Green Thumb Farm Huntington CSA

Happy Summer!

Sad to say that no one found the missing Leeks (no, not links…Leeks!) so the CSA (us, not the farm) will pay our two members for their missing food. Please read the CSA wall chart and check your bags on the way out to make sure you didn’t take too much…or too little. And, if someone is picking up for you who’s never been to the CSA before, please have them tell someone to help them get it right and make sure they bring bags to pack the food.

FYI – Our CSA is on Thursdays (except the week of Thanksgiving where it’s on Wednesday) from 3:30pm to 7:30pm (if you need to come after 7:30pm call the CSA at 631-385-1079 on Thursdays from 3pm to 7:30pm to make last minute arrangements for alternate pickups).

If you can’t use these wood chips, do you know anyone who might? CSA member Sonam Kushner (and Homeopath extraordinaire) still has a bunch of wood chips for the taking. Take what you want on a tarp in the back of your car, or rent or drive a truck for larger quantities! If interested, respond to this email and I’ll put you in touch with Sonam. She’s suggesting it’s good for around trees or in a playground area.

Bulk Certified Organic Paste (Roma) Tomatoes available from our farm…$45 per 20 lb box (to place an order, call the farm at 631-726-1900 between 9am to 5pm and be ready to pay with a credit card).

Here’s some Tomato talk from the folks at the NYC Greenmarkets…
Forget proper storage, eat this fruit immediately! We suggest tomato sandwiches, mozzarella and tomato salad, tomato soup, tomato pie, salsa, gazpacho, tomato sauce, tomato juice, fried green tomatoes and plain old tomatoes eaten as is, or with a dash of salt. If you get a little overwhelmed by this steady diet, follow the lead of Greenmarket staff and host a tomato canning party at your house. Each September we pile into our co-worker's Brooklyn backyard and set up an assembly line to scald, peel, seed and can as many flats as we can get our hands on. If a perfect, local tomato is a treat in September, it's a bona fide treasure in the middle of March!

We could use a LOT more CSA members! If each of us (we’re now 56) managed to find three more members our farmer would be VERY happy. We now have till the week after Labor Day to accept new members. After that, we’re talking April of 2013. If each of us got one more member to join, that would be great, and if THEY got one more member…you get the idea. Even ideas of where to leave CSA brochures or posters, and where to do lectures about CSA would be helpful. So far this season I participated in the 1st LI CSA Fair, the 2nd LI Small Farm Summit, and a health fair at the Vitamin Shoppe in Melville, gave a lecture to the Holistic Moms Network about eating local and just put an ad (VERY reasonably priced) in the brochure for a charity auction for the local Montessori School.

This week’s email includes…

1. Your CSA does not need you this week, however…
2. Happy Organic Harvest Month!
3. Bags and you
4. This week’s list…subject to change without notice (farming is like that)
5. Any teachers out there? Know any?
6. Fun, Cool & Interesting Stuff to Do (new events added weekly)
7. Click here and help change our world!
8. Have you eaten and/or purchased these foods?
9. What you actually got last week
10. And now…for something completely different


1. Your CSA does not need you this week, however…

You can ALWAYS stop by the CSA a little before 3:30 or 5:30 to offer to help in case someone doesn’t show up (or is late) without letting anyone know…life happens! 

If you didn’t get a confirmation email from Judi (occasionally it’s me), you’re not scheduled to work this week.



2. Happy Organic Harvest Month!

Consumer Reports still recommends eating organic food after the Stanford report…
http://news.consumerreports.org/health/2012/09/dont-give-up-on-organic-food-our-experts-urge.html



3. Bags and you

The short story is make sure to bring bags to pack your CSA food as the CSA does not provide them.

Suggestion…put bags (paper/plastic/cloth) in EVERY vehicle you own. Put them in the glove compartment, trunk, wherever, and make sure to replenish them when the supply is running low or you’re out of them. That way it will be hard to forget them.

And, if someone is picking up for you, please remind them about bringing bags with them.



4. This week’s list…subject to change without notice (farming is like that!)

Week #22
September 20, 2012

1. Tomatoes, Mini
2. Squash, Winter: Butternut
3. Soybeans
4. Mizuna
5. Squash, Summer

Total Items: 5 (?)



