Quail Hill Farm
Member News: July 3, 2014
Celebrating its 25th season, Quail Hill Farm is a Community Supported Agricultural (CSA) project that helps to ensure the survival of agriculture on Long Island's East End. A stewardship project of Peconic Land Trust, Quail Hill Farm brings together agricultural land, farmers and community members in a relationship of mutual support.
Published biweekly, the Quail Hill Farm E-News is prepared by farm members Jane Weissman (text and most photographs) and Julie Resnick (recipes) and produced by Peconic Land Trust's Yvette DeBow. Your contributions -- recipes, news and events, poems, photographs and drawings -- are welcomed. Send them to quailhillnews@aol.com.
The weather was great, the new location shady, and the food delicious.
THANK YOU, ALL
for making the FARM BREAKFAST a huge success!
As far as JANE and RONNIE are concerned,
you are a DREAM TEAM!
Our farmers -- SCOTT, LAYTON, ELLA, MATT, NICK, BRENDAN, MICHELLE, JESSE and MORGAN -- for gathering eggs, harvesting rhubarb, table and equipment runs, and setting up the orchard

MELANIE & EMILIE Woods for harvesting and cleaning herbs
SUSAN Cole, ZED & NEO Albertini and NICK Stephens for water play & filling coffee pots
JUDY Freeman and FRANCESCA Rheannon for the strawberry rhubarb compotes - each very different & equally delicious
TRUDY Zohn, HOPE Millholland and MADELAINE Haberman for roasting the tasty potatoes -- donated by PROVISIONS (thank you!)
JOE Realmuto (Nick & Toni's) for lending tables and kitchen equipment
CYNTHIA Young (Amagansett Free Library) for lending more tables
NICK, GORDIAN Raacke, RAND Stoll
and KATHRYN Staley for early Saturday morning set-up
The talented cooking crew -- KATHY Masters, BO Parsons and MARTY Meth -- on eggs and potatoes, and
GORDIAN, PETER Cobb, LEN Rubin and HUGH Brown
for flapping the jacks
DOROTHY Dolan, GABRIELE Raacke, CARLA Ash, GERRY
Pluenneke, ENID Roth, LINDA Lacchia, BERNICE Hoffman, ANNE Altchek and JANET Ezerskyfor staffing the tables: welcome, pastry, sales, juice and coffee -- donated by Jack's Stir Brew Coffee (thank you!)
NICK and KEVIN Coffey for the coffee runs, making sure all ran smoothly and overseeing the recycling station
PAM Greene, YVETTE DeBow & LISA Pepefrom the Trust for ordering supplies, providing even more tables, and setting up the sales table
and DOROTHY Donovan, BRIAN Boroughs, GORDIAN, NICK, KEVIN, PAM, YVETTE & SCOTT for making cleanup fun
The fabulous bakers who treated us to delicious treats --
BO, LINDA, LISA, CHRISTINE Schiulli, DOROTHY Dolan, DOROTHY Roskam, HEATHER Lind, HEIDI Oleszczuk, JURI Tint, LYNN Ingrassia,
PAM Keen and the TARR FAMILY
And everyone who came and ate and talked and
laughed and saw old friends and made new ones!
More pictures by Jane Weissman from the breakfast can be found on the
Quail Hill Farm Facebook Page!
FARM MEMBERSHIPS AVAILABLE!
Single Person and Family Shares
Info: Robin Harris at Peconic Land Trust -- 631.283.3195
RECIPES
Thanks for sharing images (with descriptions) of the meals you are making with your farm veggies with us! As a reminder, we've partnered with feedfeed so you can find and share cooking inspiration with other members. To share, post images of the meals you make with a short description on your Instagram, Facebook or Twitter and add the hashtags #feedfeed #QuailHillFarm.
Click here for a compilation of RECIPES that appeared in the QHF E-News between 2008 and 2012. The third edition of the Quail Hill Farm Cookbook, edited by Hilary Leff and Linda Lacchia and containing recipes contributed by farm members between 1998 and 2007 -- is an indispensable addition to your kitchen library.
CALENDAR: FARM EVENTS
POETRY MARATHON FEATURING SCOTT CHASKEY
Sunday, July 13. 5:00 PM at Marine Museum, 301 Bluff Road, Amagansett. 
Fran Castan and Scott Chaskey will launch the 20th season of the
Poetry Marathon, founded and directed by Sylvia Chavkin. Fran was recently names Long Island Poet of the Year by The Walt Whitman Birthplace Association in Huntington. For 25 years, Fran taught writing and literature at The School of Visual Arts. Come join Scott and Fran for this special reading.
The series will continue with two readers every Sunday through August 17. Future readers in the series are Anne Sager & Dan Moran on July 20; Kathryn Levy & Geoffrey O'Brien on July 27; Greg Moglia & Rosalind Brenner on August 3; Dick Lynn & Michael Walsh on August 10; and Pamela Kallimanis & Pat Falk on August 17.
LOST LADYBUG PROJECT

Tuesdays, JULY 15 and AUGUST 12. 10 AM to Noon. Peconic Land Trust and the South Fork Natural History Museum (SoFo) team up with scientists from Cornell University for QHF's annual search for "lost ladybugs." The New York State's official insect, the 9-spotted ladybug hadn't been found in 29 years until, in 2011, a colony was discovered in Quail Hill's fields. Meet at Farm Stand. Heavy rain cancels. Info.
BEES and THE BEEKEEPER: Tuesday, AUGUST 19. 10 to 11:30 AM
Tender of QHF's hives and owner of Bees Needs, Mary Woltz talks about the life cycle of bees, colony collapse and other issues affecting these important insects that, by pollinating the farm's flowering plants, play a vital role in the health of our food supply. Meet at Farm Stand. Heavy rain cancels. $5/adult; free for children and for QHF members. Info.
FARMER WISH LIST
Tea Kettle, Crock Pot. Also, a Car for one of the apprentices (can pay up to $2,000). Call: 631.267.8492. Thank you!