Happy Autumn (and Happy World Vegan Month…see below for more
info)!
CSA weather report…chilly and breezy, but
still not cool enough to be leaving your CSA Share in your car for an extended
period of time
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
- Did you know we’re in
the middle of a drought?
- Food safety and
COVID-19…
- There’s still PLENTY of
room for next week’s CSA Culinary Extravaganza (could end up being dinner
and a movie… or not 😊)
- Vote now and vote often
(it’s not what you think 😊)…
- Vegan
month and the diet for a healthy planet…
- How best to contact the
CSA/suzanne
- Dr. Gladys McGarey,
considered to be the godmother of holistic medicine, passes away at age
103 years and 11 months!
- FREE CSA Cooking Classes
on Zoom – if you missed any of the three of them you can watch now
- What you actually got
last week
- 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.
Veggie info sheets are added as needed. This is the link to the: Veggie Info Sheets. Print them out, put them in a notebook and you end up with a cookbook at the end of the CSA season. Also, there are good tips on storage, prep, and nutrition.
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 #23
November 14, 2024
- Eggplant mix – 1 bag
- Beans, Snap: Green – 1 bag
- Broccoli: Red * - 1 head
- Radishes - 1 bunch
- Lettuce – 1 head
Total Items: 5
Herb Share – November 1A
Arugula AND Parsley: Curly
*How to clean Broccoli to make sure there’s no worms or
anything else hiding in it…
https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-clean-broccoli
2.Did you know we’re in the middle of a drought?
On our CSA Farm tour lasts month I spoke to Farmer Jesse
about the drought situation and they said they were ok so far BUT if it lasted
for another month, it would not be good. Of course, our CSA will be over by
then but I’m sure this will have an effect for the crops they plan to have at
their farmstand in the coming months and it could affect what we’d be getting
at our CSA next year. However, it’s part of a CSA Members support of our farmer
to be able to go with the flow and use (and hopefully, enjoy) whatever it is
that our farmers, and our local part of planet Earth, ends up giving us 😊…
https://weather.com/news/weather/video/nearly-all-us-states-seeing-droughts
In our area, we’re in a “normal” drought condition. I don’t
know about you but I don’t want to be in ANY kind of drought condition! 😊
https://dec.ny.gov/environmental-protection/water/water-quantity/current-drought-conditions#:~:text=Drought%20Regions%20II%20and%20IIA,is%20in%20normal%20drought%20condition.
Even though we’re not being mandated to conserve water, we
are being asked to voluntarily conserve water.
Ways to conserve water (your tax dollars at working doing a
good thing 😊)…
https://www.epa.gov/watersense/start-saving
Got a garden? Save water here too…
https://www.finegardening.com/project-guides/gardening-basics/10-ways-to-conserve-water-in-the-garden?srsltid=AfmBOoqF5L71e3NKLkjR-7hzTND36zIKzJs8gOk39zQC23FJpcfFIm7n
Got a vegetable garden? More tips…
https://www.groworganic.com/blogs/articles/water-conservation-tips-in-vegetable-gardens?srsltid=AfmBOooVDcHICfWBsgRfvbm81RBbe1J4fUqRM5wwb9YhylHeXOEvOop7
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…
https://www.seriouseats.com/2020/03/food-safety-and-coronavirus-a-comprehensive-guide.html#covid-on-food
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.There’s still PLENTY of room for next week’s CSA
Culinary Extravaganza (could end up being dinner and a movie 😊)
Friday, November 22nd
6:30pm to 8:30pm
CSA Culinary Extravaganza – November edition
True Food Kitchen
Roosevelt Field Shopping Mall
630 Old Country Rd., Ste. #1040B
Garden City
For more info about the restaurant…
https://www.truefoodkitchen.com/locations/gardencity/
Check out the current menu here…
https://www.truefoodkitchen.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Fall24_CombinedMenu_V1A.pdf
And here’s the ordering menu so you can see the prices and
details about the ingredients…
https://order.truefoodkitchen.com/order/
If you’ve never been…it’s worth the trip. If you have, you
already know and I assume you might like to try it again 😊.
This is an event for CSA Members and immediate family only (but if you’re
coming by yourself and would like to bring someone for company…please do 😊).
