Happy Autumn!
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)!
***Last minute scheduling of an AMAZING looking
food/farming movie alert - plus an in-person Q & A with the director!
SPREAD THE WORD!!!
Sunday, October 6th
12:05pm
Food and Country
Cinema Arts Centre
423 Park Ave
Huntington
$10 – Members/$16 – General Public
To watch the trailer…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJVPgyrJXkc
To buy tickets…
The film follows Ruth Reichl (NY Times food critic for many
years, editor of Gourmet magazine for many years, and author), on a
journey as she grows concerned about the state of the small farmer in America,
shows her concerns about the lives of American chefs as the pandemic took hold,
and the state of the food system that is beyond falling apart. “I’ve been
writing about food for 50 years, trying to get Americans to care more about it.
How we grow and make our food shows us our values – as a nation and as human
beings” Ruth Reichl.
The trailer looked pretty excellent…hope to see you there! 😊
This looks like a movie that everyone who eats should have to watch (you don’t
get to eat anything else EVER until you watch this movie 😊!).
This email includes…
- What you need to know
- If you’d like to help
people in the southeast get some much needed food and water after the
extreme devastation of Hurricane Helene, you might want to donate here…
- Food safety and
COVID-19…
- Vote now and vote often
(it’s not what you think 😊)…
- FREE CSA Cooking Classes
on Zoom – if you missed any of the three of them you can watch now
- Are you a fan of eating
Fish? Read this…
- Click activism…sometimes
it doesn’t take more than a click to make a difference! 😊
- Another reason to buy
organic…
- What you actually got
last week
- Didn’t make it to Farm
Aid 2024? There’s a very cool auction till Friday, and merch to buy to
support the work of Farm Aid
- Emergency situations at
the CSA (hurricanes/electronic communication glitches/medical emergencies,
etc.)
- Chef and author Tom
Colicchio will be at The Paramount in Huntington!
- 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.
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 #17
October 3, 2024
- Radish: Daikon* – 1 pc.
- Fennel – 1 bunch
- Squash, Summer
- Tat Soi – 1 bunch
- Arugula – 1 bunch
- Lettuce – 1 bunch
- Tomatoes, Mini – 1 pint
Total Items: 7
Please let me know if any of these links no longer work…
*Daikon – IF our Daikons have the greens on
top of them…THEY ARE EDIBLE (cook or use raw like Turnip Greens or other root
vegetable greens 😊)
Cooking with Radish Greens (including Daikon)…
https://foodprint.org/blog/how-to-use-radish-greens-and-daikon-greens/
Basic info and suggestions…
https://www.bonappetit.com/story/daikon-radish-guide
Health benefits…possibly anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory, and
increases immune system function (as long as you don’t microwave it…talk to me
if you want to know why…basically don’t ever microwave any cruciferous veg if
you want them to do their thing healthwise other than being a source of fiber)…
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/daikon-radish#benefits
Health benefits, plus contraindications, plus recipes…
https://draxe.com/nutrition/daikon-radish/
More health info and recipe ideas (unfortunately, no single
article ever seems to have all the info in it)…
https://www.eatingwell.com/article/7631118/what-is-daikon-and-how-can-i-use-it/
A classic Japanese Daikon/Carrot Salad or Pickle…
https://www.justonecookbook.com/delicious-daikon-recipes/
Quick Carrot Daikon Stir Fry…
https://thewoksoflife.com/daikon-stir-fry-carrot/#recipe
Spicy Roasted Daikon French Fries…
https://cookingontheweekends.com/spicy-roasted-daikon-french-fry-recipe/
And a bunch of other recipes…
https://insanelygoodrecipes.com/daikon-recipes/
And a bunch more recipes…
https://www.platingsandpairings.com/daikon-radish-recipes/
2.
If you’d like to help people in the southeast get some much needed food and
water after the extreme devastation of Hurricane Helene, you might want to
donate here…
World Central Kitchen is AMAZING. They will respond almost
immediately after a disaster anywhere in the world and start feeding the
thirsty and hungry who have lost everything.
Here’s Jose Andres (founder of World Central Kitchen)
talking from one of the hard hit areas, Asheville, North Carolina… https://app.frame.io/presentations/d5441b46-8218-42e7-9ed8-c68af502b088
All roads in the entire western part of the state are either
gone, impassible, or considered closed so food and water are being supplied by
helicopter.
To donate…
3.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
4.Vote now and vote often (it’s not what you think 😊)…
If you’d like, you can vote for the place that gives your
CSA a home, the Cinema Arts Centre, to win the Best of Long Island award for
2025. The voting starts now!
Click here, then look for “Arts & Entertainment” and
click on that, and then scroll down to find “Movie Theater” and click on
“Cinema Arts Centre”…
You can vote every day, once a day, using one email address,
from now till Sunday December 15th.
