Greetings!
FYI – for those of you who enjoyed eating at the food truck
parked at Green Thumb Farm (Hardwood Poke), they’re done for this season but
will back again when we have our CSA farm tour again in June 2025.
The last chance to get a behind the scenes tour of our farm
and meet our 12th generation farmers that grow our CSA food, the CSA
Fall Harvest Farm Tour, is happening this Saturday!
Weather predicted so far at the farm on
Saturday…mid-60s and a slight breeze (dress appropriately…footwear
for walking on dirt paths, protection for being out in the sun during peak sun
exposure)
It’s happening…Saturday, October 26th with
tours scheduled at 10am, 11am and noon (tour length approx. 1 hour).
This farm tour requires an RSVP because there’s only so many bodies that will
fit comfortably in the open air wooden wagon we’ll be riding in. It’s pulled by
a tractor and we can get off the wagon and stroll around at a number of stops
we make along the way.
If you’d like to attend (this event is for CSA
Members and immediate family only 😊), please respond to
this email (or leave a phone message…see end of email) with your name (if
you’re sharing a CSA Share with someone you need to also give their name) and
the number of people attending.
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…these are all
reasons why you might want to consider coming on our CSA tour.
This is a one hour wagon tour (pulled by a tractor) and at
the end we’ll be selecting Pumpkins to take home (may not be from our farm and
may not be organic but more for decorating though they are edible). We’ll be
seeing different sections of the farm than we did at our June CSA Farm Tour.
OR, other reasons could be just because it’s so lovely out
east, Green Thumb Farm (our CSA 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 if it’s not raining
(plus 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 😊).
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/Aquebogue (you’ll be glad you
did 😊). Or if you go on one of the earlier tours,
you can meet us at the restaurant around 1:45pm (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…
It’s farm-to-table, reasonably priced, and owned by a lovely
young couple of chefs who met while working at Locanda Verde in Tribeca (on my
list of farm-to-table restaurants to try in NYC…just signed up for their email
list and maybe will go for my birthday…breakfast/brunch/lunch/diner all look
really good). By the way…Barrow Food House has been featured in Newsday as one
of the Best 100 Restaurants on Long Island in the Bistro category (I think that
was the category 😊).
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
This is a rain or shine tour…barring torrential rainstorm,
etc. Last year I went in the rain and it was fine and fun. I brought an
umbrella and wore a raincoat, and we got plastic bags from the farm to sit on
(and if you fold them in half when walking around they stayed dry) so we all
stayed dry and comfy. HOWEVER, at the moment the weather at the farm looks like
it will be dry (actually, I think they could use some rain), cool and pleasant.
Attending so far…
10am - 1
Katelyn
11am - 2
Nicole
Anna-Karin
Noon - 7
Debbie (+1)
Danielle (+1 Ajani)
Joan
suzanne (+1 – Dylan )
Organically yours,
suzanne