To attend, please email gtCSAhuntington@gmail.com your name
and the number of people in your party (if you’re sharing a CSA Share and
you’re not the CSA Member, please leave your name and let us know who you’re
sharing with). Or call 631-421-4864 and leave a voice message with the same
info.
This restaurant is almost within walking distance of the AMC
Roosevelt Field movie theater so depending on the timing and seating
availability, it could turn into dinner and a movie.
Hope to see you there! 😊
5.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”…
https://www.bestoflongisland.com/?utm_source=bestof_man&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=voting&utm_term=Best%20of%20Long%20Island
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 😊.
6.Vegan month and the diet for a healthy planet…
It started out with World Vegan Day being November 1st,
1994, then World Vegan Week and now it’s World Vegan month…
https://www.vegansociety.com/get-involved/world-vegan-month#:~:text=Every%20November%2C%20World%20Vegan%20Month,light%20on%20the%20vegan%20movement.
If you want to shop and eat with an eye towards saving our
planet (and boy does it need saving), check out this article (hint…in the world
of environmental eating, root vegetables rule, and your CSA is totally on board
with helping you learn to love them as much as we do with cooking tips,
recipes, and tricks 😊)…
https://www.cspinet.org/article/earth-edge-what-know-about-diet-and-climate?utm_source=ea&utm_campaign=healthytips111324&utm_medium=email&sourceid=1129469&emci=5131a797-2aa1-ef11-88d0-6045bdd62db6&emdi=99c11b32-bfa1-ef11-88d0-6045bdd62db6&ceid=504604
You don’t have to be a vegan to help save the planet,
but the more fruit and vegetables you eat, the better (and by being a CSA
Member, if you’re eating everything you’re getting…or
freezing/canning/pickling/drying and eating at a later date…you’re doing that
by default).
7. How best to contact the CSA/suzanne
First thing you might think is…I don’t need or want this
info.
I get that BUT there might come a time when you wish you
knew…for example…
- Something’s
come up at the last minute and you know you’re going to be running late
and would like to have your CSA Share packed and waiting for you at the
Cinema Box Office to pick it up before the theater closes
- You’re
scheduled to help out at the CSA and something comes up at the last minute
and you need to cancel
- Something
comes up and you can’t make it to the CSA at all and you’d like to see if
someone can take your CSA Share and hold on to it till you could pick it
up from them
You get the idea 😊.
I am not a 24/7 connected person, have no desire to be, and
try and keep my CSA and personal communications separate, so…
- Phone…you
can leave a message on my landline (yes, they do still exist 😊) at 631-421-4864 at any
time 24/7 (keep the ringer off when sleeping) BUT on Thursdays if you
leave a message it needs to be before noon otherwise I won’t hear it till
I get back from the CSA Thursday night
- Email
– you can email 24/7 at gtCSAhuntington@gmail.com
but again, if you email after noon on Thursday, I won’t get it till I get
back from the CSA Thursday night
- On
Thursdays I am totally incommunicado from noon to 3:30pm so if you want to
get in touch with me between those times, the best option is to make sure
you call or email me before noon OR wait till after 3:30pm and call the
Cinema Box Office to reach me up till 7:30pm
- On
Thursdays after 3:30pm (and up to 7:30pm), call the Box Office at the
Cinema Arts Centre at 631-423-7610 xt. 0 and ask to speak to someone at
the CSA and they will connect the call to the Café and we’ll talk to you
directly. If you leave a message with someone at the Box Office, we might
not get it in a timely manner or at all, as it’s not the Cinema staff’s
job to take messages for the CSA.
- FYI
– I don’t get emails on my phone, and CSA members aren’t able to text me
as I don’t handle CSA issues on my cell phone
Consider putting the two phone numbers (suzanne –
631-421-4864 and Cinema 631-423-761) in your phone under “CSA” or “Green Thumb
CSA – Huntington” and you can put in the notes the details of when to call,
what days to call, etc.
8.Dr. Gladys McGarey, considered to be the mother of
holistic medicine, passes away at age 103 years and 11 months!
