The News from Windflower Farm
Thank you for purchasing one of our (abbreviated) winter CSA shares. We’ve been working all week to get it ready. It will arrive this Saturday, November 22nd, in a 1-bushel recyclable box. Come prepared – it will be relatively heavy. And please arrive on time – the volunteers that staff the site will have other things to do with the rest of their Saturday. They will be donating any leftover boxes to needy households in the neighborhood. Please read the important information at the end of this email for details about your pick-up location and distribution window.
What’s in the share?
- Lacinato and Red Russian kales and Romaine lettuce
- Beets and kohlrabi
- Carrots (from Denison Farm)
- Sweet potatoes and “Irish” potatoes
- Yellow and red onions, shallots and garlic (some boxes will have extra shallots instead of garlic)
- Delicata squash
- Butternut squash (from Denison Farm)
- Rosemary
- ‘Crimson Crisp’ (the smaller, darker red) and ‘Ludicrisp’ apples (from Yonder Farm)
- Apple cider (from Borden Farm)
News from the farm
Tomorrow morning, while we are harvesting your greens, Comfort Food Community, an organization that feeds families in need in our rural community, will be coming here to harvest greens for their own Thanksgiving boxes which are slated to go out this week and next. Last week, this group harvested hundreds of bunches of kale from our greenhouses and this week they’ll harvest bok choy, lettuce and even more kale. Some 40% of the food we produce in this country is wasted. These folks work on area farms as gleaners to feed hungry people by harvesting, packing and distributing food that might otherwise be wasted. Of course, ours is not the only farm where they work. Their harvest van can be found in fields throughout the area, with a roster of 70 partnering farms so far. CFC and its cadre of volunteer harvesters have distributed over 1 million pounds of food since 2024.
When friends at Denison Farm, the producers of the carrots and butternut squashes in your share, learned of the devastation in Jamaica from Hurricane Melissa, the Category 5 storm that ripped through the country on October 28th, they set up a GoFundMe page to help the four men from Jamaica who work for them. Like Windflower Farm, their farm is a CSA, and their membership contributed an astonishing $20,000 to help these men and their families buy the supplies needed to rebuild their homes. Errol, Walter, Tyrone and Marlon will have a lot of work to do when they get home, but this will provide an essential boost to their effort. Bad news comes at us every day of the week. I share these two stories because they remind me of the good that also goes on every day, some of it in our own backyards.
Wishing you and yours a Happy Thanksgiving and a peaceful holiday season,
Ted and the entire Windflower Farm Team
Your share will be delivered on Saturday, November 22nd. Your pick-up time and location are noted below:
Central Brooklyn CSA (1251 Dean St., 4:30 to 6:00)
Please note:
1. A friend, family member or neighbor can pick up your share for you if you are not able to make it to distribution. Please ask this person to sign-in under your name.
2. Site hosts are not obliged to save shares for members who miss the distribution window. Any shares leftover after distribution will be donated to community fridges or food pantries and will help other community members in need.
3. The farm is not able to send you a make-up share if you miss a distribution. The farm will only send shares to your pick-up site on the scheduled pick-up dates.
4. We will send you a newsletter a day or two before distribution. Please save these two emails to your preferred contacts list: windflowercsa@gmail.com and tedblomgren@gmail.com and check your SPAM folder if our newsletter does not make it into your inbox.
5. Watch for updates from site hosts on social media. Many sites post updates about the share on Instagram and Facebook.
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