Green Thumb Farm Huntington CSA

Greetings!

Highlights of the weekend (see the events listings) are the UUFH Services Auction on Saturday (Dines Farm and Green Thumb Farm baskets are being auctioned off as well as a one year pass for two for the Cinema Arts Centre donated by CSA members Dylan Skolnick & Charlotte Sky AND knitted items by CSA members Dove Thomas & Maria Nielsen including ORGANIC cotton washcloths), Turkey Free Thanksgiving Event on Sunday (worth it to go just to buy raffles…dinners from Candle 79, Caravan of Dreams, EAT, Dirt Candy and others…all very good vegetarian restaurants in the city, plus Live Island Café – new raw foods place opening in Centerport, AND a basket of produce from our very own Green Thumb Farm), Cranberry picking out in Montauk (if anyone goes…let me know how it was…next year…I’m going!) and last but not least….a wacky sounding Food Not Bombs event Monday night for the young or the young at heart (have teens or college age people in your household?) and their Thanksgiving Food Share on Tuesday.

This email includes…

1. Dines Farm ordering info…orders due Monday noon with a Wednesday pickup
2. Fun, Cool & Interesting Stuff to Do (new events added weekly)
3. What you actually got this week
4. CSA and Slow Food member Ann Rathkopf knows of this event to help feed the homeless this Thanksgiving


1. Dines Farm ordering info…orders due Monday noon with a Wednesday pickup

Next week, Larry will be in the parking lot with his coolers. Lugging coolers with Turkeys in them sounds like something to be avoided. However, if it’s raining…maybe he’ll feel differently!

I know I said last week was the last time to order Turkeys but you can certainly try for this week as well (if there are any left!). Any questions you can always call Larry (see below).

If you’re a vegan/vegetarian, consider emailing this email to your meat-eating friends & family. If they’re going to eat meat (and you know they will)…better this than factory farmed animals!

The weather is getting nippy and some of us are thinking about soups and stocks (chicken/beef) and stews (beef, lamb) and heartier fare than a few weeks ago.

If you’ve never seen it, or it’s been a while, here’s the NY Times article about their Hot Dogs…
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/05/dining/05dog.html

If you didn’t read this NY Times article on the safety of agribusiness Hamburger meat…this is a must read for anyone who eats meat (a good motivation for getting to know where your meat comes from) and for non-meat eaters (for yet another reason to not to)…
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/health/04meat.html

The next delivery from Dines Farm is this Wednesday, November 24th. Pickup is at the CSA/UUFH from 3:30pm to 7:30pm (though traffic may cause them to show up later…you can always call the UUFH hall phone to see if they’ve arrived at 631-385-1079).


TO PRE-ORDER FROM DINES FARM…

Please email your order by 12pm, noon, Monday, November 22nd. However, you can try calling Larry at 914-403-5828 if you are ordering after noon and see if they’ll put it thru. Allow more time for special requests.

Email your order to: dinesfarms@gmail.com
In this email you MUST include:
Your name
Your phone number
Huntington CSA
Otherwise the farm won't know WHO placed the order, WHERE TO CALL in case you're running late or haven't shown up (it happens...people forget) and WHERE the order should end up.

You should get a confirmation email. If you don't, call Larry to check on your order (914-403-5828). Also, call Larry if you have any questions or need help placing your order.

Payment is made when you pick up your order this week. Acceptable for payment are cash, a check, or a debit/credit card.


What:

Prices are per pound or as designated.
Prices are subject to change due to our increased costs for petroleum products and animal feed.

If you don't see something you're looking for...PLEASE ASK!


BEEF
Cocktail Franks - All Beef ($6.50)
Ground Beef ($5.00)
Hot Dogs - All Beef ($6.50)
Steaks:
NY Strip - Boneless ($13.00)
Rib Eye - Boneless ($12.00)
Stew Meat ($6.00)

Other cuts are available - PLEASE ASK!

CHICKEN
I notice that there’s no price listing for Wings…give Larry a call (914-403-5828) if you want to find out the price before ordering
Eggs: Brown OR White, Extra Large ($4 per Dozen)
Breasts, Boneless ($7.00)
Chicken, Ground ($4.99)
Chicken, Whole ($3.50)
Leg & Thigh Quarters ($3.50)
Thighs, Boneless - Marinated ($6.00)
Thighs, Boneless – Plain ($4.99)

Sausage, Chicken ($7.99 per pound)
Breakfast, Maple
Garlic & Sage
Italian, Hot
Italian, Sweet
Additional flavors will be available in the future (or ask)


DUCK

Breast ($13)
Whole ($5.50)


LAMB (as available)

Chops ($14)
Ground ($6.50)
Leg, Bone In ($7.00)
Leg, Boneless ($9.00)
Stew ($6.00)


PORK
Bacon ($6.00)
Chops, Pork Loin - Boneless ($7.00)
Roasts, Pork Loin - Boneless ($7.00)
Spare Ribs ($6.00)


TURKEY
Size runs between 12 and 25 lbs BUT be aware that the delivered bird may vary several pounds from what you ordered (call Larry for any additional questions)

Whole ($5.00)


Why: The better business is for Dines, the more likely they will continue to travel from Albany to Huntington. Please spread the word amongst family and friends as you don't have to be a CSA member to buy from Dines Farm.




