Happy Summer!

SO CLOSE AND YET SO FAR!!! We still need to fill 45 spots to have the CSA filled for the year!!! You will be hearing about this until either they’re all filled or until Labor Day (when Farmer Bill stops accepting new CSA members) whichever happens first! Attached to this email is the contract for new CSA members, the CSA brochure AND a CSA fee sheet for the rest of the season. Please feel free to pass this on to friends, neighbors, co-workers and relatives who might be interested in joining the CSA this season! If we all were able to find one person to join…we’d be done in a minute. Please feel free to suggest places to leave the CSA brochures or names of individuals/groups to contact about CSA (either just to give info or to give a talk about CSA/local eating). I’m happy to do whatever is needed.

This email includes…

1. Your CSA needs you!! We’re looking for ONE (1) person to be there from 3:30pm to 5:30pm and TWO (2) folks from 5:30 to 7:30pm
2. CSA member, Frances Whittelsey is the Executive Director of the Long Island Community Agriculture Network (LICAN) and needs your help this weekend!
3. What you’re getting at the CSA this week (subject to change without notice…farming is like that!)
4. CSA member Dave Kandell (and others) speaks his mind about the closing of the Cold Spring Harbor spring!
5. BRING BAGS!
6. Order Certified Organic Plants/Seedlings (grown at Green Thumb Farm) for your garden this season…
7. What you actually got last week
9. Event Calendar


1. Your CSA needs you!! We’re looking for ONE (1) person to be there from 3:30pm to 5:30pm and TWO (2) folks from 5:30 to 7:30pm

If you were sent an email from Judi or me, you are scheduled to work this week. If not, you’re not.

IF you can work, please 1) respond to this email, 2) call 631-421-4864 and leave a message before 1pm OR 3) just show up a little before 3:30pm and offer to help out. You can always show up a little before 3:30 or 5:30pm at the CSA and offer to work if help is still needed…you never know! Everyone that’s scheduled doesn’t always show up on time…or at all.



2. CSA member, Frances Whittelsey is the Executive Director of the Long Island Community Agriculture Network (LICAN) and needs your help this weekend!

A brand new community garden, called the Gateway Community Garden, is being created this weekend and needs the help of many hands on Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 3pm. Any amount of time given would greatly be appreciated. Only heavy rains will cancel the work. This project is also partnered with the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Huntington/UUFH (and Reverend Paul Ratzlaff of UUFH is also a CSA member).

For details and more info…
http://uufh.org/bowcommunitygarden.html



3. What you’re getting at the CSA this week (subject to change without notice…farming is like that!)

June 24, 2010
Week #10

1. Lettuce
2. Sorrel
3. Peas, Sugar Snap
4. Swiss Chard
5. Greens, Mustard
6. Peas, Shelling
Total Items: 6



4. CSA member Dave Kandell (and others) speaks his mind about the closing of the Cold Spring Harbor spring!

Check this out…
http://www.youtube.com/user/jonathancreates



5. BRING BAGS!

What more can you say about this?

At the CSA, we bag our own food. I’d suggest to bring a selection of plastic bags (especially for things that are dripping wet like Lettuces and other Greens which we get later in the season when they are picked from out in the fields…as opposed to the greenhouse where they are probably coming from now) AND paper bags (for things that don’t like plastic like Tomatoes…the moisture that plastic attracts will make them rot faster).

Keep a stash of bags in every vehicle you own, and replenish when the stash gets low! That way you’ll never be without. AND, if anyone is picking up for you…please tell them about needing bags!



6. Order Certified Organic Plants/Seedlings (grown at Green Thumb Farm) for your garden this season…

Check out the attachment for instructions and plant list. This one has the phone number to the farm AND I put it as a PDF because some folks couldn’t open the Word version.



7. What you actually got last week…

June 17, 2010
Week #9

1. Radishes – 1 bunch - $2.25
2. Strawberries – 1 pt - $3.50
3. Peas, Snow – .5 lb - $3.50
4. Mint – 1 bunch - $2.25
5. Lettuce: French Crisp, Red – 1 head - $2.25
6. Beets – 1 bunch - $3.00

Total Items: 6
Total Amount: $16.75



8. Fun, Cool & Interesting Stuff to Do (new events added weekly)

If you don’t mind trekking into the city, these are two email lists to get on that have a lot of very cool food-based (local/organic) events…
http://brooklynbased.net/
http://www.eatingintranslation.com/

Friday, June 25th

9am to 10:30am

Morning Meditation with Rev. Ratzlaff
UUFH
109 Browns Rd
Huntington, NY
FREE

CSA member, Rev. Paul Ratzlaff conducts a morning sitting meditation every Friday. The schedule is as follows…
9am to 9:45am – silent meditation
Bell is rung
Poem or Buddhist reading is read aloud
Check in with everyone
Reading a selection out of a collection of Buddhist stories and discuss it
The end!


