Happy Summer (still summer till September 22nd) AND Happy National Organic Month (see below)!
CELEBRITY ALERT!
If you want to get a parking spot and zip in and out of the
CSA today, come before 7pm or earlier, as the actor Eric Roberts (brother of
Julia Roberts…though he’s not allowed to talk about her…families 😊)
will be at the Cinema Arts Centre for a sold out screening of his movie,
Runaway Train and signing copies of his new memoir, Runaway Train: The Story of
My Life So Far. The reception for this event will be in the Sky Room Café so
the CSA also needs to close up ASAP as well.
CSA weather report…warm and pleasant
Do NOT leave your CSA Shares in your car! They will
not be happy, and neither will you when your food doesn’t last as long as it
could. Over 40 degrees in your car and your CSA Share’s not happy (and inside
your car with closed windows it’s probably hotter than you’d think… and it is –
check this out… https://abc7news.com/how-hot-can-it-get-inside-a-car-baby-in-gets/2266627/#:~:text=Here's%20a%20look%20at%20just%20how%20hot%20it%20can%20get%3A&text=When%20it's%2080%20degrees%20outside,and%20119%20after%2030%20minutes
)
Important…if you ever send anyone to the CSA
to pick up food for you, please tell them to BRING BAGS (and make
sure at least one of them is plastic for the wet foods so you don’t get the dry
ones wet which would not be a good thing…will make the foods that don’t want to
be wet rot faster)!
This email includes…
- What you need to know
- Happy Organic Month!
- Help Community
Solidarity (local Huntington group) with their School Supply Drive &
Distribution
- Food safety and
COVID-19…
- Use Salt? Read this…
- What you actually got
last week
- Beets are amazing! And
if you get any really big ones? Check this out…
- FREE CSA Cooking Classes
on Zoom – if you missed any of the three of them you can watch now
- Farm Aid is this
SATURDAY…ad this is how you can watch, listen, and maybe donate 😊…
- Emergency situations at
the CSA (hurricanes/electronic communication glitches/medical emergencies,
etc.)
- And now, for something
completely different…
*Anything in any of our CSA 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)…
Most immediate helpful hints…
- Bring at least TWO bags to the CSA EVERY WEEK
for wet and dry food items (and never the twain should meet)
- When packing up your CSA food, start at the left side
of the long table and work your way to the right and out the garden door.
Why? We set out the food to be packed in that order so the heaviest food
items will be on the bottom of your bag, and your food won’t get squished
(another way to make your food go bad faster), and if you separate the wet
from the dry foods you’re doing pretty good on having your food last
longer! 😊
- When you get your food home, if it’s in a plastic bag
take it OUT of the plastic bag and store elsewhere…even if it’s in another
plastic bag (the original bag will be too wet and your food won’t be happy
there for long)
- Plan on using your food in the order of how long it
will reasonably stay fresh.
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)
When you arrive at the CSA –
- Check in at the sign-in 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
(Community Solidarity…read more about them in the CSA Events email under
Tuesdays) 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)…
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!
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 #15
September 19, 2024
- Beets – 1 bunch
- Beans, Snap – 1 bag
- Okra – 1 bag
- Lettuce – 1 head
- Tomatoes, Mini – 1 pint
Total Items: 5
Flower Shares – Week #10 – Last Week!
Mixed
2.Happy
National Organic Month!
And since you’re a member of this CSA, you’re celebrating
already 😊…
https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/national-organic-month/
Here’s a cute video about organic farming and how you know
certified organic is oranic…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvQbBPtOqwY
Stay tuned for a new video next week! 😊
3.Help Community Solidarity (local Huntington group) with
their School Supply Drive & Distribution
Community Solidarity is the WONDERFUL group that our CSA has
been donating any leftover food at the end of the night to for the past 10
years or so.
From now till September 30th you can help them
with their Long Island-wide School Supply Drive & Distribution.
How can you help? There’s a number of ways….
- Donate
school supplies. Sign up here to let them know and they’ll get back to you
with the details of how to proceed…
https://communitysolidarity.org/back-2-school-drive-2024?mc_cid=3898c6bf39&mc_eid=2e56bdceae#signup
- Organize
your own school supply drive amongst friends, neighbors, co-workers,
religious group or whatever and get them over to Community Solidarity.
