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Hardwick, VT Food For People Not For Profit

Spring 2012 FREE Also in This Issue : Buffalo Mountain Food Coop

The Joy of Dry Beans……………..pg 2 Celebrates International Year of Community Dinner…..pg 3 Co -operatives in 2012 Coop Spotlight: We have joined 25 other food co - have a dramatic impact on the FEDCO……………………pg 4 ops in the Neighboring Food Co-op national level: Technology & Association to celebrate and promote =There are nearly 30,000 co-ops in Children…………………pg 5 co-operatives and credit unions during the U.S., serving more than 1 in every the International Year of Co- 4 Americans; Assoc. of Teacher, operatives. In his announcement of the =Co-ops operate in every industry Parents & Children…..pg 6 Year, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- of the economy, from food co-ops to Coop Workshops…….pg 7 moon stated, “Cooperatives farmer co-ops, worker are a reminder to the inter- co-ops to credit unions, Learning national community that it housing co-ops to Exchange…………..pgs 8-9 is possible to pursue both healthcare, and insur- Coffee Corner………….pg 9 economic viability and ance to energy and social responsibility.” The utilities; Confessions of a = Recovering theme for the celebration Co-ops in the United Environmentalist……pg 10 is “Co-operative Enterprises States operate 73,000 Build a Better World.” establishments that provide over 2 Tales From Co-operatives are businesses that million jobs. the Barnyard…………pg 12 are owned and democratically controlled Co-ops are also important to local by their members—the people who use economies. For example, the Coop Calendar………pg 12 the co-op ’s products or services, or are Neighboring Food Co-op Association Hardwick Area Time employed by the business. Cooperatives includes more than 25 food co-ops and Bank: Reach………….pg 13 promote the fullest possible parti- start-ups with over 90,000 members Produce Matters……pg 14 cipation in the economic and social and $ 185 million in annual revenue. development of all people, and are uni- Together, these co-ops employ over Recipes / ted by a shared set of principles and 1,400 people and food co-ops in Ver- Do-It-Yourself………..pg 15 values that guide business decisions mont, taken together, would be among 2011 in Review………pg 16 based on member need and community the top 25 employers in the state. An benefit. independent study found that the Natural Remedies for Your Skin Heal th……pg 17 Around the world, an estimated 1 members of the NFCA purchased billion people are members of co-ops. more than $33 million in local prod- According to the National Cooperative ucts annually (2007). Business Association (NCBA), co-ops CONTINUE ON PAGE 18

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The Joy of Dry Beans May by Phyllis Rachel Larabee By Rachel Davey Forget-me-nots turn the tender green edges First of all, using dry beans is an easy way to save of the woods blue mone y; 1# dry black beans costs $1.29/# and will get you this spring traveling further

to the nonchalant garden of dandelions approximately 3 small cans worth of canned black beans and trout lilies which would have cost you $7.38! Basic Tips to our house

1. NEVER COOK OR SOAK YOUR BEANS WITH SALT Will the for-get-me-nots survive tonight’s hard frost? 2. Soak the beans overnight or for a few days before you think you’ll use them. Usually I let wild flowers fend for themselves 3. Discard the soaking water –this gets rid of the in the embrace of new grasses indigestible and “farty” materials that inhibit your seasoned to May’s changes

body’s absorption of the vitamins. thinking them wiser about their own lives than I.

4. When you are ready to cook them add fresh water But tonight I will cover some anyway and put them on the wood stove or kitchen stove. feeling that in these times Bring them to a boil and then simmer until they’re even hardy plants might need a quilt tender. If you’ve only ever used canned beans, you a little more love. will notice the difference!

Advanced Tips • Soak and cook with Kombu or 1T cumin seeds • “Fake soak” method: Put dry beans in a pot of water and bring to a boil, allow beans to sit for a couple hours, drain soak water, add fresh water and cook the beans as described above. • Just before you cook the beans sauté some onions,

garlic and seasonings (ex. cumin, chili powder) NO

SALT in a separate pot or slow cooker then add the beans with fresh water and simmer until tender. If you added too much water you could add rice or veggies – it would be a shame to toss the seasoned cooking water.

