The News from Windflower Farm
Wishing you a Happy Labor Day from all of us at Windflower Farm! We hope you managed to get away from the grind for a little while.
What’s in the share?
- Assorted tomatoes
- Basil
- Sweet peppers
- Yellow onions
- Garlic
- Lettuce
- Salad mix (mixed mustard greens)
- Swiss chard
- Flat beans
Your fruit share will consist of the last of our own cantaloupes.
Next week, we’ll send potatoes, shallots, pumpkins and carrots, along with more typical summer fare, including tomatoes, basil, peppers, lettuce, and arugula.
What’s new on the farm?
The kids are gone! For the past ten weeks we’ve had five youngsters from the neighborhood working with us in the packing shed. Three of them were new to any kind of work, and two had some farming experience under their belts. I’ll miss all five of them. But school starts this week, and we’ll be on our own for the remaining nine weeks of the CSA season. The music will be a little less Taylor Swift and a little more John Prine. Victoria can be less of a motivational speaker (“if we get the onions trimmed and sorted we can take a cookie break!”) and more, “let’s get this done so I can get home to the kids.” Talk will be less the games of trivia we play while washing and packing lettuce (“name all the states that border Pennsylvania”) and more, well, I’m not sure what, but there’s an important election coming up, and there are winterprojects and travel to plan.
I spent a couple of hours today on a little electric cultivator. I love how quiet it is, how almost meditative driving it can be. No engine growl, just the gentle clanking of steel sweeps passing through a rocky soil. Looking back, it is gratifying to find weed-free spinach, arugula, chard and beet beds.
We’re turning a corner in the season. Tomatoes, summer squash and corn are giving way to potatoes, winter squashes, sweet potatoes, and other root crops. I imagine that it will be cool enough to light the oven soon, and when it is, there will be vegetables to roast and stew. We harvested another five 20-bushel totes of pumpkins yesterday and have begun the Delicata, Sweet Dumpling and Kabocha squash harvests. Potato, sweet potato and carrot harvesting is also underway, and all these fall vegetables will begin to appear in your shares soon.
Best wishes, Ted
Central Brooklyn CSA 