Hi Everyone,
A few notes for this week. 1) we are running out of plastic bags – consider donating spares and/or bringing reusable bags to transport your shares. 2) we lost quite a few green containers last week. Please bring these back on your next pick up date as we use them to measure portions and only have a few left.
See you tomorrow!
News from Windflower Farm
13th Distribution, Last week of August, 2016
This week’s share:
Lettuce – two heads
Sweet Corn
Beets
Beans
Scallions
Tomatoes
Basil
Peppers
Thank you to all who made the trip to our farm last weekend. It was the highlight of my summer. An image or two can be found on our Instagram and Facebook pages.
The Dog Days are coming to a close: vacations are ending, school is getting under way and the hot, humid, buggy weather that ruins summer greens appears to be behind us. Collards, arugula, the various kales and choys, and mustards of all sorts fall victim to the ravages of flea beetles and the hot, dry conditions of August, and by the end of the month we will normally have harvested or tilled under everything from that family of greens. All of this contributes to the farm looking fairly vacant. (Our garlic and onions and many of our carrots, beets, cabbages and potatoes have been harvested and tucked away.) In the meantime, during the last three or four weeks, in a part of our farm set well apart from the location of our early season greens, we have planted a wide assortment of late summer and fall greens. Direct-seeded salad mixes and arugula are emerging nicely under row covers, and transplanted kales, chards, choys and lettuces are enjoying the cooler nights. The planting goes on: just today, in addition to three kinds of lettuce, we planted bok choy, Koji, Tokyo Bekana and two varieties of Swiss chard. And on the transplanting docket for Thursday are purple mizuna and collards. After this August hiatus, an assortment of salad and cooking greens should find their way into your shares for the balance of the season.
Next week’s shares will likely include cilantro, chiles, onions, garlic, tomatoes, bell peppers, lettuce, escarole (or baby choy), and sweet corn (or beans). Kales and Swiss chard will return to your shares the following week. Your fruit share will resume in the second half of September.
Have a great week, Ted
Central Brooklyn CSA 