Volume 23, Week 1

Full share & 🌿 green 🌿 half shares

218 Gates Avenue between Classon and Franklin
(IMPACCT Brooklyn at the Gibbs Mansion)
5:00 to 7:30 pm

Welcome! We’re so excited to begin our season! A few notes for day 1:

  • Bring bags! Some items may be bunched or packed in plastic, but you will need tote bags to bring your share home! We’ll have a limited number of Clinton Hill CSA (new colors: rust and periwinkle!) totes available for sale for $10 - cash and venmo accepted!

  • Extra share info: Egg, fruit, bread, and granola shares start today! Coffee and Mushrooms start next week and are delivered every other week on the yellow schedule! Maple and grain shares are delivered thrice - June 20, August 22, and October 17. We’ll also have some fun pop ups this season - including coffee and flowers next week (more on that below!)

  • Work Shift Reminder: Members with full vegetable shares are required to complete 2 two-hour work shifts, for a total of four hours. Members with half vegetable shares must complete 1 two-hour work shift. Sign up for your 2024 work shifts here! For those who find volunteering on site to be a problem, we may have other opportunities. Please email volunteer@clintonhillcsa.org for more information.

  • Windflower Farm Tours: After a hiatus of several years, we’re delighted that the annual farm visit is back, on the weekend of June 29-30. More details coming soon!  

  • A note about payment: We thank everyone who has made payments early and helped to support Windflower Farm and all our other suppliers of wonderful produce. We encourage you to check your inboxes and make sure you're up to date with payments. Remember that with some extra shares, like bread, mushrooms, or medicinal herbs, your invoices may not all come from Windflower Farm, so be sure you're opening the emails that tell you how to pay for your share. And on behalf of Windflower Farm and our other CSA suppliers, thank you!

Coming Next Week - Brownstone Botanical Pop Up!

Clinton Hill floral designer Molly Halpin has called the neighborhood home for the last 7 years. Inspired by her southern roots and a thorough obsession with charming Brownstone Brooklyn, she blends the best of both worlds into her organic floral designs that you may have seen spilling out of her vintage blue Ford pick up truck near Fort Greene Park on Saturdays. Molly loves nothing more than bringing gorgeous local blooms to the neighborhood during the growing season and will feature some of her favorite local farms in her hand-tied bouquets during her first Clinton Hill CSA pop up on June 6.

This week’s share

  • Toscano kale

  • Spring salad mix, bunched

  • Radishes

  • Baby green onions

  • Purple basil pot

  • Fruit: Strawberries

News from Windflower Farm

Distribution #1 , Week of May 27

What!? This is all? I spent all that money for this? No, there will be more, I promise. This week marks just the first of what will be 22 deliveries of produce. It’s early days as the harvest season goes, so the share is light. We’ll start with what we always start with: a couple of kinds of salad greens, radishes, green onions, and herb pots. Next week, we’ll add lettuce to the lineup. By week three or four, we’ll add such items as cucumbers, zucchinis, and sweet Japanese turnips to the mix. Not long after that, you can expect to see your first broccoli, cabbage and bunched beets. And by week seven or eight, you’ll start getting tomatoes, sweet corn and green beans. Our goal is to send eight or nine items per week once the season is truly underway.

If you’ve ordered an egg share, look for it to start in this first week. Fruit shares are starting this week for Thursday sites with one pint of our strawberries. 

 We had about of inch of rain on Monday, which was greatly needed. Anticipating wet conditions, we prepared a couple of acres for this week’s planting. We disced our rye cover crop, turned it under, applied compost, and then formed the beds into which we’ll do some planting a little later in the week. Every week, we plant lettuce, corn, radishes, and salad greens, in addition to other things. Tomorrow, because of the rain, we plan to transplant sweet pepper plants into beds in our field greenhouses. They have names such as Carmen, Escamillo, Brocanto, Milana, and Flavorburst. 

In our main seedling house, we’ll sow winter squash seeds, including butternut, acorn, Delicata, and pie pumpkins, to be planted out in the field some 14 days from now. Later in the week, once the fields dry out, we’ll plant cantaloupes and watermelons. Getting the farm started each spring makes for a busy pace!

Have a great week, Ted

 
Veronica