Volume 23, Week 16
Full share &🌝 yellow🌝 half shares
218 Gates Avenue between Classon and Franklin
(IMPACCT Brooklyn at the Gibbs Mansion)
5:00 to 7:30 pm
Share your favorite recipes!
It’s that time of year again - submit your favorite seasonal recipes featuring CSA ingredients, and be entered into a drawing to win some culinary-inspired prizes! You may also see your recipe featured on our social media or here in the Beet!
Week 16 News
Check the Beet in the coming weeks for announcements regarding winter share! Dates, prices, and extra shares will be posted soon!
The waitlist for the 2025 summer season is now open! If you have friends or neighbors who are interested in joining the CSA, invite them to sign up for the waitlist! Please note: current members will be offered priority registration next spring, and do NOT have to sign up for the waitlist.
Meet the Clinton Hill CSA Core Group!
Curious how the CSA is run? One of the ways that the CSA keeps costs down is by being fully volunteer run! Member shifts at at distribution are essential, and we have a core group that steers the planning and execution of the season. Each week for the remainder of the season, we’ll feature a member of the core group that steers the CSA and tell you what they do!
Meet Chelsea!
Role in the CSA: Communications Manager. I manage the website, our social media pages ((follow us on Instagram and Facebook!), and pre-season email communications to returning members, new members, and the waitlist.
Favorite vegetable: I love all of the greens! And I'm very excited for sweet potatoes.
Something you wouldn’t guess about me: I've performed at Carnegie Hall!
This week’s share
Swiss chard
Arugula
Spinach
Sweet peppers
Assorted tomatoes
Basil (likely the last)
Onions
Yellow potatoes
Acorn squash
Flat Italian beans
Fruit: prunes (plums) from Yonder Farm
Extras: bread, eggs, coffee, mushrooms
News from Windflower Farm
Distribution No. 16, Week of September 16, 2024
Crop readiness is not always predictable a week out. Plums can fail to ripen in time if nights are too cold; lettuce can bolt in a matter of days with enough heat. Bugs and pathogens take their toll. So, we often find ourselves having to modify our harvest plans. The tentative list for next week: cabbage, carrots, beets, and red onions (Borscht? A salad?), along with spinach, kale, pumpkins, tomatoes, and peppers.
What’s new on the farm?
We’ve been bringing in our storage crops – 40 bushes here, 80 bushels there. The potato and winter squash crops are 80 to 90-percent harvested. We are now focused on sweet potatoes, which appear to be running a little small this year. Thankfully, we’ve never seen a connection between size and flavor in sweet potatoes. Leeks, carrots and beets will be next. These beautiful late summer days have been wonderful to work in.
Although it has been one 80-degree day after another this week, it’s fall planting season. We’ll plant the last of this season’s greens this week. Soon, we’ll plant the Alliums for our 2025 harvest. And we’ll be sowing the greens (spinach, kale, chard, tatsoi) for the coming winter harvest in the week ahead. We are in the final winter CSA planning stages.
The cold season to-do list: Put up wood for the winter stove, set the concrete piers for a barn bump-out to be built in early winter, plant the garlic, take the tunnels down, etc. Red maples are showing some color. Peak colors are only ten or so days away in the North Country, but probably three weeks off here.
Have a great week, Ted