I had never heard of this woman until this year. Check out
this short video of her at the top of her home page…
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC86UsED-dWap04Su-t3gK3w
Am planning to buy her book, The Well Lived Life: A
102-year-old doctor’s six secrets to health and happiness at any age (with a
forward by Dr. Mark Hyman).
If you’d like to read her Wikipedia bio (quite a story!)…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_McGarey
And about this organization she founded, The Foundation for
Living Medicine…
https://www.foundationforlivingmedicine.org/
If you’d like to attend her memorial service (she passed
away in September), it will take place by Zoom, on Friday, November 15th,
at 12:30pm to 2pm here…
https://beatitudeschurch.org/live/
It’s possible one of her “students”, Dr. Andrew Weil, might
attend. Dr. McGarey lived in Arizona and that’s where Dr. Weil is located as
well.
9.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
10.What you actually got last week
Week #22
November 7, 2024
- Sweet Potatoes: Purple Majesty and Murasaki mix* – 1
bag (2 lb.) - $6.00
- Beans, Snap: Green (same veg…different names) – 1 bag
(1/2 lb.) - $4.75
- Broccoli** - 1 pc. - $5.25
- Hon Tsai Tai*** - 1 bunch - $4.50
- Lettuce: Salad Bowl, Red – 1 head - $4.50
Total Items: 5
Total Amount: $25.00
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 $3.00 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 $69.50 more food than what we
paid…which is a smidge over THREE CSA Share’s worth of food…so if you didn’t
pick up at the CSA for 3 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! 😊
* Japanese Sweet Potatoes are NOT the same as American Sweet
Potatoes…DO NOT cook them the same.
Many chefs, food writers, etc., consider them better…
https://www.bonappetit.com/story/japanese-sweet-potatoes?srsltid=AfmBOor7tyUozhVbO7MIhfDLSCOyKFZNVGAXMfBdQDaxSoHoXnieZr3q
Use these suggestions for the best results…
https://www.okonomikitchen.com/baked-japanese-sweet-potatoes-yaki-imo/
**How to clean Broccoli to make sure there’s no worms or
anything else hiding in it…
https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-clean-broccoli
***Hon Tsai Tai
Can use your Bok Choi or Broccoli Rabe Veg Info Sheets for
this veg
Can be eaten raw or cooked BUT if the stems aren’t really
thin, cook them (and as with all stems, cut into small pieces…1/4” to ½”)
Common Chinese prep…stir fry with Onions, Garlic &
Ginger and then add Oyster Sauce at the end
Very simple and fast recipe…
https://www.healthylivingchick.com/recipes/hon-tsai-tai/
Here’s some good info and a Frittata (omelette) recipe…
https://www.iamthecornivore.com/recipe/hon-tsai-tai-fritatta
Info and recipes from an Arizona CSA!
https://tucsoncsa.org/recipe/hon-tsai-tai-with-soy-sauce-oyster-sauce-2/
Variations on a stir-fry theme…
https://westfieldareacsa.com/2012/10/stir-fry-hon-tsai-tai/
https://ediblesouthflorida.ediblecommunities.com/recipes/hon-tsai-tai-stir-fry-rice-noodles
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.And now, for something completely different…
Indicators that you might not want to eat at this restaurant
(though I can’t tell you how many of these I’ve ignored…or experienced…and had
a perfectly good meal [if not excellent] with no ill effects 😊)…
https://www.boredpanda.com/biggest-restaurant-red-flags/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter
Events…both near and far
*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
Thursday, November 14th
1pm to 2pm
Imperatives for a Sustainable Future – PT. 2 (online event)
FREE and up ($40 and more get you a membership to Beyond
Pesticides)
For more info and to register…
https://www.beyondpesticides.org/programs/national-pesticide-forum/2024-national-forum-series/program
The organization, Beyond Pesticides, is presenting the 41st
National Forum Series. The topic is reversing the existential crises of
pesticide-induced illness, biodiversity collapse and the climate emergency. The
moderator will be the founder of Beyond Pesticides, and the speaker will be
Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH, talking on the need to decarbonize and detoxify our
economy and planet with a precautionary approach.
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.
