Hello dear community,
We can hardly believe we've been open for three months now! We're so grateful for the warm welcome we've received from the community and the abundance of food from producers that has kept us nourished all winter long.
In this newsletter we’re introducing our farmer spotlight on Yonderview Farm, our product of the month from Atina Foods, and our Spring Calendar of upcoming events. We’re excited to have community members begin using the upstairs space for so many wonderful offerings. Please come join us for a yoga class, community acupuncture, kid’s singing hour, and more! If you’re interested in offering something, please visit our community events page and fill out an application.
With gratitude,
The Random Harvest Team
FARMER SPOTLIGHT
Tom Theis, Yonderview Farm
One of our beloved farmers who has brought us produce all winter long is Tom Thies from Yonderview Farm. Tom is a small scale farmer in Hillsdale, NY who grows nutrient dense produce while rebuilding soil and encouraging healthy diversity on the land he farms. Tom has brought us garlic, fresh herbs, potatoes, shallots, lettuce, and most recently, beautiful Amaryllis stems this winter! Tom has taken the “Farmer’s Pledge” set forth by the Northeastern Organic Farmer’s Association (NOFA) to use sustainable agricultural practices. What we appreciate about Tom is his love for the soil and how he brings in produce nourished with so much care. Hang out around the market for awhile and you’ll have the opportunity to make friends with our amazing producers too!
PRODUCT OF THE MONTH
Atina Foods
Rhubarb Ginger Herbal Jam from Atina Foodshas recently captivated our taste buds. Owners Suresh Pillai and Carrie Dushow adapt traditional Ayurvedic recipes from Suresh’s upbringing in Kerala, South India to make complex, delicious condiments that help balance your diet and your health. Worker-Owner Hillary Melville recommends spreading some of this spicy jam on raisin bread from The Gluten Free Bakery. Join Carrie and Suresh in learning how to make delicious South Indian food at their upcoming cooking classes at HGS Home Chefon March 16th and April 14th.
UPCOMING EVENTS
CHECK OUT THE COMMUNITY CALENDAR FOR DETAILS AND UP-TO-DATE SCHEDULE!
YOGA WITH DWAYNE
TUESDAYS, 5:30PM
This class is for all students regardless of age or experience. It is appropriate for all levels of yoga practitioners. The class includes practicing chanting, breathing, movement and meditation. Options are given during class to address individuals physical and mental stamina. All you need to bring is a mat, a blanket and the desire to evolve!
Dwayne has been teaching yoga in the Hudson Valley for the past 10 years. He is a 500 hour Yoga Alliance registered teacher.
He has been practicing yoga for 25 years and started as an extension of an early love of dance. Dwayne follows in the “lineage” of his teachers, Sondra Loring and Raghunath.
KIDS COMMUNITY SINGING HOUR
WEDNESDAYS, 11AM
Come join local experienced children’s musician Aly Halpert for an interactive, joyful, and playful singing hour for young people and families. We’ll sing and dance to re-imagined classics, originals off Aly’s new children’s CD Nipple Confusion, and morning songs of gratitude that will start your day off just right.
YOGA WITH KING
THURSDAYS, 10AM
King Aswad is passionate about guiding yogis of all levels through a practice of breathe and alignment in a welcoming space of uplifting music, spirit, self care and skilled vinyasa flows.
COMMUNITY ACUPUNCTURE
THURSDAYS, 3 - 5PM
Low Cost, Hight Quality Healthcare for all ages and stages.
Receiving acupuncture on a regular basis can greatly enhance the quality of our physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing by decreasing pain and stress and increasing creativity and health. The sliding scale allows you to come in enough to get better and stay better! Community acupuncture offers individual treatments in a peaceful group setting.
$40-60 dollar sliding scale for all treatments
Sarah Chase Natan, MAcOM has dedicated her life to making this ancient, safe, and effective medicine available to all people. Sarah has been practicing Chinese Medicine including acupuncture, herbs, nutrition, and therapeutic body work since graduating from the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine in 2005 and has treated thousands of people around the world for everything from broken heart to body pain to babesiosis wholeheartedly and without hesitation. She is the founder of the Brooklyn Acupuncture Project, a low cost sliding scale community clinic that has been thriving in Brooklyn NY since 2008. A thorough pulse diagnosis guides her approach as she hopes to encourage the highest expression of health and wellbeing in every person with whom she works. She knows that by helping individuals, families, and communities thrive; the rest of the the planet will benefit.
Sarah will also be seeing private clients from 1-3 pm on Tuesdays. In these sessions, we have much more time to focus on your case; and work with cupping, gua sha, massage, and moxa which are all essential aspects of Chinese medicine. Private sessions are recommended for people interested in receiving nutritional and herbal support, or facial rejuvenation acupuncture. These sessions are $80-120 sliding scale.
YOGA WITH RACHEL
SATURDAYS, 10AM
Drawing on a background in women's health and somatic healing, Rachel Haley combines the wisdom of the traditional yoga systems including Kundalini, Tantra, Bhakti, Ashtanga, and Iyengar schools with medicine from dance, shamanistic ritual, mysticism, mythology, and visualization. Rachel Haley will be teaching a 10 am yoga class Saturday mornings April 6th, 13th, 20th, and 27th.
RADICAL DIAMOND KINETICS
JUNE 16th , 1 - 5PM
$15-$50 Sliding Scale
Part non-denominational community ritual, part introspective/meditation practice, part body positive workout, part dance improvisation laboratory, radial diamond kinetics is a multi-dimensional body/heart/mind practice. We move within to connect with and listen to ourselves—to subconscious, intuitive, dream-scape intelligence—and move out to witness and move with one another, building non-verbal communication, trust, and cooperation potentialities. The trajectory of our time together includes a good, sweaty work out that encompasses kinesthetic awareness, stretching, strengthening, and cardio, as well as various approaches to weaving our somatic/body enjoyment, intelligence, and exploration together with our social, political, and spiritual selves and community. No dance experience necessary and the practice can be adapted to many bodies and abilities. Wear comfortable clothing. More at www.radialdiamondkinetics.com
RANDOM HARVEST IN THE NEWS
Definition of a "Relational Food Economy" is Random Harvest
Mar 2, 2019 | By: Jamie Larson
The re-opening and re-conceptualization of the Random Harvest Market in Craryville, New York, is a fabulous example of how modern economic concepts and ideas about community-focused agriculture can help revitalize and strengthen classic small-scale local farms — and the towns and people that need them. The new Random Harvest has a verdant market, a comprehensive and tasty café and deli, and a community center upstairs that takes the market’s commitment to the area to another level.
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