Community Dinner: Work

Opportunity and a Feel-Good Meal by Deb Wilson

If you find yourself hungry on a coordinator of the meal; however,

Thursday mid-day, there is an op- when he travels to India to tion in town beyond our local rest- complete his Child Haven Inter- aurants. Head to the Hardwick national work, a rotating group of United Church on South Main St volunteers fill in for him. for the weekly Community Dinner, From India right now, Robin served from 12-1 p.m. For a sugg- writes, “ I like to point out that needed. They then head to the ested donation of $1-2 per person when I am helping to cook, the church, where John Clarke leads the (more is always welcomed), you can food is always interesting and setting up of tables and chairs while fill up on home-made soup, salad, sometimes tastes good - we also the chef organizes the food. cake and a casserole of some sort. are a proof that whil e many hands Helpers from Heartbeet almost There are generally vegetarian might spoil the broth, they make a always arrive shortly thereafter and options and often meat-based mighty fine stew - John Clarke has frequently make the cake and the choices if meat is available. been there helping from the very salad. Anyone else is welcome to Community Dinner began in beginning - we also have had many come in and help whenever they can, April 1992 at the impetus of a and can earn working membe r hours Rural VT workshop in Hardwick regarding the need to use unsale- for their time. There is of-ten a big able food and feed people in need. need for washing and cut-ting It has been steadily gro wing as produce, or possibly grating cheese community members, local farm or prepping meat. Volunteers after workers, young families and more the meal, assisting with dishes and join in. The dinner is sponsored by: cleanup, are especially appreciated. The Vermont Food Bank pro-vides Robin Cappuccino and Wheelock a large portion of the food Mountain Farm, Buffalo Mountain incorporated into the lunch. River- Coop, Heartbeet Lifesharing Com- munity, Riverside Farm, and the side Farm often donates some po- United Church. Accord ing to the tatoes and onions and other Community Dinner pamphlet, the vegetables, and Judy Jarvis is a senior citizens help cook over the meals “are based on the age-old frequent fill-in chef for Robin. The years, whose vegetable peeling, and notion that the community that coop also donates food if we have cheerful demeanor and company eats together stays together.” something that was del ivered live on in our memory and imag- erroneously or is near expiration Robin is usually the 'head chef' or inings of heavenly cookery – Heart- date. Other farms and home gar-

beet is a backbone of the crew in deners will also donate what they recent years, as are so many people have in abundance. The remainder is who come in for their co-op shift bought at the coop, incurring a bill or when they feel the inspiration.” of $40.00 to $100.00 each week. Whoever is coordinating for the Donations offset this cost, including day generally star ts their day at the majority of the tips received in about 8:30 at the coop, picking up the coop cafe. the boxes of dry goods and cans Community Dinner often

that are stored here, getting any draws close to 100 people gathering

produce provided for the dinner, together to share a meal. Won't you

and purchasing whatever else is join us?

Co-op Spotlight on: Where the Buffalo Roam Photo Exerpt of Growing Co -operation by Micha Josephy Project

Founded in 1978 to sell seeds to Here’s a fun project for the family. Next time you are traveling to a food co-ops and buying clubs in propagate an d reintroduce them.” fun location (close-to-home or far Maine, FEDCO has grown to now FEDCO’s catalogs are famous away), bring your Buffalo Mountain offer trees, bulbs, potatoes and for their commentary and con- bag, shirt, mug, etc with you. other gardening supplies to over tent on food policy and 21,000 individual consumers, Feature the item in a group photo or agriculture issues. Recently they farmers and retailers across the by itself. Alternatively you can take joined a lawsuit against Monsanto, a picture of a buffalo-related site country. While FEDCO was resisting the contamination of Send your best pictures to us at: established as a consumer co-op, in open pollinated and organic seed [email protected] 1985 they incorporated workers by genetically engineered and we will post them on our website into their ownership structure. varieties. in the “Where the Buffalo Roam” Now, workers and consumers spli t The wider co-op community slideshow board seats and profits. Like other has been central to FEDCO’s worker co-ops, FEDCO builds success over the years. Food co- financial and personal investment ops have been key customers and in the business from the newest the Cooperative Fund of New part- time workers to the most England has financed many seasoned managers. “It means expansions over the years. The when people work at FEDCO for co-op continues to grow in the first time they feel like they response to demand for are working for themselves, not management,” says worker-owner organic, heir-loom & non-GMO John Bunker, Coordinator of seeds and farming supplies, and in FEDCO’s tree division. “It changes 2011 increased its warehouse and workplace dynamics be-cause we’re office space and purchased land to sup-port further expansion. all in this together.” FEDCO has recently launched Help out with the Consumer ownership brings its first membership campaign to additional benefits to FEDCO. Ac- Coop’s float in the grow membership among cording to CR Lawn, FEDCO consumers, farms and food co- Memorial Day Parade founder, “our customers, and ops. “By supporting FEDCO,” says titled: especially those committed enough Bunker, “you are growing a to join our co-operative, have community-owned business that always provided us with helpful prioritizes the needs of its advice that has pinpointed where workers, consumers and the we need to improve our operations broader community over profit.” and shown the way to enhancing our selection s and products.” For To learn more about FEDCO and instance, consumers introduce how you can become a member, FEDCO to rare plant breeds for visit www.fedcoseeds.com . propagation and sale, including genetically and historically Micha Josephy is Program significant breeds. “Un-like Manager for the Cooperative