Once you’ve gathered the supplies, sign up here to let them know and
they’ll get back to you with the details of how to proceed…
https://communitysolidarity.org/back-2-school-drive-2024?mc_cid=3898c6bf39&mc_eid=2e56bdceae#signup
- Donate
money to fund the work for this project (Community Solidarity will buy the
supplies and distribute them). Click here to make a donation…
https://give.communitysolidarity.org/give/610097#!/donation/checkout
- Sign
up to volunteer at their Huntington location (Community Solidarity is
ALWAYS in need of more volunteers and it’s a great community project to do
with kids/teenagers/young adults)…
https://communitysolidarity.org/volunteer
- Spread
the word about this project – post on whatever social media feeds you’re
on to let people know you’re collecting school supplies for this project
and how they can get involved, or let people know if you’re organizing a
school supply drive so they can drop supplies off by you and you can get
them over to Community Solidarity.
For more information about this project and Community
Solidarity…
https://communitysolidarity.org/back-2-school-drive-2024?mc_cid=3898c6bf39&mc_eid=2e56bdceae
4.Food safety and COVID-19…
Even though it’s been a while since the word “pandemic” has
been bandied about, people are still getting COVID and other illness. And the
lessons we learned during the past few years can still come in handy today to
avoid basic things like colds and the flu.
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…
After keeping the CSA going thru 2020 and 2021 while the
Cinema Arts Centre was closed (with everyone staying healthy using the simple
practices of wearing face coverings, hand washing, and social distancing), this
is where we are now at this moment in time…
- Face coverings are optional
- Hand washing upon entering the theater is recommended
(it’s always a good idea in preventing COVID as well as the flu and colds)
Why COVID HATES soap (works better than hand sanitizer or
gloves), and we’re talking plain soap, NOT antibacterial soap (the use of which
causes antibiotic resistance which could kill us all ☹)…
https://healthmatters.nyp.org/how-does-handwashing-with-soap-kill-the-coronavirus/
- Will try and keep the CSA area relatively uncrowded if
any future outbreaks of any infectious diseases occur
- Enter near the Box Office entrance, and exit thru the
door that leads out to the Cinema garden and upper parking lot stairs
5.Use Salt? Read this…
Not all Salts are created equal and some are better than
others (like, they have less heavy metals)…
To read the original article…
https://www.mamavation.com/food/sea-salt-himalayan-salt-heavy-metals-lead.html
6.What you actually got last week
Week #14
September 12, 2024
- Beans, Snap: Dragon Tongue and Romano Mix – 1 bag (1/2
lb.) - $4.25
- Radishes: French Breakfast OR Red – 1 bunch -
$5.00
- Basil – 1 bunch - $4.75
- Lettuce: Loose Leaf, Green OR Purslane* – 1 head OR 1
bunch - $4.50
- Tomatoes: Red – 1 bag (2 lb.) - $6.00
Total Items: 5
Total Amount: $24.50
We pay our farm $22 per week for our CSA share…some weeks we
get a bit more, some a bit less. This week (and last week), it was $2.50 over
$22.00. Doesn’t sound like a whole lot, but it adds up over the course of the
CSA season (at the moment it’s a total of $42.25 more food than what we
paid…which is now almost TWO CSA Share’s worth of food). 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 last year it was almost four weeks worth extra, so we’re talking
almost $80 worth of food we got gratis…it’s all good! 😊
Herb Shares – September 1A
Chives: Garlic AND Sage
Flower Shares – Week #9
Gomphrena (everlasts…can be dried)
*If you are a vegan I HIGHLY suggest you get the Purslane.
Why? A) We rarely get it and B) Purslane one of the only vegetal foods that
contains high amounts of Omega 3 Fatty Acids! So, it’s getting the health
benefits of eating fish…without eating fish! It has a Lemony flavor and
can be added to Salads or Sandwiches (the leaves…the stems need to be cooked),
or Soups or Stews (the stems need to be chopped up fine and added as a
thickener as it gets Okra-like when cooked…i.e. - mucilaginous).
