The News from Windflower Farm
What you’ll get this week
- Carrots
- Potatoes
- Rosemary
- Peppers
- Summer squashes
- Tomatoes
- Oakleaf lettuce
- Pumpkins
- Mixed mustard greens
Your fruit share will be Yonder Farm’s ‘Gala’ apples.
These are likely the last of our tomatoes. Next week, you’ll get Swiss chard, arugula, carrots, potatoes, leeks, sweet peppers and the first sweet potatoes of the season.
News from the farm
As the days become shorter and the mornings colder, there is renewed urgency in our work. We expect overnight temperatures in the low 40s this week. I was surprised this morning to see so much orange and yellow in the sugar maples across the front lawn. Reds are popping out on the hillsides. The farm season will soon be over, and there is still much to do: there are fall crops to harvest, a winter share to prepare for, and a farm to clean up.
This is how we’ll occupy ourselves over the next five weeks. We should wrap up strawberry planting this week. Sweet potato and “Irish” potato harvests are nearing their mid-points and we should complete them by mid-October. Tomatoes are winding down and we’ve begun to remove plants that have run their course. We hope to remove all the tomato vines and peppers from our caterpillar tunnels and greenhouses and winterize them by the end of October. We’ve seeded winter greens (kales, Swiss chard, tatsoi and spinach) and should plant them into the beds vacated by summer vegetables in the next couple of weeks. The over-wintering onions have also been seeded, and we’ll plant them, along with Bob’s garlic, into newly composted beds once the winter greens are in. We will continue to plant cover crops as fields become emptied of their vegetable crops, a project we’ll wrap up by late October. Field clean-up is well underway: irrigation supply lines are being bundled and labelled, drip tape is being spooled for reuse next year, row covers are being balled up and marked for their next best uses, and mulch is being picked up. Our goal is to have the farm ready for the winter by the time we make our last deliveries at the end of October.
Winter share information will come in the next News from the Farm.
Have a great week, Ted
Central Brooklyn CSA 