Happy Autumn!
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
- PRIZES!
- If you haven’t watched
this yet, it’s really worth checking out…Food safety and COVID-19
- Click activism
- And now, for something
completely different…
Time – 3:30pm to 7:30pm
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)…*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).
- When you enter the CSA area, start at Table #1 at the
left side of the table and work your way to the right, then to Table #2, Table
#3, Herb Share table (if you have one), Flower Share table (if you have
one), and then out the back door to the Cinema garden by the upper parking
lot stairs. We’re arranging the food so if you only have one bag with you
and you follow this, the heaviest things are on the bottom of the bag, the
lightest are on the top, and the wettest things aren’t going to get the
things that need to stay dry the most very wet. Plus, it makes social
distancing easier, and we have only one entrance and one exit being used.
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! 😊 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 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…
http://www.nourishingmeals.com/2012/03/detox-with-spring-greens.html
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!
September 24, 2020
- Lettuce – 1 head
- Squash, Winter: Butternut* – 1
- Beans, Snap** – check CSA Wall Chart for details
- Carrots*** – check CSA Wall Chart for details
- Peppers, Sweet**** – check CSA Wall Chart for details
Sage***** AND Thyme******
*Winter Squash is one of the world’s 100 healthiest
foods (good info and recipes)!
http://www.whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=63
**Green Beans (Snap Beans) are one of the world’s 100
healthiest foods (good info and recipes)!
http://www.whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=134
***Carrots are one of the world’s 100 healthiest
foods (good info and recipes)!
http://www.whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=21
And if we get the Carrot tops…they are totally edible…nutritious
AND delicious!
****Sweet Bell Peppers are one of the world’s 100
healthiest foods (good info and recipes)!
http://www.whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=50
*****Sage is one of the world’s 100 healthiest foods
(good info and recipes)!
http://www.whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=76
******Thyme is one of the world’s 100 healthiest foods
(good info and recipes)!
2.PRIZES!
This really is the last week for this 😊
. Anyone who responds to the question of the week (see below) before Monday,
September 28th at 5pm, will be automatically entered into a FREE
raffle for a cookbook (you’ll have a choice from a bunch and they’re all
sweet). Anyone who’s responded previously is already entered.
Question of the week…What’s your favorite cookbook
(paperback or hardcover) for cooking the foods you get from Green Thumb CSA –
Huntington, and why (and/or what’s your favorite recipe that uses something
from your CSA Share)?
Answers will be posted in next week’s email (REALLY 😊
), will announce the raffle winner and the cookbook they selected, and the
cookbook will be at the CSA next week for pickup!
I’ll go first…my fave cookbook is - How to Cook Everything
by Mark Bittman. Why? Few ingredients, few steps, and good results (plus often
alternative suggestions so you get more than one dish from one recipe)! Fave
recipe? Well, I was pleasantly surprised when I first tried the Radicchio
recipe (because I also like Blue Cheese and never tried Gorgonzola)…Baked Ziti
with Radicchio and Gorgonzola (which was under dairy based pasta sauces).
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…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkvw9lZ3v3I
And read in more detail here…
A.Take action to ban factory farms and tell Congress to pass
the Factory System Reform Act. For more info…
https://advocacy.organicconsumers.org/page/16004/action/1
B.Tell food service companies and restaurants to keep GMO
Salmon off of our plates (and provide sustainably raised non-GMO Salmon
instead). For more info…
https://action.foe.org/page/22514/action/1?ea.tracking.id=Email&ea.url.id=597711&forwarded=true
Whether you like Coffee or not…check this out (especially if
you’re a fan of either Hugh Jackman or Ryan Reynolds! 😊
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.
Invisible Iodine (online event)
For more into and to register…
Dr. Christianson, ND (naturopathic endocrinologist) hosts
this 7 episode documentary about invisible sources of Iodine and thyroid
disease. It’s in our food, supplements, and beauty products. So if you, or
someone you know, has a thyroid disorder (Graves, Hashimoto’s, hypothyroidism)
or thyroid cancer, this might be helpful.
Thursday, September 24th
10am to 11am
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.
6pm to 7pm
Green Inside and Out
WUSB-FM/90.1 FM
Long Islander Beth Fiteni is the host. Rotates with Healthy
Planet radio with Huntington resident Bob DiBenedetto.
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
https://northportfarmersmarket.org/
The one certified organic farm here is Sang Lee Farms.
12pm to 1pm
Food Chain Radio
https://metrofarm.com/food-chain-radio-3/
Host Michael Olsen always has interesting guests on the
issues of food, food politics, health, and related topics. Check out the
archives.
8pm to 11pm
Farm Aid
FREE
For more info and to watch on your computer, phone, tablet
or other streaming devices (even TV if you have the AXS TV station)…
https://www.farmaid.org/festival/about-the-festival/
The usual suspects will be here (Willie Nelson, Neil Young,
John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews and a LOT of other great musicians), and it’s
the 35th anniversary show! Consider making a donation or buying some
merch (the t-shirts use organic cotton…some all cotton and some not…and printed
by an American union shop 😊 ).
Sunday, September 27th
2pm to 6pm
Long Island Vegan Pop-Up
St. James Episcopal Church
260 Beaverdam Rd.
Brookhaven
FREE
For more info…
https://www.facebook.com/longislandveganpopup/?ref=page_internal
Tuesday, September 29th
10am to 11am
Green Street Radio
WBAI-FM/99.5FM
To listen live or check out the archives…
https://www.wbai.org/program.php?program=365
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)…
https://communitysolidarity.org/foodshares/huntington
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.
8pm to 9pm
How to buy grass-fed and pasture raised meats
To register (and if you do and you can’t watch live you’ll
get a link to watch later)…
https://www.facebook.com/events/1043523689415169/
This is a panel put on by the Organic Consumers
Association (OCA). Four experienced regenerative
farmers (covering Beef, Bison, Chickens/Poultry and Pork), who will explain the
ins-and-outs of terms like grass-fed, pasture-raised, free-range, regenerative,
and organic. They’ll also help you navigate the many places to purchase meat—
including grocery stores, online, farmers markets and direct from the farmer
(CSAs I hope?).
Tuesday, October 6th to Wednesday, October
14th
Fatty Liver Docu Class (online event)
FREE
For more info and to register…
https://stopfattyliver.com/?cookieUUID=742b20f0-5b7d-49d9-84ef-811ff1b7b133
Doesn’t sound very “sexy” but no liver, no life, so a
healthy liver is a good thing to have. Fatty liver disease is the new type 2
diabetes (more people have it than they know…no obvious symptoms other than the
chronic diseases connected to this condition). Learn how to regenerate and
repair your liver…naturally. Eating organic food will probably be part of the
solution.
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