5. Any teachers out there? Know any?

Here’s a link to a curriculum program that can be used for Food Day, on October 24th…
https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/foodday/pages/24/attachments/original/1341610970/Food_Day_School_Curriculum_2012_NO_BRAND.pdf?1341610970

Food Day is about eating healthy, sustainable, affordable and fair!



6. Fun, Cool & Interesting Stuff to Do (new events added weekly)
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Saturday, September 1st to Sunday, September 30th

The 3rd Annual NY Locavore Challenge!
For more info and to register:
http://www.nofany.org/events/ny-locavore-challenge

Challenge yourself to eat more local foods and get active, or more active, in the locavore world that’s all around you!


Thursday, September 20th

10am to 11am

iEat Green
http://prn.fm/shows/lifestyle-shows/i-eat-green/

iEat Green is hosted by Slow Food Huntington’s Bhavani Jharoff. Listen to this internet radio show either live or if you miss this show, you can listen to it on the archives and it’s available for downloading on iTunes for your iPhone.

Today’s guest will my guest will be Perryne Lokhandwala and Paula Lee Poy of PlayHarvest. PlayHarvest is a grassroots organization focused on harnessing the creative force of community-based design, the dynamic power of outdoor play, and the energizing benefits of locally grown foods to motivate kids to live healthier, more active lives.

6pm

Greek Food Festival
St. Paraskevi Greek Orthodox Church
1 Shrine Pl
Greenlawn
FREE Admission
For more info:
http://www.stparaskevi.org/FoodFestival11.htm

Food, rides, games, live music, farmer’s market!

7pm

Dive
The Ethical Humanist Society of LI
38 Old Country Rd
Garden City
$10

Movie about dumpster diving for food hosted by Jon Stepanian of Food Not Bombs (where our CSA donates any excess produce).


Friday, September 21st

11am

Greek Food Festival
St. Paraskevi Greek Orthodox Church
1 Shrine Pl
Greenlawn
FREE Admission
For more info:
http://www.stparaskevi.org/FoodFestival11.htm

Food, rides, games, live music, farmer’s market!

6pm

The Healthy Planet Radio Program
WUSB-FM 90.1FM
Or listen online:
http://www.wusb.fm/stream


Saturday, September 22nd

Farm Aid
Hersheypark Stadium
PA
$37.75 to $101.46
For more info:
http://www.farmaid.org/site/c.qlI5IhNVJsE/b.2723605/k.C7B8/Concert.htm
For ticket info:
http://www.farmaid.org/site/c.qlI5IhNVJsE/b.5307325/k.93C0/Ticket_Info.htm?msource=concert

So far it’s Willie, Neil, John, and Jack Johnson and Dave Mathews…and more!

10am

Organic Apple Festival
Rodale Institute’s Organic Farm
611 Siegfriedale Rd
Kutztown, PA
FREE ($5 parking fee per car)
For more info:
http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/organic_apple_festival

11am

Greek Food Festival
St. Paraskevi Greek Orthodox Church
1 Shrine Pl
Greenlawn
FREE Admission
For more info:
http://www.stparaskevi.org/FoodFestival11.htm

Food, rides, games, live music, farmer’s market!

12pm

LI Global Frackdown Rally
Office of Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos
55 Front St
Rockville Centre
For more info and to register if you’re planning to attend:
http://action.foodandwaterwatch.org/p/salsa/event/common/public/index.sjs?event_KEY=75813


1pm

Backyard: Fruit from Small Gardens
Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture
630 Bedford Hills Rd
Pocantico Hills, NY
$18 Member/$20 General Public
For more info and to get tickets:
http://www.stonebarnscenter.org/products/backyard-fruit-for-small-gardens.html

Join fruit master, Lee Reich, in a lecture about how to include fruit in a growing space as small as a city apartment balcony to a small suburban backyard.


Sunday, September 23rd

10am

Edible Garden Festival with a Mario Batali Cooking Demo and dinner
NY Botanical Garden
$25 to $250
To get tickets:
http://secure4.gatewayticketing.com/NYBG/Content.aspx?Kind=LandingPage

Take part in a day-long festival of Edible Garden fun exploring Mario Batali's Kitchen Gardens, cooking demonstrations by NYBG staff, gardening activities, and food samplings in the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden. Then join Garden friend Mario Batali at the Conservatory Tent for a demonstration of fresh, seasonal family dishes inspired by Mario Batali's Kitchen Gardens. Want more Mario? With a different ticket type, you can do all of the above followed by cocktails in the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden and an intimate garden-to-table dinner at the Lillian and Amy Goldman Stone Mill. Mario will enjoy the meal with you and share anecdotes, memories, inspirations, and background information about the four-course menu he has designed.

