Week #19 August 28, 2014

Happy Summer (it’s till summer till September 22nd)!

TWO mysteries of the week!
1. Did someone leave their Mini Tomatoes by the Flower Shares last week? There was an unclaimed box of Tomatoes by the Flowers and there was no way we could figure out who it belonged to as we don’t know how long it was sitting there. Anyone notice them being missing? If so, let me know.
2. Did someone else not get their Flower Share last week? There was a bunch left at the end of the night.

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! I’m hearing from the people who bought these plants so far that they’re doing GREAT!!!

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. HELP!!! Your CSA does need you this week! We’re looking for ONE (1) person to be at the CSA from 5:30pm to 7:30pm…
2. WE WEIGH!!!
3. This week’s list…
4. Anybody interested in going to the North Fork Foodie Tour?
5. What you actually got last week
6. Got any Parsley left from last week?
7. Back to school lunches - big people can eat them too!
8. Get a free “No Farms, No Food” car magnet!
9. Got any Nut Butters at home? If so…READ THIS!!!
10. And now for something completely different…



1. HELP!!! Your CSA does need you this week! We’re looking for ONE (1) person to be at the CSA from 5:30pm to 7:30pm…

If you can work this week from 5:30pm to 7:30pm, please…
A. respond to this email before 1pm Thursday
B. call 631-421-4864 before 1pm on Thursday
C. call 631-385-1079 after 3pm on Thursday
D. show up a little before 5:30pm on Thursday

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.

And if you got an email from Judi asking you to confirm that you’re working…you need to respond to that in the time frame stated in the email otherwise she’s going to try and find someone else to take your place.



2. WE WEIGH!!!

It’s time to weigh our food!

A. Check the wall chart before taking any food so you know what you’re taking and how much to take…assume nothing and ask questions! 

B. Bring your reading glasses or ask someone to help if you can’t see the numbers on the scale clearly.

C. PLEASE DO NOT GO OVER THE AMOUNT STATED on the Wall Chart. Please err on the under side of the weight posted…NEVER over. It may not seem like much to you but we have 51 members and if every person is off by ONE OUNCE (for crying out loud! It’s only an ounce!!!) …that means we’ll be short over THREE POUNDS of produce and some CSA members won’t get the food they paid for. And I’m sure you wouldn’t want it to be you!

D. IF you are asked to weigh more than one food item at the same time…please follow the directions given to you and weigh in the order you are asked (you might not think there’s a good reason to be doing this but our farmer does and that should be enough of a reason right there…if you want a further explanation – ask suzanne…there is a method to the madness )



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

August 28, 2014
Week #19

1. Lettuce
2. Eggplant
3. Cabbage
4. Beans, Green*
5. Cantaloupe
6. Celery
7. Squash, Summer
8. Cucumber

Total Items: 8 (?)

Herb Share – Aug 2B
Sage AND Savory

*
Dr. Andrew Weil’s Three Reasons to be eating Green Beans…
http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/TIP05290/3-Reasons-to-Eat-Green-Beans.html
Dr. Weil’s favorite French Bean Salad…
http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/RCP02391/French-Bean-Salad-with-Vegetarian-Caesar-Dressing.html



4. Anybody interested in going to the North Fork Foodie Tour?

If so, maybe we can either carpool or just meet up at some point during the day! Last time we met up for an al fresco lunch at the Lunch Truck…part of North Fork Table and Inn.
Buy food at the truck and sit on lawn chairs, or on the grass out in the back (or bring a blanket in case the chairs are all taken)…
http://www.nofoti.com/the-lunch-truck/

Sunday, September 7th
10am to 4pm
Peconic Land Trust Agricultural Center at Charnews Farm
3005 Youngs Ave
Southold, NY
$25 Adults/Children under 12 FREE
For more info and tickets…
http://www.northforkreformsynagogue.org/community/annual-foodie-tour

You can check out organic farms, a raw milk dairy, mushrooms, meat, cheese, wine, micro-greens, honey, lavender, beer, chickens and a whole lot more!



