Dumbo / Vinegar Hill / CSA

THE SANG LEE FALL HARVEST DINNER

Sunday October 12th at 4:30 pm

We will feature the best of the season’s organic veggies fresh from the field to your table, prepared with the most delicious and unique recipes and served under the stars in lovely outdoor elegance.

We will begin with fabulous appetizers and tastings of Castello di Borghese wines, and serve dinner with a selection of our new certified natural meats. After dinner we will gather around a crackling bonfire where you can enjoy warm coffee and a tantalizing dessert.

Please feel free to bring your own wine to compliment your dinner, or if you prefer to order wines from Castello di Borghese Vineyard, we will happy to coordinate that for you.

Please reserve by October 1st. Contact Karen directly by e-mail: karen@sangleefarms.com or by phone: 631.734.7001. Seats are $150 per person paid in advance at the farm or for your convenience by credit card via phone or email. A 72 hour cancelation policy is required in order for those on the wait list to be accommodated.

Bring family and friends and enjoy the incredibly beautiful array of fall foods and farm ambiance. We will assist you with any seating arrangements that you require. We look forward to hearing from you.

Greetings,

Our fall crops are coming along nicely so far and we’re looking to begin our harvest of Broccoli possibly as early as next week, so stay tuned for that item. The slightly cooler days and ample rainfall have helped all the fall cruciferous (members of the cabbage and broccoli family), veggies grow well. Along with the broccoli, we have several varieties of Cauliflower that will be a few weeks later ‘coming down the pike’.

In the mean time we have the return of some nice baby Bok Choy (also a member of the cabbage family), for members to take the Wok out of storage.

Be well,

Fred & Karen

PS. Our season’s Second Harvest Dinner will be held here at the Farm on October 12, 2008. Any interested persons can contact Karen directly by e-mail karen@sangleefarms.com or by phone @ (631)-734-7001. Seating is limited, so it is suggested to make your arrangements as soon as you have plans.

Greetings,

We are back on track with our greens production and have some nice lettuces coming in now from the plentiful rainfall of the past week, so each group will have some mesclun and lettuce.

Hope the minor repetition of some items has not ‘bean’ issue with any CSA member.  They have continued to grow in abundance, and I figured having them in the respective CSA shares ‘beets’ not having them.

Be well,

Fred & Karen

Our tomatoes are coming in rapidly with great abundance from the continued warm weather and plentiful moisture from the prior week’s rain.  Even though the quantity is greater than the respective CSA members would normally get, our abundance here in the farm fields simply means more “Fresh-Lee-Cut”@ produce for our CSA members this week.

We hope you enjoy this week’s selections.

Be well,

Fred & Karen

With the all the recent rainfall, some of our crops are pushing forward in maturity and all coming in together now. What does this mean for the CSA members besides having an extra item in your box this week? Well, it means two things off the top of my head, 1) I may have to buy PFDs ( ‘personal flotation devices’ ,which is a fancy term for life vest), when I send the field crews out in BOATS to harvest your CSA veggies, and 2) when you get some items like the Baby Bok Choy or Head Lettuce, you may have to give them an additional rinse from the silt in the lower section of the leaves. Many of our fields were actually under water for a couple of periods of time from all the rainfall during the past week. The water line half way up the plants in some fields is easily seen by the muddy smudge it left on some of the foliage.

So far we are harvesting what ever we can to make the best of the wet conditions.

Be well,

Fred & Karen

A tidbit of information, Snap Beans used to be called string Beans back in the days of our parent’s time.  Preparing them involved picking the stem portion off and pulling the string off along side of the bean.  Through hybridization and selective breeding techniques, the seed producers have eliminated the “string” portion of the bean.  So, eating and preparing them is a whole lot more enjoyable.

You’ll note that we have (1) Red Beef Tomato for each member.  These are conventionally grown by my neighboring farm in his greenhouse just up the road here in Mattituck.  They are quite good and I hope everyone enjoys them.  Our outside field Tomatoes are coming along, but are still quite small and green still.  We’re hoping to have some additional good, sunny, warm days to keep them maturing properly.  I’m hoping we can harvest something before the end of the month from our field.

Be well,

Fred and Karen

We have two new items on the list for both groups of CSA members. Our first field harvests of Sungold Cherry Tomatoes and Norland Red Potatoes! It is really kind of exciting for me to be harvesting our first ever Potato crop in all of our 60+ year farm family history. I certainly would not have imagined growing Potatoes even a year ago from today.

I had to ‘taste test’ them both to make sure they were good enough for the CSA members, and I have to say quite honestly that they are both great. Since they both came to maturity at the same time, I actually couldn’t decide which one to set up for harvest for this week’s CSA packing. I generally like to try to have at least one new item in the CSA box when ever it is possible. In my discussion with the field mangers’ yesterday about what we should have the crews harvest, I said “Tomatoes”, they said “Potatoes”, and well……. the rest is history. Sort of reminds me of a song I heard once. Anyway, how you enjoy this week’s veggies as much I did.

Be well,

Fred & Karen

A Special celebration dinner featuring Sang Lee Farms Certified Organic Vegetables,
“The Best of Sang Lee Farms Dinner” will be held on August 10th, 2008

This will be a reservations only dinner event that will be held at the farm. Cost per person is $100.00. Festivities will commence at 5:30 PM, Sunday, August 10th, 2008. Please contact Karen directly by calling the farm office number 631-734-7001 to place your reservations, or let her know via e-mail, karen@sangleefarms.com

The dinner will feature our wonderful salads of baby greens, colorful and delicious heirloom tomatoes, along with many of our summer veggies bursting from our fields. We will have a medley of “Certified Natural New York” meats along with Catapano Cheeses, and a sampling of Castello di Borghese wines to compliment the meal. You are welcome to bring your own wine to enjoy with your meal as well.

Steve Winkler, the up state New York farmer who established the network of NY farms that provides us with the Certified Natural meats will be a featured speaker along with Michael & Karen Catapano of Catapano Dairy Farm.

We plan to donate 10% of the proceeds from the dinner to Maureen’s Haven, a wonderful program operating under the auspices of The Peconic Community Council, an organization offering temporary shelter and meals to the homeless on eastern Long Island. You can read more information about this program at their website, www.pccouncil.org .

CSA Members,

This Tuesday, August 5th John Howe will show us how he makes his local honey. The honey will also be for sale during the distribution. The price is $10 for an 8 oz. jar with 20% of the proceeds going back into the CSA. Please bring cash to distribution this Tuesday so you can enjoy a jar of local honey. Tuesday August 5th is the only day the honey will be for sale.