Week #11 July 3, 2014

Happy Summer!

Who went Strawberry picking at our farm the other weekend? Got any pictures? How about letting us know how the farm tour was?

Planting a garden this year? Get certified organic Herb (many varieties), Vegetable (many varieties) and Flower (some…ask!) plants grown at your farm, Green Thumb Farm! To order plants, call the farm at 631-726-1900 between 9:30am and 4pm any day of the week/weekend and have a credit card on hand for payment. They will be delivered with the next available CSA delivery!

If you’d like to visit our farm (Green Thumb Farm in Water Mill) on days besides our CSA Pumpkin picking in October, the farm stand is now open 7 days a week until Sunday, December 7th. Tell them at the farm stand that you’re a CSA member and it’s sure to bring a smile!

Seriously…put this phone number (631-385-1079) in your cell phone, on your fridge, or wherever you put phone numbers you’re glad to have when you need them! It’s the hall phone of the UUFH to be used only on Thursdays from 3pm to 8pm. We’ve already had a few people who wished they had it and didn’t, and others who had it and found out how handy it can be! 

This email contains…

1. Your CSA doesn’t need you this week but…
2. More fast food disgustingness…
3. This week’s list…
4. Our certified organic Flower Shares are here! Are you ready and on the list?
5. What you actually got last week
6. Sugar Snap Peas and Booze…really!
7. Click here if you want to ban leaf blowers in the Town of Huntington (and you live in the Town of Huntington), and find out why you’d want to do such a thing!
8. Sugar and health problem cover up!
9. Eight easy ways to eat organic on a budget…
10. And now for something completely different…


1. Your CSA doesn’t need you this week but…

you can always show up at 3:30pm or 5:30pm and ask if we still need help!

Also, keep in mind that if you don’t get an email telling you that you’re working on a particular week…you’re not scheduled to work (but if you have any questions, get in touch with Judi and/or suzanne).



2. More fast food disgustingness…

Besides CAFO meat and yoga mat plastics in fast food…now there’s wood. Ugh!

http://www.grubstreet.com/2014/06/powdered-cellulose-fast-food.html?om_rid=AADNgX&om_mid=_BTsayfB869JrT2

Sorry to keep harping on this but, at least Chipotle and Panera are heading in the right direction.



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

July 3, 2014
Week #11

1. Beets (if there are greens, they are edible!)
2. Peas, Sugar Snap
3. Radicchio *
4. Lettuce
5. Cilantro

Total Items: 5

Flower Share #2 – Yarrow

*
Radicchio – if you think you don’t like it, have you tried grilling it? 
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/michael-chiarello/perfectly-grilled-radicchio-recipe.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radicchio
http://www.marthastewart.com/286437/radicchio-recipes/@center/1009854/winter-produce
http://www.jmarchinifarms.com/recipes/radicchio-recipes.html
http://radicchio.com/recipes/
Booze and Radicchio!
http://radicchio.com/for-chefs/salads-for-adults/



4. Our certified organic Flower Shares are here! Are you ready and on the list?

Did you take a look at the Flower Shares the other week? Amazing, right?

Do you now want one (or two)?

The way to get them now is to let me know ASAP either at the CSA, or by phone or email (by Wednesday midnight latest for me to try and get the word to the farm) and let me tell you how much the CSA share will be and you can pay cash or by check.

The amount for the next one will be $56. The Flowers come to the CSA when they’re ready so it’s not necessarily for 10 consecutive weeks.

If you’re sharing with someone and you buy a Flower Share and they show up when your share partner is picking up you can either pick your Flowers up from them, or have them pay you for the Flower for that week or each of you get a Flower Share and then…you can figure it out! 

Also, keep in mind that one person can have more than one Flower Share. A number of us (I’m one of them) get 2 Flower Shares because they are just that nice!!! 



5. What you actually got last week

June 26, 2014
Week #10

1. Strawberries – 1 qt - $6.75
2. Peas, Sugar Snap OR Peas, Snow – ½ lb - $3.50
3. Radish: French Breakfast OR Red – 1 bunch - $3.00
4. Lettuce: Crisp, Green OR Romaine, Red – 1 head - $2.75
5. Curly Cress – 1 bunch - $2.75

Total Items: 5
Total Amount: $18.75
(We pay $18.50 per week for our CSA share. Our farmer has give us $.25 more this week over what we paid for. It doesn’t sound like much but it does add up over the course of the CSA season. The total of the season so far…meaning that the farmer is giving us more than we paid for…is $3.50 over from what we’ve paid so far)



6. Sugar Snap Peas and Booze…really!

http://liquor.com/articles/snap-pea-cocktails/



7. Click here if you want to ban leaf blowers in the Town of Huntington (and you live in the Town of Huntington), and find out why you’d want to do such a thing!

They need 373 more signatures to move forward with this so spread the word!
https://www.change.org/petitions/huntington-town-council-restrict-gas-leaf-blowers-glbs-during-summer?recruiter=1891563&utm_campaign=mailto_link&utm_medium=email&utm_source=share_petition



8. Sugar and health problem cover up!

How the sugar industry covers up the links between sugar consumption and health problems…
http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2014/06/sugar-industry-tactics-to-make-your-food-unhealthy

While this may seem like heavy reading, it’s a pretty fast read and if you want the gory details, click on the full report this article is based on at the end of the article.

And if that seems like too much of a commitment, it’s worth going to the end and just reading the conclusion and recommendations (that’s what I did).



9. Eight easy ways to eat organic on a budget…

How about this fun fact…apparently if you eat 80% organic for ONE WEEK, 90% of the common organophosphates used in the environment that are in most people’s bodies are GONE! So as it says in the article below, once you start eating organically (the more the merrier), the pesticide burden in your body begins to vanish!!! How cool is that?

http://www.seventhgeneration.com/learn/blog/8-easy-ways-eat-organic-budget?utm_source=bm23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Image+-+8+Ways+to+Eat+Organic+on+a+Budget&utm_content=dskolnick%40pb.net&utm_campaign=7Gen+2014-06-26

Did you know about this???
http://www.organicdeals.com/
This alone was worth reading the above article (have already signed up to get emails from this site).



10. And now for something completely different…

Food for thought (not wanting, or meaning, to be “punny” but there you go!)…
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/06/25/325189711/kandinsky-on-a-plate-art-inspired-salad-just-tastes-better

I’m a simple woman and actually prefer the conventional lump of salad BUT different strokes for different folks! And who knows…if there’s a point in time where I’d have the time, and decided to take the time, I might see what I could come up with on my salad plate!

I have to admit though, I did go thru a phase of pizza making where I was creating cartoonish landscapes on my rectangle whole wheat pizzas using highly colorful produce so I’m more representational than abstract. 

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