12pm

Greek Food Festival
St. Paraskevi Greek Orthodox Church
1 Shrine Pl
Greenlawn
FREE Admission
For more info:
http://www.stparaskevi.org/FoodFestival11.htm

Food, rides, games, live music, farmer’s market!


Tuesday, September 25th

7pm

Huntington Food Share – Food Not Bombs
Fairground Ave and E 6th St (outside of All Weather Tires)
Huntington Station
For more info and to get involved:
http://www.lifnb.com/chapters/huntington_food_share

Distribution of food and clothing to all who attend and are in need.


Thursday, September 27th

10am to 11am

iEat Green
http://prn.fm/shows/lifestyle-shows/i-eat-green/

iEat Green is hosted by Slow Food Huntington’s Bhavani Jharoff. Listen to this internet radio show either live or if you miss this show, you can listen to it on the archives and it’s available for downloading on iTunes for your iPhone.

Today’s guest will my guest will be David Orr, author of "Earth In Mind: On Education, Environment and the Human Prospect." This was the first book I read in graduate school that inspired me to re-think how we are educating our children.

7pm

Forks over Knives
The Ethical Humanist Society of LI
38 Old Country Rd
Garden City
$10

Movie about healthy vegetarian/vegan eating hosted by Judy Griffin, founder of Nourishing Solutions 4 LIfe.


Saturday, September 29th

10am

14th Annual LI Naturally Environmental Fair
Manor Farm
210 Manor Rd
Huntington
For more info:
http://www.starflowerexperiences.org/12flyer.pdf

Music, games, community yard sale, info on green living.

10am

9th Annual LI Garlic Festival
Garden of Eve
4558 Sound Ave
Riverhead
$3/Children under 6 FREE
For more info:
http://www.gardenofevefarm.com/garlic-festival.htm

Food, crafts, music, theater and….GARLIC!


Sunday, September 30th

10am

9th Annual LI Garlic Festival
(see Saturday, September 29th)

5:30pm

Potluck Across New York
Glenwood Church
70 Grove St
Glenwood Landing
FREE (bring a dish to share…it’s a potluck)
For more info:
https://sites.google.com/site/seacliffcooperative/home/events

As part of the 3rd Annual NY Locavore Challenge (organized by NOFA-NY), Slow Food Huntington (co-founder is CSA member Ann Rathkopf), Sustainable Sea Cliff Cooperative, and the Glenwood Arts group organized a potluck! Please join us for an evening of conviviality and lively discussion. Topics will include our industrialized food system, GMO's, fracking, our own community garden and how we can create and support a healthy, local food system.


Monday, October 1st

World Vegetarian Day
For more info:
http://act.ran.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=3791&First_Name=[[First_Name]]&Last_Name=[[Last_Name]]&Zip=[[Zip]]&Email=[[Email]]


Wednesday, October 3rd

6pm

Let Us Eat Local
The Altman Building
135 W 18th St
NYC
$175 (before October 3rd…after $200)
For more info and to get tickets:
http://luel.eventbrite.com/

This event is a benefit for Just Food, the group that organizes CSA in all five boroughs of NYC, in addition to being involved in the City Chickens project, City Farms and getting more local food into food pantries as well as being involved in fighting hunger in NYC. They do great work and are a great bunch of folks. This will be a locavore’s delight if you see the list of participating restaurants.


Thursday, October 4th

7pm

Holistic Moms Network Monthly Meeting (Huntington, NY Chapter)
Elwood Public Library
1929 Jericho Tpke (on the northeast corner of Jericho and Elwood Rd…in the strip mall where a Blockbuster used to be)
E Northport
FREE
For more info:
www.holisticmoms.org
Email: huntingtonhmn@aol.com
Check them out on Facebook…
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Holistic-Moms-Network-Suffolk-County-Huntington-Area-NY-Chapter/399399243443967

Join CSA member Vickie Muller (co-founder of this chapter) at this month’s meeting!


