Happy Summer!
Thanks to everyone who responded to today’s shoutout for
help this week! We’re good to go…but you can ALWAYS stop by at 3:30pm or 5:30pm
to ask if we need any help (people cancel last minute…don’t show up…life
happens J ).
CSA Alert!
This week the Cinema Arts Centre is having an event with the
actor Alan Alda starting at 7:30pm. My guess is that the parking lot is going
to start filling up and things are going to get crowded starting at 6:30pm. If
you can get to the CSA before 6:30pm, you might be glad you did. If you can’t,
you can’t. We’ve experienced other celebrity events on Thursday nights so we’ll
basically be fine BUT thought you’d appreciate the heads up.
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!
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!
June 29, 2017
1.
Lettuce
2.
Peas, Sugar Snap
3.
Cress, Upland*
4.
Swiss Chard
5.
Chives
Total Items: 5
*There is no Veggie Info Sheet for this so here’s some info…
Upland Cress info…
2.
Eat Salmon? Check this out…
3.
What you actually got last week
4.
What Dr. Weil thinks we should be eating now…
5.
It’s not all bad news J
6.
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. Eat Salmon? Check this out…
Organic farming could be part of the solution…
Eat organic food, there will be more organic farms.
3.What you actually got last week
Week #4
June 22, 2017
1.
Lettuce: Romaine – 1 head - $3.00
2.
Peas, Snow OR Peas, Sugar Snap – 1 bag (2/3 lb.)
- $6.50
3.
Lavender (yes…it’s edible!)* - 1 bunch - $3.00
4.
Radishes: French Breakfast** - 1 bunch - $3.00
5.
Garlic Scapes – 1 bunch - $4.00
Total Items: 5
Total Amount: $19.50
(we pay $18.50 per week for our CSA share…some weeks we get
a bit more – this week it was $1.00 - and it adds up over the course of the
season and so far that total is $3.00…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 )
Herb Share – June 2B
Dill AND Rosemary
*Things to do with Lavender…(1 tsp. dried = 2 tsp. fresh)
Read this first…
1. Hang it up in your car and use as organic air freshener
2. Put in vase and smell
3. Make Lavender tea and learn about the health benefits…
4.Make Lavender Mint Iced Tea…
5.Make Lavender infused Lemonade…
6.Make Lavender Shortbread Cookies…
7.Explore further…Lavender Lemon Chicken and Lavender
Roasted Potatoes look promising…
**3 seasonal recipes…
Radish Avocado Toast
Fennel Sausage Pasta (we will get Fennel at some point)
Strawberry Rhubarb Pie (if you go to the farm this weekend
you can probably get more Rhubarb to go with your freshly picked Strawberries
and make a pie…or another one and freeze it)
Learn how in 3 minutes…
And a plethora of more delicious ways to use Radishes both
raw and cooked…
4. What Dr. Weil thinks we should be eating now…
Dr. Andres Weil’s list of 10 vegetables we should be eating
now (or part 1 of it anyway)…
Well, our CSA provides all of them BUT Sweet Potatoes aren’t
seasonally available till later in the year (same with Cabbage)…and if Onions
and Garlic are good, the other members of the Allium family that we get (Leeks,
Scallions, Chives) would be under the same category of goodness…
5.It’s not all bad news J
Here’s an article rating a few big box stores on organic
food…
There are coupons for free trial and discounted memberships
to BJs on the sign-in desk. While Costco’s might be better for organics, I’m
also a fan of the cheap gas at BJs in Farmingdale. Last visit this week was
$2.23 per gallon for regular, and if you get a BJ’s credit card you get $.10
off each gallon of gas so that brings it to $2.13…
6.And now for something completely different…
Internet troll cakes…huh! J
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