Happy Autumn!
CSA Weather Report…cool and breezy
Thanksgiving reminder…the week of
Thanksgiving, our CSA will be held on Wednesday, November 25th,
and the hours will be from 1:30pm to 7:30pm (if you’re not
picking up and no one is picking up for you, please let us know so we don’t end
up waiting for someone who’s not coming and could possibly leave early…but if
you need to show up at 7:30pm – that’s fine too! 😊).
Since people are starting to ask…last CSA pickup day
for this season is Thursday, December 10th. There’s
still plenty more good local, seasonal, certified organic food to come 😊!
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
- What’s the difference
between “natural” food and “certified organic”? Watch this (it’s amusing 😊)…
- If you haven’t watched
this yet, it’s really worth checking out…Food safety and COVID-19
- Contest…new mom/dad? New
grandparent? This is for you! 😊
- Click activism
- Got your Turkey yet (if
that’s what you plan on eating for Thanksgiving)?
- And not to forget the
vegans among us…
😊
- 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.
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!
Week #25
November 19, 2020
- Broccoli* – 1
- Fennel** – 1 bunch
- Garlic*** – check CSA Wall Chart for details
- Cauliflower**** – 1
- Jerusalem Artichokes – check CSA Wall Chart for details
Total Items: 5
*Broccoli is one of the world’s 100 healthiest foods
(good info and recipes)!
http://www.whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=9
**Fennel is one of the world’s 100 healthiest foods
(good info and recipes)!
http://www.whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=23
***Garlic is one of the world’s 100 healthiest foods
(good info and recipes)!
http://www.whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=60
****Cauliflower is one of the world’s 100 healthiest
foods (good info and recipes)!
2.What’s the difference between “natural” foods and
“certified organic” foods? Watch this (it’s amusing 😊)…
And afterwards, scroll down if you want to get on the email
list for Only Organic…
http://www.onlyorganic.org/videos/video-the-natural-effect/
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.Contest…new mom/dad? New grandparent? This is for you!
😊
Healthy baby and mom essentials from Organic Valley, Amara
Organic Baby Food, and more…
5.Click activism
A.Tell president-elect Biden to appoint an organic leader as
the USDA Secretary! For more info and to sign…
https://secure.everyaction.com/9xZA4zPWO0m7iAvPbf4H4A2
B.Tell big box stores to get RoundUp ready grass out of
their stores and off of our lawns! For more info and to sign…
Grass isn’t food BUT if your neighbor plants this stuff, and
they’ll be spraying RoundUp on the grass, there’s a good chance it will drift
on to your property and it is a cancer causing substance, so who needs it?
C.Demand that the EPA stop the use of the toxic pesticide
chlorpyrifos (Obama banned it, EU banned it, Trump brought it back, harmful to
children and bees…let’s get rid of it again)! For more info and to sign…
https://action.foe.org/page/24014/action/1?ea.tracking.id=Email&ea.url.id=656784
6.Got your Turkey yet (if that’s what you plan on eating
for Thanksgiving)?
In the Huntington area, we have Makinajian Farm (I also call
them “everything with wings” 😊) where you can order
their Turkeys (not certified organic but raised using organic farming methods)…
Makinajian Farm (pronounced mack-inn-AY-gin)
276 Cuba Hill Rd (intersection of Little Plains Rd)
Huntington
631-368-9320
Best Turkeys to order online…
https://www.grubstreet.com/article/best-turkeys-to-buy-online.html
And consider getting a smaller bird (or two small ones if
you need a lot of Turkey)…at least the smaller ones (if not a heritage breed
which aren’t unnaturally top heavy) are able to walk before their demise…
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wnn4nm/happy-super-fat-unable-to-mate-freak-of-nature-turkey-day
7.Not to forget the vegans among us… 😊
Vegan sheet pan Thanksgiving meal (whole foods plant based 😊)!
https://www.veganricha.com/vegan-sheet-pan-thanksgiving-dinner/
Vegan main dish recipes from Mark Bittman (author of
VB6…Vegan Before 6…as in 6pm…helped him lose at least 35 lbs.)…
8.And now, for something completely different…
Have you been affected by shrinkflation???
