Green Thumb Farm Huntington CSA: Huntington CSA **2024 Season** Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024 Week #24 **PLEASE NOTE: Next week's pickup is WED. 11/27 1:30-7:30**

Happy Autumn (and Happy World Vegan Month and Happy World Hello Day…see below for more info)!

THREE important things…PLEASE READ!!!

1.NEXT WEEK is Thanksgiving so our CSA will be held WEDNESDAY, November 27^th from 1:30pm to 7:30pm! We’re starting earlier than usual since some folks want to get on the road or start cooking ASAP.

2.IF YOU’RE NOT GOING TO PICK UP (or have someone pick up for you) NEXT WEEK PLEASE LET US KNOW…we’d prefer not having to stay till 7:30pm to wait for CSA Members who aren’t going to show up and leave early if possible, BUT if you need to run in at 7:30pm to pick up your CSA Share…not to worry 😊…that’s totally fine 😊.

2. Since people are starting to ask so, the last day or our CSA is Thursday, December 12^th.

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
CHECK YOUR CARROTS!!!
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 😊)…
Volunteer this SUNDAY (bring friends and/or the whole family) with the folks from Community Solidarity and help feed thousands of Long Islanders in need healthy food for Thanksgiving 😊
World Vegan Month, World Hello Day, and a FREE movie…
How best to contact the CSA/suzanne
Veganuary is coming up (yearly January campaign for people interested in becoming vegan or checking out what it’s like to be eating vegan), and the wacky and wonderful Chef Adam Sobel has a great offer for anyone interested in learning to cook delicious vegan dishes
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… 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 #24

November 21, 2024

Garlic – 1 bag
Jerusalem Artichokes/Sunchokes (different name, same veg) – 1 bag
Broccoli: Purple Sprouting * - 1 head
Pak Choi - 1 bunch
Lettuce – 1 head

Total Items: 5

*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

And if you want to read about Purple Sprouting Broccoli (it’s an heirloom variety different from the regular Broccoli we get and even different from the Purple one’s we’ve gotten in the past)…

https://seedalliance.org/publications/psb-guide/

2.CHECK YOUR CARROTS!!!

Another reason for buying local and seasonal (which is what you’re automatically doing by being a CSA Member 😊), AND for getting into preserving your CSA food by freezing, canning, drying or fermenting to be eaten all winter long so you don’t have to be totally dependent on food being grown elsewhere.

There’s a recall of regular and baby Carrots that were sold at places like Aldi’s, Target, Trader Joe’s, Walmart, Whole Foods and other stores sold between August 14^th and October 23^rd.

There’s been one death, 15 hospitalizations, and 36 illnesses, and one of the states that have sold these ORGANIC Carrots is New York under different brand names.

They were grown at some place called Grimmway Farms (based in California but grows in various locations around the country) that was family owned for 40 years, till they sold it to a private equity firm in 2020 (things can go very bad for businesses once that happens).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimmway_Farms

Check your Carrots and make sure they’re not listed here…

https://www.allrecipes.com/fda-investigates-organic-carrots-e-coli-outbreak-nov-2024-8746971

And here’s the official FDA article with photos…

https://www.fda.gov/food/outbreaks-foodborne-illness/outbreak-investigation-e-coli-o121h19-organic-carrots-november-2024

I hope they find out why this happened and that it’s reported so the public knows what happened!

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 22^nd

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 15^th.

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.Volunteer this SUNDAY (bring friends and/or the whole family) with the folks from Community Solidarity, and help feed thousands of Long Islanders in need healthy food for Thanksgiving 😊

Sunday, November 24^th

1pm – volunteers gather

3:15pm – food distribution begins

Vegan Thanksgiving Bonanza

Cooper St. N. and Washington Ave.

Hempstead

For more info and to sign up to volunteer…

https://communitysolidarity.org/veganthanksgiving?utm_source=Community+Solidarity+Newsletter&utm_campaign=358c041f56-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_10_22_05_39_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_775a503f33-358c041f56-534030597&mc_cid=358c041f56&mc_eid=2e56bdceae

If you want to see what this event looks like from above (this is from 2020 but I’m sure this year will be just as massive, if not more so)…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_IPVJSfwl0&t=3s

Community Solidarity is the Huntington based group that picks up any food we have left over at the end of our CSA every week and distributes it to Long Islanders in need. Ironically, our food doesn’t get distributed in Huntington because the Huntington distribution day is Tuesday so it goes to Wyandanch.

