Happy Autumn!
Since people are starting to ask so, the last day of
our CSA season is next week, Thursday, December 12th.
We’re having an Exchange Table this week (we finally
have enough staff to do it this week). See below for details.
CSA weather report…INSANELY WINDY (anywhere
from 20 to 50mph from 6am to 10pm on Thursday) and COLD – and now it’s too cold
at night to leave your CSA Share in your car for any length of time (anything
around 32 degrees and below will freeze your veg…but not in a good way…when it
defrosts will be mushy and gushy)
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
)
And around 32 degrees and under being in a car for an
extended period of time will freeze your CSA Share in not a good way as when it
defrosts, it will be floppy or mushy or gushy.
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
- We’re having an Exchange
Table this week!
- Food safety and
COVID-19…
- Help change the world
with a click (every little bit helps 😊)
- Vote now and vote often
(it’s not what you think)…
- How about this for a
gift for yourself during this holiday season?
- How best to contact the
CSA/suzanne
- Inquiring minds want to
know…Winter Squash edition
- 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 РSky Room Caf̩ 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 #26
December 5, 2024
- Sweet Potatoes – 1 bag
- Broccoli* – 1 bunch
- Tat Soi - 1 bunch
- Arugula - 1 bunch
- Lettuce – 1 head
Total Items: 5
*You know the deal by now…soak in salted water for about 5
to 10 minutes to see if any critters float to the top so you’re not eating them
And if you’re interested in the health properties of
Broccoli…DON’T MICROWAVE BROCCOLI (or any cruciferous vegetable** for the same
reason) TO EITHER COOK OR REHEAT (it only takes one minute of microwaving to
destroy elements in cruciferous vegetables that makes them superfoods with all
sorts of nutritional benefits…anti-cancer, etc.). Best cooking method is to
steam or stir-fry.
ALSO…Why chefs and those in the food world think that the
best part of Broccoli is THE STEMS 😊…and the leaves are
totally edible and worth using too 😊 (recipes included)…
https://www.finedininglovers.com/explore/articles/how-use-broccoli-stems
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-cook-broccoli-stalks-b4d1ff7
https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-use-broccoli-stems-22997738
https://www.thekitchn.com/are-you-eating-the-best-part-of-broccoli-the-vegetable-butcher-220189
https://www.livestrong.com/article/534794-nutrition-in-broccoli-cuts-vs-florets/
**List of cruciferous vegetables…included in our CSA Share
this week besides Broccoli is Tat Soi and Arugula…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruciferous_vegetables
2.We’re having an Exchange Table this week!
What’s that? Basically, it’s a table designated for
exchanging any of your CSA Share foods for anything you see on the Exchange
Table.
You need to exchange all of the one food item you want to
put down, for all of the one food item on the Exchange Table that you want to
take (example…you can’t leave one Sweet Potato and then take another bunch of
Broccoli…you’d need to leave the entire bag of Sweet Potatoes to do that, and
conversely you can’t take one Sweet Potato out of a bag and then put down your
Broccoli…you need to take the whole bag of Sweet Potatoes). If there’s any
confusion, talk to the person staffing the Exchange Table 😊.
We start out the day with a CSA Share dedicated for the
Exchange Table. This year since we don’t have enough CSA Members for the farm
to give us this CSA Share, we’re using mine (I don’t get a CSA Share from the
farm for managing the CSA either this year for the same reason…because we don’t
have enough CSA Members). Part of the reason for less CSA Members this year is
the farm cut off new membership mid-June which is a first. In the past 25+
years we’ve been able to sign-up new CSA Members till Labor Day so this took us
by surprise this year. Next year, will start signing up folks in February and
will have events from February to May where people can learn about our CSA and
join.
Why didn’t we have this every week? Short story is we don’t
have enough CSA Members to make it work. Hopefully next year, if each of us
were able to find one new person to join our CSA we’d have 100 new CSA members,
and then it’d be more likely to be able to happen. More CSA Members = more CSA
Members able/willing to work 12 hours = more CSA staff = enough staff to
have an Exchange Table every week.
So, if you like the Exchange Table, consider working 12
hours next year (if you don’t already 😊), and/or start looking
for people you know who might be interested in joining our CSA next year (and
have them contact us to be put on our CSA email list) OR let us know of places
where we could leave CSA brochures/fliers.