2. 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, November 19th

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, November 20th

10am

Wild Cranberry Picking
Napeague Harbor Rd and Rt 27
Montauk
For more info:
631-375-2339
www.easthamptontrails.org
FREE

Be prepared for a 1 ½ mile hike, bring a plastic bag, and wear waterproof boots for wading in a Cranberry bog!

12pm

Hamptons Take 2 Film Festival
Westhampton Performing Arts Center
76 Main St
Westhampton
All day Festival Pall $20/Evening Only $15 (dinner discounts at area restaurants only available with Festival Pass)
Purchase Tickets online or at Box Office
For more info:
www.htff.com

Documentary film fest of shorts focusing on the east end of Long Island including filmmaker Samantha Schutz’s “Bette & Dale’s Organic Produce” (screens at 1pm).

6pm

UUFH Services Auction
109 Browns Rd
Huntington
For more info:
Look on the tables on your way into the CSA

Some of the things being auctioned off thru Green Thumb Farm CSA – Huntington are…
1. Seasonal Basket of Plenty from Green Thumb Farm including a cookbook, Honey, and t-shirt
2. Romantic Dinner and BBQ package of Steaks, Hamburgers and Hot Dogs from Dines Farm
3. A year’s pass for two to the Cinema Arts Centre – Cinema Co-Directors Dylan Skolnick and Charlotte Sky are longtime CSA members
4. Knitted items in the Ewes Raffle made by CSA members Maria Nielsen and Dove Thomas (something tells me one of them MAY have done the ORGANIC cotton washcloths  )

Schedule…
6pm – Dinner ($20 per person)
7 to 10pm – Auction ($5 for a bidding number) and purchase of Raffle Tickets
Raffle Tickets…
50/50 Raffle - $5 for 1, $10 for 3
Basket Raffles (many different baskets of goodies…you place raffle tickets in the containers by the basket you’d like to win) - $10 for 25, $25 for 75
*Ewes Raffle Basket (CSA members Maria Nielsen and Dove Thomas are members of the UU Ewe knitting club) - $10 for 1, $25 for 3
* This basket contains…ORGANIC cotton washcloths, lap blanket, pillow, sock lamb, cabled cowl, toddler’s sweater, scarves, socks, hat…WOW! Each member knitted or crocheted items.


Sunday, November 21st

12pm

Hamptons Take 2 Film Festival
Bay Street Theater on the Long Wharf
1 Bay St
Sag Harbor
All day Festival Pall $20/Evening Only $15 (dinner discounts at area restaurants only available with Festival Pass)
Purchase Tickets online or at Box Office
For more info:
www.htff.com

Documentary film fest of shorts focusing on the east end of Long Island including filmmaker Samantha Schutz’s “Bette & Dale’s Organic Produce” (screens at 1pm).

2pm

Healthy Planet Dinner/Lecture Series
16th Annual Turkey Free Thanksgiving Potluck!
Sweet Hollow Hall
West Hills County Park
Gwynne Rd
Melville
For more info and reservations:
Call 631-421-5591
e-mail: info@healthy-planet.org
http://www.healthy-planet.org/Series/index.asp
Advance Tickets (online): $10 Members/$15 General Public
Tickets at the door: $15 Members/$20 General Public
$10 additional requested IF you are not bringing a dish to share and will be eating other people’s food at the event (if you’re not going to eat…not a problem…you can go to the lecture and skip the food part)
under 12 admitted FREE

Schedule…
2pm
Doors Open
Socialize to the music of First Circle and Soup is served
3:30pm
Dinner – contributions from House of Dosas, Nana’s Cookies, Turtle Mountain, Whole Foods, etc
4:30pm
Howard Lyman talk (there is childcare available for during the lecture)
After lecture…Taster’s Choice awards for the best dishes brought to the potluck

You can go to any and/or every part of this event! Featured speaker will be Howard Lyman, the Mad Cowboy (4th generation cattle rancher turned vegan & environmentalist)…made famous when he helped Oprah Winfrey when she was sued for saying on tv how she’d never eat a Hamburger again after knowing how they were made and what was in them. Raffles for dinners to Dirt Candy, Candle 79, EAT, Caravan of Dreams, Live Island Café (new raw food place opening in Centerport) and a basket of produce from Green Thumb Farm and LOTS more.


Monday, November 22nd

9pm

Food Not Bombs Dumpster Scavenger Hunt/LI Food Not Bombs Olympics
Huntington Train Station (north side by the Station House)
Huntington Station
FREE
For more info:
http://www.lifnb.com/announcement/long_island_food_not_bombs_thanksgiving_bonanza_2010
For even more info and to sign up:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=100246523380676

Two part event…
1) forming teams and scavenging for hidden treasures
2) pitted against impossible odds (?) that test skills as a food not bombs volunteer.

