Farm Picnics, Pony Rides, Pizza Parties

Mark your calendars for our special events this spring and summer - spend time on the farm and enjoy our Italian Farmhouse Brickoven Pizza, Farm Picnic Baskets, and Pony Rides! Meet local farmers and find out how you can help save small family farms - buy our value added products and sign up for our multi farm CSA

Please call or email for more information.
Ask about children parties and special events.
ambrosiafarmsny@yahoo.com

1.800.221.9755

Our Multi Farm CSA - Benefits & List of Offerings

Thank you for being a member of  - Natural Nutrients by Ambrosia Farms- our UNIQUE Multi Farm CSA!

- members have wider choice to fill their box with whatever appeals to them, within certain limitations.
- you are not limited to produce. We include the option for shareholders to buy shares of eggs, homemade pizza, meat, cheese, fruit, flowers and other farm products along with their veggies.

- we buy from several farmers in addition to our own, to offer the widest variety to their members

- Farmers Frozen Foods is our original line of items frozen in our small batch processing center - this winter you will wonder how you ever ate meals without them - these frozen veggies extend our growing season for you without the prep - just heat and serve!

Advantages for farmers:
Get to spend time marketing the food early in the year, before their 16 hour days in the field begin
Receive payment early in the season, which helps with the farm's cash flow
Have an opportunity to get to know the people who eat the food they grow
Direct feedback from members

Advantages for members
Eat ultra-fresh food, with all the flavor and vitamin benefits
Get exposed to new vegetables and new ways of cooking
Usually get to visit the farm at least once a season
Find that kids typically favor food from "their" farm
Develop a relationship with the farmer who grows their food
Help preserve family farms and open spaces in the area
A multi farm CSA has a much wider range of offerings

List of Offerings
You may choose from this list and many others posted and emailed throughout the season.  The value of each item is subtracted from your $195.00 membership fee , payable to
Progressive Advisors (our parent company)
Box 463
Bridgewater, NY  13313

Members who live nearby will receive a weekly or bi monthly package of mostly fresh produce of their choosing.  We encourgage members to try everything as it becomes available.  We will post links to recipes and videos for ideas on how to eat, cook, and enjoy them. Members who live further away will recieve mostly Farmers Frozen Foods, frozen chicken and duck, beef, maple syrup, honey, artisan cheeses and chocolates and other non perishables. Everyone is welcome to visit the farm frequently throughout the season - we will prepare a lovely Farmhouse Picnic Basket, as part of your value.  Why not "pick your own" veggies?

Our Farm specializes in heirloom and heritage breeds, too many to list here - but you are welcome to view the website of our seed supplier for more details
www.rareseeds.com

Foraged
Wild Leeks (Ramps)
Wild Dandelion and Mustard Greens
Wild Berries

Wild Apples


Specialties & Events
Farmhouse Brickoven Pizza
Farmhouse Picnic Basket
Heirloom Tomatoes Beefsteak
Heirloom Tomatoes Cherry
Heirloom Tomatoes Paste
Farm Flowers
Garlic

Greens & Beans
Green Onions
Green Beans
Snow Peas
Edammame
Fava Beans
Swiss Chard
Specialty Italian Greens - catalogna, arugula
Beet Greens
Salad Greens, Lettuce
Kale


Root Crops
Radishes
Carrots
Fingerling Potatoes
Beets
Onions

Mid to Late Summer
Hot Peppers
Sweet Peppers
Corn
Cucumber

Squash - much more than we can list here
Butternut Squash
Pumpkins

Summer Squash
Zucchini

Fruits & Berries
Apples
Blueberries
Strawberries
Herbs

Free Range
Farm Fresh Eggs
Chicken
Peking Duck



Artisan
Chocolate
Amaretti Cookies
Biscotti
Cheese Cake
Old Fashioned Chocolate Cake
Honey

Maple Syrup


Farmers Frozen Foods
we pick fresh and freeze at the peak of harvest all vegetables and fruits of our labor

Farmhouse Brickoven Pizza

Our pizza dough comes from our Italian Farmhouse Cookbook, and I am very proud that we make our own dough for the brickoven pizzettes. They contain all the ingredients of Italy grown right here on our farm, including the wheat in the very near future! The mozzarella is the fresh one - not Bufala - cow from the Northeast markets. Less is more for toppings when you are making a brickoven pizza because all of the flavor of heirloom tomatoes, basil, mozzarella, and the crust - are so pleasing that you will ruin it if it is smothered with anything else! Or you can make variations as pictured her - but minimal ingredients - like greens, and a different kind of cheese instead of red sauce - or meats salumi or pepperoni - but not too much. Don't try for one of those "everything on it" American pies!