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.Help change the world with a click (every little bit
helps 😊)
Join
me in signing the petition to ask Trump's new team to take these five GMOs off
the market!
Trump's
new Health & Human Services Department, which includes the Food & Drug
Administration, is expected to be very different from his last. Since the
George H.W. Bush Administration, the FDA has treated genetically engineered
synthetics the same as normal foods, allowing them to be approved without
safety-testing or post-market monitoring through the "generally recognized
as safe" (GRAS) loophole.
There
are five GMOs Trump's new FDA could take off the market (four his old FDA put
on the market): Monsanto (now Eli Lilly)'s Posilac GMO growth hormone for dairy
cows; AquaBounty's AquAdvantage GMO salmon; Impossible Food's synbio burger
made with fake blood; Bored Cow's synbio milk, made with Perfect Day's fake
whey protein; and lab-grown chicken made by UPSIDE Foods and GOOD Meat.
Click
here to sign the petition… https://advocacy.organicconsumers.org/page/76690/petition/1?chain
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”…
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.How about this for a gift for yourself this holiday
season?
Some of our CSA Members have commented on how much they like
the personalized garden trug (or gardener’s harvest basket as it’s advertised
in the link below) owned by first year CSA Members Robert Hughes and Priscilla.
Here’s an article from England about various models of
garden trugs (though I do happen to like the one the Hughes’s have even though
it’s not included in this article 😊)…
https://www.gardenersworld.com/product-guides/accessories/best-garden-trugs/
You can purchase one for yourself here (or email this to
whoever has your wish list 😊)…
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.Inquiring Minds Want to Know…Winter Squash edition
Last week a CSA Member asked a very reasonable
question…where’s all the Winter Squashes we usually get?
So, I asked our farmer and got the answer that I thought I
was going to get (been doing this a long time and I can usually tell you what’s
going on at the farm by the foods we get every week…though I have to say I
can’t give you an explanation for the GINORMOUS heads of Lettuce we’ve been
getting and haven’t bothered to ask about them…just happy to see them when they
show up 😊).
Our farmers got some Winter Squash when they first were able
to harvest them, but rain wiped them ALL out so there was none to be stored.
The same thing happened with their Melons which is why we got no Melons this
year either.
While other local farms might have Winter Squash, the other
thing that comes into play are microclimates. What’s going on in one farm,
might not be the same as even the one next door. Have you ever seen it rain on
one side of a street and not on the other? I have. Things like that happen and
as the luck of the weather draw may have it, our farm got dumped on with enough
water at the right time to wipe out two major crop varieties (and there may be
other casualties but we only discussed these two crops).
As much of a disappointment this may be to us, I can’t
imagine what the financial loss is to our farmers.
This is why CSA Membership is so important and provides
about 30% of Green Thumb Farm’s (our CSA farm 😊) income.
Part of the relationship in a CSA Membership is that while
our farmer’s task is to provide us with local, seasonal, certified organic
produce to the best of their ability (barring weather, insects and hungry
critters), our task as CSA Members is to be able to go with the flow with what
we’re given and approach this bounty with open minds and open mouths 😊.
It’s sort of like being in a weekly version of the tv show Chopped where we’re
given ingredients every week, and it’s then our assignment to see what we can
make out of all that and make it delicious (and yes, it’s possible to make
everything we’ve gotten really tasty, even if it means finding ways to hide it
amongst other foods just to be using it and getting all the healthy nutrients
into us by any means necessary 😊). We try and make this
easier by giving you the weekly Veg Info Sheets with the recipes, and with the
great cookbook everyone got at the beginning of the year. Very few people take
advantage of this but, I’m always available for advice on ideas for cooking up
any, and all, of our CSA foods (I’m basically a healthy hedonist so I believe
in deliciousness and healthy eating 😊).
Green Thumb Farm is a 12th generation family farm
that’s been in Water Mill since 1640 and it’s people like us, by being CSA
Members, that help keep them doing what they love to do…and are very good at
doing. Our farmer are the people that are going to be able to cope with climate
change and anything else the universe is going to throw at them because
generations of this family have been through many tough times over the
centuries (yup, this family has been farming almost 400 years).
