Happy Summer (still summer till September 22nd)!
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
- Question of the
day…what’s your favorite cookbook for cooking the foods you get from Green
Thumb CSA – Huntington, and why?
- 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…
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.
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).
- 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.
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 17, 2020
- Lettuce – 1 head
- Squash, Winter: Acorn* – 1
- Beans, Soy** – check CSA Wall Chart for details
- Squash, Summer*** – check CSA Wall Chart for details
- Peppers: Anaheim/Shisito**** – check CSA Wall Chart for
details
- Radishes – 1 bunch
Total Items: 6
Flower Share Week #11???
*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
**Soy Beans info are one of the world’s 100
healthiest foods (good info and recipes)!
http://www.whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=79
***Summer Squash is one of the world’s 100 healthiest
foods (good info and recipes)!
http://www.whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=62
****Bell Peppers are one of the world’s 100 healthiest foods
(good info and recipes)!
Shishito Peppers aren’t Bell Peppers but they’re
related so the health properties will be similar…
http://www.whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=50
SHISHITO PEPPER WARNING!!!
Most Shishito Peppers are mild BUT about ONE out of every
TEN to TWENTY are HOT! How can you tell beforehand? Cut off a little piece on
the end and touch it to your lip and you should be able to feel (or not) the
heat…or eat it. OR, prepare to be surprised…or not (sometimes you don’t
get any that are hot).
http://earthydelightsblog.com/shishito-peppers/
Chili Peppers are one of the world’s 100 healthiest foods
(good info and recipes)!
http://www.whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=29
Anaheim Pepper (MILD Chili Peppers…can be eaten raw)
info…
https://www.thespruceeats.com/anaheim-peppers-995559
2.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 used something
from your CSA Share)?
Answers will be posted in next week’s email (more people are
responding so will give this one more shot 😊 ).
I’ll go first…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).
3.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…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkvw9lZ3v3I
And read in more detail here…
4.Click activism
- Ask Congress to Help Farmers of Color, and Small and Medium-Sized
Farms Selling in Local Food Markets! To find out what this entails and to
send your message, click here…
https://secure.everyaction.com/IS2TqtmMw06lVfIfHA2oXQ2
- Get dangerous chemical
out of our food! Urge the FDA to ban the most dangerous chemicals in our
food (some of which are already banned in Europe). For more info and to
make your opinion count…
https://act.ewg.org/a/food-additives
5.And now, for something completely different…
They run the gamut from interesting and amazing, to odd and
“what the heck were they thinking!!!”… cakes from the Twitter account “Cakes
with Threatening Auras”…
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.
Wednesday, September 9th to Sunday,
September 20th
Alzheimer’s -The Science of Prevention (online event)
FREE
For more info and to register…
Hosted by neurologist Dr. David Perlmutter (author of Brain
Maker and Brain Wash: Detox your mind), this series explores the simple things
we can do to keep our brains healthy, and includes such speakers as Dr. Dale
Bredesen (author of The End of Alzheimer’s), Michael Breus (sleep expert), Dr.
Mark Hyman (author of Food: What the heck should I eat?), Michael Merzenich
(author of Soft Wired…about brain plasticity) and many others.
Thursday, September 17th
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.
Friday, September 18th to Monday, September
21st
The Shift Summit & Music Festival (online event)
FREE
For more info and to register…
https://portl.com/theshiftsummit/
Deepak Chopra, Krishna Das, Michael Franti, Jane Goodall,
Dolores Huerta, Bill McKibban, Paul Stamets, and many more (don’t know who they
are…look ‘em up…you might like what you find).
Friday, September 18th
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.
Saturday, September 19th 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
https://northportfarmersmarket.org/
The one certified organic farm here is Sang Lee Farms.
Saturday, September 19th
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.
Tuesday, September 22nd
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.
Saturday, September 26th
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, 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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