Happy Autumn!
CSA Weather Report…warm and pleasant
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…
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).
- 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.
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.
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)…
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!
Week #18
October 1, 2020
- Lettuce – 1 head
- Squash, Winter: Pharsi* – 1
- Peppers, Hot: Pasilla (considered a mild Chili, twice
as mild as a Jalapeno) ** - – check CSA Wall Chart for details
- Beans, Snap*** – check CSA Wall Chart for details
- Squash, Summer**** and/or Bitter Melon (if we get this,
will send separate email…most medicinal vegetable on the planet!) – check
CSA Wall Chart for details
- Beets***** – 1 bunch
- Peppers, Sweet****** – check CSA Wall Chart for details
Total Items: 7
*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
**Hot 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
This will be interesting to see what shows up at the CSA
because Pasilla Peppers are the dried version of Chilaca Peppers SO, are we
getting the dried versions (Pasilla) or the fresh version (Chilaca)?
Chilaca…
Pasilla…
***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
****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
******Beets are one of the world’s 100 healthiest
foods (good info and recipes)!
http://www.whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=49
And if we get the Beet Greens, so are they!
http://www.whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=151
******Sweet Bell Peppers are one of the world’s 100
healthiest foods (good info and recipes)!
2.PRIZES!
If you’re going to consume dairy products, Organic Valley is
a good company to support…
https://www.cornucopia.org/scorecard/dairy/
AND…if you show up at the Huntington Farmers Market this
weekend (from 7:30am to 10:30am for the raffle) and fill out an entry for a
basket of assorted stuff from the market, there will be a drawing at 11am and
the prize must be picked up by 12:30pm.
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 your members of Congress to co-sponsor the Regenerative
New Green Deal! For more info and to take action…
Miss traveling? Here’s what you might find if you were far
afield and looking for a reminder of home (not much that’s healthy, but you can
see how far and wide our exporting of junk food has gone 😊
)…
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.
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.
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.
Tuesday, October 6th
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.
Anxiety Summit #6 – Toxins, Meds & Infections (online
event)
FREE
For more info and to register…
https://theanxietysummit6.com/reg-gift/?idev_id=2517
Dr. Mark Hyman (functional medicine practitioner and author)
and Dr. David Perlmutter (holistic neurologist and author) are just two of the
many speakers in this event. And can just about guarantee that eating certified
organic whole foods will be at least a part of the recommendations.
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