Making the dough is done the day before we are to use it - proofing the dough to rise to twice it's original volume. For each dough ball - spring water is warmed - that is a key here - warm - not hot- 1 1/4 cup with 1 pkg. of yeast whisked with 1 tablespoon of unbleached sugar or honey. This activates the yeast. Use this once the mixture foams and looks active! Until we get a mixer I use the food processor.
Put in one cup of flour, than the yeast mixture and begin the blending process. As it is blending add another cup of flour (that is 2 so far) than add 1 tbsp. olive oil - than 1 tablsp. sea salt. Than add another cup of flour (that is 3 total) Than with the 4th cup add alittle at a time until a ball is formed. Stop the blender and turn out onto a floured surface. Form a ball that feels as soft as a baby's bottom. Too much flour and it is hardened. Too little and it is sticky. Very little flour is needed at this point.

Set in warm oven to rise or room temperature. Once it has doubled - punch down and form two balls with each dough recipe. Set aside to rise again.

Quick Healthy Soups

Lately I have been making soups that begin with olive oil, saute red bell peppers, add kale, reconstituted shitake mushrooms and season with tumeric and other curry spices. Pour in spring water and simmer. Any variation of this will do as long as the components of hot and sweet peppers, dark leafy greens, and mushrooms are there along with the spices mentioned.

Health benefits of homemade soup may include stress reduction, ease of digestion, weight loss, detoxification, anti inflammatory properties, cold symptom relief, increased circulation, absorption of minererals, warming energy, and boosting vitamin C. Vegetables rich in vitamin C are in the soup - all darl leafy greens such as kale, and peppers!

Strong Bones

A study suggests that "a diet laden with fruits and vegetables but relatively low in acid-producing protein and moderate in cereal grains could lead to stronger bones than the typical American diet." The theory is that proteins are rich in acid they introduce into the bloodstream. Bones are the storage tank for calcium compounds that regulate the acid-base balance of the blood (7.35-7.45), a very narrow range. When the blood becomes even slightly too acid, alkaline calcium compounds — like calcium carbonate — are leached from bones to reduce the acidity.

Those whose intake of Fruits and vegetables (introduce alkaline material into bloodstream) daily met the RDA, experienced much lower levels of calcium loss in the urine, as well as a loss of N-telopeptide, the biochemical marker of bone resorption. Those eating more protein raised the loss of calcium in urine, but also improved intestinal absorption of calcium and thus might not result in bone loss.

Except for hard cheeses, which are proteins, most dairy foods, including milk, are metabolized to compounds that are essentially neutral. Protein intake for an adult, measured as a percentage of ideal body weight translates to that for example a woman IBW 120 pounds(5ft 3inch tall)needs only 44 grams of protein a day."

Many Americans eat 200 pounds of meat/year which equates to a whopping 250 grams (or 1/2 lb) per day - six times the RDA!

#### area in quotation taken from NYTIMES.COM

Eggshells to Powdered Calcium Supplement
Besides eating just fruits and vegetables, I am exploring using our organic, cleaned and dried eggshells to supplement calcium in the diet.

http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/supp2.php

Sustainable Agriculture

Sustainable Agriculture "is profitable, protects the nation’s land and water and is a force for a rewarding way of life for farmers and ranchers whose quality products and operations sustain their communities and society." as defined by SARE.org

The greatest boost to our mission of providing alternative markets for small farmers came in the form of a grant from SARE - Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education. Here is a link to the report we filed with them on our Farmers Frozen Foods product. We encourage you to use their site to find out more about sustainable agriculture and the benefits to our health and the environment!

http://www.sare.org/reporting/report_viewer.asp?pn=FNE06-566&ry=2007&rf=1

Anyone that has ideas to help farmers better sustain themselves and the Earth, should be encouraged to submit a grant proposal. Sare is eager to assist you.

I encourage consumers to access maps and lists of small farmers nearest their home so that they can purchase directly according to their needs. One small thing, such as eggs from a small farmer, is one less dollar allocated to the large commercial enterprises. Eggs, cheeses, meats, honey, maple syrup, vegetables, fruits...prepared foods, frozen foods, bulk foods...please let your farmer provide as much of this as possible.

Future postings will give farm listings by region in the Northeast States of NY, NJ, CT, Mass, and Vermont to help find your way and suggested resources to get you there.

Natural Vitamins

Allium
Garlic, onions, leeks and chives contain flavonoids that stimulate the production of glutathione (the tripeptide that is the liver's most potent antioxidant). Glutathione enhances elimination of toxins and carcinogens.

Selenium
button mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, cod, shrimp, snapper, tuna, halibut, calf's liver, salmon, and brazil nuts. Brazil nuts are one of the most concentrated food sources of selenium. Selenium has been shown to induce DNA repair and synthesis in damaged cells, to inhibit the proliferation of cancer cells, and to induce their apoptosis, the self-destruct sequence the body uses to eliminate worn out or abnormal cells.