Weekly Produce specials

• Local Organic Butternut Squash     $1.55/#
  
• Local Organic Japanese Eggplant     $2.29/#
  
• Local Organic Roma Tomatoes    $1.99/#
  
• Local Organic Blue Potatoes     $1.99/#
  
• Organic Bok Choi    $1.29/#
  
• Organic Limes     3 for $1
  
• Organic Valencia Oranges    $1.99/#   
  
• Organic Nectarines     $1.99/#
  
• Organic Gala Apples     $2.79/#
  
• Organic Red Plums     $1.39/#
  

Energy and sales have picked up at the Co-op. The Duke students are coming back and many members are returning from vacation. The Free Yoga at the Co-op has been an amazing success. Thank you to Ajay Bhatt for teaching this wonderful class - free yoga classes will continue on Sundays from 9-10:30am until further notice.

Plans are going well for the Community Sustainability Festival - read all about it, including the Press Release and the flyer, at www.durhamfoodcoop.org/CSF. Spread the word! The Marketing Committee is meeting every Friday at 6pm, and we're just planning and preparing away. We're lining up events and artists for the festival on 9/23/06 (Fall Equinox). Our local vendors will be there with samples of their products and methods. If you would like to lend a hand come to the marketing meeting, or volunteer three hours for the Community Sustainability Festival (9/23) and receive a sustainer discount for a week. Help is needed now and on the day.  Please let Sarah know what you can do (walk-in help is welcome, but would be much better if scheduled!). Also, input and donations are still needed. Contact Sarah at 286-1092 or mushiko_99@yahoo.com.

We will be having product focus groups soon to refine our product lines. We are focusing on meeting all of the natural grocery needs and increasing our selection of local products. If you would like to be part of this process, please contact Denise at injira@yahoo.com.

If you're cleaning out your basement anytime soon, here is what the facilities committee is looking for: a Desk Lamp, a Floor Lamp, Bathroom tile s(2 sq ft). Contact Felica at felica_serrano@yahoo.com.

Thanks for your support of Durham's truly alternative grocery store -

Martha Moore, Sven Rinke, Denise VanDeCruze & LJ Willefor

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Upcoming Events

• Free Yoga at the Co-op, Sundays 9:00am-10:30am -- Come experience Traditional Shivanada style yoga taught by Ajay Bhatt on Sunday mornings at 9am. Ajay will also be introducing one or two exercises of Omkar Tai Chi, which is a combination of Tai Chi and chanting. Please bring a yoga mat or towel, good intentions and positive vibrations.  Wear flexible clothing. -- Ajay grew up in Rajasthan, India where he was trained in Shivanada style yoga.  He is a yoga instructor, a practitioner and instructor of Tai Chi, and a Pranic Healer (touchless body therapy). The Shivananda system is founded on the five principles of Proper Exercise, Proper Breathing, Proper Relaxation, Proper Diet, Positive Thinking and Meditation.
  
• Community Sustainability Festival at the Durham Food Co-op.  Autumn Equinox: September 23, 2006, 10 am to 8 pm -- Come one, come all to celebrate 35 years of Durham's only locally owned organic grocery!  Events include sampling of foods and drinks, performances by local musicians, kids' activities, and a biodiesel truck-full of information about actions YOU can take to reduce your ecological footprint and live in harmony with your local community. If you have ideas or expertise to share, please contact Sarah Palmer at (919) 286-1092 or mushiko_99@yahoo.com. Volunteers are needed to help the day run smoothly. Contact Sarah to see how you can help make this festival an event that will be attractive to our entire community.
  

• Marketing Committee, Friday 8/25 6pm-7pm
  
• Board Meeting, Sunday 8/27 1pm-2:30pm
  
• Finance Committee, Sunday 8/27 3pm-4pm
  

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NOW Supplement - Special Orders Due August 31

A NOW foods vitamins and supplements order is being made on August 31.  See specials prices below; specials flyer is in store with catalog; regular items in catalog at store. These are high quality vitamins and supplements at lower prices than any local retail we know of. If we get a large order together, we can get free shipping.

The following is a sample of member-prices:
August Specials (select: all in flyer 8pp at store)
#0466 B-12 1000 mcg plus folic acid 250 Lozenges  $5.63
#0496 B-12 methyl "Brain B-12" 5000 mcg 60 Loz.  $10.25
# 0464 B-12 liquid B complex  2 ounces $3.89
#0465 same, 8 oz   $8.65
B-50 B vitamins formula  #0421 200 caps $6.79
B-100 B vit formula # 0436 100 caps  $6.49
B-100 250 caps # 0438  $14.29
Liquid Multi Vitamins, Wild Berry natural flavor,
# 3773 16 oz, $9.35 
CoQ10 60 mg # 3153  60 veggie capsules 13.49
 ditto but 180 veggie capsules #3154   $31.19
8 oz Cocoa Butter Lotion #7682  $4.35

-- all NOW products listed at www.nowfoods.com. We can usually beat listed prices by at least 25% or more.

Here's how shipping works:  The maximum cost will be about 7 or 8 percent of your order.  It will get smaller until we meet the free shipping  criteria by having more orders.  At that point all you will pay is the prices above.

Please place orders in the special order book at the Co-op by noon August 31 Thursday, or email by the same time to pifc_buying_club@yahoogroups.com.  Please be sure to include contact phone and email and whether you are a member or sustainer. Then list off the prices of the specials we have figured.

FYI, Wells Eddleman
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CSC - Community Supported Co-op Produce Program

If you live in the neighborhoods listed below you can get a bag of fresh produce delivered to your door. The produce is chosen based on the availability of seasonal, local and organic produce. Each bag will contain a variety of produce including greens, root vegetables and fruit. You don't have to be home to receive your delivery.  For details on how to sign up, visit www.durhamfoodcoop.org/CSC.

Downtown Durham, Duke Central Campus, Duke East Campus, Duke Forest, Duke Park, Duke West Campus, Forest Hills, Lakewood, Morehead Hills, Old West Durham, Old North Durham, Trinity Heights, Trinity Park, Walltown, Watts, Watts-Hillandale, The West End

Denise VanDeCruze, BoD & CSC Initiator
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The 100 Mile Diet

The everyday-American meal contains an assortment of foods that have traveled an average of 2,000 miles to get from farm to fork. For those concerned about energy conservation, greenhouse gases, and oil dependence, the types of food we choose to eat are as important as the types of cars we choose to drive (or avoid). Industrial agriculture and long-distance food transportation generate between 20-25% of all climate destabilizing greenhouse gases in the U.S. Given this fact, buying food that is locally or regionally grown can dramatically reduce energy consumption and greenhouse pollution.. The local food movement has received a recent boost with the new trend of the "100 mile diet," the brainchild of Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon. "We're the kind of people that ride our bikes everywhere, so we wondered why we were going to all this effort when our food was flying around the world," says Smith. The diet trend, which requires participants to only eat foods grown within a 100 mile radius, is catching on across North America. Philadelphia journalist Elisa Ludwig took up the 100 mile diet for 12 days to learn more about the foods she eats. "If eating local is a moral imperative, then every meal is an opportunity to do the right thing," says Ludwig, who kept a daily journal of the experience.
Read her journal entries here: http://www.organicconsumers.org/2006/article_1463.cfm