Happy Autumn!
CSA weather report…chilly
THANKSGIVING ALERT!!! The week of
Thanksgiving, our CSA pickup day will be Wednesday, November 27th
(at the moment it will take place at same time…3:30pm to 7:30pm…BUT we may
start earlier…stay tuned for any time changes)
Someone asked me about this so guess it’s time to let y’all
know that the last day of CSA our regular CSA season is Thursday, December
12th.
Important…if you call the Box Office to have a
bag packed for a late CSA pickup (by 10pm), do NOT leave messages at the Box
Office and expect the CSA to get them. It doesn’t always happen (it didn’t last
week…not good). You MUST speak directly to someone from the CSA. The call can
easily be transferred to the Sky Room Café where someone from the CSA can take
the phone call (or if the CSA is outside or in another location, they can still
get a CSA member to come to the Box Office to take the call).
Also important…if you send anyone to the CSA
to pick up food, please tell them to BRING BAGS!
This email includes…
- What you need to know
- Latke contest!
- Turkeys anyone?
- 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
- Vegan Thanksgiving
- Prizes!
- Pie anyone?
- 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 ask to
speak to someone from the CSA. 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. And do not leave a message at the Box Office…YOU
MUST SPEAK TO SOMEONE FROM THE CSA (otherwise the CSA will not be
responsible if your food doesn’t get packed and left for you).
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.
Veggie info sheets added as needed. This is the link to the: Veggie Info Sheets. Print out, put in a notebook and you end up with a cookbook at the end of the CSA season. Also there are good tips on storage, prep, and nutrition.
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 #23
November 14, 2019
- Cauliflower - Romanesco* – 1 head
- Pak Choi** – 1 bunch (veg sheet is for Bok and Pak
Choi)
- Peppers, Sweet*** – ? – read CSA Wall Chart for details
(test before eating/using to make sure none are Hot Peppers…see separate
CSA email – Pepper Alert 2.0 for more info)
- Lettuce – 1 head
- Turnips - ? – read CSA Wall Chart for details (if we’re
getting the Turnip tops/greens…won’t know till they show up, they are one
of the world’s healthiest foods)
- Fennel**** - 1 bunch
Total Items: 6
Herb Share – November 1A
Dill***** AND Cilantro******
*Cauliflower is one of the world’s healthiest foods (good
info and recipes)!
**Bok Choy (same benefits as Pak Choi) is one of the world’s
healthiest foods (good info and recipes)!
***Sweet Peppers are one of the world’s healthiest foods
(good info and recipes)!
****Fennel is one of the world’s healthiest foods (good info
and recipes)!
*****Dill is one of the world’s healthiest foods (good info
and recipes)!
******Cilantro is one of the world’s healthiest foods (good
info and recipes)!
2.Latke contest!
Got a good Latke family recipe (and a good story behind it)?
If so, submit your recipe (and story) to be…
- Chosen to be featured on
the digital archives of the Jewish Food Society
- Served en masse at the
11th Annual Latke Festival in Brooklyn, alongside Latkes from
some of NYC’s finest restaurants and chefs
About the Latke Festival…
The winning recipe will be chosen by Monday, November 18th.
Submit here…
3.Turkeys anyone?
Thanksgiving isn’t so far away, and now is the time to make
plans if you’d like a local/certified organic/heritage breed Turkey (sorry, but
at the moment, seems like you can’t get all three in one bird). If you want a
bird from 20 to 30 lbs., unless you’re getting a heritage breed bird, I’d
recommend getting two 10 to 15 lb. ones (you can ask me why in person…you might
not want to eat that big bird afterwards). Here are a few options…
A.Browder’s Birds – certified organic
You can reserve online with a $50 deposit fee and the birds
must be picked up at their farm in Mattituck from Monday, November 25th,
to Wednesday, November 27th
B.Makinajian Poultry Farm & Country Store – free range,
no antibiotics, no hormones
Will start taking orders after November 1st. Size
ranges from 10 to 30 lbs. Birds must be picked up at their farm in Huntington
from Monday, November 25th, to Wednesday, November 27th
between 9am to 6pm.
Give a call – 631-368-9320
Or stop by – 276 Cuba Hill Rd. (at intersection of Little
Plains Rd.), Huntington
Tell them suzanne sent you 😊 !
C.Heritage Foods – humanely raised, pasture raised, heritage
breeds, antibiotic free, not artificially inseminated
This Brooklyn based company has Turkeys available from Good
Shephard Poultry Ranch (Kansas) delivered fresh to your home (so the birds
aren’t local but the company is).
4.Click activism – you don’t have to do much, or spend any
money, to help make a positive change in the world
A.Tell
Congress to stop labeling fraud and support the US Beef Integrity Act…
B/We
need clean air (and so do the plants and animals we eat) so the natural gas
companies need to clean up their act…
5.What you actually got last week
Week #22
November 7, 2019
- Potatoes: Sweet* – 2 lb. bag – $5.75
- Broccoli** – 1 bunch - $3.00
- Peppers, Sweet: Bell/Hungarian Wax/others*** – 1 ½ lb.
bag – $3.75
- Lettuce: Romaine – 1 head - $3.50
- Beans, Cranberry – ¾ lb. bag – $3.00
- Cress, Curly/Pepper**** - 1 bunch - $3.25
Total Items: 6
Total Amount: $22.25
(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 $1,
and so far it’s a grand total of $37.75 which is more than one CSA share! 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! 😊)
*Sweet Potatoes are one of the world’s healthiest foods
(good info and recipes)!