5. What you actually got last week

August 21, 2014
Week #18

1. Lettuce: Leaf, Red – 1 head - $2.75
2. Parsley, Curly – 1 bunch - $2.75
3. Leeks – 1 bunch - $3.75
4. Peppers, Sweet: Green OR Hungarian Wax – ½ lb (to be weighed first and then on top of them goes…)
4. Beans, Shelling: Cranberry* - ½ lb (totaling 1 lb with the Peppers and Beans together) - $3.50
5. Tomatoes, Mini: Black, Isis, White (they looked like Lemon Yellow to me!) – 1 pt - $4.75
7. Squash, Summer: Costata Romanesco, Golden, Kousa, Patty Pan, Yellow, Zucchini – up to 1 lb - $2.00
8. Cucumber – 1 - $.50

Total Items: 8
Total Amount: $20.00
(We pay $18.50 per week for our CSA share. Our farmer has give us $1.50 more this week than the $18.50 which we paid for so, the total so far is $9.25 more than what we’ve paid so far this season)

Flower Share #9
Zinnias

*
Cranberry Bean recipe (even though it says Pesto)…
http://www.melissaclark.net/blog/2012/12/frozen-pesto.html
How to freeze Cranberry Beans (or any shelling bean)…
http://www.autumnmakesanddoes.com/2011/08/26/freezing-shelling-beans/



6. Got any Parsley left from last week?

CSA member (and former professional pastry chef) Lisa McInnis Lonigro submitted this article by one of my favorite chefs, Amanda Cohen of Dirt Candy (closed as of but re-opening in a new and bigger space)…
http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/2014/8/19/5-reasons-you-should-definitely-be-cooking-with-parsley?xid=emailsharebarm

And this is her blogpost about Parsley…
http://www.dirtcandynyc.com/?p=7057

Amanda doesn’t include Curly Parsley so I emailed her (I’ve met her, and my partner, Dylan, knows her husband, AND CSA member Maxine Wetanson’s daughter worked for her…it’s a small universe!) to see if she’ll give her opinion about it (very busy closing one space and opening another). I told her if she had the Curly Parsley from Green Thumb Farm she might have a different point of view about it as it certainly changed my opinion from having it in the culinary crap column, to a very happy addition to my herbal arsenal.

And who doesn’t love Pesto???

Parsley and Lemon Pesto…
http://www.foodrepublic.com/2013/06/07/parsley-and-lemon-pesto-recipe

Walnut Parsley Pesto…
http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/walnut_parsley_pesto/

Spaghetti with Parsley Pesto…
http://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/spaghetti-with-parsley-pesto



7. Back to school lunches - big people can eat them too!

Scroll down the website below for school lunch ideas…that aren’t too shabby for big people too! 

How many ways can you use your CSA food in these?
We'd be remiss to neglect the stars of late summer on your lunch menu: plenty of fresh vegetables like carrots, celery, radishes, broccoli, cauliflower and cherry tomatoes make great vehicles for enjoying dips like hummus and salsa. Sending your kids off with a healthy, market-inspired lunch is one way to ease them back into the swing of the school year!

http://www.marthastewart.com/923056/school-lunch-ideas-and-strategies/@center/277005/back-school



8. Get a free “No Farms, No Food” car magnet!

Right here…
http://action.farmland.org/site/PageNavigator/No-Farms-No-Food/MJ_Magnet_FY14.html

A. Yes, they will want you to donate money after you sign up for the free magnet
B. the American Farmland Trust IS a really good organization if you feel so inclined to donate now or in the future



9. Got any Nut Butters at home? If so…READ THIS!!!

Trader Joe’s, Maranatha, and Whole Foods Nut Butters recall…how the heck did they manage this???

http://www.grubstreet.com/2014/08/whole-foods-salmonella-recall.html?om_rid=AADNgX&om_mid=_BT9j52B870WAli

http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm410533.htm

Jeez…buy nuts and make your own?



10. And now for something completely different…

And here’s some CSA humor from the New Yorker magazine, submitted by CSA member Joanne Schenendorf…
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/welcome-csa

Differences between the author's CSA and ours...

1. we don't get a pre-packaged box
2. we don't get food that's small (unless it’s ok that it’s small), wrinkled and covered with black spots (well, maybe the Fava Beans but it doesn’t matter what the outside looks like since we’re using the insides)
3. no hallucinations yet...I wonder what CSA the author belongs to, and can I join? 
4. no meatstuff for us so no "taintlard"
5. if you know how to cook it, famine root is delicious (and it doesn't take 2 weeks with a lot of other things to hide it)!
6. I've never had large quantities of bugs in any CSA food we've gotten, and if we did…I be pretty freaked out!
7. the bit about Moss isn't funny to me because a young man was killed by a tractor at a CSA farm out east and was crushed to death (sorry to be a Debbie Downer but I don’t think farm safety is a very sexy topic amongst young [and not so young], newbie, hip farmers)
8. we've never gotten a dozen Turnips...ever! :)

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