Saturday, October 6th

2pm to 5pm

Growing Backyard Fruits, a Workshop and Tasting
387 Springtown Rd
New Paltz, NY 12561
$35
To register:
Mail a check to Lee Reich at the above address and include your email address and phone number in case of the need to cancel due to severe weather
Questions:
Email Lee: leeareich@gmail.com
Call Lee at 845-255-0417

Join fruit master, Lee Reich, in his garden. You can harvest DELECTABLE, ORGANIC, NO-SPRAY FRUITS right in your own BACKYARD. This workshop will cover which hardy fruits are best and easiest to grow, and how to grow them. Participants will also get to taste luscious fruits such as pawpaws, persimmons, hardy kiwifruit, and whatever else is ripe (grapes?, pears?, aki-gumi?, lingonberry?, medlar?)!
Check out his blog and website for other events…
http://leereich.com/
http://leereich.blogspot.com/


Wednesday, October 10th

6:30pm

Plant a Healthy School Lunch…
The NY Coalition for Healthy School Food’s Fall Gala
NY Academy of Medicine
1216 Fifth Ave (at 103rd St)
NYC
$100
For more info about NY Coalition for Healthy School Food:
http://www.healthylunches.org/
For more info about the gala:
http://www.healthylunches.org/events.htm

Ex-Long Islander Amie Hamlin is the Executive Director of this organization, and Joy Pierson (of Candle Café and Candle 79) is their board chair. A lot of the food at this event will be organic, local, vegan and raw (check the website and look who’d providing it).


Saturday, October 12th

8:30am

Holistic Moms Network presents…
9th Annual Natural Living Conference
Chicago, IL
$80 Member/$90 General Public/$45 child over 3 (lunch included)
For more info and to register:
http://register.holisticmoms.org/2012_HMN_NLC.pdf

Celebrate holistic parenting with special guests Andrea Beaman (natural foods chef, author, tv host and Top Chef contestant..and she cured herself of thyroid disease thru diet and natural methods) and Barbara Loe Fisher (National Vaccine Information Center Co-Founder). Learn…share…connect!


Friday, October 19th

6pm

The Healthy Planet Radio Program
WUSB-FM 90.1FM
Or listen online:
http://www.wusb.fm/stream


Tuesday, October 23rd

6pm

Taste of the Harvest
Crest Hollow Country Club
Jericho Tpke
Woodbury
$295
For more info and to buy tickets:
http://www.islandharvest.org/page.aspx?name=fundraisingevents&eventid=123

Island Harvest is celebrating 20 years of service fighting hunger and touching lives, and honoring Stop and Shop.


Wednesday, October 24th

Food Day!
For more info and to get involved…
http://www.foodday.org/

5pm

The Future of Food: 2050
US Capitol Visitor Center
Washington, DC
For more info and to get involved…
http://www.foodday.org/

What will we be eating in the year 2050? How will that food be produced? Where is the food movement going? Food Day’s national marquee event conference will bring together forward-thinking experts on agriculture policy, nutrition, and sustainability to discuss the future of Americans’ diet and food system.



Thursday, October 25th to Sunday, October 28th

Salone del Gusto & Terre Madre
Turin, Italy
For more info and to get tickets:
http://salonedelgustoterramadre.slowfood.com/

This is Slow Food’s biannual international event in the land where the organization Slow Food began…Italy! CSA member Ann Rathkopf (one of the founders of Slow Food Huntington) will be attending, and she’s been there before, so ask her if you have any questions.


Saturday, October 27th

7pm

Dr. Helen Caldicott…the medical and political implications of Fukushima
Healthy Planet
Sweet Hollow Hall
Gwynne Rd
Melville
$???
For more info, reservations and directions:
631-421-5591
http://www.healthy-planet.org/


Sunday, October 28th

2pm

A Harvest Homecoming
Dominican Village
565 Albany Ave
Amityville
$40 Adults/$10 Children
For more info and to purchase tickets:
516-842-6000 xt 307
Email: Sofiagardengrow@aol.com

Music, dancing, food, raffles, Chinese auction benefitting Homecoming Farm and Sofia Garden, and honoring Sister Ginny Maguire.