**Broccoli is one of the world’s healthiest foods (good info
and recipes)!
***Sweet Peppers are one of the world’s healthiest foods
(good info and recipes)!
****Curly/Pepper Cress
It’s speecy spicy, very good for you, and goes well in small
amounts in any salad, sandwich, wrap for starters…read on…
Pepper Cress – tangy/spicy herb that can be used raw in
salads, on sandwiches or wraps and you can toss a small amount in at the end of
a stir-fry or cooked recipe to give things a bit of a culinary punch
Peppercress Aioli…
more Peppercress recipes…the Smoothie/Juice and Hummus
recipes look pretty good (weights need to be translated as this is from the
UK)…
more recipes from a place that does Peppercress Sprouts more
than growing them in soil outdoors…
Web MD on “garden cress” (basically same as Pepper/Curly
Cress)…
6.Vegan Thanksgiving
What’s Vegan Thanksgiving? The obvious answer is that it’s a
Thanksgiving being celebrated by vegans or in a vegan manner (see below for
recipes and vegan Turkey alternatives), BUT it happens to be an event put on by
the organization that we donate any leftover CSA food to (Community
Solidarity…formerly known as the Long Island Chapter of Food Not Bombs) that
bills this event as the world’s largest vegan Thanksgiving (last year they
provided food for approximately 3,700 people)! It’s taking place on Sunday,
November 24th in Hempstead (though there are events happening around
this from November 23rd to December 2nd). There are many
ways to participate. You can donate vegan clothing, bring a vegan meal, raise
money to help pay for this event (rented tables, gas to transport stuff, etc.),
and spread the word on your social media accounts.
For more info and to participate…
And here’s some vegan Turkey alternatives (unfortunately,
none organic and all highly processed), and some main dish recipes that
actually feature VEGETABLES (what a concept 😊 )!
7.Prizes!
A.Win pastry chef extraordinaire Claudia Fleming’s newly
published (and until now, out-of-print and highly coveted) cookbook The Last
Course…
B.Win a dinner for 6 at Emily West Village (NYC) and a
year’s supply of Sir Kensington’s condiments…
8.Pie anyone?
If you’re a fan of pies and are looking to purchase one for
Thanksgiving weekend, check this out…
CSA members, Mike Mulligan and Fiona Larkin, belong to Our
Lady Queen of Martyrs in Centerport, and the church holds a yearly Thanksgiving
Pie Sale. The proceeds of this year’s event is the Homecoming Farm CSA in
Amityville (a non-profit CSA on the grounds belonging to the Sisters of St.
Dominic). I’ve known Sister Jeanne, the Dominican nun there who started it, for
a number of years and they do good works there. The pies are being baked by
Hometown Pies in Centerport (owned by the former original baker at Kerber’s
Farm).
For more info and to order pies…
9.And now, for something completely different 😊
3-D cookie master Julia Usher…
And her YouTube channel…
3-D cookie tea cups….jeez!
Events…both near and far
Thursday, November 7th to Thursday,
November 21st
10am to 8pm
Canstruction
Brookfield Pl.
230 Vesey St.
NYC
FREE (requested donation of a can of healthy food)
For more info:
More than 100 cities worldwide participate in this event
designing and building sculptures from unopened cans of food. In New York,
afterwards they’re donated to City Harvest.
Monday, November 11th to Sunday, November
17th
Anxiety Summit 5: Gut-Brain Axis (online series)
FREE
To register…
Participating in this series is Dr. David Perlmutter
(neurologist), Dr. Mark Hyman (functional medicine) and a bunch of other
holistic health practitioners. If they’re talking about a healthy gut
microbiome, they’ll be talking about eating organic.
Thursday, November 14th
10am to 11pm
IEatGreen radio show
To listen to the show live (or listen to the archived
programs)…
Hosted by Long Islander Bhavani Jharoff. Older shows can be
accessed in archives.
Friday, November 15th
10am to 3:30pm
A Call to Action: Protecting the Earth’s Biodiversity
NY Botanical Garden
Ross Lecture Hall
2900 Southern Blvd.
Bronx, NY
$25 – Member/$29 - Public
For more info and to buy tickets:
Hear Doug Tallamy (professor and author), and others, talk
about what we can do to help keep biodiversity alive and well on planet Earth.
Wonder if they’ll mention CSAs? Eating a diverse diet is part of the solution,
and our CSA helps provide us with just that!
6pm to 7pm
Green Inside and Out
WUSB-FM/90.1 FM
Long Islander Beth Fiteni us the host. Rotates with Healthy
Planet radio with Huntington resident Bob DiBenedetto.
