Happy Spring (not summer till June 21st 😊
)!
OUR CSA IS NOT IN THE SKY ROOM CAFÉ THIS WEEK!!!
We are being displaced because of a concert by the Huntington Folks Music
Society SO the CSA will be in the entrance/lobby that’s near the upper parking
lot stairs. If you’re coming from the upper parking and are standing at the
bottom of the staircase about to walk past the garden and into the Cinema, look
to your left and you’ll see a pathway that leads to another entrance into the
building, and that’s where the CSA will be this week. If the weather was nicer
we’d be in front of the Café in the garden but with the stormy weather…this
lobby area is the place to be.
CSA weather report…rain and thunder/breezy/warm
This email includes…
- What you need to know
- Click activism –
sometimes it doesn’t take much time, effort, or money, to help make a
difference
- Events…both near and far
- Comments about Cress
- What you actually got
last week
- Strawberry tops? Who
knew???
- And now, for something
completely different 😊
Anything in these emails not directly related to the
functioning of the CSA feel free to take or leave at your discretion, and
anything related to health issues always consult with your physicians before
taking any action.
1.What you need to know (will be either new info to
first time CSA members, or reminders/old hat to returning CSA members)…
Before you leave the house…BRING BAGS
to pack up your food (CSA members are responsible for packing up their own
shares) – canvas/plastic/paper…bring whatever suits your fancy. The CSA does
NOT provide bags for CSA members.
Time – 3:30pm to 7:30pm
IF you need to pick up later than 7:30pm, call the Cinema
Arts Center Box Office between 3pm to 7:30pm at 631-423-7610 xt 0 and we can
pack a bag for you and leave it at the Box Office but it MUST be picked up
before the Box Office closes (call the Box Office to check the time…lately it’s
been 9:30pm). If not, it won’t be there on Friday.
Place РSky Room Caf̩ in the Cinema Arts
Centre at 423 Park Ave, Huntington
Parking – park in the all the way around at
the back of the building by the day care center (you’ll see a fenced in
playground area with a sandbox)
When you arrive at the CSA –
- Check in at the desk with our friendly CSA worker
- Read the Wall Chart that tells us every week what we’re
getting, how much we’re getting, and what the farm charged us for it…some
weeks it’s take one of everything but SOME WEEKS IT’S NOT!!! So you have
to make sure you read the Wall Chart every week, and not assume anything.
You can also ask your fellow CSA members that are working that day what
the story is for the day (they should have name tags on).
Before you leave the CSA – Make sure you have
everything on the list! If you get to talking with people, have kids with you,
etc., it can be easy to be distracted and if you get home and find out you
don’t have everything that was on the list, you’re out of luck because at
7:31pm the food is donated to a local food organization that’s waiting to pick
it up and get on their way.
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, and feel
free to ask for suggestion/info/recommendations!
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!
June 20, 2019
- Lettuce – 1 head
- Swiss Chard* – 1 bunch
- Lavender – 1 bunch
- Strawberries** – 1 qt.
- Peas, Sugar Snap – 1 bag
- Curly Cress*** – 1 bunch
*Swiss Chard…good World’s Healthiest Food article with
general and health info, and recipes…
**Strawberries…good World’s Healthiest Food article with
general and health info, and recipes…
*** Curly Cress (also known as Pepper Cress)…
It’s speecy spicy, very good for you, and goes well in small
amounts in any salad, sandwich, or wrap for starters…read on…
The stems can be tough (I’m breaking the tender parts off that
I’m putting on my Salads and Sandwiches like I do with Asparagus), so I’m
thinking of cutting them into ¼” pieces and starting to throw them into stir
fries so they don’t get wasted (good source of fiber, and any green
vegetable…or in this case I think it’s considered a “pot herb”…is very good for
us)…
https://www.healwithfood.org/health-benefits/garden-cress-nutritional-benefits.php
2.Click activism – sometimes it doesn’t take much time,
effort, or money, to help make a difference
Time to pass the Climate and Community Protection Act…
3.Events…both near and far
The Human Longevity Project
Online 9 part documentary series
FREE
To sign up…
Wanna bet they’re going to be talking about eating whole
plant foods? Maybe even organic? 😊 Some of the people
featured in this series are Dr. Mark Hyman and Dr. David Perlmutter (haven’t
gotten the complete list yet).
