Happy Autumn!
CSA weather report…cool (unless it’s not 😊)
Important…if you send anyone to the CSA to
pick up food for you, please tell them to BRING BAGS and a FACE
COVERING!
This email includes…
- What you need to know
- Food safety and COVID-19
- Like cookbooks (or books
of any kind)? Miss Book Revue? Info updated…
- Emergency situations at
the CSA (hurricanes/electronic communication glitches/etc.)
- Click here to make a
difference!
- 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)…
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…and a FACE COVERING.
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 –
- Please wear a face covering when entering the building,
and proceed to the restrooms to wash your hands with soapy water (more
effective than hand sanitizers…COVID hates plain soap…NOT
anti-bacterial…the most)
- Check in at the desk with our friendly CSA worker (if
there are more than 3 people/couples/families of CSA members in the CSA,
you may be asked to wait in the hallway…socially distanced…before
entering)
- 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 after the CSA closes for the evening, the food is
donated to a local food organization (Community Solidarity…see Events email for
more details about them). And if you accidentally took too much, please get in
touch ASAP (email or phone) so the food can be returned to its rightful owner
in short order.
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 #24
November 11, 2021
- Broccoli* OR Cauliflower – 1 pc. total
- Eggplant AND Peppers, Sweet Mix – 1 bag
- Pak Choi – 1 head
- Mustard Greens: Red – 1 bunch
- Lettuce – head
Total Items: 5
*Watch out for possible (not probable) worms in your
Broccoli (if it’s good enough for the worms to want, it’s good enough to us to
eat! 😊), and in case there are any here’s a way to
get them out (I will just soak my Broccoli automatically before preparing for
“just in case”)…
https://commonsensehome.com/get-worms-out-of-broccoli/
https://joybileefarm.com/getting-rid-of-broccoli-worms/
2.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…
3.Like cookbooks (or books of any kind)? Miss Book Revue?
Info updated…
If so, consider putting your money where your proverbial
mouth is, and contribute to what could be the 2.0 version of Book Revue…The
Next Chapter.
They have a Kickstarter campaign in order to raise $250,000.
It’ a lot, but if 2,500 kicked in $100 each…no problem! Donation levels with
perks (t-shirts, etc.) start at $25 and go up to $6,000, but I’m sure any
amount will be appreciated.
They have 35 days to do this, but if they don’t make the
goal ALL the money gets returned (unlike Go Fund Me where whatever is raised is
kept).
Here’s the Facebook page with some info…
And here’s the Kickstarter page to check out and make a
donation (they’re off to a decent start with $90,000 but there’s still a long
way to go and after the initial flurry, donations get more challenging to come
by…but not impossible and very doable)…
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bookrevue/book-revue-the-next-chapter
SPREAD THE WORD!!! Huntington (and every town really) needs
an independent bookstore/gathering place!
4.Emergency situations at the CSA (hurricanes/electronic
communication glitches/etc.)
- It’s hurricane season! Farmers are more hardcore than
postal workers so your food will be at the CSA between 3:30pm and 7:30pm
on Thursdays, pretty much no matter what. Hurricane Sandy didn’t stop the
CSA. We were at the Unitarian Fellowship in Huntington and there was no
power and there were tree limbs around the property BUT I checked out the
building to make sure there was no danger in being in the building or
entering the property, and with flashlights brought by me, we had our CSA.
If there’s no emails…show up anyway. If there’s some problem/issue with
the food arriving there should be a note on the door of the Cinema letting
you know what’s up (if we’re not already in there waiting for you). In a
storm situation…please bring a flashlight/lantern. It could be helpful for
you and those of us at the CSA. Again…show up and 3:30pm and 5:30pm if
there were no emails and offer to work if you’re able and available. And
if you feel it’s not safe/wise for you to venture out, know that any food
left at the end of the CSA will be picked up and donated by the gang at
Community Solidarity. They have NEVER missed a food distribution day even
in snow and ice storms (regardless of the weather…hungry people will still
be hungry if there’s no food to eat).
- Electronic communication is FAR from perfect. IF you
get no CSA emails or responses to your emails…come to the CSA anyway. It
could be a problem with my laptop, etc. Stuff happens.