Saturday, November 16th
9am to 5pm
Beekeeping for the Future
The Pfeiffer Center
260 Hungry Hollow Rd.
Chestnut Ridge, NY
$95
For more info and to register…
If you’re thinking of getting Honeybees next spring, now is
the time to prepare. If you’ve been beekeeping for a year or two, this is a
good place to ask questions and learn new things. This is where I’m going to
take classes if I ever get around to being able to have Bees in my backyard.
12pm to 1pm
Food Chain Radio
Host Michael Olsen always has interesting guests on the
issues of food, food politics, health, and related topics. Check out the
archives.
Tuesday, November 19th
11:30am to 2:30pm
Taco Tuesdays (ongoing)
South Fork Kitchens Cafe
East End Food Institute
39 Tuckahoe Rd.
Southampton
For more info…
Authentic local Mexican food by Chef Esther priced under $10.
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, November 20th to Sunday,
November 24th
2019 Biodynamic Conference
Sagamore Resort
Lake George, NY
For more info and to register…
The theme of the conference this year is Cultivating
Relationships: Earth, Cosmos, Community. There’s a children’s program, and they
also offer scholarships and give discounts to volunteers.
Wednesday, November 20th
7 to 9pm
Citizens for 5G Awareness
Huntington Hilton
598 Broadhollow Rd
Melville
For more info contact Debbie:
Join a group of people that are active regarding educating
the public about the health concerns around 5G wireless technology.
Saturday, November 23rd
1pm to 4pm
Wildman Steve Brill Foraging Tour
Sunken Meadow State Park
1 NY State Reference Route 908K
Kings Park
$20 – suggested donation (cash only)/$10 – children under 12
RSVP at least 24 hours in advance of tour (and call the
evening before to confirm and make sure there are no changes of plan on his
end)…
914-835-2143 (it’s his home phone)
Check out his website as there are a BUNCH of instructions
you would do well to heed from where to meet, to what to bring…
If you’ve never gone, do yourself a favor and check this
out. Steve is a brilliant forager (and a hardcore lovable cornball 😊
) and should be considered a national treasure. This is a kid friendly event.
Sunday, November 24th
1pm to ???
Vegan Thanksgiving
Hempstead LIRR Train Station
W. Columbia St. & Station Plaza
Hempstead
For more info and to donate/participate/volunteer…
This is a yearly event put on by Community Solidarity
(formerly the Long Island Chapter of Food Not Bombs) billed as the world’s
largest vegan Thanksgiving (last year they provided food for approximately
3,700 people). This is the group that our CSA donates any leftover CSA food to.
There are many ways to participate. You can donate vegan clothing, bring a
vegan meal, raise money to help pay for this event (rented tables, gas to
transport stuff, etc.), and/or spread the word on your social media accounts.
2pm to 6pm
Healthy Planet’s 26th Annual Turkey-free
Thanksgiving Dinner/Lecture
Sustainability Institute at Molloy College
7180 Republic Airport
Farmingdale
$10 (+$10 if eating and not bringing a vegan potluck dish to
share) – Members/$15 (+$10 if eating and not bringing a vegan potluck dish to
share) – Public/ FREE – under 12 years old
For more info…
631-421-5591
To purchase tickets (and/or become a member)…
2pm - Live music…free soup…socialize/ 3pm – potluck
(including donated food from local eateries/ 4:30pm – Members forum (members
can make a 30 second announcement), intro by group founder Bob DiBenedetto and
guest speaker, Randall Abate, lawyer and author of Climate Change and the
Voiceless/ 5:45pm – Raffles (the raffle prizes have been pretty great here) and
more
Wednesday, December 4th
6:30pm to 8pm
Dr. Pina LoGuidice
Organic Krush
1508 Old Northern Blvd.
Rosyln
FREE
For more info…
Check out naturopath Dr. LoGuidice who has an office in
Huntington. Healthy snacks and cold pressed juices will be served.
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.
Monday, December 16th
6pm to 8:30pm
11th Annual Latke Festival
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn
$75 - Regular/$128 - VIP
For more info…
and to buy tickets…
Have gone 2x when it was at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in
the early days when it was cheaper and did have a swell time! This is a benefit
for The Sylvia Center (non-profit dealing with kids and cooking and farming)
and put on by the folks at Great Performances Catering (tend to be green and
farm-to-table). Music, booze, latkes…what’s not to like? 😊
Wednesday, December 18th
7 to 9pm
Citizens for 5G Awareness
Huntington Hilton
598 Broadhollow Rd
Melville
For more info contact Debbie:
Join a group of people that are active regarding educating
the public about the health concerns around 5G wireless technology.
Wednesday, January 8th
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.
Friday, January 17th to Sunday, January 19th
NOFA-NY’s 38th Annual Organic Farming and
Gardening Conference
Oncenter
Syracuse
For more info and to register…
Friday, January 24th to Sunday, February, 2nd
9am to 9:30pm
The Truth About Health
Hilton Long Island
598 Broadhollow Rd.
Melville
FREE
For more info and to register…
If you’re interested in being a sponsor of this event (if
you have a business or service you’d like to promote)…
Vegan meals/snacks are provided. Lots of speakers on lots of
topics regarding health and the environment.
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