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Distribution No. 21, Week of October 21, 2024

The News from Windflower Farm

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

For those of you who purchased every-other-week shares and selected odd week deliveries, this is your last share of the season. We hope you’ve enjoyed your share of the harvest. Drop us a line any time to let us know your thoughts about the experience and to offer ideas for how we might improve the CSA going forward. Thank you very much for being with us. We hope to see you soon. You may reach us at windflowercsa@gmail.com. For everyone else, next week’s share will be your last.

What’s in the share?

  • Spinach
  • Kale
  • Bok choy
  • Potatoes
  • Leeks
  • Carrots
  • Ginger
  • Sweet potatoes
  • Butternut squashes
  • Sweet peppers

What’s new on the farm?

It’s 67 degrees and sunny outside, which is very pleasant to be working in, if a bit unusual for late October. Tree colors are at their peak or just past, and are lovely. I can see the yellow of sugar maples out my front window as I sit to write. We’ve just had lunch. The packing team – Victoria, Kristoffer and Kage – washed greens, leeks and ginger this morning, and are on to packing and labelling shipping containers. Sam, one of our working members, spent the morning with them, so they are in good shape. Andrea is busy recording winter share signups, after which she’ll join in the packing. Salvador, Candelaria and the four youngsters in their family, Daniel, Martin, Miriam and Liz, having wrapped up the morning broccoli harvest and the planting of the last three beds of winter greens this morning are now planting onions. Jan and Nate spent the morning packing butternut squashes, and now they are heading out to the ginger patch to harvest for the Thursday delivery. Where would we be without these wonderful people?! I’ll join them shortly. All is well in this tiny corner of the world, if just for now.  

A winter share anyone?

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), 4-6 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 season!

Best wishes, Ted

Distribution No. 20, Week of October 14, 2024

The News from Windflower Farm

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

The last grain and maple shares will be sent this week. If you ordered an October grain and/or maple share, please be sure to pick them up. 

What’s in the share?

  • The last of our sweet peppers
  • Lettuce
  • Kale mix
  • Spinach or swiss chard (choice)
  • Sweet potatoes
  • A bagful of shallots and chiles
  • Pie pumpkin
  • Carrots
  • Broccoli or cauliflower (choice)

Your fruit share will be one or two of the new apple varieties growing at Yonder Farm, possibly ‘Snapdragon’ or ‘Ludicrisp’.

Coming next week: leeks, potatoes, Rosemary, carrots, Butternut squash, lettuce, purple kale, chiles, ginger and more sweet potatoes.

If you see Don, the man who drives our delivery truck with Daniel on Thursdays, wish him a happy birthday – he turned 75 last week!

What’s new on the farm?

The swirling deep rose and light blues of the Aurora Borealis dominated the night sky here late last week. I am told that the spectacle was the result of interactions between the sun’s solar winds and the earth’s magnetic field. With that, and a significant temperature cool down and two rainy days, the summer farm season seemed to give way to fall over the weekend. Freeze warnings sent us to the field with floating row covers to protect the tender greens and ginger we have yet to harvest. Seasonal deadlines have given some bounce to our step – with just three weeks remaining in the field season, there is much to do. We harvested all the remaining sweet peppers, chiles and eggplants yesterday. Just a few odd beds of leeks, potatoes and carrots remain to be harvested. In the days before, we took down all the tomato vines, producing a compost heap that is now larger than my house. Next, we’ll pick up pepper stakes, bundle the irrigation headers, and roll up the caterpillar tunnel plastic for use next year.

While I composted and shaped an acre or so of field beds for fall Allium plantings (garlic, onions, shallots and an experimental leek variety), Nate chisel plowed and applied compost to the tunnels where we’ll plant winter greens starting later today. On Wednesday, I’ll pick up 2,000 lbs. of rye and hairy vetch seed from friends at The Farm at Miller’s Crossing to sow on any remaining bare ground. In sections of the farm intended for the earliest spring 2025 plantings, we have shaped beds prior to cover cropping. In this way, just a shallow skim tilling will be needed ahead of next year’s earliest transplanting.

A winter share anyone?

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), 4-6 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 season!

Take care, Ted

Distribution No. 19, Week of October 7, 2024

The News from Windflower Farm

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

What’s in the share?

  • Sweet peppers
  • Yellow onions
  • Pie pumpkin
  • Sweet potatoes
  • Basil (our last) or Rosemary
  • Potatoes
  • Broccoli
  • Spinach
  • Red Russian kale
  • Arugula

Your fruit share will be ‘Bosc’ pears from Yonder Farm. You’ll probably get ‘Empire’ apples next week.

What’s new on the farm?

It has been a lovely late summer and fall growing season. Our fields are still full of greens, including lettuces, choy, tatsoi, Swiss chard, and several varieties of kale. Fall broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower are coming along. And although we have harvested nearly all our storage crops, there are still several beds each of fresh carrots, beets and potatoes to dig. Next week’s vegetable share will look a lot like this one, with the exception that the hard squash will be ‘Delicata’ rather than pie pumpkin. Ginger and butternut squashes will be in your final two shares.  

A winter share anyone?

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 14thand 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), 4-6 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 season!

Take care, Ted

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

Week 10 Expected Harvest

Week 10 is shaping up to be another phenomenal week of fresh produce.

Members of the Central Brooklyn CSA, Week 10 is shaping up to be another phenomenal week of fresh produce. As of noon Tuesday, we expect

  • Tomatoes
  • Peppers (jalapeños or serrano)
  • Cilantro
  • Bell Pepper
  • Eggplant
  • Lemongrass
  • Kale

Please note that this list is likely incomplete, we hope to be able to update it closer to harvest time!