Saturday, June 26th

10am

Gateway Community Garden
NY Ave and Lowndes Ave
For more info:
http://uufh.org/bowcommunitygarden.html

Volunteers needed to construct the garden beds. Only heavy rain will cancel the work. Any amount of time put in would be greatly appreciated. (see #2 above as well)

10pm

The Hotline
Chesterfields
330 NY Ave (corner of Main St/25A)…up the stairs
Huntington
http://www.chesterfieldsblues.20fr.com/
For more info:
631-425-1457

CSA member, John Morina is the drummer for The Hotline. If you like Blues, Rock, R & B or Funk The Hotline might be the band for you! They rock and provide a rockin’ good time….seriously  !


Sunday, June 27th

10am

Gateway Community Garden
NY Ave and Lowndes Ave
For more info:
http://uufh.org/bowcommunitygarden.html

Volunteers needed to construct the garden beds. Only heavy rain will cancel the work. Any amount of time put in would be greatly appreciated. (see #2 above as well)


Monday, June 28th

7:30pm

Food, Inc.
East Meadow Public Library
1886 Front St
East Meadow
FREE
For more info:
http://www.eastmeadow.info/

CSA member Dylan Skolnick hosts a monthly film series and this one’s the wonderful Oscar nominated Food, Inc. If you haven’t seen it yet, here’s an opportunity to see it for free on a screen possibly bigger than your home tv (maybe yes, maybe not). Speaking with the film will be Green Thumb CSA - Huntington founder and organizer, suzanne j zoubeck.


Saturday, July 17th

The Hotline
Gunther’s Tap Room
84 Main St
Northport
631-754-9659

CSA member, John Morina is the drummer for The Hotline. If you like Blues, Rock, R & B or Funk The Hotline might be the band for you! They rock and provide a rockin’ good time….seriously  !


Saturday, July 24th

The Hotline
Giacomo Jack’s
248 S Ketcham Ave
Amityville
631-691-2722

CSA member, John Morina is the drummer for The Hotline. If you like Blues, Rock, R & B or Funk The Hotline might be the band for you! They rock and provide a rockin’ good time….seriously  !


Thursday, July 29th

7:30pm

Let’s Eat! Films on Food presents…The World According to Monsanto
Cinema Arts Centre
423 Park Avenue
Huntington, NY 11743
www.cinemaartscentre.org

An event co-presented by Slow Food Huntington and the Cinema Arts Centre…more info to come!


Saturday, August 13th to Sunday, August 15th

The 36th NOFA (Northeast Organic Farmer’s Association) Summer Conference
University of Massachusetts Amherst
N Amherst, MA
For more info and to register…
http://www.nofasummerconference.org/

Be there or be squarer than square! Featured speakers this year are Sally Fallon of the Weston Price Institute and Dr. Fernando Funes, father of the Cuban organic agriculture movement.


Thursday, August 26th

7:30pm

Let’s Eat! Films on Food presents…The Botany of Desire
Cinema Arts Centre
423 Park Avenue
Huntington, NY 11743
www.cinemaartscentre.org

An event co-presented by Slow Food Huntington and the Cinema Arts Centre…more info to come!


Saturday, August 28th

The Hotline
Gunther’s Tap Room
84 Main St
Northport
631-754-9659

CSA member, John Morina is the drummer for The Hotline. If you like Blues, Rock, R & B or Funk The Hotline might be the band for you! They rock and provide a rockin’ good time….seriously  !


Saturday, September 4th

12:30pm to 3:30pm

Wildman Steve Brill
Sunken Meadow Park
Parking lot by the Sunken Meadow Bathhouse
Suggested Donation: $15, under 10 years old $10
For more info and to reserve a spot…
http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/

If you’ve never experienced Wildman Steve Brill and you like eating locally and/or organically…this is a must! You will leave with interesting things to cook for dinner, and may start to look differently at the “weeds” that come up in your backyard. You MUST read his website carefully and follow the instructions if you are to maximize your experience by dressing properly and bringing what you need to bring on this adventure. I’ve been told he’s corny…well, that’s true…but he’s also brilliant, and knows about eating and foraging in the wild like nobody’s business. Since he’s a fairly recent father, the event is a family friendly experience.


Saturday, October 16th

Green Thumb CSA Member’s Annual Tractor-pulled Hayride & Pumpkin Picking Farm Tour
Details to be announced


Sunday, October 24th

12:30 to 3:30pm

Wildman Steve Brill
Sunken Meadow Park
Suggested Donation: $15, under 10 years old $10
For more info and to reserve a spot…
http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/

If you’ve never experienced Wildman Steve Brill and you like eating locally and/or organically…this is a must! You will leave with interesting things to cook for dinner, and may start to look differently at the “weeds” that come up in your backyard. You MUST read his website carefully and follow the instructions if you are to maximize your experience by dressing properly and bringing what you need to bring on this adventure. I’ve been told he’s corny…well, that’s true…but he’s also brilliant, and knows about eating and foraging in the wild like nobody’s business. Since he’s a fairly recent father, the event is a family friendly experience.

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