Happy Summer!
Veggie info sheets added today (Fennel & Kale) and as needed. This is the link: Veggie Info Sheets. Print out, put in a notebook and you end up with a cookbook at the end of the CSA season. Also there are good tips on storage, prep, and nutrition.
The list…this is a general list and you’ll be sent another
email within the next week with the detailed list after I get it (which isn’t
till the day of the CSA…the list is subject to change without notice because
farming is like that! J
However, most of the time it’s accurate and if it’s not…usually only one food
item will be changed)…
CSA words to live by…when trying any new food that
you’ve never eaten before…START SLOW! Read up about it (make sure
it doesn’t interfere with any medications you might be taking or any health
conditions you might have), see what traditional/conventional ways it’s
prepared (cultures that have been eating certain foods for many years basically
have a good idea what they’re doing and we can learn from that), try a small
portion, see how your body/digestive system reacts, and proceed from there.
Then try preparing in different ways and see what you come up with!
Paraphrased wise words by a nutritionist that I read and
don’t remember where I read it or who said it, BUT it’s pretty smart info
regarding eating seasonally in our part of the globe…
Spring is all about detoxing (what we get from the CSA at
this time is a lot of green things that are really good to help clean us out
from whatever we accumulated during the winter)
Interesting piece about spring greens (out of the 14 listed,
we get 12 of them with our CSA…watercress nutritionally and botanically similar
to Peppercress) and detoxing…
Summer is all about being hydrated (the popular summer foods
are all full of water…Tomatoes, Lettuces, Summer Squashes, etc.)
Fall/winter is all about storing energy (we get all the
dense vegetables…Sweet Potatoes, Winter Squashes, etc…. that are energy
powerhouses to fuel us through the winter) to get you through the winter to make
it to…Spring!
Week #6
July 6, 2017
- Lettuce
- Peas, Shelling
- Kale*
- Mustard Greens
- Fennel**
Total Items: 5
*Root to shoot recipe…Kale stem Pesto Pasta!
No reason to waste a perfectly good part of any vegetable.
If you don’t use it, goes into a landfill and increases global warming (really!
).
**If you, or family members, don’t care for
Fennel’s licorice-like flavor when raw…try cooking it! Read Veggie Info Sheet
for suggestions.
This week’s email…
- Events – near and far
- Buy iced coffees? Read this…
- What you actually got last week
- What Dr. Weil thinks we should be eating now (Part 2)…
- Who’d a thunk it!
- And now for something completely different
CSA caveat…anything in any of our CSA emails that’s not
related directly to the workings of the CSA is an opinion and/or subjective, so
please feel free to take it or leave it! J
1.Events – near and far
Friday, August 11th to Sunday, August 13th
NOFA Summer Conference
Hampshire College
Amherst, MA
For more info and to register:
This is the big magilla event for organic farming/gardening
in the northeast. NOFA is the group that certifies farms organic…long before
the federal government got involved and I’m sure they would even if the federal
organic program disappears. About 1500 people attend from all the NOFA member
states (NY, NJ, MA, CT, NH, VT, RI…Main has MOGFA – they have to be different J ). I’ve been to a few and they’re great
(lectures, tours, parties, movies and more). The people going range from young
hipsters to families with kids of all ages (newborns to skulking teens…and
there are workshops for kids – used to be from 5 to teens but not sure this
year and the website has no info…I emailed them) to seniors…a general mix of
humanity. Food is local, organic and they can feed anyone from vegan to paleo
and pretty much anybody in between.
Sunday, November 5th
10am to 6pm
NAVEL Expo
Huntington Hilton
598 Broadhollow Rd
Melville
For more info:
If you’re interested in alternative/holistic health and
healthy living…this is the event for you! Lectures by many well known holistic
health doctors and practitioners.
2. Buy iced coffees? Read this…
Oh dear…
And we THINK we know where we got food poisoning! L
The issue is where humans have to scoop ice to put in any
beverage (and not washing hands…ugh). Better off not getting ice, or being able
to put ice in yourself from an ice dispenser.
3.What you actually got last week
Week #5
June 29, 2017
- Lettuce: Loose Leaf, Red - 1 head - $3.00
- Peas, Sugar Snap – 1 bag (3/4 lb.) - $7.00
- Cress, Upland* - 1 bunch - $3.00
- Swiss Chard: Green, Rainbow OR Red – 1 bunch - $4.00
- Chives – 1 bunch - $3.00
Total Items: 5
Total Amount: $20.00
(we pay $18.50 per week for our CSA share…some weeks we get
a bit more – this week it was $1.50 - and it adds up over the course of the
season and so far that total is $4.50…so we usually end up with at least one
entire share’s worth of extra produce that our farmer gives us and we didn’t
pay for…lucky us! J )
*There is no Veggie Info Sheet for this so here’s some info…
Upland Cress info…
And more info…
Upland Cress recipes…
4. What Dr. Weil thinks we should be eating now (Part 2)…
Our CSA provides us with 4 out of these 5, and maybe next
year we can do a Mushroom Share again (we had one in the past for one year…it’s
more work so we need more members who will work at the CSA for this to happen)…
Again…he’s not thinking seasonally as Tomatoes are coming
up, and the others are more fall/winter (he’s talking Winter Squash, not Summer
Squash).
5.Who’d a thunk it?
Who knew that stealing bees is a thing?
How awful for the farmers AND for the bees. This person
sounds like they probably don’t know a lot about beekeeping and didn’t take
very good care of them.
6.And now for something completely different…
Got milk? Here’s a first…a milk sommelier!
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