Volume 23, Week 7

Full share &🌿green🌿half shares

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

Week 7 News

  • Wild Blueberry shares continue this week! Important note for members with blueberry shares: blueberries are arriving in bulk and individual shares will be weighed on site - PLEASE make sure to bring a container for your share!

  • Our Windflower hats are ready to be picked up! If you did not pick up your hat last week, please do so today!

  • Flower pop up! Clinton Hill floral designer Molly Halpin of Brownstone Botanical has called the neighborhood home for the last 7 years. Inspired by her southern roots and a thorough obsession with charming Brownstone Brooklyn, she blends the best of both worlds into her organic floral designs that you may have seen spilling out of her vintage blue Ford pick up truck near Fort Greene Park on Saturdays. Molly loves nothing more than bringing gorgeous local blooms to the neighborhood during the growing season and will feature some of her favorite local farms in her hand-tied bouquets.

This week’s share

  • Tomatoes

  • Bok Choy

  • Lettuce

  • Radicchio or Romaine

  • Purple kohlrabi or spring turnips

  • Yellow onions

  • Summer squash or zucchini

  • Cucumbers

  • Green Beans

  • Fruit: The last of the sweet cherries from Yonder Farm

  • Extras: eggs, bread, coffee, blueberries, and flowers :)

News from Windflower Farm

Distribution No. 7, Week of July 15, 2024

Sometimes beans need cooking. Victoria gives this week’s beans a seven out of ten: their flavor is good, but their texture is off, and they are a bit pale. I attribute this to the relatively dry weather we’ve had and the extreme heat. It’s the same weather that results in an abundance of tomatoes, cucumbers and squashes so long as water is provided. Excessive heat, of course, is no friend of vegetable plants. It not only makes beans woody, it turns the centers of broccoli yellow, it makes tomatoes soft, it causes lettuce to bolt.  

But these are minor problems in the scheme of things. The politics of the moment are very worrisome. I rediscovered the writings of EB White through his son and grandson, both of whom built sailboats in Brooklin, Maine. This past winter I read or reread most of his New Yorker essays and his stories for children. Today I was reminded by a historian I admire of something he said during another time of political upheaval: “Hold on to your hats, hold onto your hope, and wind your clock, for tomorrow is another day.”

What’s coming from our fields? Tomatoes are ramping up, and eggplants and peppers are starting to yield. Next week, in addition to the usual suspects, we’ll send beets, fennel and cabbage.   

 

Take care, Ted

 
Veronica