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Delivery #6, Week of July 7, 2025

The News from Windflower Farm

What’s in the vegetable share?

  • Green oakleaf lettuce
  • Red leaf lettuce
  • Swiss chard
  • Slicing cucumbers
  • Asian cucumber
  • Zucchini/Summer Squash
  • Sweet onion
  • Purple kohlrabi
  • Tomatoes
  • Choice of Napa Cabbage OR Spinach OR Happy Rich Broccolini

The fruit share is a quart of Yonder Farm’s cherries or strawberries.

Coming soon: tomatoes, basil, bunched beets, and radicchio

News from the farm

We are harvesting the last of the overwintered onions and the first of the garlic today. The onions are a variety called ‘Forum’ that we’ve grown for years using sets produced in Holland, and they appear to have loved this season’s cool and wet spring. The garlic is a variety of ‘German White’ called ‘Music.’ Early indications are that it’s a lovely crop: good size, pretty color, and free of disease. Harvesting can be tough on the back, so we are bringing out some new tools. The first, a battery-powered electric hedge trimmer, lets us quickly trim the garlic to a length while it’s still in the field, allowing us to operate the tractor-mounted bed-lifter without separating the stem from the bulb. Following these two steps, it is much less difficult to pull the bulb out of the ground: we just grab it by its shortened stem and pull.  We’ll place the garlic in bulb crates and place them in the greenhouse for a week of drying to help preserve the crop for future distributions. Nate has planted a half dozen other varieties that we’ll harvest in the same way next week. They go by names like “Ozark,’ ‘Estonian Red,’ ‘Shandong Purple,’ and ‘Idaho Silver.’ The fall-planted ‘Ed’s Red’ (Dutch) and ‘Crème Brule’ (French) shallots are next on the early Allium harvest list.

Other upcoming harvests: tomatoes and basil. Summer is here and these will begin to show up soon! I’ve had my first of the season in the form of a cold gazpacho on a hot day last week. Hmmm.

Have a great week, Ted

PS. If you ordered a hat, they will be coming on the truck to your site this week and next week. Please stay tuned for an email from us about when your hat will be delivered.

Distribution No. 18, Week of September 30, 2024

The News from Windflower Farm

It’s winter share signup season! Please read below to learn more.

Remember to check out the “Landscapes for Landsake” fine art sale, which benefits the Agricultural Stewardship Association, the organization behind our localfarmland and forest conservation efforts. Find more at www.landscapes for landsake.com.

What’s in the share?

  • Our last tomatoes
  • Sweet peppers
  • Yellow onions
  • Lettuce
  • Bok Choy
  • Cabbage
  • Delicata squash
  • Eggplant
  • Arugula
  • Chiles

Your fruit share will again be apples from Yonder Farm. Last week’s variety was ‘Somerset.’ This week, we are sending another new variety called ‘Crimson Crisp’.

What’s new on the farm?

Purchasing a winter share is your chance to extend the fruit and vegetable season through the New Year.

What is it? In a nutshell, the winter share consists of a total of three one-bushel boxes, one delivered every fourth Saturday from mid-November through early January (November 16th, December 14th, and January 11th). It contains a big bag of fresh greens (kale, spinach and more), 8-10 lb. of vegetables from our root cellar (including winter squashes, “Irish” and sweet potatoes, onions, carrots, beets, and other storage veggies), 4-5 lb. of delicious apples (and pears if available) from the Borden Farm, and a sweet treat every month (the Borden’s apple cider, Harry’s honey, and Deb’s jam). Optional grain, maple and egg shares are also available. Please follow the link for more details and to sign up.

Click here to learn more: Windflower Farm’s 2024-2025 Winter Share (wufoo.com).

We hope you’ll join us for the winter share!

Best wishes, Ted