- Anything else that might come up (these days…who
knows??? 😊)…no emails, come anyway
and will do our best to keep everyone informed as best we can (look for
notes on front door of Cinema if nothing else). The CSA has always
happened every week during our 20+ seasons…(lifted from the postal worker
motto 😊) - Neither snow nor
rain nor heat nor gloom stays these farmers & CSA crew from the swift
completion of their appointed rounds…to get you your CSA Shares!
5.Click here to make a difference!
A.Urge chain restaurants to serve healthier children’s
meals!
TAKE
ACTION | Center for Science in the Public Interest (cspinet.org)
B.Did you know that many food packaging materials contain a
chemical linked to cancer? You may have recently seen a segment on John
Oliver’s Last Week Tonight that highlighted the dangers of PFAS, which gives us
a great opportunity to come together and overwhelm FDA with opposition to these
cancer-causing chemicals. Could you add your name to Center for Food Safety’s
petition urging FDA to ban PFAS?
6.What you actually got last week
Week #23
November 4, 2021
- Leeks - 1 bunch - $4.75
- Beans, Snap - 1 bag (1/2 lb.) - $3.25
- Broccoli: Purple* – 1 pc. total - $4.00
- Peppers, Sweet Mix – 1 bag (1 lb.) - $3.00
- Lettuce: Oak Leaf, Green – head - $3.75
- Mizuna: Red – 1 bunch - $3.75
Total Items: 6
Total Amount: $22.50
(We pay $20 per week for our CSA share…some weeks we get a
bit more, some a bit less. This week, it was $2.50 more. So at the moment we’ve
already gotten $64.25 (3 CSA Shares + 😊) more than we paid for.
This adds up over the course of the CSA season, and 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! 😊)
*Watch out for possible (not probable) worms in your
Broccoli (if it’s good enough for the worms to want, it’s good enough to us to
eat! 😊), and in case there are any here’s a way to
get them out (I will just soak my Broccoli automatically before preparing for
“just in case”)…
https://commonsensehome.com/get-worms-out-of-broccoli/
https://joybileefarm.com/getting-rid-of-broccoli-worms/
7.And now, for something completely different…
This short film (Bao) was shown at the start of the movie
Incredibles 2 (this is not the “official” version…Disney removed it from You
Tube and now wants you to buy it…so this version is a tad glitchy but still
worth watching…the first 3 minutes are Bao and the rest is some of Incredibles
2)…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsBl3kpOD-Q&ab_channel=BeyondImagination
Chinese food…yum! J
If you’d like to read more about the film (it won the Oscar
for Best Animated Short Film in 2019)…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bao_(film)
Sunday, November 7th to Sunday, November 14th
Long Island Restaurant Week
For more info…
https://www.longislandrestaurantweek.com/
Here’s an opportunity to try out some new restaurants you
might have been curious about in Nassau and Suffolk, or go back to one’s you’ve
been to before to take advantage of the LI Restaurant Week special menus. Check
out who’s participating, and check out the menus (if they have them online…not
sure if every restaurant posts them). Off the top, I was glad to see Small
Batch (chef/owner Tom Colicchio) and True Food (started by Dr. Andrew Weil) in
Garden City.
Monday, November 8th to Thursday, November
11th
It Takes a Region Conference (virtual)
NESAWG (Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group)
$40 to $100
For more info and to register…
The theme this year is Resistance & Healing Amidst
Crisis & Injustice. This is the conference for anyone doing food system
change work anywhere in the northeast to create a fair and just regional food
system (or if you’re interested in such things). Elizabeth Henderson speaks,
I’m interested (she’s one of founders of CSAs in the USA). One of the workshops
will be on the 2023 Farm Bill that’s coming up (we Americans don’t get to vote
on it, are barely informed about it by our government, and it effects our
farmers and the food we eat).
Thursday, November 11th
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 12th
6pm to 7pm
Natural Alternatives
WUSB-FM/90.1 FM
Rotates with Healthy Planet radio with Huntington area
resident Bob DiBenedetto, and Dr. Eugene Zampirone of Dr. Z Naturally.
Saturday, November 13th
7:30am to 12:30pm
Huntington Farmers Market
228 Main St. (Elm Street parking lot)
Huntington
Runs till some point in November.
Noon 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.
Tuesday, November 16th
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
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
Community Solidarity (formerly Long Island Food Not Bombs)
is an amazing group, doing much needed good works. These are the folks our CSA
donates food to (and have for the last several years). If you’d like to
volunteer, make a donation (they REALLY, REALLY need a new truck), or have need
of their services (or know people who might)…get in touch/get information via
their website (listed above).