Purslane has a BOATLOAD of health benefits, and a few
contraindications so read this whole thing over…
https://www.webmd.com/diet/health-benefits-purslane
Good article on Purslane with recipes…
https://www.almanac.com/purslane-health-benefits-and-recipes
Suggestions on how to eat and cook with Purslane and a
Purslane dip recipe (that happens to suggest Garlic Chives which folks with our
Herb Share are getting this week!)
https://ourpermaculturelife.com/20-ways-eat-purslane/
Another good article that includes contraindications
regarding eating Purslane (AND how to avoid foraging for Purslane and ending up
with a poisonous plant that looks similar)…
https://foragedfoodie.blogspot.com/2015/11/purslane.html
Lastly, if you’re thinking of grabbing some Purslane from
your back yard or elsewhere, please don’t…unless you’ve done some foraging with
someone like Wildman Steve Brill (his next event on Long Island is Sunday,
September 22nd, and it’s in the CSA Events email) who can give you
the rules of the foraging road so you don’t end up with food that’s tainted
with harmful chemicals, bacteria, etc. Plus, I think everyone should go on at
least one tour with Wildman Steve Brill. It’s an enlightening, fun, and tasty experience
for the whole family and makes you look at some of the “weeds” in your
environment a little differently. My goal (which I have to come close to and it
won’t this year either 😊) is to go on 4 tours
with Steve in one year so I can get all four seasons of foraging under my belt
(well, if not winter, because he stops doing his before winter begins, late
fall). Plus, foragers will divide the seasons up to at least 12 time periods (early,
mid and late) so with 4 tours one can get a nice variety of what the earth has
to offer without having to garden for it! 😊
7.Beets are amazing! Check this out…
Whether you eat them raw (I grate them raw and put the Beet
bits on my salads and barely know they’re there for those who aren’t Beet fans 😊),
cooked, juice them (though don’t drink too much as they’re high in Sugar) or
fermented (recipe included for the adventurous/ambitious amongst you 😊),
Beets are truly a superfood!
And of course, eat the Beet Greens because they’re really
good too (cook up with other dark leafy green veg)…
I learn something new every day so here’s a great video on
the Beet basics (though it’s weird she repeats herself in one section but very
much worth watching the whole thing)…
Beets 101 – Everything you need to know (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEta7oc865E
And what do you do with a big ass Beet? Do not pass by, do
not be intimidated, do not be mystified, and do not think you HAVE to deal with
cutting them up! 😊
First of all, Golden Beets are sweeter and less “earthy”
than red Beets, and their health benefits are MANY!
https://www.livestrong.com/article/525504-what-are-the-health-benefits-of-orange-beets/
What one chef used to do with them (was part of a meat-free
$155 tasting menu…Agern was considered one of the top restaurants in NYC)…
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/13/dining/beet-agern-restaurant.html
Classic salt-crusted Beet recipe…
https://www.pantsdownapronson.com/salt-roasted-beets/
Here’s a home version of a fancier salt-crusted big Beet
recipe (served with a Horseradish Crème)…
https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/salt-crusted-beets-with-horseradish-cr-me-fra-che
And another cook’s take on it is to simply roast and enjoy
(plus some great suggestions in the comments)! 😊
https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/14/vegetarian-thanksgiving-really-big-beets/
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1016979-really-big-beets
Big Beets…bring ‘em on! 😊
8.FREE CSA Cooking classes on Zoom – if you missed any of
the three of them you can watch now!
The title of this is…So, you’ve joined a CSA! Now what? 😊
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOmk6t_rsS4
The 2nd episode is…Keep on Cooking – Sustaining
Momentum as a CSA Member…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK9F0NdlMns
The 3rd episode – Let’s Cook! Watch as recipe
creator Frances as she checks out her CSA Share, figures out what to do with
everything (to feed herself, her partner, two children and dog 😊),
and gets cooking…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6Gk64b0rc8
9.Farm Aid is this SATURDAY…and this is how you can
watch, listen, and maybe donate 😊…
Starting at 11:30am, you can watch Farm Aid…
On the Farm Aid website…
On the Farm Aid YouTube channel…
https://www.youtube.com/@FarmAid
If you subscribe to SiriusXM, starting at noon you can
listen on the radio or using the SiriusXM app…
Channel 61 – Willie Nelson’s Roadhouse
Channel 30 – Dave Matthews Band Radio
If you don’t subscribe to SiriusXM but are thinking about
it, you can get the first 3 months free…
And if you’d like to make a donation, at the $100 level you
get the festival t-shirt made from 100% organic cotton!
Or donate by buying some Farm Aid merch (if I think this
sizing will work, will buy the organic cotton hoodie 😊)…
10.Emergency situations at the CSA (hurricanes/electronic
communication glitches/medical emergencies…on my part, etc.)