Fund of New England, paintings, plants don’t need to be in a museum,” says Bunker, “you can www.coopfund.coop . parent and dec reases parent -child interaction. Its Technology and Children: presence may also interfere with a young child’s A New Report learning from play and activities. • Television viewing around bedtime can cause poor sleep Submitted by Rose Friedman habits and irregular sleep schedules, which can

adversely affect mood, behavior and learning. Wireless and high-speed internet have arrived in • Young children with heavy media use are at risk for our corner of the world; a neighbor rumbles down our delays in language development once they start school, muddy dirt road on his cell phone; digital media is an inseparable part of the way most of us commun-icate, but more research is needed as to the reasons. shop, and are entertained. As adults in our in-creasingly The report recommends that parents and caregivers: • tech-savvy and gadget-obsessed culture, it is still Set media limits for their children before age 2, somewhat possible to make personal choices: some choose bearing in mind that the AAP discourages media use for to set limits to their own use of the internet, some this age group. • accept a cell phone as useful but an iPhone as Instead of screens, opt for supervised independent play unnecessary; a few choose not to use a comp-uter at all. for infants and young children during times that a However, for children growing up today, it is nearly parent cannot sit down and actively engage in play with impossible to have an experience of life without the the child. For example, have the child play with nesting presence of digital media. cups on the floor nearby while a parent prepares dinner. • Last October, the American Asso ciation of Avoid placing a television set in the child’s bedroom; • Pediatrics (AAP) published a policy on the effects of Recognize that their own media use can have a negative screen viewing for children under age 2. One study found effect on children. that 90 percent of parents of children under age 2 said Technology has dev eloped at such a rapid pace that their children watched some form of media- whether a our culture has not had a chance to develop an TV show or an iPhone app . Between televisions, computers, smartphones, and iPads, some houses may appropriate etiquette. The general trend of our culture have 10 or more screens in daily use. is one that says technology can do no wrong, and indeed it The report set out to answer two questions: provides many conveniences that just a few years ago Do video and televised programs have any educational seemed far-fetched. However, the pros and cons of any value for children under 2? new advancement should be weighed, and we must Is there any harm in children this age watching these recognize that adults are able to make choices and set programs? limits, but kids can’t. I hope that the finding of this report will encourage people to be more aware of t he use The key findings include: of technology in public spaces, especially in proximity to • Many video programs for infants and toddlers are young children. marketed as “educational,” yet evidence does not Sources: “Parents Urged Again To Limit TV For Youngest” by Benedict support this. Quality programs are educational for Carey, October 19, 2011, New York Times. children only if they understand the content and

context of the video. Studies consistently find that “Babies and Toddlers Should Learn from Play Not Screens”, children over 2 typically have this understanding. October 18, 2011, American Association of Pediatrics . • Unstructured playtime is more valuable for the developing brain than electronic media. Children learn to think creatively, problem solve , and develop reasoning and motor skills at early ages through unstructured, unplugged play. Free play also teaches them how to entertain themselves. • Young children learn best from—and need—interaction with humans, not screens. • Parents who watch TV or vide os with their child may add to the child’s understanding, but children learn more from live presentations than from televised ones. • When parents are watching their own programs, this is “background media” for their children. It distracts the

News from the beginning with the six to seven year old child. Sunday April 15th at 2:00 we will experience the Association of Teachers, power of imagination through story transpired through the will with a peek through the window

into this magical wor ld created in our learning Parents, and Children. by Timothy Forest space. Following this there will be lively discussions about how we can create this for our children in Another winter is passing, however sluggishly, over the practical realm while our children are led on a to spring. And what joy it is to hear and see the walk through the woods of hope, creation, and grossbeeks, warblers, and o ther songbirds returning inspiration. to the area. Syrup makers are scurrying about, On earth day Sunday April 22 at 2:00 pm, we collecting buckets of sap to boil, gardeners are busily will gather once again through story of the earth starting flats of seeds on the window sills and beings while engaging the will in some practical greenhouses to get a jump on the season as the sun spring is sprung activities. Please feel free to call rises ever higher and higher , stronger and stronger, in me anytime with your quest-ions, interest, and the sky. Meanwhile, timothy continues to build the hopes for our association. I look for-ward to learning space creating desks and benches while hearing from you. Blessing and peace… Timothy finishing the trim work and cabinets. With the Forest 802-917-3206 completion of the indoor space, the time is drawing If any of you have skills, space, watercolor near to order supplies and sch edule some spring paper, beeswax block crayon or other craft events to help spread the word. To begin our year, we material, and or teaching expertise and wish to will be coming together to dye, paint, and decorate contribute to the ass ociation please feel free to

Easter eggs, share stories and sing songs. What call also. better time to celebrate life and the cosmic forces Timothy would also like to begin an evening behind the sun streaming throug h our community and study group reading ‘The Childs Changing us. Sunday April 1, 2012 on the Keeler Pond Road site Consciousness’ (eight lectures given by Rudolf at 2:00 pm Please call in advance to let us know you’re Steiner) to be held on eight sequential Wednesday coming. evenings beginning at 7:00 t o begin in April. We April is going to be a month to spread the word, could rotate the meeting place to spread the travel and share in the Rudolf Steiner’s inspired initiative to time. freely associate and build our learning community

