Happy Spring (not really summer till June 21st 😊)!
- First CSA meeting of the
year this Saturday…and there will be raffles! 😊
- Food safety and
COVID-19…
- Click activism – you
don’t have to do much, or spend any money, to help make a positive change
in the world
- What you actually got
last week
- 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)…
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)
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).
Before you leave the CSA – Make sure you have
everything on the list (like the story of the 3 bears…not too much, not too
little, but just right 😊)! 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)…
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
June 10, 2021
- Lettuce – 1 head
- Asparagus* – 1 bunch
- Peas: Snow – 1 bag
- Garlic Scapes** – 1 bunch
- Lavender – 1 bunch
- Radishes – 1 bunch
- Curley Cress*** – 1 bunch (left off the truck last
week)
http://www.whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=12
http://www.whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=60
And I BEG you…NEVER MICROWAVE GARLIC!!! Why? Short story…if
you microwave Garlic for 1 minute, all the anti-cancer, antibacterial,
antifungal and basically all the health properties in Garlic are GONE!
It takes over 45 minutes of cooking by conventional methods
to achieve the same effect. So if you microwave your Garlic (or a dish with
Garlic in it), you might as well be eating wood (which has no health properties
beyond being a source of fiber 😊).
Here's a scientific paper to support this info (and while it
says you can mince Garlic, let it sit around for 10 minutes, microwave for 60
seconds…not more… and get SOME of the health benefits…just don’t bother and get
ALL the health benefits by lightly sautéing or using raw…just sayin’ 😊).
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11238815/
Cress, Curly (also known as Peppercress and Garden
Cress)
It’s speecy spicy, very good for you, and goes well in small
amounts in any salad, sandwich, wrap for starters…read on…
https://harvesttotable.com/cress_cress_is_a_common/
https://www.healwithfood.org/health-benefits/garden-cress-nutritional-benefits.php
http://www.bonappetit.com/test-kitchen/ingredients/article/peppercress
https://food52.com/recipes/10884-peppercress-aioli
more Peppercress recipes…
https://www.florettesalad.co.uk/recipe-category/peppercress
more recipes from a place that does Peppercress Sprouts more
than growing them in soil outdoors…
http://www.urbancultivator.net/learn-about-peppercress/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_cress
And if they’ve run out of whatever (or everything?) by the
time I get there, I’ll head over to Fiorello Dolce on Wall St. for some Gelato
(or something else that’s decadent and delicious). 😊
Cinema Arts Centre
Sky Room Cafe
423 Park Ave
Huntington
RSVP so we know our seating/spacing limits, and how many
copies of materials to make, by responding to this email or calling 631-421-4864
10 to 10:15 – gather and optional recipe swap (bring a copy
of a recipe for something you’ve used in the past 3 CSA Shares and we’ll make
copies for everyone attending!)
10:15 to 10:30 – What’s a CSA (and what it’s not)? And…a
brief history of Green Thumb Farm
10:30 to 11:30pm – Good Eats episode – Strawberries (recipes
from the show will be given to those attending)
11:30am to 12pm – chat time and raffle drawings…ask any
questions regarding the CSA or the food we get, future meetings, restaurant outings,
etc., and there’s THREE raffles - one for new CSA members, one for rejoining
CSA members (no attendance required to win) AND another raffle for those
attending the CSA meeting!!!
3.Food safety and COVID-19…
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…
I just urged EPA Administrator Regan to include soil health
in pesticide risk assessments and regulatory decisions, because pesticides harm
beneficial organisms critical to soil health (and if it ain’t in the soil, it
ain’t in our food so what’s in the soil is REALLY important).
Please join me! https://bit.ly/357r5ZY?source=email&
5.What you actually got last week
June 10, 2021
- Lettuce: Boston, Red – 1 head -$3.50
- Strawberries* – 1 pt. - $6.00
- Jerusalem Artichokes (Sunchokes) – 1 bag (2/3 lb.) -
$4.25
- Kale: Greenhouse** – 1 bunch - $4.00
Total Amount: $17.75
(We pay $20 per week for our CSA share…some weeks we get a
bit more, some a bit less. This week, it was $2.25 less [VERY unusual BUT it
was because the Curly Cress we were going to get never got put on the truck so
we’ll be getting it…or something equivalent to it…this week]. So at the moment
we’ve gotten $.25 more than we paid for (which will change next week for sure 😊).
Doesn’t sound like a whole lot, but it adds up over the course of the CSA
season. We seem to always get at least one CSA share’s worth of food every year
that we didn’t pay for…some years two, and some between one and two…it’s all
good! 😊)
Oregano AND Sorrel
http://www.whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=32
**Kale is one of the world’s healthiest foods (good info and
recipes)!
http://www.whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=38
***Oregano is one of the world’s 100 healthiest foods (good
info and recipes)!
http://www.whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=73
Saturday, June 19th
10am to noon
CSA Meeting – Get to know your CSA, and your Strawberries!
Cinema Arts Centre
Sky Room Cafe
423 Park Ave
Huntington
RSVP so we know our seating/spacing limits, and how many
copies of materials to make, by responding to this email or calling
631-421-4864
We’ll be viewing an episode of Alton Brown’s tv show Good
Eats that’s all about Strawberries (best way to freeze, recipes and more) to
prepare us for the following week’s visit to the farm for the Strawberry
picking tour.
10 to 10:15 – gather and optional recipe swap (bring a copy
of a recipe for something you’ve used in the past 2 CSA Shares and we’ll make
copies for everyone attending!)
10:15 to 10:30 – What’s a CSA (and what it’s not)? And…a
brief history of Green Thumb Farm
10:30 to 11:30pm – Good Eats episode – Strawberries (recipes
from the show will be given to those attending)
11:30am to 12pm – chat time and raffle drawings…ask any
questions regarding the CSA or the food we get, future meetings, restaurant
outings, etc., and there’s TWO raffles - one for new CSA members, and one for
rejoining CSA members (no attendance required to win).
Tuesday, June 22nd
7pm – Volunteers
8:15pm – Drive-thru distribution
Huntington Food Share
Community Solidarity
Fairground Ave. & 6th St.
Huntington Station
FREE
For more info…
https://communitysolidarity.org/foodshares/huntington
To volunteer…
https://communitysolidarity.org/volunteer
Or to make a donation (they REALLY need a new truck)…
https://communitysolidarity.org/donate/funds
https://communitysolidarity.org/
https://www.ted.com/talks/jon_stepanian_community_solidarity_hunger_relief
Saturday, June 26th
10am, 11am, OR 12pm
Green Thumb Farm
2 Rose Hill Rd (and Montauk Hwy)
Water Mill
FREE
For more info and to RSVP (for last minute planners, you can
probably call the farm on Saturday morning after 9am, before you leave, and
still make one of the farm tours)…
631-726-1900 (call between 9:30am and 4:30pm, Monday thru
Sunday)
Directions are basically to go past the Green Thumb Farm
farm stand (if you’re headed east), make the first right, and the first
driveway to the right is the path to the farm tour. Park along the road and
walk down the path and there should be a sign-in table right there.
Barrow Food House
My go-to place (Bay Burger in Sag Harbor) has gone and been
replaced by Ed’s Lobster Roll (a NYC chain). ☹ But am very pleased with this
replacement (reasonably priced for the area and some local farm-to-table food
used…they have a farm in the back of the property).
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