- It’s hurricane season till November 30th
(our CSA’s last day is December 12th)! 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 our 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
for us 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 as it could be helpful for you and those of us at the
CSA. Again…show up, and at 3:30pm and 5:30pm if there were no emails
please offer to work if you’re able and available. 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 to 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 on any given week…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, etc., 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! 😊
- If there’s an emergency situation in progress, consider
offering to help out at the CSA whether you’re asked to or not.
11.And now, for something completely different…
Talk about “happy accidents” 😊 !
*Please keep in mind that any events or services listed do
not indicate a direct endorsement from Green Thumb Farm or Green Thumb CSA –
Huntington
Tuesday, September 10th to Thursday,
September 19th
Healing Kitchen: Let Food Be Thy Medicine (online seminars)
FREE
To register…
https://healingkitchen.thesacredscience.com/register/?a_aid=tld&a_bid=99099c87
This 9 day series of seminars will cover the foods and herbs
that can be used in simple recipes for conditions ranging from sleep, digestive
disorders and stress, to cancer and heart disease. The person in this series
that got me to sign up is Tieroana Low Dog, MD. She’s a holistic doctor and
herbalist who’s been working with Dr. Andrew Weil for decades. And in October,
the next Culinary Extravaganza will be at True Food Kitchen, Dr. Weil’s ONLY
restaurant in the NY metro area which happens to be on Long Island, and the
menu is based on his anti-inflammatory diet, and deliciousness 😊.
I don’t know any of the other people involved in this series, but if Dr. Low
Dog is a part of it I imagine it will be worth watching. It features
herbalists, farmers, nutritionists, doctors and farm-to-table chefs.
Now to Monday, October 7th
Keep Calm and Create Exhibit and Raffle
Huntington Public Library
338 Main St
Huntington
FREE
For more info about this exhibit (listed on page 11 of the
Sept/Oct newsletter) and to find out library hours (listed on page 12 of the
Sept/Oct newletter)…
https://static.libnet.info/frontend-images/pdfs/myhpl/2024_Sept-OctFinalwlinks.pdf
CSA Member, Annina Wildermuth, is leading a Creativity Class
at the Huntington Public Library on Main Street. Till Monday, October 7th,
there will be an exhibit of works from this class called Keep Calm and Create.
It features works by attendees of this class, and celebrates the calming
process of creativity.
If you’d like to participate in the class (or just check it
out to see if it’s something you’d like to continue with), the classes are held
on alternate Thursdays, from 1pm to 3pm, in the Main Meeting Room of the
Huntington Public Library on Main Street. It’s free and there’s no registration
required. The dates for September are the 12th and the 26th,
and in October they’ll be on the 10th and 24th. You can
bring any creative project you’re currently working on, and there are always
coloring books, markers and pencils there to use.
Lastly, there will be a raffle for 12 coloring/creativity
books. To enter the raffle, there are slips of paper and a bowl set up on the
exhibit display case closest to periodical section of library. Write your name
and phone number on the paper and put it in the bowl. You can enter as many
times as you wish. The books you can win are displayed in the exhibit. The last
day of the raffle is Sunday, October 6th.
Wednesday, September 18th to Wednesday,
September 25th
10:45am start time each day for new episode
2024 Food Revolution Summit (online event)
FREE
To register…
I’d watch this to see Drs. Ayesha and Dean Sherzai alone.
They’re having success with cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s using diet
(organic foods of course 😊). Other well known
holistic doctors participating are Dr. David Perlmutter, Dr. Dean Ornish, Dr.
Joel Fuhrman, Dr. Joel Katz, Dr. Michael Greger, Dr. Neal Barnard and Dr.
William Li. On the non-MD side there will also be wonderful speakers such as
Kris Carr, Marion Nestle, and Vandana Shiva. While this is a vegan-focused
event, there will be useful information for non-vegans as well. They will
suggest that you purchase this summit for $67 for permanent viewing, as it’s
near impossible to watch all the lectures in 24 hours that it’s available for
viewing. The price is not unreasonable considering what you’d pay if you were
to purchase the books that each of these lecturers have written (or the price
you’d pay to hear a lecture in-person by just one of these folks).
