Happy Autumn!
CSA Weather Report…cool and breezy
Please be mindful when picking up your CSA
food, please read the CSA Wall Chart, and consider checking what’s in your
bag(s) with the CSA Wall Chart before you leave to make sure you A) didn’t
forget to take anything, or B) accidentally take too much. As it is in the story
of the three bears…the idea is for it to be not too much, or not too little,
but just right! 😊
Last CSA pickup day for this season is next
week, 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
- Organic food recall…
- 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.
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!
December 3, 2020
- Sweet Potatoes* – check CSA Wall Chart for details
- Kale** – 1 bunch
- Squash, Winter*** – check CSA Wall Chart for details
- Cabbage**** – 1 head
- Lettuce – 1 head
http://www.whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=64
**Kale is one of the world’s 100 healthiest foods (good
info and recipes)!
http://www.whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=38
***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
****Cabbage is one of the world’s 100 healthiest
foods (good info and recipes)!
http://www.whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=19
2.Organic food recall…
Got any packaged organic Basil in your fridge? Read this…
https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/spinach-recall-basil-mixed-vegetables-hy-vee-november-2020
Another reason to be aware of where your food comes from,
buy local, know your farmer, grow your own, and store food obtained by previous
methods for out of season eating (can/dry/freeze…Basil is best frozen https://www.thespruceeats.com/how-to-freeze-basil-1388437
and can be easily used in cooked recipes, OR make a bunch of Pesto https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-perfect-pesto-every-time-175471
and freeze for future use https://www.thekitchn.com/the-best-way-to-freeze-pesto-is-not-what-you-think-234486
).
2.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…
3.Click activism
Please tell president-elect Biden that we need an
environmental leader to head the Environmental Protection Agency! For more info
and to send a letter…
https://secure.everyaction.com/RjWp2sQAEk6EHybeB1_FAw2
4.And now, for something completely different…
Funny…or frightening…or both! 😊
What this is supposed to look like (the Brits are more into
hedgehogs than we are so I defer to their version)…
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/hedgehog-cake
And of course, Martha does her take on it…
https://www.marthastewart.com/338830/hedgehog-cake
And one geared toward kids in the kitchen…
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, December 3rd
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, December 4th
6pm to 7pm
Green Inside and Out
WUSB-FM/90.1 FM
Saturday, December 5th to Saturday, March 27th
John. J. Flanagan Center
423 Park Ave
Huntington
www.longislandfarmersmarkets.com
https://metrofarm.com/food-chain-radio-3/
Tuesday, December 8th
10am to 11am
WBAI-FM/99.5FM
To listen live or check out the archives…
https://www.wbai.org/program.php?program=365
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
Saturday, January 16th to Saturday, January
23rd
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/
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