And under the category “Restaurants”, and then “Thai”, you
could vote for Thai USA, the place where our CSA holds its yearly Bitter Melon
dinner 😊 (and the non-Bitter Melon food’s really good
there too).
Lastly, are any of you out there in any of these categories?
If so, let us know so we have the option of voting for YOU! 😊
For example, under the category of “Health, Wellness & Beauty” and then
under “Yoga Instructor” I just voted for CSA member Danielle Tarantola AND her
yoga studio (under “Yoga Studio” 😊) Yoga Foundation. And
if you’re on the list of Yoga Instructors or Yoga Studios, let me know and will
mention you as well! You can vote every day so one can spread the love 😊.
5.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
6. Are you a fan of eating Fish? Read this…
Got an email from a farm on Long Island that hosts dinners
using produce from their fields (cool 😊). They’re pricey
(dinner for 1 person is $175). But the thing that really bothered me was that
they included Swordfish on their menu. For a farm that touts healthy growing
practices, I was not happy to see one of the fish with the highest levels of
mercury on the menu.
In multiple articles I’ve read, they always include
Swordfish on the “do not eat” list because of the high levels of mercury…
https://www.webmd.com/diet/mercury-in-fish
I’m printing out these two guides to keep in my wallet to
use when I go out to eat or go shopping...
https://www.seafoodwatch.org/globalassets/sfw/pdf/guides/seafood-watch-northeast-guide.pdf
https://www.seafoodwatch.org/globalassets/sfw/pdf/guides/seafood-watch-sushi-guide.pdf
However, these are guides dealing more with sustainable fish
and fishing and how it effects the environment, and not as much regarding what
are heathy fish to eat (I think both are equally important). The only big
disagreement I have with these two guides is in their recommendation for eating
Tilapia, which is a fish I won’t buy and don’t eat (as long as I’m able to
identify what I’m eating 😊). Why? Tilapia is one
of the few fish that has an inverse ration of Omega 6 fatty acids(FA) to Omega
3 FA. What does that mean? Humans aren’t getting enough Omega 3 FA and
too many Omega 6 FA, and an excess of Omega 6 FA can lead to things like cancer,
cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, autoimmune diseases, and
inflammatory diseases. So, we’re supposed to be eating things like Fish (and
Purslane…which we got at our CSA the other week 😊) that have high levels
of Omega 3 FA to bring those levels into balance. Turns out that Tilapia has a
high level of Omega 6 and a low level of Omega3 so it’s a Fish I don’t need to
eat (I’m sure I’m getting a bunch of Omega 6 FA from other sources so don’t
need to eat this one)…
7.Click activism…sometimes it doesn’t take more than a
click to make a difference! 😊
Subject: Join me asking state legislators to ban glyphosate!
Dear Friend,
Around the world and across the U.S., legislators are taking action to
protect their citizens. Ironically, Bayer is based in Germany where the
Environment Ministry will begin phasing out the use of glyphosate and ban it
entirely after 2023.
So far, five U.S. states are considering bills to ban glyphosate;
California, Hawaii, Massachusetts, New York, and Vermont. Will yours be next?
Click below…
https://advocacy.organicconsumers.org/page/15280/action/1
8.Another reason to buy organic…
Washing produce doesn’t get rid of all pesticides on
non-organic produce. What does?
https://theheartysoul.com/washing-produce-wont-remove-pesticides-study/
Though peeling helps, a lot of nutrients are in peels/skins
so if that can be avoided, it’s not a bad idea to keep the skins/peels on and
eat and/or cook with them on.
Don’t bother with using any sort of vegetable washes on your
food (also see above article for the same advice), but there is another option
using baking soda…
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2023/11/27/washing-fresh-produce.aspx
Between the two articles, the first one doesn’t recommend
using Vinegar when cleaning produce and the second one does. You’ll have to
figure that one out! Being the lazy gourmet that I am, will just use water 😊.
Jeesh…
Buy certified organic, and buy local certified organic when
possible (outside of the USA the standards aren’t adhered to as much as within
the USA…you’re getting local certified organic food at your CSA 😊)!
😊
9.What you actually got last week
Week #16
September 26, 2024
- Beans:
Dragon Tongue – 1 bag (1/2 lb. is what I’m guessing since Farmer Jesse was
away, someone made up the CSA Wall Chart with no weight info) - $4.25
- Scallions
– 1 bunch - $5.25
- Pak
Choi – 1 bunch - $5.25
- Mizuna
– 1 bunch - $4.50
- Tomatoes,
Mini: Pear, Yellow – 1 pt. - $6.00
Total Items: 5
Total Amount: $25.25
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 $3.25 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 $49 more food than what we paid…which
is now more than TWO CSA Share’s worth of food…so if you didn’t pick up at the
CSA for 2 weeks this season, you haven’t lost out financially…just culinarily 😊).
