Thursday, October 4, 2012

Happy Autumn!

And a Happy National Fair Trade Month as well! If you sign up for emails from Ben & Jerry’s you might get the coupon I just did…buy any size cone with a Ben & Jerry’s flavor Ice Cream that has Fair Trade ingredients in it from one of their scoop shops and get another of the same size free!
http://www.benjerry.com/

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).

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. Anybody still have those Soybeans in the fridge?
3. Bags and you
4. This week’s list…subject to change without notice (farming is like that)
5. There’s HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) in what???
6. Fun, Cool & Interesting Stuff to Do (new events added weekly)
7. Click here and help change our world!
8. Baby Food Recipes (pass it on if you don’t have a baby!)
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. Anybody still have those Soybeans in the fridge?

Great suggestions so this one is a keeper…
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/03/dining/how-to-cook-everything-edamame-snacks-that-are-simple-to-make.html?ref=dining&_r=0



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 #24
October 4, 2012

1. Tomatoes, Mini
2. Arugula – 1 bunch
3. Lettuce: Romaine – 1 head
4. Snap Beans, Green
5. Scallions – 1 bunch
6. Celeriac (Celery Root)
7. Greens, Mustard: Red – 1 bunch

Total Items: 7



5. There’s HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) in what???

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/04/corn-syrup-foods-high-fructose-_n_1854790.html?utm_campaign=090512&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Alert-healthy-living&utm_content=FullStory#slide=1467578




6. Fun, Cool & Interesting Stuff to Do (new events added weekly)
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Thursday, October 4th

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 Amie Hamlin. Amie is the Executive Director of New York Coalition for Healthy School Food (NYCHSF). NYCHSF is a statewide nonprofit that works to improve the health and well-being of New York's students by advocating for healthy plant-based foods, comprehensive nutrition policy, and education to create food and health literate students.

7pm

Nutrition for Children’s Health
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 with featured speaker David Pollack, DC, from the Creating Wellness Center in Commack.


Friday, October 5th

4pm

Beer Tasting and Growler Fills (Great South Bay Brewery)
South Fork Beverage
1526 Montauk Highway
Mastic, NY 11950
631-399-1700
Growlers $11 to $15
http://www.greatsouthbaybrewery.com/home.php


Saturday, October 6th

7am

Plant & Sing
Sylvester Manor
Shelter Island
$25 Adults/$10 Students (8 to 21)/FREE Children 7 and younger
For more info and to get tickets:
http://www.plantandsing.com/wp/

A weekend of workshops, music (Bela Fleck), good food and fun for the whole family!

12pm

Port Jefferson Brewing Company’s First Anniversary Party
Port Jeff Brewing Company
22 Mill Creek Road
Port Jefferson, NY 11777
877-475-2739
For more info:
http://portjeffbrewing.com/

1pm

Long Ireland Tasting
Big Z Beverage
1675 Jericho Tpke.
Huntington, NY 11743
FREE
For more info:
http://bigzbeverage.com/Events.php

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/


Sunday, October 6th

7am

Plant & Sing
Sylvester Manor
Shelter Island
$25 Adults/$10 Students (8 to 21)/FREE Children 7 and younger
For more info and to get tickets:
http://www.plantandsing.com/wp/

Garlic planting day!


Tuesday, October 9th

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.

7:30pm

Let’s Eat! Food on Film presents…Sushi: The Global Catch
Cinema Arts Centre
423 Park Ave
Huntington
$10 Members/$15 General Public (includes reception)
For more info, to watch the trailer, and get info about purchasing tickets in advance (these events often sell out):
http://www.cinemaartscentre.org/event/sushi-the-global-catch/

CSA members Dylan Skolnick (Cinema Arts Centre) and Ann Rathkopf (Slow Food Huntington) are co-presenting this important documentary. Sushi is more popular than ever, and no fish is more beloved by connoisseurs than Blue Fin Tuna, but that fish and many other favorites are in danger of being over-fished to extinction. This fascinating new documentary explores how we can all enjoy this delicacy and preserve the ocean.


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).


Thursday, October 11th

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 Sandor Ellix Katz, a self-taught fermentation experimentalist and author of Wild Fermentation - which Newsweek called the "fermenting bible". Katz has taught hundreds of fermentation workshops across the country, sharing his knowledge and demystify home fermentation. His new book, The Art of Fermentation, takes it one step further, sharing stories and history, while guiding anyone willing, into the wild arena of fermentation.


Friday, October 12th

4pm

Beer Tasting and Growler Fill (Great South Bay Brewery)
Syosset Beverage
600 Jericho Turnpike
Syosset, NY 11791
Growlers: $11 to $15
For more info:
516-496-7271
www.Greatsouthbaybrewery.com

7pm

Pumpkin Palooza 2012 (pumpkin beers including Great South Bay Brewery)
Loyal Dog Ale House
288 E Montauk Hwy
Lindenhurst, NY 11757
For more info:
631-225-1535
www.theloyaldogalehouse.com


Saturday, October 13th

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!

