Happy Autumn!
CSA weather report as of Wednesday evening...cool.
CSA Mystery…Did anyone by chance take an extra
bunch of Scallions last week? We were one bunch short at the end of the night.
If you have any insight, please get in touch.
CSA Alerts!
- December 7th – last day of the CSA!
- Winter Share cancelled – too little (number of interested people), too late (no more time to look for more people to join)…we’ll shoot for next winter and start signup earlier.
- Feel free to call the box office regarding late pickups, but please do not leave messages with the box office staff…ask to speak to someone with the CSA directly. If you don’t talk directly to a CSA member, the CSA will not be responsible if your food isn’t packed up, etc. The other week the box office person forgot the name of the CSA member by the time they walked over to the CSA.
- Regarding late night pickups…if your food isn’t picked up by the end of the night it will be donated. There isn’t a refrigerator for us to store food, and it can’t be left overnight in the box office because it could attract bugs.
Veggie info sheets added 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 #28
December 7, 2017
- Squash, Winter*: Butternut
- Arugula/Curly Cress** Mix
- Jerusalem Artichokes*** – 1 lb. (1 bag)
- Mustard Greens**** – 1 bunch
- Garlic – 1 bag
Total Items: 5
Herb Share – December 1A
Sage AND Thyme
*
A Guide to Winter Squash: How to Choose, Store and Cook Your
Gourds
**
Curly Cress (Upland Cress/Cresson) – use sparingly (it’s
spicy) in Salads, on Sandwiches or Wraps, or make Pesto substituting Basil with
Cress
Eat it! It’s good for you…
A member of our sister CSA in Cobble Hill Brooklyn got Curly
Cress and Jerusalem Artichokes one week like we are this week…
***
Jerusalem Artichoke Soup
****
Mustard Greens are considered by this website to be one of
the 100 most healthy foods (and he confirms my way of storing greens by putting
in a plastic bag and squishing out all the air possible and then sealing…I tie
it in a knot and also wrap in paper towels so they don’t get slimy, and label
the bag with what it is and the date so it doesn’t go to waste by knowing when
to use it and what’s in the bag)!
This week’s email…
- HELP! Can you help out at the CSA this week?
- Events – near and far
- Click to change the world (or at least try J )
- Contest!
- Sexual harassment on the farm, and in the food industry …
- But it’s not all bad news! J
- What you actually got last week
- 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.HELP! Can you help out at the CSA this week?
At the moment we’re looking for…
At least TWO (2) people who can be at the CSA this week from
3:30pm to 5:30pm, and TWO (2) people who can be there from 5:30pm to 7:30pm.
If you can help out…
Respond to this email ASAP…from now to noon, Thursday,
December 7th or…
- call 631-421-4864 anytime from now till noon, Thursday, December 7th or…
- call 631-423-7610 xt. 0 on Thursday, December 7th, after 3pm and ask to speak to someone from the CSA
- just stop by the CSA before 3:30pm or 5:30pm, and ask if we still need any help
2.Events – near and far
Thursday, December 7th
10am to 11am
iEat Green with Bhavani Jharoff online radio show
To tune in online…
To call in during the live show…
888-874-4888
Download the PRN mobile app to listen wherever!
Can also listen to past shows on the PRN archive page
Join host Bhavani Jharoff (chef and head of the Slow Food
North Shore chapter) talking food and food politics.
Sunday, December 10th
9am to 1pm
Winter Farmers Market
Jefferson Primary School
263 Oakwood Rd.
Huntington, NY
For more info:
From now till March 25th. Don, the
Sprout/Microgreen guy who did the tasting for 2 weeks at the CSA, will be here
every week.
2pm to 4:30pm
How to Survive the Holidays as a Vegan
Cold Spring Harbor Public Library, Large Meeting Room
95 Harbor Rd.
Cold Spring Harbor
FREE
Friday, January 19th to Sunday, January 21st
NOFA-NY Winter Conference
Saratoga, NY
$77 to $500 (depending on how long you stay, where you stay
and dining plans)
For more info and to register:
This is the organic conference where farmers show up because
they’re not working (or at least most of them aren’t). Good info, good food,
good parties, good time had by all that attend. Tricky part can be getting
there and back depending on the weather (can take Amtrak or Grayhound).
Includes a children’s conference for ages 6 to 12.
February 2nd to February 11th
The Real Truth About Health
Huntington Hilton
598 Broadhollow Rd.
Melville
FREE
To register and for more info:
This is a holistic nutrition event filled with top names in
the field…T. Colin Campbell, Joel Fuhrman MD, Caldwell Esselstyn MD, Brian
Clement, Gabriel Cousens MD, Devra Davis, Brenda Davis and much more. FYI…the
focus is on a vegan diet.
3.Click to change the world (or at least try J )
Tell Arkansas pesticide board not to allow 2,4-D to be used
on tolerant Cotton…
4.Contest!
Win artisanal Olive Oil!!!
5.Sexual harassment on the farm, and in the food industry
…
Farms across America (and California in particular where a
lot of produce is grown), and other places connected with food, have serious
issues regarding the treatment of women workers…
The customer isn’t always right…
If you don’t acknowledge it, you can’t change it. So looking
at the big picture, this will be a good thing moving forward (while I
personally am finding it overwhelming and pretty depressing at the moment).
6.But t’s not all bad news! J
In England, they’ve found a way to run public transit buses
on Coffee grounds!
7.What you actually got last week
Week #27
November 30, 2017
- Squash, Winter*:
Acorn – 1 - $2.00
AND
Carnival – 1 - $1.50
- Lettuce: Boston, Red – 1 head - $3.25
- Sweet Potatoes – 2 lbs. (1 bag) - $5.50
- Tat Soi – 1 bunch - $3.50
- Scallions – 1 bunch - $3.50
Total Items: 5
Total Amount: $19.00
(We pay $18.50 per week for our CSA share…some weeks we get
a bit more ($.50 this week) and it adds up over the course of the season. So
far that total is $32.50…so, we’ve already gotten over one entire share’s worth
of extra produce that our farmer gave us and we didn’t pay for…lucky us! J )
*
A Guide to Winter Squash: How to Choose, Store and Cook Your
Gourds
**
Sweet Potato Quesadillas
8.And now for something completely different…
I don’t know about you, but I’m a sucker for well-crafted
miniatures. Pretty amazing food artistry (and everything else she does)…
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