Summer Share Details

There are four share options available to our members during the summer season: vegetables, fruit, eggs, and flowers. Most of our members start with a veggie share and build from there, but feel free to order any combination of the following.

VEGETABLES – $460

Starts on Thursday, June 18th and lasts 22 weeks.

Each year Ted grows 10 to 15 acres of organic vegetables for his CSA shareholders, offering the widest possible assortment of vegetables. We’ll get salad greens and cooking greens, herbs, an assortment of roots, bulbs and tubers, and seasonal vegetables, including tomatoes, squashes, cucumbers, peppers, melons, and eggplant. We’ll have peas in the spring, beans in the summer, and sweet corn every other week from mid July through mid September. And we’ll have a wide variety of unusual vegetables that come in smaller quantities. Ted does a very good job of growing an array of produce, while the whims of nature do a similarly good job of keeping us all guessing as to which veggies will be ripe when, and in what quantities. The key to enjoying a CSA’s bounty: flexible expectations!

FRUIT – $140

Starts on Thursday, June 18th and lasts 20 weeks.

The fruit share has become quite popular and consists of fresh, local fruit, typically beginning in the early summer with strawberries, cherries, blueberries and raspberries, progressing in mid summer to include peaches, plums, nectarines and apricots, and concluding in the fall with assorted apples, pears, cider and often a jar of something from the pantry. Please note that while all of the fruit comes from very dedicated fruit farmers located in the upper Hudson Valley, only the berries are grown organically. The other fruit is produced using IPM or low-spray practices. As organic fruit becomes more available, we’ll make sure to include it in the fruit share.

EGGS – $53/half doz, $99/doz, $190/two doz

Starts on Thursday, June 18th and lasts 22 weeks.

Windflower Farm’s neighbors Bob and Mary Pratt at Elihu Farm are offering their eggs to us again this summer season. Their hens live a natural life, eating locally mixed grain, with minerals and vitamins, while foraging for clover, seeds, bugs and worms. They receive no antibiotics or other medications. They graze out in the fields for three seasons in a movable shelter (called a ChickInn), surrounded by movable fencing. They go inside the shelter at night, for protection from predators.

Eggs from pastured chickens are known to be higher in vitamins A and E and in Omega-3 fatty acids, as compared with eggs from conventionally raised chickens. We are happy to offer this bounty to you—large eggs with thick whites, rich orange yolks, strong shells, and wonderful flavor.

Elihu Farm in southern Washington County will always be a farm because the Pratts have protected most of their land from development by donating an easement to the Agricultural Stewardship Association. Their peaceful marsh will always shelter birds and flowers and frogs, because it’s now part of the Federal Wetlands Reserve.

FLOWERS – $120

Starts either on Thursday, June 25th and lasts 10 weeks.

Our flower share consists of beautiful, organically grown, fresh cut flowers. You’ll receive your first bunch in late July. Some weeks you’ll receive arrangements made from a variety of flowers, other weeks you’ll have large bunches of a single variety to choose from. Ted’s wife Jan grows more than thirty varieties of cut flowers, selecting them for their beautiful colors, fragrance, and long-lasting qualities.

Your first bouquets might have spice-scented stock, campanula (a beautiful deep blue, bell-shaped flower) and Bells of Ireland, with its wonderful light green foliage. Next, you’ll receive sweet peas, snapdragon spikes, godetia, sweet William, lavatera, larkspur and brightly colored Asiatic lilies. In the heat of the summer, your distributions will include China asters, rose-like lisianthus, sunflowers, rudbeckia, dahlia-flowered zinnias and celosia.