The News from Windflower Farm
What’s in the share?
- Lacinato kale
- Cabbage (pointy or round green)
- Kohlrabi
- Sweet potatoes
- “Irish” potatoes
- Yellow onions
- Swiss Chard
- Bok Choy
- “Seconds” Garlic and shallots (please use the garlic soon, it won’t keep)
- Butternut squash (from Denison Farm)
Your fruit share will be Crimson Crisp apples from Yonder Farm.
News from the farm
This evening, after the harvest and just before dark, three of us headed out to seed down still more cover crops, each in our own old John Deere. The seeding window will close in mid-November and we are feeling some urgency to get these final beds covered. My job was to till under the newly harvested beds of broccoli, kohlrabi, and various greens and herbs, Nate’s was to spread his mixture of cereal and leguminous seeds using his whirlybird, and my brother’s task was to follow him with the cultipacker, the roller that ensures a good seed to soil contact. Colors in the hedgerows framing these fields were the last of fall – all burnt oranges and yellows.
The harvest has been wrapped up, the farm has been cleaned up (mostly), the Alliums are all planted and covered, and the sheep have been shorn and relocated to their winter home. The to-do list is becoming smaller as our 26th season comes to a close.
Winter plans are coming together for the farm team. Salvador and Candelaria will leave for Tennessee to visit their kids at the end of the week, and Daniel and Liz, who last week received the happy news that Liz’s green card application had been approved, will help us with the barn roof and the Thanksgiving share before heading to Mexico for the winter. Andrea and Jason will redouble the effort to find a farm of their own. Kage will turn to his list of home renovations. Nate and I have equipment to work on and are considering some winter travelling, and Jan will be felting with the wool from Nate’s sheep and has backlog of farm finances to catch up on.
This week’s share is the last of the season. Four important housekeeping items before signing off. First, you’ll find a link to our survey page here: 2025 CSA SURVEY. I’m asking you to take a few minutes to help us become the best CSA we can be. Second, you’ll find a link to our Thanksgiving Share page here: Windflower Farm’s 2025 Winter Share. There is still time to lock in your box of Delicata and butternut squashes, root vegetables, fresh greens, apple cider, Honey Crisp apples and more. Third, there are many people to thank. Very important among them are the organizers in your neighborhood who make this work and without whom we’d not have this special thing called CSA. Thank you one and all! Fourth and finally, there is you. All of us at Windflower Farm thank you for being with us. For trusting us with a big portion of your food dollars. For putting up with us through light weeks and heavy. And for being as interested as you are in food and farming and being part of our supportive CSA community.
I wish you and yours a healthy and happy holiday season, Ted
Central Brooklyn CSA 