Saturday, June 22nd
10:30am, 11:30am OR 12:30pm
Annual CSA Strawberry Pickin’ Farm Tour (rain or shine)
Green Thumb Farm
2 Rose Hill Rd (and Montauk Hwy)
Water Mill
For more info and to RSVP…
631-726-1900 (call between 9:30am and 4:30pm)
Directions are basically to go past the Green Thumb Farm
farm stand (if you’re headed east), make the first right and the first driveway
to the right is the path to the farm tour. Park along the road and walk down
the path and there should be a sign-in table right there.
We’re invited to visit our farm twice a year so this is one
of them (next one not till October). It’s a one hour walking tour of a small
section of the farm (it IS 100 acres) that ends with us getting set loose in
the Strawberry patch to pick Strawberries! Everyone that comes is given a quart
basket to fill. The event is rain or shine.
We also get a 10% discount on everything purchased at the
farm stand.
It’s for CSA members and immediate family only. If you’re
sharing a CSA share, the way people usually work it out is one person/family
goes in June and the other takes October, as your share partner isn’t
recognized as a CSA member by the farm, but they are with the CSA.
Suggestion for somewhere to eat before or after your Green
Thumb Farm visit…
Haven’t tried this place yet but might. My go-to place (Bay
Burger in Sag Harbor) has gone. ☹ One of our CSA members last
year tried Hampton Coffee Company when she went on one of our CSA farm tours
and liked it, and it’s right next door to the Green Thumb Farm farm stand.
Sunday, July 28th
12pm
Curing the Incurable with Gary Null
Cinema Arts Centre
423 Park Ave
Huntington
$11 – Cinema Members/$16 – General Public
For more info and to buy tickets…
Gary Null will be at the Cinema Arts Centre with his latest
documentary focusing on doctors who are “curing the incurable” without drugs or
surgery. It’s pretty safe to assume that part of this process is going to
involve eating certified organic vegetables, herbs and fruits! 😊
4.Comments about Cress
From
CSA member Karen Rubino…Regarding the Curly Cress, I put some in our salads
last night, but other than that, I figure I'll never use that huge bunch up
before it goes bad, just putting it in salads. So I put some in my
smoothie this morning. If you don't put too much, it doesn't overpower,
but you can taste it a bit. I figure I want to find ways to use it up,
seeing as that the nutritional benefits are amazing! and I want to get the
benefit, not have it end up in the compost barrel.
If you need a reminder as to what those amazing nutritional
benefit are…
What I’ve decided to do with the tougher stem parts of the
Curly Cress I have left after I use the tender parts in Salads/Wraps/Sandwiches
is to cut them into ¼” pieces, put into a freezer bag, and freeze them. Then I
can add a handful into a stirfry, etc., or try adding them to a smoothie like
Karen has, when I’m ready instead of trying to use them all up now, or letting
them go to waste.
5.What you actually got last week
Week #2
June 13, 2019
- Lettuce: Leaf, Green – 1 head - $3.50
- Radishes: French Breakfast OR Red – 1 bunch - $
- Oregano* – 1 bunch - $3.00
- Strawberries** – 1 qt. - $7.25
- Peas, Snow – 1/2 lb. bag - $4.50
Total Items: 6
Total Amount: $21.75
(We pay $20 per week for our CSA share…some weeks we get a
bit more, and it adds up over the course of the season. This week we got an
extra $1.75! So far that’s a grand total of $2.25 which may not sound like
much, but…just wait and see. We seem to always get at least one CSA share’s
worth of food every year that we didn’t pay for…some years two, and some
between one and two…it’s all good! 😊)
Herb Share – June 1A
Dill*** AND Mint
*Oregano…good World’s Healthiest Food article with general
and health info, and recipes…
**Strawberries…good World’s Healthiest Food article with
general and health info, and recipes…
***Dill… good World’s Healthiest Food article with general
and health info, and recipes…
Did not know Dill is a good source of Calcium and
Magnesium!!! I learn something new every day whether I want to or not! 😊
6.Strawberry tops? Who knew???
Being a fan of “root to shoot” cuisine (or the vegetal
equivalent of “nose to tail” cuisine, or simply waste not want not in old
school speak 😊 ), I was surprised to see this article about
using Strawberry tops! I learn something new every day…whether I want to or
not!!!
I’d say to use organic Strawberry tops from the CSA, farmers
market, or local organic farm as soon as you get them home if you’re going to
do this…
7.And now, for something completely different 😊
Keep scrolling down till you check out what this artist
manages to do with a bunch of Strawberries and other fruit (bathing suits or undergarments…not
sure which 😊 )…
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