Volume 23, Week 9
Full share & 🥒green🥒 half shares
218 Gates Avenue between Classon and Franklin
(IMPACCT Brooklyn at the Gibbs Mansion)
5:00 to 7:30 pm
Week 9 News
Wild Blueberry people - unfortunately, due to the effect of excess heat on the wild blueberries, our forager will not be able to fulfill the final installment of the blueberry share. You should have received a note and a refund from the treasurer - if not, please reach out to information@clintonhillcsa.org with any questions or concerns.
This week’s share
Assorted tomatoes
Eggplant
Onions
Sweet corn
Kale
Arugula
Lettuce
Carrots
Fruit: organic cantaloupes from Denison Farm. More blueberries are coming!
Extras: eggs, bread, coffee
News from Windflower Farm
Distribution No. 9, Week of July 29, 2024
Insects in corn are usually confined to the tips of the ears. So, here's my recommendation, which also helps make for a tidy way of dealing with the messy silk and the flag ears: lay the ear out on the cutting board, position all of the flag ears and silk above the ear tip and then chop the ear two or three inches below the tip, placing all of it (plus any worms) in your compost bucket.
We’ve disced under what remains of our turnips and kohlrabi. Thank goodness. And there is a gap in our cucumber and squash successions, so what’s coming? More tomatoes, sweet corn, and lettuce, along with onions and kale. New additions, peppers and garlic, should be in shares next week. Basil will come along soon. Beets and fennel will be back in a couple of weeks, and cucumbers and summer squashes will appear again in about three weeks.
What’s new on the farm?
Yesterday, while on a bike ride, we took note of the roadside wildflowers in bloom. A partial census: red and white clover, Birdsfoot trefoil, wild blue chicory, Queen Anne’s lace, daisy fleabane, Joe Pye weed, Boneset, cattails, and the invasive purple loosestrife.
I worked in three fields with rye cover crops today, discing in a huge amount of organic matter. The mature seed heads shattered as I drove my equipment across the field, effectively reseeding the crop. Next year, when we plant these fields to vegetables, they should have improved tilth and far fewer weeds.
Our sweet corn is ready for harvest in the next field over. And on cue, racoons have shown up. To keep them out of the corn, we have installed a pair of fences around the field: an inner fence made of woven wire and an outer fence comprised of four horizontal wires. Both stand just 30 inches tall and both are electrified. This is the only way we have found to keep the little corn-stealing bandits out of the corn, at least all but the Olympic caliber athletes among them.
Have a great week, Ted