Happy Summer!
CSA Weather Report…warm & sunny.
Important…if you send anyone to the CSA to
pick up food for you, please tell them to BRING BAGS!
This email includes…
- What you need to know
- Soap or hand sanitizer?
- How to model a
sustainable lifestyle for your kids (or grandkids)…
- If you haven’t watched
this yet, it’s really worth checking out…Food safety and COVID-19
- 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 physician(s) 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
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)…*except when it’s raining (read the CSA Weather
Report above)
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 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!
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 physician(s) before
taking any action.
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 Curly Cress/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 2, 2020
- Peas: Sugar Snap* – check CSA Wall Chart for details
- Mustard Greens** – 1 bunch
- Lettuce – 1 head
- Peas: Snow – check CSA Wall Chart for details
- Radishes – 1 bunch
Total Items: 5
Flower Share – Week #3??
*NY Times Sugar Snap Pea & Tofu recipe (not sure when
Sugar Snap Peas started to get referred to as “Snap Peas” but for the moment
I’m sticking with Sugar Snap Peas)…and if you don’t eat Soy, they suggest other
non-veg proteins…
**Mustard Greens are one of the world’s 100 healthiest foods
(good info and recipes)!
http://www.whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=93
2.Soap or hand sanitizer?
When it comes to hand maintenance during these COVID-19
days, this is a common question/concern. The general consensus is that
handwashing with soap and water is #1 on the list (and the preferred
method…COVID-19 hates soap*) but if you have no access to soap and water, hand
sanitizer is the next option (but keep reading as to which ones are better to
use for you and the planet).
*and here’s the science behind why…
Hand sanitizers mess with your hand’s microbiome (yup…it’s
not only inside, it’s outside your body too), and puts you more at risk for
skin infections…
Hand sanitizer recall (exposure to these hand sanitizers can
lead to methanol poisoning)…
Granted these folks who died were drinking it BUT, even when
using it correctly you can be poisoned thru skin absorption…
Not all soaps and hand sanitizers are created equal in terms
of potential toxicity to you and the environment. Here’s a great resource from
the Environmental Working Group (EWG) about protecting your hands during these
days of COVID-19…
How does your hand sanitizer rate? Here’s a resource from
EWG to find effective and non-toxic hand sanitizers (when you can find them 😊
)…
And just got this in an email
from Consumer Lab (Canadian company that’s like a Consumer Report for
supplements)…
When soap and water are not available, the CDC advises using hand sanitizer containing at least 60% alcohol (typically hand sanitizers contain alcohol in the form of ethanol or isopropyl). It also notes that benzalkonium chloride, an ingredient in some hand sanitizers, has "less reliable activity against certain bacteria and viruses than either of the alcohols." A recent review of studies suggests that most alcohol-based hand sanitizers are effective at inactivating coronaviruses in general, although tests of their effects on SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, were not included (Golin, Am J Infect Control 2020). The researchers also emphasized the importance of using an adequate amount of hand sanitizer, which a study among adults found should be at least ½ teaspoon or more to get complete coverage, but one pump from a dispenser provides only about half of this amount: Two pumps are needed to achieve better coverage. Hand sanitizers used in the study included Purell Advanced Instant Hand Sanitizer and Purell Advanced Instant Hand Sanitizer Foam, each containing 70% ethanol (Kampf, BMC Infect Dis 2013).
When soap and water are not available, the CDC advises using hand sanitizer containing at least 60% alcohol (typically hand sanitizers contain alcohol in the form of ethanol or isopropyl). It also notes that benzalkonium chloride, an ingredient in some hand sanitizers, has "less reliable activity against certain bacteria and viruses than either of the alcohols." A recent review of studies suggests that most alcohol-based hand sanitizers are effective at inactivating coronaviruses in general, although tests of their effects on SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, were not included (Golin, Am J Infect Control 2020). The researchers also emphasized the importance of using an adequate amount of hand sanitizer, which a study among adults found should be at least ½ teaspoon or more to get complete coverage, but one pump from a dispenser provides only about half of this amount: Two pumps are needed to achieve better coverage. Hand sanitizers used in the study included Purell Advanced Instant Hand Sanitizer and Purell Advanced Instant Hand Sanitizer Foam, each containing 70% ethanol (Kampf, BMC Infect Dis 2013).
3.How to model a sustainable lifestyle for your kids (or
grandkids)…
.
Being a CSA member is one of the things this mom does to
model a “green” lifestyle for her family!
4.If you haven’t watched this yes, it’s really worth
checking out…Food safety and COVID-19
One of our CSA members told me that after watching this, it
made them feel better about going grocery shopping.
