Happy Autumn!
THIS WEEK…our CSA will be outdoors in the
garden in front of the Sky Room Café. Why? The Cinema has rented out the Café
to someone (an offer they couldn’t afford to refuse 😊),
and there you go. Fortunately, so far the weather looks like mid-60 degrees and
no rain.
CSA weather report…cool and breezy
DO NOT LEAVE YOUR CSA SHARE IN YOUR CAR FOR ANY LENGTH OF
TIME (it’s too hot and it will not be happy, and won’t last as long as it would
if it were happy…which happens at about 40 degrees 😊).
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)!
- What you need to know
- While the more serious
water shortage warning has been lifted, there are still issues…
- Click activism
- Food safety and
COVID-19…
- Our annual Fall Harvest
CSA Farm Tour is coming up soon!
- Emergency situations at
the CSA (hurricanes/electronic communication glitches/medical
emergencies…on my part, etc.)
- How to not miss any CSA
pickups AND getting in touch with your CSA (you’ll want this info in your
“back pocket” for the one time it might come in handy)
- What we actually got
last week
- 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 go 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.
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 #18
October 2, 2025
- Leeks – 1 bunch
- Squash, Summer
- Beans, Snap: Green – 1 bag
- Tomatoes – 1 bag
- Pepper, Sweet
- Swiss Chard – 1 bunch
- Lettuce – 1 head
Total Items: 7
2.While the more serious water shortage warning has been
lifted, there are still issues…
We’re not totally out of the woods
yet in terms of having a good amount of water in Suffolk County. So, we’re
still being asked to follow the odd/even day watering schedule in regards to
lawns. If you have an even numbered house, you can water your lawn on the even
days of the month and the same goes with the odd numbered houses watering on
the odd numbered days of the month.
Suffolk County is listed as the
category D0 (and that’s the numerical 0 and not the letter O) which stands for
Abnormally Dry. That means we’re under a drought warning and we’re either on
our way to an actual drought or coming out of an actual drought situation.
Categories of drought are from D1 to D4.
So, the Suffolk County Water
Authority would still like us all to be mindful about water use in general, as
there’s still a few weeks left in the lawn watering season and there’s not a
lot of rain in the forecast.
If you want to investigate ways to
conserve water AND save some money, you can get up to $250 credit for some
water saving devices and get a FREE water consult. Check this out here…
https://www.scwa.com/waterwise/
If you want to learn where all our water in our homes comes
from (and more info about water conservation), check this out…
AND if they open up this program again, you can get $500 for
creating a rain garden, using a rain barrel and/or buy and plant Long Island
native plants!
https://lirpc.org/sustainable-landscaping-resource-hub/
If you’d like to win a smart water sprinkler controller
(worth about $250), sign the pledge here…
https://ourwaterourlives.com/pledge/
A.Let’s keep the pressure on and join me asking Congress to ban
Monsanto/Bayer's cancer-causing weedkiller! Juries are making Bayer pay
billions to Roundup-exposed cancer victims. Judges agree Monsanto acted with
“malice, oppression or fraud,” to hide the fact that its glyphosate-based weed
killer causes non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. An $11 billion settlement in 2020
resolved most of those cases, but there are still 67,000 people demanding their
day in court. To avoid paying billions of dollars to the people they've
sickened or killed, Bayer is spending millions of dollars lobbying Congress.
Bayer founded a group called the Modern Ag Alliance to carry its message to
Congress. There are plenty of corrupt politicians ready to help Bayer, but none
brave enough to ban Roundup.
Click here to send your message… https://advocacy.organicconsumers.org/page/10024/action/1
B.Join Me in Signing the Petition Telling the EPA To Ban Toxic Sludge From
Farmland! Unless you’re buying certified organic produce, there’s a possibility
it’s been “fertilized” and “watered” with toxic sewer sludge, especially if
it’s from California (where 40 to 50% of the produce in America is grown) and
places where there are droughts since the only liquid left to “water” the land
is sewer sludge.
In the last days of the Biden Administration, the Environmental Protection
Agency announced the start of a project it should have finished before Trump
took office: determining the health risks of PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl
substances) in sewage sludge disposed of on farmland. Biden’s EPA found that
these toxic “forever chemicals” can cause cancer and other diseases in people
who live near farm fields where sludge is spread-or those who consume tainted
milk, beef, or other foods from these farms–including kidney and liver cancers,
decreased birth weight, increased cholesterol, and diminished immune system
function.