10:30am

Green Thumb Farm CSA Annual Farm Tour and Pumpkin Picking
829 Montauk Hwy
Water Mill
FREE
To make your reservation:
631-726-1900 (M to Su from 9:30am to 4:30pm)

Tour schedule: 10:30am, 11:30am, 12:30pm, and 1:30pm.

We do a riding tour on a farm wagon pulled by a tractor. We ride around the farm stopping to see our fall crops, some of our farming equipment, then up to a field where each person that comes can pick up a Pumpkin to take home (FYI - they are not organic and they are not grown on the farm). There is no charge for the tour or Pumpkin, but reservations are required since seating is limited on each wagon. Our tour is open to current CSA member and their immediate families only! If you are sharing a CSA share with someone, only one person/family can attend and you need to use the name of the person that is the CSA member. This is the last chance in 2012 to see a part of our farm, talk to farmer Bill, and ask any questions you might have about the farm, the food, and any gardening questions you might have (for starters you could ask why the Pumpkins aren’t organic and why they aren’t grown on the farm ).

12pm

Long Ireland in-store Tasting
StonyBrook Beverage
710 Rt. 25A
Setauket, NY 11733
For more info:
631-941-4545
www.longirelandbeer.com

1pm

Barrier Brewing Tasting
Big Z Beverage
1675 Jericho Tpke.
Huntington, NY 11743
FREE
631-499-3479
For more info:
www.bigzbeverage.com


Friday, October 19th

6pm

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


Saturday, October 20th

1pm

Pour to the Core
Peconic Bay Winery
31320 Main Rd
Cutchogue
$40
For more info and to buy tickets:
http://www.pourthecore.com/index.html

Fee includes parking, admission, seminars, and tasting for 30+ local and international hard Ciders.


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/
To reserve a seat…
http://www.foodday.org/2012_marquee_event?utm_campaign=rsvp_marquee_ev&recruiter_id=109&utm_medium=email&utm_source=foodday
• Dr. Michael Jacobson, Executive Director, Center for Science in the Public Interest
• Dr. Sonny Ramaswamy, Director, USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture
• Eric Meade, Vice President and Senior Futurist, Institute for Alternative Futures
• A.G. Kawamura, farmer, former California Secretary of Agriculture
• Dr. Catherine Badgley, Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan
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 1st

7pm

GMOs!
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 with featured speaker Kathleen Furey, trained by GMO expert Jeffrey Smith.


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! (and spread the word if you’re so inclined)

Michelle Obama: Tell Barack to honor his campaign promise to label GMOs…
http://signon.org/sign/michelle-obama-tell-presiden?source=c.url&r_by=5382364

Dole foods wants corporations to get away with murder…literally…
http://sumofus.org/campaigns/shell-kiobel/



8. Baby Food Recipes

The CSA gets the following foods mentioned in the recipes…Peas (these are reasonably priced to buy organic and frozen if you need more), Cilantro, Onions, Butternut Squash, Strawberries…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/norah-o-donnell/baby-love_b_697375.html?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=083110&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BlogEntry#comments



9. What you actually got last week

Week #23
September 27, 2012

1. Tomatoes: Red and/or Paste, Red – up to 2 lbs - $5.00
2. Squash, Summer ** : Costata Romanesco, Cousa, Eight Ball, Yellow, Zucchini - up to 1 ½ lb – $2.75 (weighed with Peppers)
3. Peppers, Sweet* - up to 1 lb - $3.25
4. Lettuce: Leaf, Green – 1 head - $2.75
5. Snap Beans, Green – 1 lb - $3.25
6. Tat Soi – 1 bunch - $2.75
7. Foo Gwa – 1 – no charge

Total Items: 6
Total Amount: $19.75 (We pay $17.50 per week to our farmer for the food we get every week. Today we’ve gotten $1.00 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 $28.75 – doesn’t include Aug 9th)

Herb Share – Sept 2B
Dill AND Sorrel

*Dr Weil says eat your Peppers!
http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/TIP04552/3-Reasons-to-Eat-Bell-Peppers.html

** Can be made with any type of Summer Squash…and you can do it without the Basil…or if you made Pesto this summer you could put a drop of that on top…
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/26/dining/a-little-zucchini-for-your-grated-cheese-a-good-appetite.html?ref=dining&_r=0



10. And now for something completely different…

You may find this really gross…or interesting…
Butcher sells fake “human” meat…
http://www.thebraiser.com/london-butcher-human-meat-resident-evil-nsfl/#6

And on the lighter side…political portraits created with Cheetos…
http://bites.today.com/_news/2012/10/03/14201159-cheetos-in-chief-artist-creates-cheesy-presidential-portraits?lite
And you can enter to win one of them if you click on the link in the article!

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