Friday, September 20th to Sunday September
22nd
Friday – 6pm to 9pm
Saturday – 12pm to 9pm
Sunday - 12pm to 6pm
Egyptian Festival 24
St. Mark Coptic Church Center
90 Woodbury Rd
Woodbury
FREE
There aren’t any details on the website, but this event has
vendors, good food (a sugar indulgence I look forward to every year is their
Basboosa…one of my fave pastries in the world if it’s done right and they
usually do it right at this event 😊, Dylan’s fave is a
custardy thing with shredded Phyllo dough that I forget the name of), you can
tour their lovely church, get photographed wearing ancient Egyptian garb, and
other things. Again, there are vegetarian options but the vegan ones are limited
BUT they usually do have Falafel every year which should be vegan and salad you
can get with no cheese. It’s possible some of the desserts are vegan. They also
have a pricey raffle with some big prizes.
Friday, September 20th
9am to 4:30pm
A Rural Call to Action for All (online event)…sponsored by
Farm Aid
Watch here…
Featuring farmers and speakers from all over the country,
Farm Aid presents its annual Farmer’s Forum (being held in Saratoga, NY, this
year). This event is not just for farmers! This iyear, they’ll be focusing on
building community power, dealing with the reality of climate change, building
a coalition between rural and urban peoples, using activism as a tool for hope,
talking about corporate power, and discussing discrimination in farming and
food systems. One of the speakers is longtime activist Jim Hightower, and
that’s enough to get me to check this out! 😊
Saturday, September 21st
Noon to 11pm
Farm Aid
Saratoga Performing Arts Center
Saratoga Springs, NY
$107 (only tickets left are for lawn seating)
For more info and to buy tickets…
https://www.farmaid.org/festival/tickets/
The tickets will surely sell out soon, and I imagine there
will be a live feed for the concert on FaceBook or YouTube or on the Farm Aid
website.
Sunday, September 22nd
12pm to 3pm
Foraging Tour with Wildman Steve Brill
Sunken Meadow Park
Kings Park
For directions of where to meet up…
https://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/travel
Adults - $20/Children under 12 - $10 and bring exact change
(suggested donations…his knowledge and experience is worth at least twice this
amount 😊)
For more info about attending a tour…
https://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/sign-up
To register…
Call 914-835-2153 at least 24 hours in advance of the tour
and if you need to cancel, call 24 hours in advance (if you do not cancel 24
hours in advance, you will be charged $25 prior to being allowed to schedule
another tour)
If you’ve never gone on a foraging tour with Wildman Steve
Brill, do yourself a favor and go. He knows his stuff and he’s entertaining
(silly and corny and sweet), and you’ll go home with some interesting and
delicious local seasonal foods to eat.
Tuesday, September 24th
10am to 11am
Tai Chi class
Cinema Arts Centre
Sky Room Café
423 Park Ave
Huntington
FREE
Join teacher Roger Sencer in this free Tai Chi class that’s
been held at the Cinema Arts Centre for a number of years. All levels welcome.
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
Wednesday, September 25th
9:30am to ???
Climate Resilience Through Agriculture (online event)
FREE
https://www.youtube.com/live/vV9QFvkui1E
This is a live event taking place somewhere in NYC,
sponsored by America Farmland Trust and Food Tank. Featured speakers will
include John Kerry (remember that movie he did…An Inconvenient Truth?), and a
lot of people who I don’t know BUT am familiar with their organizations like
the Environmental Defense Fund (great group) and Patagonia Provisions (the food
division of the sporting equipment company, Patagonia, selling organic and
sustainably raised foods), and will talk about things like using renewable energy
on farms (like solar) and regenerative agriculture (which is like organic but I
still haven’t gotten a grip on what the heck it is…and there’s no certification
program to certify that a farm is indeed regenerative…unlike organic which has
actual rules and regulations and there is a certification program). IF you miss
seeing this live, I imagine it will be available to see on YouTube after the
fact.
Friday, September 27th to Sunday September
29th
Friday – 6pm to 9pm
Saturday – 12pm to 9pm
Sunday - 12pm to 6pm
Egyptian Festival 24
St. Mark Coptic Church Center
90 Woodbury Rd
Woodbury
FREE
There aren’t any details on the website, but this event has
vendors, good food (a sugar indulgence I look forward to every year is their
Basboosa…one of my fave pastries in the world if it’s done right and they
usually do it right at this event 😊, Dylan’s fave is a
custardy thing with shredded Phyllo dough that I forget the name of), you can
tour their lovely church, get photographed wearing ancient Egyptian garb, and
other things. Again, there are vegetarian options but the vegan ones are limited
BUT they usually do have Falafel every year which should be vegan and salad you
can get with no cheese. It’s possible some of the desserts are vegan. They also
have a pricey raffle with some big prizes.