Learning

Exchange Inflammation: Hike up Buffalo Mountain Beyond the Joints Join us for a hike up our namesake Raw Chocolate Truffles Come learn about safe, researched, this spring! It will be a mild to mod- and effective herbal approaches for Chocolate is actually full of healthy erate hike, great for all ages and ab- a healthy inflammation response. anti-oxidants and other nutrients. ilities. Bring raingear, a water bottle Attendees will be eligible for 25% Really! These qualities are greatly and nature guides. off New Chapter products that night. th diminished when cacao (chocolate in When: April 29 10am When: Thurs April 5th. 6:30-7:30 it’s original form) is cooked. Come Where: Meet at Atkin’s Field Where; Coop Cafe learn how to make different sorts of Who: Rachel, Coop Outreach Coord. Who: New Chapter educator and chocolate delicacies that taste great How Much: free expert Kent Kuusinen – call Kate or and are actually good for you! Various Kathy to sign-up 472-6020 sweeteners will be used to accomm- Spring Ephemeral Walk How Much : free odate every palette. (If you don’t eat Let’s wander the land around Hard- them all, you can take some home.) A wick taking in the little things we Spring Detox Class great gift for Easter or Eqinox! walk by daily. A wild medicine/ food st Feel the need to do some spring- When: Sun, March 31 3-5pm walkabout, getting familiar with what cleaning from the inside out? Come Where: Co-op Café the earth is offering us for our and learn about using certain foods Who: Kate Arnold- 472-3844 health. We will discuss identification and herbs to help the body gently How Much: $15 techniques, medicinal constituents cleanse. We will discuss the benefits and edibility, sustainable and consc- of a detoxifying diet, how to safely Conversation Francaise ious harvesting This will be a begin- complete a fast and all the wonderful Back by popular demand! Hoping to ners flower walk and a mild to moder- plants that help our bodies eliminate form a new group of francophiles, ate hike, please wear sturdy shoes toxins. We will share samples and all levels. Come discuss "en and bring rain gear if necessary. recipes on how to utilize this ancient th français" When: May 19 at 9am practice. When: Let me know when you'd like Where: Hardwick Trails When: Sat April 28th @ 1pm to meet (It was Wed, 5pm). Who: Sarah Zettelmeyer has taught Where: Buffalo Mtn Café Where: TBD community classes in the Burlington How Much: free Who: Paule Bezaire is a French area for over ten years. She has Who: Sarah Zettelmeyer has taught quebecker living "in exile" since studied with Rosemary Gladstar, community classes in the Burlington 2000. She has been living in the Susan Weed, David Hoffman, and area for over ten years. She has Caroline Gagnon Hardwick area since 2005. studied with Rosemary Gladstar, Contact: 802.917.3442 How much : free Susan Weed, David Hoffman, and [email protected] Caroline Gagnon