How likely is Trump's EPA to finalize these findings? Trump's EPA has
already decided to “rescind” and “reconsider” regulatory limits on PFAS in
drinking water. Meanwhile, Republicans in Congress are trying to stop the EPA's
health risks determination. The House Interior and Environment Appropriations
Subcommittee included a policy rider in their fiscal year 2026 appropriations
bill, Section 507, that would permanently prohibit the EPA from finalizing,
implementing, or enforcing its Draft Risk Assessment for PFOA and PFOS in
Sewage Sludge.
Click here to sign… https://advocacy.organicconsumers.org/page/85847/petition/1?chain
Even though it’s been a while since the word “pandemic” has
been bandied about, people are still getting COVID (there’s new variant going
around) 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
5.Our annual CSA Harvest Fall Farm Tour is coming up
soon!
Saturday, October 24th
11am to noon OR noon to 1pm
Green Thumb CSA Annual Fall Harvest Tour
Green Thumb Farm
Montauk Hwy
Water Mill
RSVP by responding to this email or leaving a phone message
at 631-421-4864, and tell us your name and the total number of people coming
with you (there’s only so much room in the wagon). if you are sharing with
someone, you need to use BOTH your name and the name of the CSA member you’re
sharing with.
This will be a riding tour on a large tractor-pulled wagon
(kids love this 😊). We’ll see various
parts of the farm and probably get to feed some animals, maybe get to pick some
food from the fields, and get Pumpkins at the end (not necessarily organic and
not necessarily from our farm, BUT meant more for decorating though they can be
eaten 😊). Everything purchased at the farm stand
will get a 10% discount, and after the last farm tour, some of us will go to
Barrow Food House in Aquebogue for lunch and of course, you’re welcome to come
along. The CSA farm tour is for CSA Members and their immediate family members
only.
Check out the menu for Barrow Food House…
The only thing I didn’t care for on the menu (and have eaten
most of it 😊) was the Latkes (thought they were too
greasy) but it’s been a while so I might try them again to see if they’ve
gotten any better 😊.
What NOT to do during a thunderstorm…
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/thunderstorm-safety-meteorologists-goog_l_689265b6e4b07e7958a0e188
- It’s peak hurricane season till November 30th
(our CSA’s last day is December 11th)! 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 28+
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.
1. If you're running late and it's something you didn't
know in advance and can get to the Cinema Arts Centre by 9pm or 10pm, call the
Cinema Box Office (631-423-7611 xt. 0 - I'd put this number in my phone under
"CSA contacts" or however you think you'll remember to find this
number and have easy access) between CSA hours (after 3:30pm but before
7:30pm), ask to speak to someone at the CSA and you'll be transferred, let us
know you'll be running late, and we can pack a bag for you that will have your
last name on it (when you pick up your CSA Share, make sure it's your last name
on the bag because, for example, if you get an Herb Share and someone else
doesn't, you don't want to miss out on your Herb Share and vice versa), and get
there before the Box Office closes for the night. That time depends on the
length of the movies playing (which change every week) so when you call to ask
us at the CSA to pack your CSA Share I'd ask the Box Office person what time
they'll be closing AND I'd give a call when I was on my way to let them know so
they wouldn't lock the front door (just in case 😊).
2. If you know in advance that you might be running late,
you can contact me (will put below the parameters of when I'm available as I'm
not a 24/7 person in terms of how to get in touch with me), and let me know and
I'll (as in the above), pack up your CSA Share so you can pick it up at the Box
Office before it closes. HOWEVER, if you don't get there by the time they're
going to close, they will have our donating organization come over to take it
as we can't store any CSA food at the Cinema overnight.
3. If you know in advance that you can't pick up at all
on a Thursday, there are options...
A. Have someone you know pick up for you so you can get
it from them the next day OR, if you're going away for the weekend, when you
get back. The only thing they need when they stop by our CSA is knowing where
to go (the Cinema's Sky Room Cafe), what time to show up (3:30pm to 7:30pm),
your name (you'd be surprised at how that's not as obvious as one would think 😊)
AND, to bring at least two bags to pack up the CSA Share to separate wet and
dry foods (and one being plastic or some other material that won't leak water).
B. Have another CSA member take your CSA Share home with
them and...see above. If you don't know any of our CSA members and you'd like,
I will send out an email asking for help, and 9 times out of 10 there will be a
CSA member who'd be glad to hold on to your CSA Share till you're able to pick
it up at that person's home (or another location agreed upon by both people).