Saturday, September 28th and Sunday,
September 29th
10am to 5pm
Hudson Valley Garlic Festival
Saugerties, NY
Tickets per day…
Adults - $10 in advance ($15 at the gate)/Seniors (65+) - $8
in advance ($15 at the gate)/Children under 12 – FREE
Parking is FREE
For more info and to buy tickets…
This is the biggest and the best Garlic festival NY has to
offer. Come rain or shine, there will be music, crafts, food (with Garlic and
without 😊), Garlic to buy, cooking and gardening demos
and children’s activities.
Tuesday, October 1st to Monday, October 7th
Mastering the Meno(pause) Transition Summit 3.0 (online
event)
FREE
To register…
This was recommended to me by an email from Dr. Joel Kahn
(holistic vegan cardiologist) who’ll be part of this online event. This event
will cover how to deal with brain fog, hair loss, hot flashes, low libido, mood
changes, night sweats, weight gain and other fun things that can be a part of
peri-menopause, menopause and post-menopause.
Others whom I’m familiar with are Dr. David Permultter, Dr.
Pedram Shojai, and Dr. Judith Orloff. Should be interesting and informative.
The event is free though they will recommend you to buy it for permanent access
for $67.00 since it’s near impossible to have the time to listen to all the
lectures in the allotted time you have to view them. Each day’s lectures are
available for 24 hours from when first posted. However, $67 is not a bad deal
considering if you were to go to a lecture with one of these people the price
could easily range from $100 upwards to ???.
Tuesday, October 1st
10am to 11am
Tai Chi class
Cinema Arts Centre
Sky Room Café
423 Park Ave
Huntington
FREE
Join teacher Roger Sencer in this free Tai Chi class that’s
been held at the Cinema Arts Centre for a number of years. All levels welcome.
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
Saturday, October 5th
10am to noon
Foraging Tour with Wildman Steve Brill
Far Rockaway Seashore
Far Rockaway
FREE
For directions of where to meet up…
https://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/travel
For more info about attending a tour…
https://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/sign-up
To register…
Call 914-835-2153 at least 24 hours in advance of the tour
and if you need to cancel, call 24 hours in advance (if you do not cancel 24
hours in advance, you will be charged $25 prior to being allowed to schedule
another tour)
If you’ve never gone on a foraging tour with Wildman Steve
Brill, do yourself a favor and go. He knows his stuff and he’s entertaining
(silly and corny and sweet), and you’ll go home with some interesting and
delicious local seasonal foods to eat.
Saturday, October 26th
10am/11am/12pm
CSA Annual Fall Harvest Tour
Green Thumb Farm
Montauk Hwy
Water Mill
To RSVP…not yet, but will let you know when we’re taking
reservations
This is a one-hour tractor-pulled wagon tour, seeing a
different part of our CSA farm than we see in June. This is a chance to meet
our farmers, ask questions about your home gardens, and see where your food is
being grown and harvested. We’ll get Pumpkins at the end of the tour (not
necessarily organic, and not necessarily from Green Thumb Farm, but we’ll know
the details when we get to the farm 😊). They’re more for
decorating than eating, though they are edible. We get a 10% discount on all
purchases made at the farm stand,, and at the farm stand you might see things
we’ll never get at our CSA because they either don’t have enough of them for all
of us, or they’re too fragile to travel. This is an event for CSA members and
immediate family only. This is a rain or shine event (unless we’re talking
torrential downpours). I’ve been on tours in the rain and as long as you dress
for it, it’s fine (in that case, bring a plastic bag to sit on and you’re good
to go 😊). Wear shoes good for walking in mud (as we
will get off the tractor periodically) and keep in mind you can get sunburned
if not prepared. A good time is always had by all! 😊
After the last tour (around 1pm), some of us will be going
to lunch at Barrow Food House in Riverhead. The food is seasonal, sustainable
grown, local (when possible), and very reasonably priced for the area. Check
out the menu and their story here…
Thursday, November 7th to Tuesday, November
12th
Yoga Retreat
True Blue Bay Boutique Resort
Old Mill Rd.
TrueBlue Bay, St. George
St. George’s, Grenada
CSA Member, Danielle Tarantola, will be holding a 6 day yoga
retreat in Granada!
To learn more about Danielle…
https://www.yoga-foundation.com/teachers
And more info about where you’d be staying…
For more info and to register…
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