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 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
11.What you actually got last week
Week #25
November 27, 2024
- Popcorn* – 1 bag (1/3 lb.) - $5.25
- Turnips - mix** – 1 bag (2 lb.) -$4.75
- Sweet Potatoes - 1 bag (2 lbs.) - $6.00
- Fennel*** - 1 bunch - $5.75
- Lettuce: Boston, Red – 1 head - $4.50
Total Items: 5
Total Amount: $25.75
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 $3.75 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 $79.25 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 2B
Dill AND Rosemary
*Popcorn – there’s no Veggie Info Sheet for
this so here’s some info…
How to get the Popcorn off the Cob…
By hand…and with a machine made for just that purpose (but I
don’t think we’ll be getting enough today to require that 😊)…
https://fromscratchfarmstead.com/shelling-corn/
If you ever grow a lot of your own Popcorn (or bought a
LOT), this is where I’d get such a device (can always count on the Amish for
these sorts of things)…
https://www.lehmans.com/product/lehmans-cast-iron-corn-sheller
Best method BUT…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay9dT1xWPjo
you need to do this to make this little “tool”…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9JP88tUXZk
However, I’m concerned about little slivers of wood coming
off and ending up in my Popcorn
Have an air Popcorn popper? Use as directed…
https://www.cuisinart.com/easypop-hot-air-popcorn-maker/P-CPM-150.html
How to make Popcorn on the stove…
https://www.thepioneerwoman.com/food-cooking/recipes/a94264/how-to-make-stovetop-popcorn/
**Turnips – some ideas other than
mashed Turnips (over 40 recipes for Turnips and a few for the Greens too 😊)…
Who doesn’t like Fries? Here’s Turnip Fries using an
air-fryer or baked…
https://www.aspicyperspective.com/baked-turnip-fries-airfryer/
Maybe one of these will become your new favorite! 😊
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/photos/turnip-recipes
https://www.countryliving.com/food-drinks/g4640/turnip-recipes/
***Fennel – why Fennel is the PERFECT addition
to your Thanksgiving table…
In Italy, it’s eaten after meals to aid in digestion after a
heavy or fatty meal (sounds like Thanksgiving to me 😊).
You can eat a wedge raw, or you can put it in a salad or eat it baked/roasted…
Fennel Salad
https://www.loveandlemons.com/shaved-fennel-salad/#wprm-recipe-container-74814
If you don’t own a mandolin you could…
And if you’re concerned about cutting yourself, get a pair
of cut resistant (NOT cut proof) gloves…
Baked Fennel…I skip everything else and just use Olive Oil,
Salt, Pepper, grated Parmesan Cheese (though I’m sure it tastes better with
everything else added…will try it 😊)…
https://www.themediterraneandish.com/roasted-fennel/#wprm-recipe-container-61457
12.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.
Peculiar to gross stories about food in odd places and more…
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, December 4th and Friday, December
5th
Food for Health Masterclass with John and Ocean Robbins
FREE
To register…
This 80 minute class will cover…
How to harness the power of a whole food plant-based (vegan)
diet for longevity and vitality
The connection between the foods you eat and how you feel
Simple steps to upgrade your diet for maximum energy and
health
And includes a free downloadable workbook.
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.
Tuesday, December 17th to Monday, December
23rd
Depression and Anxiety Solutions Summit (online)
FREE
To register…
This summit includes speaker such as (some of the ones I
know of) Dr. Drew Ramsey (who runs the Brain Food Clinic and written the book
Eat to Beat Depression), Austin Perlmutter (following in his father’s, Dr.
David Permutter’s, footsteps of being a holistic doctor focusing on brain
health), Dr. Josh Axe (I find Googling his name and my health issues I get
pretty good information), my new hero, Dr. Emeran Mayer (author of The
Gut-Brain Connection), and last but certainly not least, Dr. Heather Sandison
(author of the book Reversing Alzheimer’s). During this summit, every day they
will ask if you want permanent access to these videos for $67 but you can say
no 😊, or you may want to buy this if you feel
this material would be of interest or help to you (I find it impossible to have
the time to watch all of these videos as they’re aired).
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/
Some NY farmers will attend this conference instead of the
NOFA-NY one because it’s closer and the weather and drive are usually not as
treacherous.
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