Watch writer J. Kenji Lopez-Alt (son of a Harvard University
geneticist and immunologist, grandson of a chemist, and author of Food Lab:
Better Home Cooking Through Science), talk about COVID-19 and food safety…
And read in more detail here…
5.What you actually got last week
Week #4
June 25, 2020
- Peas: Shelling* – ½ lb. bag - $4.00
- Swiss Chard: Green OR Rainbow OR Red OR Yellow**
– 1 bunch total - $4.50
- Lettuce: Leaf, Red – 1 head - $3.75
- Peas: Snow – ½ lb. bag - $4.25
- Lavender – 1 bunch (yes, it is edible but I usually
chuck it in the back of my car and use it as auto aromatherapy 😊 ) – 1 bunch - $4.25
Total Items: 5
Total Amount: $20.75
(We pay $20 per week for our CSA share…some weeks we get a
bit more, some a bit less. This week, it’s $.75 extra. Doesn’t sound like a
lot, but it adds up over the course of the CSA season. Our total amount extra
that our farmers have given us so far is $3.25. 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 2B
Mint AND Savory, Summer
*Peas are one of the world’s 100 healthiest foods (good info
and recipes)!
**Swiss Chard is one of the world’s healthiest foods (good
info and recipes)!
6.And now, for something completely different…
The Vegetable Orchestra has a new album! No idea what I’m
talking about?
Check this out…their pandemic performance…Green Days (I like
the Red Bell Pepper solo 😊 )…
FYI – All the instruments are cooked up and used after
performances in soups and stews, so nothing goes in a landfill or to waste!
And you can buy the book on how to make the instruments
(with a recipe for when you’re done playing them 😊 )…
Events…both near and far
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 physician(s) before
taking any action.
Thursday, July 2nd to Monday, July 13th
Awakening from Alzheimer’s (online event)
FREE
For more info and to register…
What’s being done to reverse the effects of Alzheimer’s (and
prevent it in the first place)? More than you might think. This series of
lectures feature Dr. Dale Bredesen (author of The End of Alzheimer’s), Dr.
David Perlmutter (author of Brain Wash: Detox your Brain), Michael Breus (sleep
expert), Dr. Jay Farber (Amen Clinic) and others.
Thursday, July 2nd
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, July 3rd
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, July 4th to Saturday, November
21st
7:30am to 12:30pm
Huntington Farmer’s Market – G & G Long Island Farmer’s
Market
228 Main St. (Elm Street parking lot)
Huntington
Not the same organizer who’s been at this location for the
past ??? years, but the organizer that’s been hosting the Winter Market in
Huntington since Huntington first had a Winter Market. Possible there might be
up two certified organic farms…Golden Earthworm and Natural Earth Farm.
8am to 12:30pm
Northport Farmer’s Market
Main Street (Cow Harbor Parking lot)
Northport
The one certified organic farm here is Sang Lee Farms.
Saturday, July 4th
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, July 7th
10am to 11am
Green Street Radio
WBAI-FM/99.5FM
To listen live or check out the archives…
Join Long Islanders Doug & Patti Wood (founders of the
Port Washington Farmer’s Market…the only all organic greenmarket in New York
State), in their weekly show featuring conversations on health and sustainable
living.
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.
Sunday, July 12th
11am to 3pm
Herb Identification Walk (medicinal) & Medicine Making
Workshop
Restoration Farm
140 Bethpage Sweet Hollow Rd.
Old Bethpage
$45 (till July 10th)/$50 (at the door)
For more info and to register…
On this 2 part event, part 1 will be spent walking and
identifying herbs with Ellen Kamhi, RN (the Natural Nurse), and Dr. Eugene
Zampieron, ND, and part 2 will be learning to make simple tinctures, salves,
and smudge sticks.
Monday, July 13th to Friday, July
17th
8:30am to 3:30pm
Organic Field Day (online only for 2020)
Rodale Institute
611 Siegfriedale Rd.
Kutztown, PA.
$25 (all week access) – Veterans may be able to participate
for free (contact veterans@rodaleinstitute.org
)
To register…
Join researchers at the Rodale Institute and learn about the
latest research and projects being done using regenerative organic agriculture
(not sure how different it actually is from conventional certified organic
agriculture), by online viewing of the 11 different demonstration stations at
the farm.
Monday, July 20th to Sunday, July 26th
Holistic Oral Health Summit (online event)
FREE
For more info and to register…
To eat…you gotta have teeth! This series of lectures
features someone who works with my dentist (Dr. Reid Winick - NYC), Tammy
Kohlschmidt, RDH, Long Island holistic dentist Dr. Leonard Fazio – Pt.
Jefferson (went to once and helped with a dental emergency) and the author of
Holistic Dental Care, Nadine Artemis.
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