Volume 25, Week 19

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’s the Night!

We hope you will join us at tonight’s potluck (happening during pickup!), celebrating our 25th anniversary!

Bring a dish, a treat, or just yourself, mingle with members, and bring the kids - we’ll have games and activities for them as well!

New 25th Anniversary Tote Bags!

We’ll also have brand new, special edition Clinton Hill CSA tote bags (with pockets) for sale - $15, cash preferred, venmo workable!

Salmon pickups tonight - 5:00-6:30 ONLY - come early!

If you ordered salmon from Iliamna Fish, it will be ready for you at pick up next week, October 8, from 5:oo-6:30. The shares are large, so plan accordingly!

Winter Share signups are now open!

Announcing the return of the Windflower winter share: three once-a-month deliveries on Saturdays from mid-November through mid-January. The summer CSA season comes to an end soon. Would you like to extend the CSA season into early winter? The winter share will consist of a full bushel of vegetables from our root cellar, apples from a neighbor’s orchard, fresh greens from our winter greenhouse, and occasional treats like apples cider and local honey. Shares of eggs, maple products, and grains will also be available. 

All members need to be fully paid for the 2026 summer share before they can sign up for the winter share. 

2026 Carrot plan members ONLY can receive a subsidized winter share for $89. 

Sign up for a Winter Share

This week’s share

  • Sweet potatoes

  • Yellow onions

  • Butternut squash

  • Red or yellow potatoes

  • Baby carrots

  • Arugula

  • Spinach

  • Escarole

  • Chiles

  • Cilantro

  • Extras: Eggs, bread, mushrooms, salmon (must pickup between 5:00-6:30)

  • Fruit: Ace Macintosh Apples from Yonder Farm

News from Windflower Farm

Delivery #19, October 8, 2026

The crops of summer, the peppers, summer squashes, eggplants and tomatoes, which require little washing, have now given way to the crops of fall, the heavy and heavily soiled root crops, bulbs and tubers. We uncovered our Brusher-Washer yesterday. We hadn’t used it for nearly a year, so it took us some time to make it operational. It’s a machine that does just what its name suggests it would. One operator tips a crate of freshly dug potatoes, say, into the intake hopper, turns on the conveyor, the soft brushes and the water jets, and the other operator collects the washed tubers from the outtake conveyor into 1-bushel crates and palletizes them. We washed thousands of pounds of crops yesterday, crate after heavy crate, including sweet potatoes, red and yellow “Irish” potatoes and butternut squash. And next week we’ll do it again. We love what we do, but it is sometimes hard, boring work and good conversation, music and books on tape are essential.

We have an old International Harvester four-bottom plow that we use very little, and no longer for garden bed preparation. But earlier this week, we plowed two small fields in which we grew potatoes. Because we grow some fifty different vegetables, we have very few harvesting machines that are crop specific. Our potato harvester is really nothing but a bed digger, but it does the critical work of uprooting the potatoes. Potato harvesters of this kind don’t distinguish between potatoes and rocks, “harvesting” both and depositing them on the ground ahead of those of us who pick them up and bag them. (We watched a documentary called The Trader last night about a travelling merchant who trades household goods in exchange for potatoes in the very, very poor Georgian countryside and noticed that our harvesting technology was nearly identical to theirs. You wouldn’t be surprised to learn that the field crew has expressed interest in an upgrade.) Our original plan was to use our rock picker on potato ground just after harvesting because the rocks were where we could see them. But the picker wasn’t functioning, so we plowed to send the rocks back underground and we sowed our fall cover crop mix.  

Take care, Ted

 
Veronica