slow news week!

Thank you for bringing bags, we are now well stocked. Watch this space in the coming weeks for 25th season announcements and merch drops :).

We hope you had a restful and/or fun-filled Labor Day weekend, and a peaceful September reset!

This week’s share

  • Tomatoes

  • Sweet Peppers

  • Eggplants

  • Parsley

  • Yellow onions

  • Red Russian kale

  • Swiss chard

  • Collards

  • Sweet corn

  • Summer squashes, cucumbers or yellow wax beans

  •  Fruit will likely be Yonder Farm apples

  • Extras: bread, eggs, mushrooms

News from Windflower Farm

Delivery #15, September 10, 2026

We’ve been digging potatoes this week with our small Italian harvester. It’s an improvement over the previous models we’ve used. No sparks, no shooting bed chains. We’ve had this machine for three seasons now and we’ve finally made it our own. The weed cutting discs have been jettisoned to allow for better penetration of the undercutter, which means we can’t slack when it comes to controlling weeds, even after the potato tops are long gone. To that end, we might pull out our bed flamer. The spindly fingers that guide the tubers along their way onto the machine's soil separator have been replaced with sturdy rods, welded on just this week. We now know what tractor to use (our little Kubota L3700), the angle at which to hold the machine, the length of the top link (21 inches), the PTO speed (400 RPM). We had help from a whole handful of people who own similar machines. Trial and error also played a part. We are tinkerers as much by inclination as by necessity.

I once had a large print of an Italian farmer sitting next to his Ferrari crawler tractor having a smoke, the Dolomites in the background. His soil was stonier than ours and far hillier. I have grown to become a fan of Italian farm machinery, believing that if the Italians can develop machines able to withstand that kind of punishment, then they’ll work in our more forgiving landscape. We have an Italian transplanter which, after a season of adjustments (and a fair amount of bolt tightening), works so well that a team of three can now do what previously required a team of five. And we have an Italian axle waiting to be installed on one of our electric tractors (all of which have Italian motors and transaxles). Fingers crossed, this one won’t snap. Once the farm season is concluded, Nate and I might even head to Bologna to see the Italian Farm Equipment show. Can you imagine? Of course, we’d rent a sailboat in the Lakes region and hike in the Dolomites. The dreams of farmers.

Have a great week, Ted

Recipes

Two from Chef Bryant Terry (possible former Windflower CSA member @ a sister site? Unconfirmed, but inspiring if true…) - Citrus-braised collards, and sweet corn relish.

Did you know? Our website has recipes, food storage tips, and information about the vegetables you might come across in your share!

 
Veronica