Happy Summer!
Can someone help out a fellow CSA member? If you can
store someone’s CSA share and Flower Share in your fridge till Friday, please
let us know at the CSA sign-in desk (or reply to this email before noon today).
One of our CSA members has been gone for 2 weeks and would like her CSA share
this week but won’t be back till Friday. Thanks! 😊
CSA weather report…warm/rain-thunderstorms
It’s
time to weigh our CSA food!
- Please be aware that it may
take a little more time for you to collect your CSA share when weighing is
part of the experience, so plan accordingly.
- Check the CSA Wall Chart that
our farmer brings in every week before taking any food so you know what
you’re taking and how much to take…assume nothing and please feel free to
ask questions!
- Bring your reading glasses, or
ask someone to help if you can’t see the numbers on the scale clearly.
- 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 35 CSA members this week, and if every person is over
by ONE OUNCE (for crying out loud! It’s only an ounce!!!) …that means we’ll be
short over 2 POUNDS of produce and 1 or 2 CSA members (and one of them could be
you) won’t get the food they paid for.
- IF you are asked to weigh more
than one food item at the same time (and you probably will at some point
in the CSA season)…please follow the directions given to you, and weigh in
the order you are asked (you might not think there’s any good reason to be
doing this but our farmer does, and that should be enough of a reason
right there but if you want a further explanation – ask someone working at
the CSA or contact suzanne…there is always a method to the madness)
This email includes…
- What you need to know
- Root to shoot recipes
that may come in handy this week…
- Events…both near and far
- Click activism – you
don’t have to do much, or spend any money, to help make a positive change
in the world
- What you actually got
last week
- Prizes!
- 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.
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!
Week #6
July 18, 2019
- Lettuce – 1 head
- Onions* – 1 bunch
- Beets** – 1 bunch
- Squash, Summer***
- Peas, Sugar Snap – 1 bag
Total Items: 5
Flower Share - #3
???
*Onions are one of the world’s healthiest foods (good info
and recipes)!
**Beets are one of the world’s healthiest foods (good info
and recipes)!
And if we get the Beet Greens attached, Beet Greens are one
of them too!!!
**Summer Squash is one of the world’s healthiest foods (good
info and recipes)!
2.Root to shoot recipes that may come in handy this week…
Some of you may have heard me talk about “root to shoot”
cooking. Here they call it “root to stem”.
Here’s a few recipes for Beet TOPS, Carrot TOPS, and Herb
STEMS. Waste not, eat well! 😊
3.Events…both near and far
Friday, June 19th
6 to 7pm
Green Inside & Out
WUSB – FM/90.1 FM
To listen live online…
For more info about the show and to listen to this, and
more, in the archives…
This week’s edition features host Beth Fiteni interviewing
Huntington’s own Karen J. Miller, founder of the Huntington Breast Cancer
Action Coalition. The talk will be about prevention and the environment.
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!
Tuesday, July 23rd
7pm - Volunteers/8pm – Food Distribution
Community Solidarity Food Share Distribution
Fairground Ave & E. 6th St.
Huntington Station
For more info and to sign up to be a volunteer (though you
can also just stop by)…
This is the group that Green Thumb CSA – Huntington has
partnered with for the last number of years to donate produce remaining at the
end of the night from our CSA.
Wednesday, July 24th
7pm to 9pm
The Read Truth about Health Conference planning meeting
Hilton Hotel
598 Broadhollow Rd.
Melville
FREE
For more into about the conference…
Vegan food will be provided.
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.Click activism – you don’t have to do much, or spend
any money, to help make a positive change in the world
Got this one from the folks at Farm Aid…
Watch the video and if you feel a mind to, sign the
petition…
5.What you actually got last week
Week #5
July 11, 2019
- Lettuce: Boston, Green – 1 head - $3.50
- Kale: Vates* – 1 bunch - $4.00
- Fennel** – 1 bunch - $4.50
- Beans, Fava*** – 1 lb. bag - $3.75
- Peas, Snow – ½ lb. bag - $4.50
Total Items: 5
Total Amount: $20.25
(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 $.25,
and so far it’s a grand total of $3.75 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! 😊)
Flower Share - #2
Snapdragons
Herb Share – July 1A
Basil, Thai AND Marjoram
*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
6.Prizes!
Like Coffee?? Win gift pack from the Brooklyn Roasting
Company…
7.And now, for something completely different 😊
Who doesn’t like a good dumpling? So why not sing/rap about
it…
Watched this the day after going to Red Bowl in Flushing,
Queens, (which I think of as a Chinese diner), where I saw numerous bamboo
steamers of Bao/Pork Buns/Soup Dumplings passing by (wasn’t in the mood but
very tempted).
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