Thursday, November 15th

8:30am

Harvesting Opportunities in NY
Hotel Albany
40 Lodge St
Albany
$85
For more info and to register:
http://newyork.farmland.org/harvesting-opportunities

A conference to inspire and educate New Yorkers to support local agriculture, strengthen local farm and food economies, and get involved in protecting farmland.


Sunday, November 18th

9am

The NAVAL Expo
Huntington Hilton
Melville
$20
For more info (if you look at the last one they had in May you’ll get an idea of what they’ll have in November) and to buy tickets:
http://www.navelexpo.com/expo.php

All day alternative health expo with many lectures, demo, samplings, etc including Steve Meyerowitz, the Sproutman! More info TBA.

Afternoon (more info TBA)
Turkey Free Thanksgiving Dinner/Lecture
Healthy Planet
Sweet Hollow Hall
Gwynne Rd
Melville
$???
For more info, reservations and directions:
631-421-5591
http://www.healthy-planet.org/



7. Click here and help change our world!

Pass a progressive Farm Bill…drought stricken farms need help now!
http://www.farmaid.org/c.qlI5IhNVJsE/b.8333161/k.5AFE/Dont_leave_family_farmers_out_to_dry_Pass_a_2012_Farm_Bill_Now/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?msource=email

Tell Congress to dump the Biotech riders for good…
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/1881/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=8417

Tell Cargill corporate money should not sway science (they funded the Stanford U organic study recently published)…
http://ran.org/act/cargill-stanford/?e=131127&r=

Stop NAFTA on steroids (the Trans-Pacific Partnership that includes a lot of lobbyists like Cargill, etc)…
http://ran.org/act/nafta-on-steroids/?e=130184&r=

Demand that Cargill comes clean (trades Palm oil that could be harvested by people that are having their human rights violated and are incurring environmental destruction by destroying rainforests)…
http://ran.org/act/cargill_notrade/?e=126852&r=

Tell the EPA to choose science over political influence (Cargill again)…
http://ran.org/act/epa_palm/?e=125306&r=

Tell Cargill that slave labor is unacceptable…
http://act.ran.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4362&First_Name=[[First_Name]]&Last_Name=[[Last_Name]]&Zip=[[Zip]]&Email=[[Email]]



8. Have you eaten and/or purchased these foods?
If you haven’t, spread the word as maybe someone you know has…
A number of consumers have purchased the following products, prominently labeled as “All Natural.”
Log Cabin Table Syrup
Log Cabin Pancake Mix
Tim’s Cascade Snacks Potato Chips
Erin’s Popcorn
Snyder of Berlin Kettle Cooked Potato Chips
Husman’s Kettle Cook Potato Chips
Despite the labeling claims, all of these products contain highly processed ingredients, such as xanthum gum and corn syrup. A consortium of law offices and nonprofits are investigating the viability of state and/ or federal consumer protection claims for deceptive marketing.
If you have purchased any of these products, or know someone who has, please contact...
Kenneth Miller, Esq.
Kenneth@lawforfood.com
(802) 299-7532


9. What you actually got last week

Week #21
September 13, 2012

1. Tomatoes: Red and/or Paste, Red and/or Yellow – 2 lbs total - $5.00
2. Squash, Winter: Acorn – 1 - $2.50
3. Beets – 1 bunch - $3.25
4. Eggplant: Japanese – 1 - $1.75
5. Leeks – 1 bunch - $3.50
6. Okra – ½ lb - $2.75
7. Bitter Melon – 1 - $0.00 (take it if you want it…or not)

Total Items: 7
Total Amount: $18.75 (We pay $17.50 per week to our farmer for the food we get every week. Today we’ve gotten $1.25 extra, making the total extra that we’ve received from our farmer [over and above the $17.50 we pay per week] for the year so far $25.50 – doesn’t include Aug 9th)

Herb Share – Sept A
Rosemary AND Savory, Winter



10. And now for something completely different…

Chocolate on the high seas!

Read about the most amazing chocolatiers in our area, the Mast Brothers of Brooklyn, sailing (yes, with a sailboat) their cocoa beans from the Dominican Republic to Brooklyn to create their choco bars!
I believe I’ve just started seeing their bars of chocolate sold at Fairway in Plainview. Let me know if you’ve seen them elsewhere.
http://www.ediblebrooklyn.com/magazine/the-mast-brothers-live-up-to-their-name/

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