Open to anyone/everyone. Expect crazy fun, adventure and to make new friends. It may be a late night but you don’t have to stay for the whole thing…though you might want to.


Tuesday, November 23rd

6:30pm

Food Not Bombs Huntington Thanksgiving Food Share
E 6th St & Fairground Ave
Huntington Station

Come volunteer and help share with our community. Cook up a vegan dish and bring it to share. There’s a large amount of children (6 to 12) who help and are at this location. If you have any extra toys, books, clothes or school supplies they would be put to good use.

Any questions email LongIslandFoodNotBombs@gmail.com
Check the website at www.lifnb.com for updates.


7:30pm

Eric Clapton on Film
Cinema Arts Centre
423 Park Ave
Huntington
Tickets: $9 Cinema Member/$13 General Public
To purchase tickets in advance…
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/136236
Call Brown Paper Tickets at 1-800-838-3006
OR at the Cinema Arts Centre Box Office
For more info:
www.cinemaartscentre.org

CSA member Dylan Skolnick presents archivist Bill Shelley and his Rock Legends Live collection of RARE clips…this time of Eric Clapton. CSA member Jeff Tanenbaum is a fan of this series so he may be there. Songs will include…Layla, Badge, Sunshine of Your Love, White Room and others from the early days and onward of Clapton’s long and illustrious career as a guitar deity!


Sunday, November 28th

2pm

Let’s Eat: Food on Film presents…
Colony – The Plight of the Honeybee
Cinema Arts Center
423 Park Ave
Huntington
More info TBA

Film and discussion with Beekeeper Rich Blohm and Green Thumb Farm’s own Beekeeper, Mary Woltz. Apitherapy presentation by Frederique Keller, a licensed acupuncturist who incorporates classical homeopathy and bee venom therapy as well as utilizes honey, pollen, propolis, royal jelly and bee bread. Meade tasting. It’s a day to celebrate honey bees- our most precious pollinators

Sunday, December 5th

Green Thumb Farm
Rt 27
Water Mill, NY

Our CSA farm’s farmstand’s last day of operation till May 2011! There might be some pretty good deals to be had.


Tuesday, December 7th

7 to 9pm

New York City Beekeepers Association Meeting
Seafarers and International House
123 E 15th St (between Irving Pl and 3rd Ave)
NYC
To close out the year, bee expert and author Dr. Larry Connor will join NYCBA on Tuesday, December 7 for a talk on "Bee Sex in the City." Mini-Louboutins for your bees will not be provided, but Dr. Connor will review the basic reproduction of bee colonies, the development and mating of queens, and their mating behavior. A question and answer period will follow the talk. For further information about Dr. Connor, please visit www.wicwas.com.

Saturday, January 15th

9am to 5pm

NOFA-MA Winter Conference
Worchester Tech High School
Worchester, MA
For more info and to register:
http://www.nofamass.org/conferences/winter/index.php

Keynote speech by Michael Phillips, author of The Apple Grower: A Guide for the Organic Orchardist. This guy is the go to person for organic Apple growing in the northeast. If you have any interest in growing Apples, it would be very worthwhile to make the trip and attend this. There is also an all day seminar on Herbs for Family Health by master herbalist Nancy Phillips of Heartsong Farm Healing Herbs. I think I’m going to the Apple seminar. Anyone interested in the Herb one and we can share notes afterwards?


Friday, January 21st to Sunday, January 23rd

NOFA-NY Winter Conference
Saratoga Springs, NY
For more info and to register:
https://www.nofany.org/events/winter-conference

Many workshops, many excellent teachers, much partying, much good food.


Friday, January 29th and Saturday, January 30th

NOFA-NJ Winter Conference
For more info:
http://nofanj.org/winter_conference.htm


March 5th

NOFA-CT Winter Conference
Manchester, CT
For more info:
http://www.ctnofa.org/


3. What you actually got this week

November 18, 2010
Week #31

1. Sweet Potatoes – 2 lbs - $5.00
2. Radishes, Winter: Black Spanish, China White, Misato Rose (Watermelon) – 2 lbs - $4.25
3. Dill OR Cilantro – 1 bunch - $2.25
4. Broccoli, Purple (some call it Red) – 1 head - $2.50
5. Mustard Greens – 1 bunch - $2.75
6. Lettuce: Bibb – 1 head - $2.25
Total : 6
Total Amount: $19.00

Herb Share
Nov – 2B
Sage AND Savory (no info whether it’s Summer or Winter)


4. CSA and Slow Food member Ann Rathkopf knows of this event to help feed the less fortunate this Thanksgiving

See attached Flier

If you’re interested in participated, event organizer Bhavani needs to know if you are planning on coming out to volunteer this weekend or Monday or Tuesday for this big Thanksgiving event. She’s trying to get a handle on how many volunteers she has or is needed. Also, whether or not you have a turkey, frozen, raw or cooked.

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