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 Share – September 2B
Nasturtiums AND Parsley: Italian
10.Didn’t make it to Farm Aid 2024? There’s a very cool
auction till Friday, and merch to buy to support the work of Farm Aid
Farm Aid auction ends Friday – autographed records, guitars,
posters and more…
Farm Aid merch…clothes are made with organically grown
cotton grown in Texas, made in the USA and printed in a union shop, and
anything leather is handcrafted using US regenerative leather…
11.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.
12. Chef and author Tom Colicchio will be at The
Paramount in Huntington!
Our local Huntington bookstore, The Next Chapter, is working
with The Paramount to host this event. Tom Colicchio is a 5 time James Beard
Foundation award-winner, chef/owner of a number of restaurants around the
country including Small Batch in Garden City, Long Island, and has been the
head judge on Bravo’s Top Chef on every season since it started.
For more info about this event and to buy the book (if
you’re going to buy the book I hope you support our local bookstore by buying
it from The Next Chapter 😊…Jeff Bezos doesn’t need
any more of your money – ever 😊) and tickets, check out
our CSA Events email listing for Saturday, October 12th.
13.And now, for something completely different…
While I don’t agree with all these tips (or not a fan of
them), #17 is a favorite you might have heard around the old CSA 😊,
and #2 was mentioned in December 2023 when we were treated with some unexpected
Ginger (if we’re lucky we might get some this year…Ginger is a tropical plant
so it doesn’t grow easily in this neck of the woods)!
And as often said at the CSA…take what you like and leave
the rest (or leave it all 😊)…
*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
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.
Monday, September 30th to Sunday, October 6th
The Brain Health Revolution Summit (online event)
FREE
To register…
This event is headed by husband and wife Drs. Dean and
Ayesha Sherzai, who’ve written the books The Alzheimer’s Solution and The 30
day Alzheimer’s Solution. Besides a lot of doctors that I’m not familiar with 😊,
there will also be Maria Shriver (a brain health activist) and Dan Buettner
(author of The Blue Zone books). As all these online free events, they will
want to you purchase permanent access to these lectures but this one is more
expensive because you’d be getting more (you’ll have access to the details when
you sign up).
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 ???.
Thursday, October 3rd to Tuesday, October
8th
Ageless Energy Summit: Mastering Gut Health Sleep and
Hormones in Midlife (online event)
FREE
To register…
https://agelessenergysummit.com/avoid-cognitive-decline/?uid=32&oid=5&affid=265
The fact that this event has Dr. Heather Sanderson is enough
to get me interested. Why? She’s written the book Reversing Alzheimer’s (she’s
a student of Dr. Bredesen who’s written the prior book The End of Alzheimers) .
Plus this has Dr. Joel Kahn (holistic cardiologist) and Dr. Austin Perlmutter
(son of Dr. David Perlmutter…continuing his dad’s work on brain health) and
many other speakers who I don’t know but I imagine will be interesting and
informative. And you know they’re going to mention the “O” word at various
points (we’re talking “O” for “organic” for eating organic 😊).
Like all these online summits, they will ask you to purchase permanent access
to all the lectures (for $67 in this case) but you don’t have to, but you might
want to if you find the information worth having.
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.
3:30pm to 6:30pm
Harvest Moon Fall Festival and Fundraiser
Orkestai Farm
Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park
1395 Planting Fields Rd
Oyster Bay
$150 (early bird ticket till October 4th
midnight)/$570 (4 ticket discount available till September 30th at
6:30pm)/FREE – 10 years old and under
To win a free ticket or discounted ticket, enter the Harvest
Moon Birding Contest (contest ends Tuesday, October 1st at 10pm)…
https://orkestaifarm.org/harvestmoonbirdingcontest
For more info and to buy tickets…
https://secure.givelively.org/event/orkestai-farm-inc/harvest-moon-fall-festival-2024
Orkestai Farm exists as a non-profit entity to promote
creative participation in the community of all abilities, including autism and
other developmental differences, through the process of ecological agriculture
and expressive arts. At this event there will be outdoor oven Pizzas topped
with produce grown at the farm (this is an outdoor in the fields dining event),
and other food and drinks from local chefs and businesses. There will be live
music and contra dancing, activities for children and art projects for all. The
funds raised from this event will help develop year-round programs for the
neurodiverse community. There are also sponsorship opportunities and a raffle.
This is a rain or shine event (barring a torrential rain event).
Sunday, October 6th
12:05pm
Food and Country
Cinema Arts Centre
423 Park Ave
Huntington
$10 – Members/$16 – General Public
To watch the trailer…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJVPgyrJXkc
To buy tickets…
The film follows Ruth Reichl (NY Times food critic for many
years, editor of Gourmet magazine for many years, and author), on a
journey as she grows concerned about the state of the small farmer in America,
shows her concerns about the lives of American chefs as the pandemic took hold,
and the state of the food system that is beyond falling apart. “I’ve been
writing about food for 50 years, trying to get Americans to care more about it.
