News you can use June 17th....

CreekSide Co-op member message for June 17, 2010
 
New Pesticide Guidelines
 
Hey Co-op members,
 
We thought you'd be interested in these new guidelines from the Environmental Working Group, an organization dedicated to educating Americans about better eating habits.
 
The EWG's guidelines on which fruits and vegetables tend to be more heavily laden with pesticides should help you decide when to spring for organic produce.
 
The EWG's "Dirty Dozen" - those conventionally grown items that tend to have the most pesticides - includes celery, peaches, strawberries, apples, blueberries, nectarines, bell peppers, spinach, kale, cherries, potatoes, and imported grapes. Those are foods that you might want to think about buying from an organic producer.
 
Conventionally grown foods that don't tend to contain so many pesticides, the EWG's so-called "Clean 15," includes onions, avocado, sweet corn, pineapple, mangoes, sweet peas, asparagus, kiwi, cabbage, eggplant, cantaloupe, watermelon, grapefruit, sweet potato, and honeydew melon.
 
We hope when you are talking to and buying from our vendors at the farmers market, these guidelines give you some support for healthier shopping choices. The EWG guide is available for download HERE, so you can cut out your own guide to take shopping. 
 

CreekSide Co-op Farmers Market
 
Speaking of the farmers market, we'd like your feedback on what you feel is working and what isn't working for you at our weekly Sunday farmers market. Is there a particular product that you feel any self-respecting farmers market should have and that ours doesn't? Is there something being sold at the farmers market that you feel shouldn't be there, some product or sales approach that rubs you the wrong way?  Go ahead, contact us at neighbor@creekside.coopand let us know your thoughts.
 

Fundraising
 
It's never too early to think ahead and that's why members of our fundraising committee are asking members to save the date of November 14, which is when the Co-op will be hosting an auction and music fundraiser at the Elkins Estate. Co-op members with a special skill, product, or service they can offer are being asked to consider donating that resource for our fundraising auction. Please contact a member of the fundraising committee atfundraising@creekside.coop to contribute.
 

Member Equity Payments
 
And speaking of contributing, we continue to beat the drum for members who haven't contributed their second or third year of member equity to please do so. That means if your household has contributed $50, please consider contributing another $50 toward your full member equity total of $400. Even if you've already reached your $400 full share, please consider contributing more so that we can make it over the hump until we receive the state and federal loans we've applied for. Visit the CreekSide Co-op website atwww.creekside.coop and you'll find a member equity tab right there on the home page. 
 
Visit  the CreekSide Co-op website at www.creekside.coop and you'll find a member equity tab right there on the home page or just click HERE. We are going to make this store happen, but we need your help to do it.

Member Meeting
 
Don't forget, June 27 is the Member Meeting at 2:30 p.m. in High School Park, following the farmers market. We'll shoot for a rain date of July 11 if the weather doesn't cooperate.
 
Sincerely,
 
The management and board of directors of the CreekSide Co-op
 


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