Hello Central Brooklyn CSA Members!
It’s our first Week B pick up of the season!
We’re so excited to see all of our week B half share members and full share members tomorrow.
Please note that all SNAP payments must be made tomorrow, as well as any outstanding payments. If anyone has not completed ALL payments for their shares by tomorrow, their share may be given to someone on the waitlist. If you need to request an exception, please email centralbrooklyncsa@gmail.com.
Last week’s pick up went really smoothly thanks to all of you! A few things to note to make this week even better:
1) Please bring your own bags, or bring your excess plastic bags to donate to other share members. We’re almost out of the ones at the pick up site.
2) If you have what we’ve been referring to as a complex share, please look up which week you’re picking up your egg or flower extras before coming to pick up each week.
Please read this note from Ted to find out more about this week’s share!:
CSA News from Windflower Farm
Delivery #2, Week of June 12, 2017
As you’d imagine, we have daily encounters with wildlife here on the farm. Last weekend, as I was returning to the field to work on our sweet potatoes, I saw a doe and her spotted twins bedded down in the rye stubble in the field next door. It was bad news for us; deer love sweet potato vines and could easily destroy our entire crop if given enough time. I knew to be alert to them because deer had been eating our celeriac in a nearby field. But I was a little surprised. Last year, I spent quite a bit of money on a perimeter fence to avoid just such an event. Apparently, gates had been left open. Deer don’t associate tractors with danger, so I was able to get quite close. The doe eventually darted off, leaving her little ones to hunker down, trying to be invisible, a strategy for which all those spots might be helpful. But they were only a couple of weeks old and easy to catch. Warm, soft, boney-ribbed, all legs, and wild, they bleated loudly once I got them into my arms. Fifty yards away or so, the doe snorted and stomped, while the fawns wriggled and kicked. One got away and disappeared in the brush. I set the other little one just outside the gate, hoping the doe would lead them out once I was no longer a threat. At that point, I thought, I would close the gate, locking them outside of our farm and away from your vegetables. All were gone when I returned an hour later to close the gate, leaving no indication whether they had found a hiding spot within my perimeter or without.
This week’s share contents.
This week you’ll be getting Swiss chard or broccoli rabe, depending on what you got last week, scallions, lettuces, your choice of dinosaur or Red Russian kale, arugula, green kohlrabi, and your choice of another potted herb. Next week, you’ll get more spring salad crops, including sweet Japanese turnips, garlic scapes and spinach. Our cucumbers and zucchinis are doing well, and they should begin showing up with broccoli during week four or five. Our Chandler strawberries continue to come in and will be in your fruit share. As our organic early variety slows, we’ll reach out to Pete at Yonder Farm to provide later strawberries and rhubarb. Cherries and blueberries will come in afterwards.Every week, we’ll post an image or two from the farm on Instagram (here). You can also find us on Facebook (here), where you’ll find recipes and can exchange information with farm staff and fellow CSA members. You can reach the farm by sending an email to Andrea, our membership coordinator, at windflowercsa@gmail.com.
Enjoy the week.
Best wishes, Ted and Jan
Central Brooklyn CSA 