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, November 19th
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, November 20th
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, 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.
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.
Sunday, November 22nd
1pm – volunteers/3:15pm – food distribution
Community Solidarity’s Annual Vegan Thanksgiving Bonanza
Hempstead Train Station
W. Columbia & Station Plaza
Hempstead
For more info, and to sign up and volunteer (or if you can’t
help out…consider making a donation to this worthwhile organization)…
This is the country’s largest vegan Thanksgiving event,
organized by American’s largest vegetarian hunger relief organization.
Thousands of people in need attend to get a hot meal (which may or may not be
possible this year), and get a week’s worth of vegetarian food (including fresh
produce), toiletries and other necessities (this year because of the pandemic
they’re shooting for a month’s worth of non-perishable food for each
person/family). Bring vegetarian non-perishable food and/or clothing to donate.
Masks and gloves required to participate, as well as social distancing. The
event will be a drive-thru. There will be other events scheduled to
attend/volunteer for from Saturday, November 21st to Monday,
November 30th.
Monday, November 23rd
10pm
Gather: the fight to revitalize our Native foodways
FREE
To register…
To celebrate Native American History month, join filmmaker
Sanjay Rawal, author/activist Anna Lappe and others, talk after the film about
Native food sovereignty now and into the future.
Tuesday, November 24th
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.
Tuesday, December 1st
8am
Resetting the Food System from Farm to Fork
FREE
To register…
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sFfqmqCNQESls5bM70_Y7w
This is an international kickoff event (co-hosted by Food
Tank and the Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition) leading up to the 2021 UN
World Food Systems Summit. Speakers include…Dan Barber (chef/Blue Hill at Stone
Barns), Jose Andres (chef/World Central Kitchen), Dr. Mark Hyman
(author/functional medicine), Julia Moskin (NY Times food section), Danny Meyer
(Union Square Hospitality Group) and a LOT of other folks.
Saturday, December 5th to Saturday, March
27th
9am to 1pm
The Huntington Winter Farmers Market
John. J. Flanagan Center
423 Park Ave
Huntington
www.longislandfarmersmarkets.com
Saturday, January 16th to Saturday, January
23rd
NOFA-NY 2021 Winter Conference: Rooted in Resilience (online
event)
For more info and to register (no registration info at this
time but will keep y’all posted)…
https://nofany.org/2021-winter-conference/
To submit videos for the talent show, photos for the photo conference,
and get on the email list for this event…
https://nofany.org/2021-winter-conference/get-involved/
This event isn’t just for farmers. Home gardeners, home
cooks, and people interested in holistic health will all have something to
enjoy checking out and learning (there may also be programs for children and
teens as well).
There will be a virtual talent show (dance, jokes, music,
poems, sketches, or stories) so check out the link above for more info and how
to submit videos, and a photo contest (again, check out the link above for more
info).
This event will also contain the 3rd Northeast
Organic Seed Conference. If you have a home garden and would like to save your
seeds and not need to buy them next year, or if you already save them and would
like to upgrade your seed saving knowledge, this is the part of the NOFA-NY
Winter Conference to check out.
I personally think everyone that eats anything organic
should be a member of NOFA-NY anyhow 😊 . Become a member of
NOFA-NY (the Northeast Organic Farmers Association – New York Chapter) and
you’ll be more hooked in to the info about this event. They are the
organization that certifies farms, etc., organic in New York (and has been
doing so for 37 years). They were doing this work before the federal government
got involved (who then immediately tried to make the regulations weaker) and
fought for, and succeeded in, keeping organic standards to the higher standards
of organic farming, and will be doing so if the national program goes away (you
never know any more). These are good people doing good work, and deserve your
support.
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