Community Contra Dances

A potluck supper precedes lively Who: Alana at 472 -5584 ministers because each of us shares dance-floor action, with calling by Cost: Suggested donation $5 per in the responsibility of ministry; we Michael Travis and a house band person, $10 per family are all equally teachers and dishing out the tunes. Bring your learners. Quaker Meeting own instrument if you want to sit in When: Starting April, Sun 9-10am Join us in Meeting where Friends with the band. (Contact Alana for a Where: Wellspring - 39 Church St gather in an hour of un-programmed tune list.) Feel free to bring your in Hardwick silence. Quakerism is an experience own utensils for the meal. Who: Hardwick Quaker Friends -based religion meaning that every- When: 2 nd Saturdays of the month contact Emma Podolin for more info one can have a direct encounter 5:30 potluck 6:30 family dancin’ 443-223-1773 with the Divine. We have no Where: Hazen Union Cafeteria How Much : By donation of home in the Diaspora. follow -up info abo ut our recent Community Yoga Club When: Friday, May 4, 7:30pm Vermont Transportation Authority Join us to share or develop your Where: Jeudevine Library. grant, as well as an action plan for yoga practice. We come together Who : Jeudevine Music School. many of our recent ideas - including a to share inspiration, alignment sup- More Info: 472-5913. community ride board, rideshare port, and relaxation. All levels tru- How Much : FREE. “info-drop”, local out-reach, and ly encouraged. Guidance for begin- efforts to get a bus-line happening ners provided, and more advanced that connects the Hardwick area to Film – Béla Fleck in Throw Down postures is given as options. Montpelier, St. J, and Morrisville. Your Heart Iza Titus, frequent yoga club asana When: Mon, April 2, 7-8:30pm. Béla Fleck journeys to Uganda, guide, has studied many forms of Where: Hardwick Memorial Bldg Tanzania, Gambia, and Mali, where yoga and incorporates kundalini, Contact: 472-5913 he jams on his banjo with a variety vinyasa, music, and more. of musicians, with consistently When: Sundays 5pm B-Boys / B-Girls - Breakdance! Where: Open Space lilting and joyous results. Fleck is Learn the moves from award winning Who: various appropriately deferential in all teenage break dance performer, instances, and the interaction How Much : donation Palmer Jordon. between the musicians is natural When: Sunday 4-5pm, starts 3/25 and intuitive. Origami When : Friday, May 18, 7:30pm Where: Open Space, Hardwick Looking to start a monthly get Centennial Bldg. Where: Jeudevine Library. together for paper folders of any Fee: $70 for 8-week session. Who : Jeudevine Music School. more abilities. I've got lots of paper and Pre-registration required info: 472-5913. lots of folds that I'd love to share. Who: Palmer Jordan 472-5913 How Much: FREE Any ages are welcome, but please if you're under 12 bring along a Jeudevine Steelband Spring Trust Birth Initiative mom or dad to help out. Please give Festival Parade Join our monthly meetings as we me a call to reserve a spot. This all-ages steel band class will discuss the childbearing year[s]. When: Sun. April 22nd 3-5 p.m. culminate with our annual perform- We know that how we come into the Where : Co-op Cafe ance in the Hardwick Spring Festival world has a lifelong effect on us; Who: Miya Cline 563-3260 Parade. The clas s combines rhythmic, discussing birth and changing our How Much : Free melodic, and harmonic know-ledge cultural fear of birth makes an with just plain fun! impact on who we are as a society. Film - The Other Side of the When: Tuesdays (3:45 -5pm). This support group meets to hold Water - beginning March 27 plus extra discussions, always in a Talk about Part carnival, p art vodou ceremony, rehearsal before parade. birth, hear success stories, and part grassroots protest, Where: Jeudevine Music School contemplate your choices, and be Haitian "Rara" is one of the most Fee: $150 for 10 sessions inc. empowered in your own birth. breathtaking and contested forms instrument use fee. Barters When: 4 th Wed of the month of music in the Americas. "The considered. Where :TBA Other Side of the Water" follows Pre-registration required Who: Paule Bezaire 917.3442 a group of young immigrants who Emily Lanxner at 472-5913. [email protected] take this ancient music from the nd hills of Haiti and reinvent it on the New Orleans “2 -Line” Drumming Hardwick Area Ride-Share streets of Brooklyn. The Combine snare drum skills in a gumbo- Network documentary tells the dramatic filé, with street parades, rabble- Be part of the solution to our story of an unlikely band that rousing, and plenty of pepper sauce! climate crisis! After a somewhat comes to speak for a larger When: Tuesdays 6-7pm dormant winter, the Hardwick Ride- community, and a music that Where: Jeudevine Music School share Network is ready to gear up manages to create a new meaning Who: Emily Lanxner 472-5913. again. This next meeting will include Biochar group – Hardwick Join us to bring community-scale biochar production and use mains- tream. Join a group order of afford- able Quebec char. Door prize raffle each night of 20lb. bag of Quebec char and flat of biochar/ compost High Test Coffee: “soil” cubes for Spring starts. Isn’t Always What You Think! When: Mondays in April & May 7pm By Coffee Buyer, Kate Arnold Where: Judevine Library, Hardwick Who : Nancy Kellogg Working in the food service industry for most of my adult life, I’ve poured a few hundred thousand cups of coffee- REALLY! Family restau- rants, diners, finer dining establishments, hippy cafés, and for the past

several years, the Buffalo Mountain Coop Café are all places I’ve been

very closely involved with the serving, selling and debating surrounding coffee. I’ll admit, it was several years before I became educated about the caffeine content in lighter roast coffees vs. darker roast coffees. By Way of Explanation Because of the bolder (some call it burnt) taste of French roast, most By Phyllis Rachel Larabee people have assumed and convinced themselves that it has higher caff-

eine content than the lighter coffees. According to my sources, caffeine

The anenome was the flower per bean is higher in a lighter roasted coffee bean than in darker roasted beans. During the roasting process coffee beans puff up, somewhat the of Astarte same way that popcorn does, but to a lesser degree. A small amount of the in the Near East when she resigned supremely caffeine is also burned off. This complicates the equation involving volume in the minds of all. and weight, which brings us back to the caffeine per bean. To confuse matters even more, and the coffee drinker’s taste buds, And women were builders many people tend to brew a lighter roast coffee a bit stronger to achieve and brewers and creators a more robust, “thicker” flavor, requiring more volume and weight, thus beyond children. increasing the level of caffeine. In the Buffalo Mountain Coop Café, the ground French Roast weighs less per pot than the medium roasts, so it is But Astarte was dragged West safe to claim that our French Roast coffee has less caffeine. when cattle became wealth One more point to include here is the comparison between the acidity

They changed her names to Venus of different coffees. Acidity occurs both in the taste and in the effect and said on the digestive system. According to Erik Olsen, a trained barista and proprietor of our most local coffee roaster, Baristas Beans in Hyde Park, “Now you’re just a pin -up girl.” "darker roasted coffees almost always have lower acidity than lighter roasts. The easiest way to avoid an upset stomach from coffee is to use FRESHLY roasted ground and brewed coffee. The staler it gets the more it affects your stomach PH. Also, leaving it on a burner is bad, bad, bad!!" Because the darkest roasted coffees are more carbonized, their flavor

may be confusing. This, I surmise, is largely respo nsible for the sense that

the darker roasts are “stronger”. Coffee has a naturally acidic element to its flavor. Discriminating coffee tasters and baristas can taste many layers and notes of the various coffees and, like wines; acidity is just one measure of a “good” coffee. If this is all confusing to you, I’m not surprised. The basic question, “Which had more caffeine, darker or lighter roasted coffee?” has a pretty unsatisfactory answer……. It depends! Next issue, I’ll attempt to shed some light on the decaf question. Confessions of a Recovering