They understand not wanting to miss a week of the CSA Season so they're happy
to help. 😊
Have to tell you though, missing at least one CSA pickup
per season is almost like a rite of passage for every CSA member (new and not
new 😊). People miss them for any number of
reasons. From life's unexpected events (like getting caught up at work 😊,
to completely forgetting, to late planning that's not working out as one
wanted. At one point a number of years ago I was a member of our CSA AND
another one (wanted to compare the two CSA Shares 😊),
and I FORGOT to pick up my 2nd CSA Share one week (and was so annoyed at myself
that I never forgot again 😊). If I can completely
forget to pick up my CSA Share (of a CSA site that I'm not managing 😊),
it can happen to anyone 😊.
How to get in touch with suzanne...
1. email gtcsahuntington@gmail.com
- 24/7 HOWEVER there are times when I won't see them. On Thursdays, odds are I
won't see emails from noon till the next day (Friday) after noon.
2. personal phone ( 631-421-4864 ) - for the
purposes of the CSA I use my home phone which is a land line. I want to
separate my home and "work" life so I don't use my mobile phone and
even if it's someone I know, I won't respond to anything connected to the CSA
from my mobile phone. HOWEVER, I won't see any phone messages left on this
number during the same times as the above (won't see voice messages left after
noon on Thursdays and won't check them till Friday after noon...and I don't check
them remotely)
3. Cinema phone ( 631-423-7611 xt. 0 ) - I'd keep this
number in your mobile phone too under "CSA" or any other place you'll
remember where it is. Unlike the above, you can ONLY use this number during CSA
hours (Thursday 3:30pm to 7:30pm) for the purpose of letting us know you're
running late and want your CSA Share packed and left at the Box Office, OR a
last minute plea to try and find someone to take your CSA Share home with them
so you can pick it up the next day (I wouldn't count on this since the pool of
people who will be asked is small BUT I also would still give it a try because
it has worked from time to time).
Lastly, for the past several years, our CSA farm, Green
Thumb Farm, has been VERY generous with us and over the course of our season,
they've given us around $80.00 worth of food that we didn't pay for (so far in
the past few weeks, we've gotten $16.75 more than we've paid for...if you look
at the CSA Wall Chart every week, you'll see that the total amount of money is
usually more than the $23 we pay the farm). SO, that means as far as losing
money, you can "afford" to miss at least one or two CSA pickups (and
possibly 3 or 4) and not lose money BUT, I understand we still want our weekly
veg (and Flowers and Herbs 😊), and miss it if we
don't pick it up or arrange to have our CSA Share held for us.
8.What you actually got last week
Week #17
September 25, 2025
- Squash, Winter: Acorn – 1 - $2.75
- Squash, Summer: 8 Ball/Globe, Costata Romanesco, Gold,
Kousa, Patty Pan (Green and Yellow), Yellow, Zucchini - 3 pc. total -
$1.25
- Eggplant: Purple Rain – 1 - $2.50
- Cabbage: Chinese – 1 - $4.50
- Beans: Soy (Edamame) – 1 bag (1/2 lb.) - $4.50
- Tat Soi – 1 bunch - $5.25
- Tomatoes, Mini: Sun Gold – 1 pt. - $6.50
Total Items: 7
Total Amount: $27.75
We pay our farm $23 per week for our CSA share…some weeks we
get a bit more, some a bit less. This week, it was $ over $23.00. Doesn’t sound
like a whole lot, but it adds up over the course of the CSA season (at the
moment it’s a total of $49.75 more food than what we paid). We seem to always
get at least one CSA share’s worth of food every year (we’ve got that now) that
we didn’t pay for…some years two, and last year it was almost four weeks worth
extra, so we’re talking almost $80 worth of food we got gratis…it’s all good! 😊
Herb Share – September 2B
Chives: Garlic AND Dill
Flower Share – Week #10
Mixed Bunch – the end!
If you don’t know why I’m using this phrase, click here (or
even if you do you might want to take a peek 😊)…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bF-rpJz2CA
This was a catch phrase on the BBC tv show Monty Python’s
Flying Circus.
