Reminder to complete Spring/summer 2025 Work shift
If you are a member this spring/summer, please remember to complete your required work shift and to bring your own bags to pick ups before the season ends. The last pick up is Oct 30th. Sign up here.
Spring/Summer 2025 PICKUP Information
This year’s CSA will begin Thursday, May 29th and run until October 30th. The farm will be taking the week of Independence Day off (no July 3rd pick up), which will be counted as a skipped week and not a part of the 22-week season. Pick ups will happen between 4:30pm-7:30pm at PS 9 at Bergen/Underhill Ave on the Bergen garden entrance side.
Please be on time! We do not hold items after 7:30pm on pick up days as we donate left over items to the food bank. Please make sure to mark your calendars for half shares and extras (grains, maple, etc.) so you don’t miss out on your items. They will be not be held for you.
WInter 2025-2026 Season Notes
From the farm:
Our first job, of course, is to give good shares to our current members for the six weeks that remain of the summer season. The extreme drought here (along with the hailstorm that took place midsummer) has significantly limited our production of the kinds of crops that would go into our winter boxes. And for similar reasons, neighboring farmers are limited in what they can sell to us. So we have a production shortfall.
We wouldn't want to take from summer shares in order to have things for winter - that wouldn't be fair. Our compromise for this year is to offer a Thanksgiving share. Instead of three or four winter deliveries, as we've done in the past, we would make just one delivery on the Saturday prior to Thanksgiving Day.
We should have winter share sign ups by early October! Keep an eye out for it in your email and here.
PICKUP LOCATION
Our distributions take place at PS 9 at 80 Underhill Ave. Remember to bring bags to haul your goodies home!
HALF SHARE DATES
Half share members will get assigned to alternating A weeks or B weeks so that we can evenly split the shares. That means you will pick up every other week. You'll get your week assignments before the beginning of the season.
CAN I SWITCH WEEKS?
Once the season is underway, you can switch the occasional week by communicating with other members on our Facebook page.
WORKSHIFT SIGNUPS
All CSA members are required to complete one workshift per season. To learn more about workshifts, click here.
FACEBOOK PAGE
Our Facebook page is great place to stay up to date with the CSA’s recent news. There, you can get updates on upcoming pickups, and communicate with other members about switching pickup weeks, swapping workshifts, or other community questions.
WHAT IS A CSA?
Prospect Heights Community Supported Agriculture is a community collaboration that connects a group of Brooklynites hungry for sustainably grown foods with Windflower Farm, a small organic (NOFA/CNG) farm located in upstate New York.
As CSA members, we share the risk and the bounty with the farmer by paying him in advance of the growing season. In exchange, for 22 weeks of the year we receive fresh vegetables, fruit, flowers, free-range eggs, and more, delivered straight from the farm to the heart of our neighborhood. We were founded in 2006 with support from Just Food.
In the spirit of sharing the bounty, we have created a sliding payment scale so that everyone in our neighborhood can participate in the CSA. Those of us who are financially better off contribute a little more so that access to fresh food can be more than just the privilege of a select few.