Environmentalist by Paul Kingsnorth

I became an “environmentalist” be - potentially massive downgrading of our the next day by an environmental ist cause of a strong emotional reaction to prospects for material advancement as friend who told me he hoped I was wild places and the other-than-human a species. They threaten to unaccep - feeling ashamed of myself. I was world: that such things are precious tably erode our resource base and put wrong; worse, I was dangerous. What for their own sake, that they are food at risk our vital hoards of natural cap - was I doing giving succor to the fossil for the human soul, and that they need ital. I f we cannot sort this out quickly, fuel industry? Didn’t I know that people to speak for them to, and we are going to end up darning our climate change would do far more dam - defend them from, other people, be - socks again and growing our own car - age to upland landscapes than turb - cause they cannot speak our language rots and other such unthinkable ine s? Didn’t I know that this was the and we have forgotten how to speak things. All of the horrors our grand - only way to meet our urgent carbon theirs. And because we are killing them parents left behind will return like targets? Didn’t I see how beautiful to feed ourselves and we know it and deathless legends…. turbines were? So much more beau - we care about it, some-times, but we do What this adds up t o should be tiful than nuclear power stations. I it anyway because we are hungry , or we clear enough, yet many people who might think that a “view” was more have persuaded ourselves that we are. important than the future of the en - We are environmentalists now in or - tire worl d, but this was because I was a der to promote something called “sust - middle-class escapist who needed to ainability.” What does this curious, get real. plastic word mean? It does not mean It became apparent at that point defending the nonhuman world from that what I saw as the next phase of the ever-expandi ng empire of Homo the human attack on the nonhuman sapiens sapiens, though some of its ad - world a lot of my environmentalist herents like to pretend it does, even to friends saw as “progressive,” “sust - themselves. It means sustaining human ainable,” and “green.” What I called civilization at the comfort level that destruction they called “large-scale the world’s rich people, us, feel is their solutions.” This stuff was realistic, right, without destroying the “natural necessarily urgent. It went with the capital” or the “resource base” that is grain of human nature and the market, needed to do so. which as we now know are the same It is, in other words, an entirely thing. We didn’t have time to “rom - human- centered piece of politicking, anticize” the woods and the hills. There disguised as concern for “the planet.” should know better choose not to see were emissions to reduce, and the end In a very short time—just over a it. This is business-as-usual: the ex - justified the means… decade—this worldview has become all - pansive, colonizing, progressive human People I had thought were on my pervasive. I t is voiced by the president narrative, shorn only of the car-bon. side were arguing aggressively for the of the USA and the president of It is the latest phase of our careless, industrializing of wild places in the Anglo- Dutch Shell and many people in self-absorbed, ambition-addled dest - name of human desire. This was the between. The success of environ - ruction of the wild, the unpolluted, and same r ootless, distant destruction that mentalism has been total—at the price the nonhuman. It is the mass dest - had led me to the top of Twyford of its soul. ruction of the world’s remaining wild Down. Only now there seemed to be Let me offer up just one example of places in order to feed the human ec - some kind of crude equation at work how this pact has worked. If “sust - onomy. And without any sense of irony, that allowed them to believe this was ainability” is about anything, it is about people are calling this “environment - something entirely different. Motor - carbon. Carbon and climate change. To alism.” way through downland: bad. Wind pow - listen to most environ-mentalists today, A while back I wrote an article in a er station on downland: good. Cont - you would think that these were the newspaper highlighting the impact of ainer port wiping out estuary mud - only things in the world worth talking industrial wind power stations (which flats: bad. Renewable hydropower bar - about. The business of “sustainability” are usually referred to, in a nice rage wiping out estuary mudflats: good. is the business of preventing carbon Orwellian touch, as wind “farms”) on Destruction minus carbon equals emissions. Carbon emissions threaten a the uplands of Britain. I was e-mailed sustainability. dresses these things up in the So here I was again: a Luddite, a catalytic converter on the silver SUV language of morality and duty. When NIMBY, a reactionary, a romantic ; of the global economy. It is an we turn wilderness over to agriculture, standing in the way of progress. I engineering challenge: a problem-solv - we speak of our duty to feed the poor. realized that I was dealing with ing device for people to whom the When we industrialize the wild places, environmentalists with no attachment sight of a wild Pennine hilltop on a we speak of our duty to stop the to any actual environment. Their talk clear winter day brings not feel ings of climate from cha nging. When we spear was of parts-per-million of carbon, transcendence but thoughts about the whales, we speak of our duty to peer- reviewed papers, sustainable wasted potential for renewable science. When we raze forests, we technologies, renewable supergrids, energy. It is about saving civilization speak of our duty to develop. We alter green growth, and the fifteenth from the results of its own actions: a the atmospheric makeup of the entire conference of the parties. There were desperate attempt to prevent Gaia world: half of us pretend it’s not campaigns about “the planet” and “the from hiccupping and wiping out our happening, the other half immediately Earth,” but there was no specificity: no coffee shops and broadband start looking for ne w machines that sign of any real, felt attachment to any connections… will reverse it. This is how empires small part of that Earth…. It was, perhaps, inevitable that a work, particularly when they have I did not believe—had never utilitarian society would generate a started to decay. Denial, displacement, believed, I didn’t think—that humans utilitarian environmentalism, and anger, fear. were the center of the world, that the inevitable too that the greens would The environment is the victim of Earth was their playground, that they this empire. But the “environment”— had the right to do what they liked, or that distancing word, that empty even that what they did was that concept—do es not exist. It is the air, important. I thought we were part of the waters, the creatures we make something bigger, which had as much homeless or lifeless in flocks and right to the world as we did, and which legions, and it is us too. We are it; we we were stomping on for our own are in it and of it, we make it and live benefit. I had always been haunted by it, we are fruit and soil and tree, and shameful thoughts like this…. the things done to the roots and the It took a while before I started to leaves come back to us. We make notice what was happening, but when I ourselves slaves to make ourselves did it was all around me. The eco - free, and when the shackles start to centrism— in simple language, the love rub we confidently predict the em - of place, the humility, the sense of ergence of new, more comfortable belonging, the feelings—was absent designs. from most of the “environmentalist” I don’t have any answers, if by an - talk I heard around me…. swers we mean political systems, bet- Success duly arrived. You can’t open ter machines, means of engineering a newspaper now or visit a corporate not be able to last for long outside the some grand shift in consciousness. All website or list en to a politician or read established political bunkers. But for I have is a personal conviction built on the label on a packet of biscuits me—well, this is no longer mine, that’s those feelings, those responses, that without being bombarded with pro - all. I can’t make my peace with people goes back to the moors of northern paganda about the importance of who cannibalize the land in the name of England and the rivers of southern