They also need/accept donations of the following…Bicycles,
Books, Clothing, Flowers (good for general mental health…taking care of the
mind AND the body), Food, Medical Care (is there a Doctor or Dentist in the
house? 😊), Plants/Seedlings, School Supplies, Toys
and more. For details on donating items, please go to the Home Page, scroll to
Donate, and read the appropriate listing (and scroll to Material Goods to see
the topics not initially listed)…
https://communitysolidarity.org/
Here’s founder Jon Stepanian’s TED Talk (TEDxNYU) on
Community Solidarity and Hunger Relief…
https://www.ted.com/talks/jon_stepanian_community_solidarity_hunger_relief
Thursday, November 18th
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 19th
6pm to 7pm
Natural Alternatives
WUSB-FM/90.1 FM
Rotates with Healthy Planet radio with Huntington area
resident Bob DiBenedetto, and Dr. Eugene Zampirone of Dr. Z Naturally.
Saturday, November 20th
7:30am to 12:30pm
Huntington Farmers Market
228 Main St. (Elm Street parking lot)
Huntington
Runs till some point in November.
Noon 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.
12pm to 3pm OR 4pm to 7pm OR 9pm to 11pm
A Very Vegan Friendsgiving
Cloud Event Center
163-165 Nassau Rd.
Roosevelt
$60/$100 per ticket
For more info and to buy tickets…
A vegan Thanksgiving event put on by the folks at the LI
Vegan Pop-up, Soul Plant Food and Violet by VCA. There will be live
entertainment.
Tuesday, November 23rd
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
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
Community Solidarity (formerly Long Island Food Not Bombs)
is an amazing group, doing much needed good works. These are the folks our CSA
donates food to (and have for the last several years). If you’d like to
volunteer, make a donation (they REALLY, REALLY need a new truck), or have need
of their services (or know people who might)…get in touch/get information via
their website (listed above).
They also need/accept donations of the following…Bicycles,
Books, Clothing, Flowers (good for general mental health…taking care of the
mind AND the body), Food, Medical Care (is there a Doctor or Dentist in the
house? 😊), Plants/Seedlings, School Supplies, Toys
and more. For details on donating items, please go to the Home Page, scroll to
Donate, and read the appropriate listing (and scroll to Material Goods to see
the topics not initially listed)…
https://communitysolidarity.org/
Here’s founder Jon Stepanian’s TED Talk (TEDxNYU) on
Community Solidarity and Hunger Relief…
https://www.ted.com/talks/jon_stepanian_community_solidarity_hunger_relief
Thursday, November 25th
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 26th
6pm to 7pm
Natural Alternatives
WUSB-FM/90.1 FM
Rotates with Healthy Planet radio with Huntington area
resident Bob DiBenedetto, and Dr. Eugene Zampirone of Dr. Z Naturally.
Saturday, November 27th
Noon 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.
Tuesday, November 30th
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
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
Community Solidarity (formerly Long Island Food Not Bombs)
is an amazing group, doing much needed good works. These are the folks our CSA
donates food to (and have for the last several years). If you’d like to
volunteer, make a donation (they REALLY, REALLY need a new truck), or have need
of their services (or know people who might)…get in touch/get information via
their website (listed above).
They also need/accept donations of the following…Bicycles,
Books, Clothing, Flowers (good for general mental health…taking care of the
mind AND the body), Food, Medical Care (is there a Doctor or Dentist in the
house? 😊), Plants/Seedlings, School Supplies, Toys
and more. For details on donating items, please go to the Home Page, scroll to
Donate, and read the appropriate listing (and scroll to Material Goods to see
the topics not initially listed)…
https://communitysolidarity.org/
Here’s founder Jon Stepanian’s TED Talk (TEDxNYU) on
Community Solidarity and Hunger Relief…
https://www.ted.com/talks/jon_stepanian_community_solidarity_hunger_relief
Tuesday, January 18th to Sunday, January 23rd
NOFA-NY Virtual Winter Conference
FREE to $125
For more info and to register…
https://nofany.org/conference/
Check out the workshops, see if there’s something that you’d
find interesting or useful. I’ll check out any workshop with Elizabeth
Henderson (one of the founders of CSAs in the United States).The schedule is
still being worked on so more workshops might be popping up. Full scholarships
are available, and applications are due for those by December 1st.
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