Happy Spring!
- Flower Shares!
- Get to know your
Alliums…we’re getting some this week!
- Food safety and
COVID-19…
- Need something a little
cheerful and uplifting to read?
- And now, for something
completely different…
Time – 3:30pm to 7:30pm
Place – Sky Room Café in the Cinema Arts
Centre at 423 Park Ave, Huntington
Parking – park all the way around at
the back of the building by the daycare 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 taking 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.
June 3, 2021
- Lettuce – 1 head
- Strawberries* – 1 pt.
- Arugula – 1 bunch
- Kale: Siberian, White** – 1 bunch
- Onions: Spring*** – 1 bunch
Sweet Williams
http://www.whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=32
http://www.whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=38
http://www.whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=45
1.Flower Shares
If you decided you want to get the next bunch that comes in…email (or leave a voice message at the phone number below) and let us know (and how many shares you’d like…some get more
than one 😊 ), and will put you on the list.
The prorated price at the moment would be $90 for the
remaining 10 weeks, and you can bring cash (will get you a receipt) or a check
(made out to Halseys Green Thumb) to the CSA this Thursday, and that will seal
the deal.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/dining/onion-scallions-shallots.html
Over the course of our CSA season, we might get Garlic,
Garlic Scapes, Leeks, Scallions, and/or Spring Onions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkvw9lZ3v3I
5.And now, for something completely different…
https://laughingsquid.com/animals-cleverly-created-out-of-food/
Events…both near and far
Saturday, June 15th
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
Meeting Schedule (approx.)…
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).
Saturday, June 26th
10:30am, 11:30am OR 12:30pm (don’t quote me but this is
what it usually is…will confirm as soon as I know)
Annual CSA Strawberry Pickin’ Farm Tour (rain or shine)
Green Thumb Farm
2 Rose Hill Rd (and Montauk Hwy)
Water Mill
FREE
For more info:
631-726-1900 (call between 9:30am and 4:30pm)
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.
This is a one-hour walking tour, and then you’re let loose
in the Strawberry fields. Everyone attending is given a quart basket. This tour
is free and limited to CSA members and their immediate family members. If
you’re sharing a CSA share with someone, usually one person does the Strawberry
tour and the other does the Pumpkin picking and the CSA Share Partner needs to
use the name of the CSA member when signing up for the tour (since technically,
the CSA Share Partner isn’t a member of the CSA as far…as far as the farm is
concerned – they don’t exist! 😊).
Barrow Food House