“saving the planet.” But there is a saving it. I can’t speak the language of Borneo—that something big is be ing terrible hollowness to it all, a sense science without a corresponding poetry. missed. That we are both hollow men that society is going through the I can’t speak with a straight face about and stuffed men, and that we will keep motions without under standing why. saving the planet when what I real ly stuffing ourselves until the food runs The shift, the pact, has come at a mean is saving myself from what is out, and if outside the dining room probably fatal price. coming. door we have made a wasteland and Now that price is being paid…. Like all of us, I am a foot soldier of called it necessity, then at least we Today’s environmentalism is about empire. It is the empire of Homo will know we were not to blame , people. It is a consolation prize for a sapiens sapiens and it stretches from because we are never to blame, gaggle of washed-up Trots and, at the Tasmania to Baffin Island. Like all because we are the humans. same time, with an amusing iro ny, it is empires, it is built on expropriation and an adjunct to hypercapitalism: the published in Jan/Feb issue of Orion Mag exploitation, and like all empires it contributed by member Suzanna Jones

Tales From The Barnyard, old daughter Mabel helped feed a three -day old kid separately from a bottle to be sure it got enough. or; Falling In Love With Mabel has the makings of a valued farm hand already. I watched her sort out the nannies into Goats Again, the proper order at the stanchions when they by Olive rushed in to be fed and milked. Frank and Karen's

Years ago, I left a well-paying job, a big house and other daughter, Evelyn, at eig ht months old, played

a comfortable life in a fine college community. The her part as well. She watched with great interest only things I took with me were the address of the from her carry-all, perfectly content on the side farm where I was headed, and my two goats, Violet lines of the action as her mother, dad and big and Happy H ooligan. I took the back seat of the car sister took care of the animals. One kid was out and put in a bale of hay, and off we went across frisking around after it's turn at the m ilk pail and country. Once we got to Vermont and got settled in, wanted out of goat curiosity to make more I was able to find just the right billy goat for my acquaintance of Evelyn. She wasn't bothered a bit nannies. Around sugaring season, kids were cavorting to have a goat in her face; I guess babies share a

al l over the place. Goat kids are the very essence of mutual understanding and acceptance of each

spring, proclaiming the pure joy of living in every other. bounce. How I have missed them. The Huard Family Farm has won the award for When I saw a photo in the local paper of top quality goat milk in Vermont two years in a row. Frank Huard snuggling his kid goats, I figured I could They qualify for a Tier Two system, which allows call on him and un der the guise of writing an article them to deliver and sell raw milk and cheese. for the spring Bullsheet, I'd have a capitol excuse Samples get tested twice a month to insure its for hanging out with his herd. Frank and his wife safety. They are regulars at the Montpelier Karen were just getting ready to do chores so I Farmers Marke t, and as Frank's "awareness

tagged along, admiring the whole operation as we campaign" as he puts it, takes off, more local-vores

went. The kids are separated from their mothers as will be sure to take advantage of his milk, cheese, soon as they are up and on their feet, so they get and goat meat. As I was leaving, he said, "Stop by most enthusiastic to see people coming with a warm any time", and the next time I get goat lonely, I bucket of milk with nipples for all. Frank's six-year most certainly will.