How we grow and make our food shows us our values – as a nation and as human
beings” Ruth Reichl.
The trailer looked amazing…hope to see you there! 😊
This looks like a movie that everyone who eats should have to watch (you don’t
get to eat anything else EVER until you watch this movie 😊!).
Tuesday, October 8th
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, October 9th to Sunday, October
20th
Alzheimer’s – The Science of Prevention (online event)
FREE
To register…
Hosted by neurologist, Dr. David Perlmutter (author of Brain
Maker: the power of gut microbes to heal and protect your brain), this event
has some of the best minds working on preventing and reversing Alzheimer’s
disease, in particular Dr. Bredesen (author of The End of Alzheimer’s) and Drs.
Ayela and Dean Sherzai (authors of The Alzheimer’s Solution). Also
participating will be Dr. Mark Hyman (functional medicine MD), Dr. Leo Galland
(longtime holistic MD), Michael Breus (sleep disorder expert and author of Good
Night: The Sleep Doctor’s 4 Week Program to Better Sleep and Better Health),
Michael Merzenich (brain health expert, developer of the brain training program
BrainHQ, and author of Soft Wired: How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Can
Change Your Life), and Max Lugavere (author of The Genius Life and others). The
reminder emails you’ll receive will encourage you to buy permanent access to
this program, but you don’t have to…or you might find the information
worthwhile enough to do so. And I will bet my left big toe that there will be
mention of the importance of eating organic foods...which you’re getting at our
CSA 😊!
Saturday, October 12th
9am to 1pm
Fall Makers Market
H.O.G. Farm
319 Beaver Dam Rd.
Brookhaven
Live music, craft vendors, Coffee, Cider, Tiny Pizza
Kitchen, baked goods, fresh Bread, farm stand, and this week only…Plantstock
native plant sale and lectures will take place from 2pm to 5pm.
2pm
Chef Tom Colicchio’s Why I Cook Book Tour
The Paramount
New York Ave
Huntington
$22.75 to $115.75 (includes book)
To buy tickets…
https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/00006124C4DC49A6
For more info about Tom Colicchio and this latest book…
https://www.tomcolicchio.com/Why-I-Cook/
Our local Huntington bookstore, The Next Chapter, is working
with The Paramount to host this event. Tom Colicchio is a 5 time James Beard
Foundation award-winner, chef/owner of a number of restaurants around the
country including Small Batch in Garden City, Long Island, and has been the
head judge on Bravo’s Top Chef on every season since it started. To buy the
book you can purchase it at The Next Chapter in Huntington or get a VIP ticket
for this even which will include the book and I imagine a “meet & greet”
(though The Paramount’s website, Tom Colicchio’s or The Next Chapter’s website
doesn’t really give details about this event).
Tuesday, October 15th to Wednesday, October
23rd
Conquering Cancer: The Missing Link 2024 (online event)
FREE
To register…
https://go.conqueringcancer.com/missing-link-series
Some of the doctors I see involved in this series…Dr. Joel
Fuhrman (family physician – vegan based) and Dr. Joel Kahn (cardiologist –
vegan centric but omnivore friendly) but, there are 31 more in this series
(just can’t see who they are yet). Of course, they want you to buy permanent
access (for $67) but you don’t have to…though you might want to. And I imagine
they’ll get around to advising to eat certified organic foods.
Tuesday, October 15th
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 19th and Sunday, October
20th
11am to 6pm
EWG (Environmental Working Group) Verified Pop-Up
188 Lafayette St. (between Broome and Grand…closer to
Broome)
NYC
FREE
Join EWG in SoHo
to learn more about clean beauty and healthy living. Explore, ask questions,
shop, and get free samples from dozens of EWG Verified brands.
Tuesday, October 22nd
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 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…
Tuesday, October 29th
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
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…
https://www.yoga-foundation.com/retreat-2024
Saturday, November 16th
9am to 1pm
Fall Makers Market
H.O.G. Farm
319 Beaver Dam Rd.
Brookhaven
Live music, craft vendors, Coffee, Cider, Tiny Pizza
Kitchen, baked goods, fresh Bread, and farm stand.
Saturday, November 30th
9am to 1pm
Fall Makers Market
H.O.G. Farm
319 Beaver Dam Rd.
Brookhaven
Live music, craft vendors, Coffee, Cider, Tiny Pizza
Kitchen, baked goods, fresh Bread, and farm stand.
Saturday, December 7th
9am to 1pm
Fall Makers Market
H.O.G. Farm
319 Beaver Dam Rd.
Brookhaven
Live music, craft vendors, Coffee, Cider, Tiny Pizza
Kitchen, baked goods, fresh Bread, and farm stand.
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