*Please keep in mind that any events or services listed do
not indicate a direct endorsement from Green Thumb Organic Farm or Green Thumb
CSA – Huntington
Tuesday, September 30th to Tuesday, October
7th
Eye Health Docu-class (online)
FREE (though like all these multi-day\multi-class per day
online events, I’m sure they will offer the option of extending the viewing
time for a price…which may or may not be worth it depending on how useful the
info might be to someone)
For more info and to register…
This 8 day lecture series discusses all sorts of eye related
conditions like cataracts, glaucoma, macular degeneration and more. I can bet
my bottom dollar that they’ll be talking about diet, and the importance of
eating organic foods. Some of the names that caused me to be interested in this
were Meir Schneider (author of Vision for Life…I used to know someone who found
their vision improved using the techniques in this book), Dr. Marc Grossman
(was thinking of going to him as I need a new eye doctor but don’t think he’s
seeing individual patients any more), Dr. Joel Kahn (author of The Whole Heart
Solution…vegan cardiologist who’s non-vegan friendly…I own this book), and Dr.
Robert DeMaria (also known as The Drugless Doctor…finds ways to treat his
patients [he’s a chiropractor] without using pharmaceutical drugs).
Saturday, October 4th
10am to 11:15am
Beach Yoga
Fleets Cove Beach Park
Fleets Cove Rd. (to the right of the house and in front of
the kayaks)
Huntington
$20 (cash or Venmo)
Prior to class, text to check in at…
917-562-5322
Join CSA member, Marylou Locker, at the beach to do some
yoga (barring bad yoga weather 😊). This is yoga for ALL
levels with modifications for every body. You’ll find the healing sights and
sounds of nature, experience the salt air, sunshine and a deep sense of
renewal, and be part of a supportive community of fans of yoga. What to
bring…Beach blanket/towel to put beneath your Yoga mat, Hat Sunscreen, Yoga
mat, Water and a big smile 😊!
2pm to 4pm
Biodynamic Gardening Class
KK’s Farm
59945 Main Rd.
Southold
$24
For more information and to register…
The title of this class, appropriately enough, is Preparing
for Winter. Come along with Sonomi Obinata, and learn strategies to keep your
garden healthy during the winter.
3:30pm to 6:30pm
Harvest Moon
Orkestai Farm Fundraiser and Festival
1395 Planting Fields Rd
Oyster Bay
$150 (in advance $165 day of event) to $5,000/FREE – under
10
For more info and to purchase tickets…
https://givebutter.com/c/orkestaiharvestmoon
The event is a fundraiser for this non-profit farm that
celebrates its neurodiverse farm workers through ecological agriculture (not
certified organic) and expressive arts, and will include live music, dance
performances and farm fresh food prepared by local chefs. This is a rain or
shine event.
Tuesday, October 7th
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.
6pm to 8pm
Eric Eaton & Friends
Urban Coffee
101 Broadway
Greenlawn
FREE
For more info about Urban Coffee (no website)…
https://www.facebook.com/urbancoffeegreenlawn/
https://www.instagram.com/urbancoffeeny/?hl=en
CSA member Eric Eaton has started a singer/songwriter series
at Urban Coffee. This will be an almost weekly event (except not the first
Tuesday of the month when it will be poetry night). It’ll be an evening of
home-brewed songs and home-brewed Coffee 😊. Eric will be playing
songs of life, love, hope and peace, and then we’ll see what original tunes
Katherine has to offer. So, come on down and grab some refreshments for your
taste buds and ears!
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.youtube.com/watch?v=v76MyFuXfqc
Thursday, October 16th
12am to 12pm
People’s Food Summit: A 24 Hour Global Event (online
event)
To get more info and to watch…
Vandana Shiva is the only person I know of in this lineup,
but that’s enough for me to be curious about all the others I don’t know. This
is a parallel event to the UN’s World Food Day.
Unfortunately, the UN’s World Food Day has been hijacked by
corporate agribusiness and pesticide cartels. In June of 2019 the UN signed an
agreement with the World Economic Forum (WEF) pushing the corporate
influence, greed, and agendas of these billionaire cartels. The big ag
agenda was solidified with the appointment of Ms. Agnes Kalibata, President of
the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA…funded by the Gates
Foundation) as the Special Envoy for the UN Food Systems Summit. AGRA has been
pushing GMOs and other false solutions to climate change, drought and hunger in
Africa and elsewhere with disastrous impacts on the people and their land.
After hearing AGRA and big ag’s influences on the UN World Food Summit, this
group decided to let farmers and consumers have an alternative forum…a forum by
and for the people, that promotes and supports smaller farms (anything under
500 acres is considered “small” by the USDA standards) and the real
agroecological solutions of organic and regenerative food systems. Maybe not in
the United States, but world-wide, small family farms, pastoralists (sheep or
cattle farmer), and foresters (specialize in the care of forests and wooded
areas for sustainable foods like nuts, medicinal plants and fruits) produce 80%
of the food eaten. Presented will be real world proven and farmer-based
examples of what is, and should be, the future of our food and farming future
including…agroecology, agroforestry, holistic managed grazing, organic and
regenerative farming, permaculture and more.
