Greetings!
I can’t believe our last CSA Farm Tour of the season is
TOMORROW!
If you want to see where your CSA food and flowers are
grown, if you’d like to meet our young farmers, if you have a garden and you’d
like some tips and tricks as to how to make your garden grow better, if you
have any questions about the food and flowers we get at our CSA (or what we
don’t get like…wha’ hoppened to our Strawberries, Melons, and Tomatoes this
year??? Hopefully, the weather next year will be better for these crops and
they’ll be back at our CSA 😊)…these are all reasons
why you might want to consider coming to our CSA tour tomorrow. OR, other reasons
could be just because it’s so lovely out east, Green Thumb Farm is amazing and
beautiful and this farm does NOT do farm tours for the general public so it’s a
chance to get a behind the scenes look at what goes on, AND it’s peaceful (a
natural blood pressure lowering experience 😊), the farmers are
funny, nice and smart, AND if you come to lunch you’ll discover a little known
very tasty farm-to-table place to dine for lunch or dinner that won’t break the
bank (not easy to do out east 😊). Also, if you have
kids, it’s a great place to have them run around, be in nature and TIRE THEM
OUT 😊…they do have a cool play area to the right
of the farm stand (and there are animals they might get to see and feed on the
tour), and if you have older children it’s a good thing to have them get into
the concept of knowing where their food comes from (never too early to start or
have it reinforced), and be able to meet and talk to younger farmers (maybe
they’d want to be one when they grow up…we always need more farmers…especially
of the organic kind 😊).
The latest weather report has rain staring in Water Mill
(where the farm is) at noon BUT I’m still going at noon because a lot can still
happen between now and Saturday AND even if it rains, a good time will be had by
all (just dress appropriately for rain and possibly walking in mud, and bring
an umbrella, and we should all be ok).
This is a rain or shine tour.
OR if you want to make sure you avoid the rain, take the
10am or 11am tour.
If you’d like to go please respond to the email sent, or leave a
voice message at 631-421-4864 (land line…no text option…no caller ID…can leave
messages 24/7), and leave your name and the number of people in your party
(we’ll be in a large uncovered wagon so seating is somewhat limited as opposed
to our June walking tour), and which tour time you’re interested in (10am, 11am
or noon).
Also, everyone who attends will be getting a 10% discount on
your total purchases at the Green Thumb Farm farm stand. They have all kinds of
delicious, organic, edible goodies (some of their produce you’ll never see at
our CSA because it either grows in such small quantities or is too delicate to
travel to us…thing like Figs or Zucchini Blossoms), and cool Green Thumb Farm
merch (t-shirts/hats/sweatshirts, cookbooks, blank greeting cards, etc.).
After the noon tour (it’s a one [1] hour tour at either
10am, 11am or noon), if anyone would like you’re more than welcome to come
along for lunch at Barrow Food House in Riverhead/Jamesport (you’ll be glad you
did 😊). Or if you go on one of the earlier tours,
you can meet us at the restaurant around 1:30pm/1:45pm (after the tour it’ll
take some time for everyone to go shopping at the farm stand and then the time
it takes to get to the restaurant).
Here’s the website to check out the menu…
https://barrowfoodhouse.com/
It’s farm-to-table, reasonably priced, and owned by a lovely
young couple of chefs.
If you take the 10am tour and want to get something to eat
before your tour, right next door to the Green Thumb Farm farm stand is a
branch of Hampton Coffee Company (they open at 7am) and some of our CSA members
have had breakfast and/or lunch there (either before or after their farm
tours). I’ve gotten breakfast/brunch here and I’d go again (I prefer Barrow
Food House BUT that’s not open till 11:30am so it’s not an option for an
earlier meal). Here’s the menu for Hampton Coffee Company…
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0584/6479/6866/files/WM_Cafe_Menu.pdf?v=1640266807
Attending so far…
10am
Tim C.
11am
Valerie & Matt M.
Noon
Debbie F. (+1)
Danielle T. (+1)
Joan W.
suzanne z. (+1 – Dylan S.)
Organically yours,
suzanne
631-421-4864 (land line…no text option…no caller ID…can
leave voice messages 24/7)
