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An e-publication with your good health in mind
| July 2011
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Co-op Annual Community Celebration
Meet Top Chef  Finalist Kevin Gillespie
Sunday, July 31, noon-5 pm, Boulevard Park
Our Community Celebration is going to be famous! A visiting film crew will be taping at the party for an International Year of Co-operatives video series. And they are bringing the series host with them--Kevin Gillespie, finalist from the sixth season of Top Chef and current co-owner and executive chef at the Woodfire Grill Restaurant in Atlanta. We hope everyone will come to the party to meet Kevin and tell him why you love the Co-op! Let's make this the best Community Celebration ever and show the world why the Community Food Co-op and our member-owners are so awesome!
Don't miss this special afternoon complete with music, food, and fun activities for everyone. We're serving burritos as always...new this year, pork burritos featuring Heritage Lane Farm's heritage pork. For the band lineup and other details, see our print newsletter, website, and store posters. See you at the celebration!
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Healthy Connections Classes
Fermented Drinks and Natural Sodas with Daravan Marith, Carla Witham, and Tanja Kanoa
Wednesday, July 6
Downtown Co-op
A Summer Feast-
Eat Local
with Charles Claassen
Tuesday, July 12
Cordata Co-op
Sustainable Outdoor Cooking: An Evening with the Phoenix
with Tim Flores
Wednesday, July 13
Downtown Co-op
Birthing in Bellingham #2: Breastfeeding
with Deborah Craig and Mary Burgess
Saturday, July 16
Downtown Co-op
Berry Bliss
with Karina Davidson
Wednesday, July 20
Cordata Co-op
Holistic Yoga
with Bryan Givens
Fridays July 22-September 9
Downtown Co-op
Canning and Pickling: Putting Up With Summer
with Charles Claassen
Tuesday, July 26
Cordata Co-op
The Art of Live Desserts
with Julia Corbett
Thursday, July 28
Cordata Co-op
Check our website and newsletter for the full lineup of great classes.
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Favorite Recipes
Find recipes for your favorite Co-op deli salads, entrees, and bakery items on our website.
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It Pays to be
a Co-op Member
Membership benefits include:
Periodic discounts and special offers
Special order pricing on bulk purchases
Member discounts with local business partners
Member pricing for classes
Opportunity to participate in governance
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Member-owner Deals
New items on sale bi-weekly. See the Sales page on our website or stop by the service desk for a list of great deals. |
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Pick up Your Monthly
Newsletter
in the Store
We publish our Co-op Community newsletter monthly. Pick up a copy next time you're in the store. |
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Community Shopping Day update
People For Puget Sound received a $1,662 donation from the Co-op for their June 18 CSD. Our next CSD, on Saturday, July 16, will benefit Food To Bank On. Thanks for shopping the Co-op and helping fund one of our local nonprofits. |
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 Apples at the Top of the List
Apples are the most chemically contaminated produce, says the new "Dirty Dozen" report by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a non-profit focused on public health.
The report suggests buying organic apples instead of conventional along with other fruits and vegetables that rank highest in pesticides. Organic produce is grown using materials of plant or animal origin, instead of chemicals. The worst items listed are apples, celery, and strawberries. Cilantro is on the list for the first time (#13) with the highest percentage of unapproved pesticides on any item. The EWG also lists the "Clean 15," or those that rank lowest in pesticide residues. The best items are onions, sweet corn, pineapples, and avocados. Mushrooms are listed for the first time.
See the full story on CNN Health. For details, see the EWG press release. Get your own copy of the guide at EWG,
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A New (Old) Way to Raise Meat
Over the last 70 years, the beef industry, for example, has evolved into an intense, industrial enterprise designed to put as much weight on as many cattle as fast as possible and get the resulting meat to market as quickly as possible.
Consideration for the animals and the consumers has been overtaken by the drive for profit. Cows are crammed into pens, fed a diet of corn, soybeans, and other grain, and pumped full of antibiotics.
In response to the damaging impact of feedlot production, more and more farmers and ranchers are choosing to return to--and improve upon--traditional methods of raising cattle on grass.
See the full story on the Good Food World website.
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 Bicycling to Baseball Dreams
Former Co-op employee Darren O'Donnell really loves baseball, and he dreams of someday becoming a team's general manager. So in early April he quit his job at the Co-op and took off on a tour of all 30 major-league ballparks--by bicycle. O'Donnell plans to meet people, watch baseball, and maybe even find a job.
During his trip, O'Donnell will spend 170 days and 10,500 miles on his bicycle, seeing the country and experiencing the national pastime in every city that has major league teams.
See the full story in the Seattle Times and in the Bellingham Herald.
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Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial  Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
Barry Estabrook
Supermarket produce sections bulging with a year-round supply of perfectly round, bright red-orange tomatoes have become all but a national birthright. But in Tomatoland, which is based on his James Beard Award-winning article, "The Price of Tomatoes," investigative food journalist Barry Estabrook reveals the huge human and environmental cost of the $5 billion fresh tomato industry.
Modern plant breeding has tripled yields, but has also produced fruits with dramatically reduced amounts of calcium, vitamin A, and vitamin C, and 14x more sodium than the tomatoes our parents enjoyed. The relentless drive for low costs has fostered a thriving modern-day slave trade in the U.S. How have we come to this point?
You can follow Barry's blog. For an excerpt of his book, see the Gilt Taste blog.
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 Food Network Awarded Grant
The Washington Sustainable Food & Farming Network (WSFFN) was recently awarded $90,000 from the Washington Women's Foundation for its Fresh Food in Schools project. The three-year project seeks to reverse farmland loss and childhood obesity by building public awareness and providing organizational support for schools to purchase more Washington-grown fruits and vegetables.
"We are thrilled to be awarded this grant from the Washington Women's Foundation. It will help our schools serve more local fruits and vegetables...a win for our kids, our farmers, and our communities," says Ellen Gray, Executive Director of the Washington Sustainable Food & Farming Network.
For more on this grant, see the WSFFN website.
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Cheap Food: Not What's for Dinner Anymore?
Tom Philpott, Mother Jones
Remember when gas was a dollar a gallon? The era of the fast-food "dollar menu" may be going the same way.
Cheap food has been with us for a while. After World War II, global grain prices fell steadily for decades. US and European farms scaled up, resorted to synthetic and mined fertilizers and pesticides, invested in massive planting and harvesting machines as well as novel seed varieties. All of this pushed crop yields into the stratosphere-and crop prices into the dirt. The era of cheap food was upon us, giving rise to things like corn-sweetened Big Gulps and the dumping of boatloads of US corn on foreign markets. But now things are changing fast.
Tom Philpott is the food and ag blogger for Mother Jones. For the full story, see their website.
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 New USDA Plate The new representation of what the USDA recommends American's should eat to stay healthy is now called MyPlate. Fruit and vegetables cover half of the plate, while grains and protein each occupy one quarter. The new MyPlate website provides resources on the various food groups and tips to help improve your diet. Learn more on the new MyPlate website and watch the USDA's video announcement. |
Upcoming Events
Meatless Monday at the Co-op Deli: Meatless specials and soup
Every Monday at both stores
Board of Directors monthly meeting No meeting in July
Community Shopping Day: Food To Bank On (Sustainable Connections)
Saturday, July 16, all day at both stores
3rd Thursday Local Music Series: Bob's Your Uncle
Thursday, July 21, 6-8 pm, Downtown Co-op Deli
Member Affairs Committee monthly meeting
No meeting in July
Community Celebration & Filming
Sunday, July 31, 12-5 pm, Boulevard Park |
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