Happy Summer!
CSA weather report…warm/breezy/rain-thunderstorms starting
around 6pm (?)
This email includes…
- What you need to know
- Another reason to drink
organic…
- Events…both near and far
- What you actually got
last week
- 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 – Sky Room Café 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.
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!
Week #5
July 11, 2019
- Lettuce – 1 head
- Kale* – 1 bunch
- Fennel** – 1 bunch
- Beans, Fava*** – 1 bag
- Peas, Snow – 1 bag
Total Items: 5
Flower Share - #2
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Herb Share – July 11
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*Kale is one of the world’s healthiest foods (good info and
recipes)!
**Fennel is one of the world’s healthiest foods (good info
and recipes)!
***Fava Beans – do not eat if you’re on MAOI
antidepressants ( http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/depression/expert-answers/maois/faq-20058035
) OR if you have G6PD (also known as favism…rare genetic disease in Sephardic
Jews, and people of Mediterranean or African descent http://g6pddeficiency.org/wp/g6pd-deficiency-home/overview-of-g6pd-deficiency/#.WWXB1RtK3ug
if you don’t have a problem with Soy there’s a decent chance you don’t have
this…and it is rare…and seems to get detected in childhood)
How to prepare…
Nutrition info…
Recipes…
Easiest…however you make Hummus – substitute cooked,
skinless Fava Beans for your Garbanzo Beans/Chick Peas and proceed and use
however you’d use Hummus
Fava Beans with Snap Peas and Mint
Grilled Fava Beans
Fava Bean and Goat Cheese Dip with Radishes
2.Another reason to drink organic…
If you’re going to drink milk (or give it to someone else to
drink), non-organic milk contains all sorts of nasty stuff, and organic milk
contains healthy stuff like CLA and Omega 3 Fats (and not the nasty stuff)…
And even if you’re drinking certified organic milk, not all
organic milk is created the same (after reading this I switched from Organic
Horizon to Organic Valley…a bit pricier but I want to support better farming
practices and better treatment of dairy cows as a dairy consumer)…
3.Events…both near and far
Monday, July 22nd
7:30pm
Iyengar: The Man, Yoga, and the Student’s Journey
Cinema Arts Centre
423 Park Ave
Huntington, NY
$12 Members/$17 Public
For more info and to buy tickets…
Our CSA has a number of people who teach or practice yoga,
and attending this event is supporting the place that gave our CSA a new home!
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.What you actually got last week
Week #4
June 27, 2019
- Lettuce: Leaf, Red – 1 head - $3.50
- Mustard Greens* – 1 bunch - $3.75
- Radishes: French Breakfast** – 1 bunch - $3.50
- Sorrel – 1 bunch - $3.25
- Peas, Snow – 2/3 lb. bag - $6.00
Total Items: 5
Total Amount $20.00
(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 it was right
on the money but so far it’s a grand total of $3.50 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 – July 2B
Savory, Summer*** AND Thyme, Lemon****
* Mustard Greens…good World’s Healthiest Food article with
general and health info, and recipes…
**Root to Shoot tip - Radish Greens Pate recipe…
*** Savory, Summer… no Veg Info Sheet so…(and
very similar to Winter Savory)…info on what to cook with, medicinal uses, etc…
****Thyme…good World’s Healthiest Food article with general
and health info, and recipes…
5.And now, for something completely different 😊
I’d like to see these at my local Japanese sushi joint…
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