6:30pm
Explore African American History on Long Island
UUFH (Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Huntington)
109 Browns Rd
Huntington
$30 (fundraiser to build an African American History Museum
in Huntington)
To purchase tickets…
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/museum-fundraiser-for-the-huntington-african-american-museum-tickets-1038885192577?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl
For more info…
https://hafammuseum.org/
https://www.uufh.org/event/fundraiser-for-the-huntington-african-american-museum/
Moderated by
Joye Brown, Associate Editor at Newsday, we will learn many interesting aspects
of famous African Americans who have lived on Long Island and have contributed
much to our world from our expert panelists: Dr. Jermaine Archer, Associate
Professor of African American Studies at SUNY Old Westbury; Denice
Evans-Sheppard, Director of the Oyster Bay Historical Society; and Dr.
Georgette Grier-Key, Director and Chief Curator of the Eastville Historical
Society in Sag Harbor.
Following
the panelist presentation, Appetizers and Desserts will be available, catered
by Craig Forney of Colors Catering.
We
hope to see you at this most informative and delicious fundraiser for the
Huntington African American Museum. All proceeds will go towards the building
of this vital museum.
Sunday, November 17th
Noon to 3pm
LAST ONE OF THE YEAR ON LONG ISLAND
Foraging Tour with Wildman Steve Brill
Sunken Meadow State Park
Rt. 25A and Sunken Meadow Parkway
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, November 19th
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, November 20th
7:30pm to 9:30pm
Common Ground
Cinema Arts Centre
423 Park Ave
Huntington
$10 – Members/$18 – General Public
To watch the trailer…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-M4Hq0MKFA&t=4s
To buy tickets…
https://prod3.agileticketing.net/WebSales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=893843~31a96320-4160-4f8e-a5f9-05c4f03c9c01&epguid=4e90d4ea-c6e5-40b3-9fc2-5fd0073268f4&showing=893844&
Join Slow Food North Share and the Cinema Arts Centre for a
presentation of the documentary Common Ground, which features Rosario Dawson,
Laura Dern, Donald Glover, Woody Harrelson, Jason Momoa and others. Common
Ground is a sequel to the film Kiss the Ground, and is an uplifting exploration
of our broken food system told through personal stories, and a journalistic
expose of problems and solutions concerning climate change, health, and
America’s economy. After the film there will be a reception and conversation
with Slow Food North Shore and iEatGreen.
Friday, November 22nd
6:30pm to 8:30pm
CSA Culinary Extravaganza – November edition
True Food Kitchen
Roosevelt Field Shopping Mall
630 Old Country Rd., Ste. #1040B
Garden City
For more info about the restaurant…
https://www.truefoodkitchen.com/locations/gardencity/
Check out the current menu here…
https://www.truefoodkitchen.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Fall24_CombinedMenu_V1A.pdf
And here’s the ordering menu so you can see the prices and
details about the ingredients…
https://order.truefoodkitchen.com/order/
If you’ve never been…it’s worth the trip. If you have, you
know and I assume you might like to try it again 😊. This is an event for
CSA Members and immediate family only (though if you’re coming by yourself and
would like to bring someone for company…please do 😊).
To attend, please email gtCSAhuntington@gmail.com your name
and the number of people in your party (if you’re sharing a CSA Share and
you’re not the CSA Member, please leave your name and let us know who you’re
sharing with). Or call 631-421-4864 and leave a voice message with the same
info.
This restaurant is almost within walking distance of the AMC
Roosevelt Field movie theater so depending on the timing and seating
availability, it could turn into dinner and a movie.
Hope to see you there! 😊
Tuesday, November 26th
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, 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.
Tuesday, December 3rd
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, 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.
January 8th and January 9th
44th Annual Long Island Agricultural Forum
Riverhead
For more info…
https://ccesuffolk.org/agriculture
More info to come as event gets closer.
Saturday, January 18th
NOFA-NY Winter Conference
SUNY Morrisville
80 Eaton St.
Morrisville, NY
For more info:
https://nofany.org/2025conference/
More info in the coming weeks as far as pricing and workshop
info.
Saturday, January 25th
9am to 8pm
NOFA-NJ Winter Conference: Living Roots, Resilience &
Food Security
The Berkeley Oceanfront Hotel
1401 Ocean Ave.
Asbury Park, NJ
$150 General Public/$120 - Member
For more info and to register…
https://nofanj.org/calendar/wc/
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