And we CSA Members are part of this worldwide movement by
supporting a small family farm that’s certified organic through your
membership!
If you don’t get to watch any or all of this event (being
the day of the CSA…I won’t ☹), I’m sure you can watch the
talks here at some later point, and check out talks given at previous People’s
Food Summits…
https://www.youtube.com/@RegenerationInternational/streams
Saturday, October 25th
10am to 11:15am
Beach Yoga
Fleets Cove Beach Park
Fleets Cove Rd. (to the right of the house and in front of
the kayaks)
Huntington
$20 (cash or Venmo)
Prior to class, text to check in at…
917-562-5322
Join CSA member, Marylou Locker, at the beach to do some
yoga (barring bad yoga weather 😊). This is yoga for ALL
levels with modifications for every body. You’ll find the healing sights and
sounds of nature, experience the salt air, sunshine and a deep sense of
renewal, and be part of a supportive community of fans of yoga. What to
bring…Beach blanket/towel to put beneath your Yoga mat, Hat Sunscreen, Yoga
mat, Water and a big smile 😊!
11am to noon/noon to 1pm
Green Thumb CSA Annual Fall Harvest Tour
Green Thumb Farm
Montauk Hwy
Water Mill
RSVP by responding to this email or leaving a phone message
at 631-421-4864 (if you are sharing with someone, you need to use BOTH your
name and the name of the CSA member you’re sharing with)
This will be a riding tour on a large tractor-pulled wagon
(kids love this 😊). We’ll see various
parts of the farm and probably get to feed some animals, maybe get to pick some
food from the fields, and get Pumpkins at the end (not necessarily organic and
not necessarily from our farm, BUT meant more for decorating though they can be
eaten 😊). Everything purchased at the farm stand
will get a 10% discount, and after the last farm tour, some of us will go to
Barrow Food House in Aquebogue for lunch and you’re welcome to come along. The
CSA farm tour is for CSA Members and their immediate family members only.
Friday, November 7th to Sunday, November 9th
The Art of (meno)Pausing
Mama Farm
269 S Country Rd
Brookhaven
$900 (commuter)/$1700 (staying at Mama Farm’s B&B)
For more info and to register…
This is a 3 day immersive retreat learning all about
menopause (both conventional and complementary medicine techniques) with 3
leading experts in their fields (Dr. Laura MacIsaac, Ob/Gyn and a Menopause
Society Certified Practitioner, Dr. Amy Novatt, Ob/Gyn and sexual health
expert, and Padma Dharini, ordained Buddhist). This is limited to 15
participants. Fees include all food (I imagine some will be from foods grown at
the farm) and scheduled activities. Mama Farm is the home and passion of the
actress Isabella Rossellini, and she will be giving one of the lectures.
Participants will receive a 15% discount on Drs. Amy & Laura’s 3 month
supportive coaching, consulting and care…an opportunity to develop individual
treatment plans for optimal health.
Monday, November 17th
5:30pm to 9pm
The 32nd Annual Great Chefs of Long Island
Crest Hollow Country Club
Jericho Tpke
Woodbury
$200 and up
For more info and to buy tickets…
https://e.givesmart.com/events/H2a/?isOrderFormActive=true
This is a benefit for The Family Service League, based in
Huntington. It will be an evening featuring Long Island’s favorite chefs,
restaurants, spirit and beverage companies displaying culinary delights while
raising funds for a great organization that helps children and adults.
Wednesday, November 19th
1pm to 2pm
School Meals for a Sustainable Future: Local, Organic &
Regenerative
FREE
For more info and to register…
There is a lot of conflicting
information about whether school food programs can truly procure higher-quality
ingredients. This webinar, from the Chef Ann Foundation, will explore the
realities of districts’ ability to incorporate more local, regenerative, and
organic food into their programs.
NOFA-NY Winter Conference
SUNY Purchase College
Purchase
For more info and to register (keep checking back to get the
latest info)…
https://nofany.org/2026conference/
Stay tuned for registration details and class offerings.
This is about a one hour drive from Huntington so depending on the weather, I
might actually go…though I might or might not commute (too soon to tell 😊).