It’s said that every night, 182,000 Long Islanders go to bed hungry so every year (in addition to what they do every week), Community Solidarity does this event in Hempstead where literally thousands of cars and people line up to receive 60 pounds of healthy vegan food (fresh and non-perishable) for their Thanksgiving meal (and beyond). Community Solidarity is a vegan group so they put the focus on fruits, vegetables, beans, whole grains and as much healthy food as possible. They will also be distributing toiletries to those who are homeless and in need of those items. Every year they distribute over 100,000 lbs. of vegan foods at this event.

IF you can’t make it this Sunday, they’ll be doing events from then till Tuesday, December 3^rd so get in touch to find out about those.

Lastly, you can sign up for their free Vegan Cookbook newsletter (recipes emailed daily)…

https://mailchi.mp/communitysolidarity/veganrecipes?utm_source=Community+Solidarity+Newsletter&utm_campaign=358c041f56-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_10_22_05_39_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_775a503f33-358c041f56-534030597&mc_cid=358c041f56&mc_eid=2e56bdceae

Can’t volunteer but you think the work they do has value to our community, make a donation…

https://communitysolidarity.org/donate/funds

7.World Vegan Month, World Hello Day, and a FREE movie…

It started out with World Vegan Day being November 1^st, 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.

World Hello Day is a new one to me but I saw it in my Farmer’s Almanac and checked it out, and thought it was very appropriate for our CSA. Why? On World Hello Day (November 21^st), you celebrate it by greeting at least 10 people (which one definitely can do if you’re working at the CSA and can knock at least half of the list off just being at our CSA. The point is to illustrate and emphasize the importance of verbal communication to solve conflicts, and in preserving peace. Here’s the origin story…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Hello_Day

https://worldhelloday.org/

Here’s a FREE movie for you to watch during World Vegan Month. It’s called Christpiracy, that explores the relationship between Christianity, and other religions, and veganism…

Here’s the trailer for the film…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlHaV5rEBN8

And here’s the link to the whole movie…

https://christspiracy.com/

You will be asked to pay to watch this film to keep the option open for free viewing for others, but you don’t have to.

8. 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.

9.Veganuary is coming up (yearly January campaign for people interested in becoming vegan or checking out what it’s like to be eating vegan), and the wacky and wonderful Chef Adam Sobel has a great offer for anyone interested in learning to cook delicious vegan dishes

Chef Adam Sobel, of The Cinnamon Snail food truck and restaurant (formerly at The Pennsy at Penn Station), is offering a month’s worth of vegan cooking lessons for a donation of your choice. The course normally costs $78 but if you feel like contributing $1, no problem.

Check out the intro video (it’s a hoot, and he’s a very talented vegan chef with some really good recipes to share)…

https://shop.cinnamonsnail.com/products/veganuary-vegan-cooking-program

I might sign up just for the pleasure and amusement of watching him do his thing 😊.

10.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 2^nd episode is…Keep on Cooking – Sustaining Momentum as a CSA Member…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK9F0NdlMns

The 3^rd 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

11.What you actually got last week

Week #23

November 14, 2024

Eggplant mix – 1 bag (2 lbs.) - $6.00
Beans, Snap: Green – 1 bag (1/2 lb.) - $4.75
Broccoli: Purple Sprouting * - 1 head - $4.50
Radishes: French Breakfast - 1 bunch - $5.00
Lettuce: Salad Bowl, Green – 1 head - $4.50

Total Items: 5

Total Amount: $24.75

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 $2.75 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 $72.25 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! 😊

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

https://seedalliance.org/publications/psb-guide/

12.Emergency situations at the CSA (hurricanes/electronic communication glitches/medical emergencies…on my part, etc.)

It’s hurricane season till November 30^th (our CSA’s last day is December 12^th)! 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.

13.And now, for something completely different…

I imagine politics has been on the minds of many of us lately, or trying NOT to think of politics has been a goal, but here’s an amusing look at another side of political life in America…

https://www.cookinwithcongress.com/

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

Friday, November 22^nd

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 😊).

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! 😊

Sunday, November 24^th

1pm – volunteers gather

3:15pm – food distribution begins

Vegan Thanksgiving Bonanza

Cooper St. N. and Washington Ave.

Hempstead

For more info and to sign up to volunteer…

If you want to see what this event looks like from above (this is from 2020 but I’m sure this year will be just as massive, if not more so)…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_IPVJSfwl0&t=3s

IF you can’t make it this Sunday, they’ll be doing events from then till Tuesday, December 3^rd so get in touch to find out about those.

Lastly, you can sign up for their free Vegan Cookbook newsletter (recipes emailed daily)…

Can’t volunteer but you think the work they do has value to our community, make a donation…

https://communitysolidarity.org/donate/funds

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. & 6^th 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 30^th

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