Annual Meeting Hike Up Buffalo Mountain Hardwick Spring Festival st th th April 1 5-9pm April 29 10am Saturday May 26 Hazen Union School Atkin’s Field Wine Tasting Board Meetings Inflammation: March 30 th 4:30-7pm 3rd Tuesday of the Month 7pm Beyond the Joints th Coop Cafe at the Coop April 30 6:30-7:30

Coop Cafe Spring Detox Collective Staff Meetings April 28 th 1pm 1st Wednesday of the month 7pm Spring Ephemeral Walk th Coop Cafe at the Coop May 19 9am Hardwick Trails Tea Tasting Community Dinner st March 31 1pm Thursdays 12-1 Nordic Naturals Demo At the Coop United Church March 28 th 3-6 At the Coop March Third The Hardwick Area Time Bank: Reach by Phyllis Rachel Larabee Provided by Coop member Karen Wynkoop Ski poling Reach Service Exchange Net - Reach members exchange every kind up roads work is a federally funded, non-profit of service & activity : Rides, yard of sugary snow program that uses the principles of work, dog walking, yoga classes, cook- where shards of bark lie time banking to bri ng needed services ing, games nights, reading aloud, music scattered to people of all ages and levels of lessons, house cleaning, mending, acc- torch from a birch ability. ounting assistance, running errands, Oh! The hungers It works like a co-op, in which respite care, foreign language conver- of late winter members exchange volunteer ser-vices sation, computer help, carpentry, group with each other. For every hour you exercise, child care, gardening, mass- And chickadees spend helping someone, you earn a age, house sitting, car repair, and so on hijegigi-hlasizak* credit you can use to have anyone else Reach particularly encourages ser- at the bird feeder

in the n etwork help you. Every hour is vices that contribute to the quality of sing

and snack equal in value to every other hour. You life – preventative health care, trans- on seed of spring can also give your credits to a friend, portation, home care, companionship, a family member, or an organization civic engagement, and life-long learning you support – and help people continue to live in We post your requests and offers, their homes help you find services and keep track Ten Reasons to Join Reach of the credits you earn. It’s easy – all • Save money getting help you need exchanges can be arranged from you • Gain access to a wide range of free

own computer or telephone services • Who Can Join? Anyone! Reach emph- Make new friends • asizes services that improve the Do a good turn for you neighbors quality of life of elders and people • Save up credits for when you need with disabilities but we welcome extra help members of any age, level of abili ty, • Help someone you love get care and walk of life. services from others How Can I Join? Call 802-533-9029 • Help build a system of community or E-mail [email protected] . care that’s local & self-sufficient.

We’ll provide you with enrollment • Receive training in service skills that

materials and help you fill in the forms will make you a more effective if needed. We also hold regular volunteer. orientation meet-ups –call for the • Take part in regular activities at the schedule. Annual dues are $25 – or Reach office. two hours donated service. • Use Reach’s common room for meeting, social events & classes

Submissions for the Bullsheet and

Learning Exchange

Post an interesting workshop or event Write a poem or article; interview a long-time member or staff member; offer a recipe or health tidbit; share a coop-related story or anecdote. Submissions for Summer Issue are due June 5 th Estimated print date for Summer Issue is June 21 st Send submissions to [email protected]

Merry Equinox! Spring is here and the theme that I produce that could be preserved. Having staple items such would like to celebrate is “Listening”. The sounds of spring as tomatoes, broccoli, and spinach available when local is conjure up our deep love and compassion for the Earth. We not, will decrease how much imported food we will have to hear it in the iridescent calls of the Robins or in the purchase. Eventually it would be great if we had farmers deafening chorus of the peepers. It is a time that awakens growing spec ifically to preserve for the Coop so that we the light within and all around us. Our bodies are constantly could have that crop available loc-ally year round. These asking us to listen to them. They are telling us stories about products will have a Coop label listing the contributing how to eat se asonally, get rest, stay hydrated, and about farms. We are going to be working with the Food Venture the interconnectedness of the amazing web of life that we Center (FVC) on this project and possib ly the Deep Root Growers Coop. The first year we’ll hire out the processing participate in. These are the stories that we could gather great wisdom from if we only knew how to hear them. to the FVC to help keep it simple. My long-term vision for this project is to be fully self-sustaining and Coop pro - Listening is becoming a lost skill, like s eed saving, duced. My hope is that this project will also include the storytelling, and working with draught animals. The only way Café a nd the Community Dinner. These would only be to genuinely listen is to be fully present in the moment. I, available at our Coop unless it could expand out into the like many of you, struggle with being fully in the moment area school lunch programs. This project is a win-win for during a conversation. It is easy to fall prey to distractions everyone involved. Our goal is to make the products of the past or future while listening to stories from an - affordable to the membership while fairl y compensating other animal, your garden, or your-self. The Earth has much the growers. As long as the Coop isn’t losing money, this knowledge and wisdom to offer us humans. We just need to project should flourish and provide the community with learn how to listen. more local food to include in their diet throughout the year. I have been here to listen to the membership about m y proposal for localizing our produce department. I received This is a spring Bullsheet, but where did winter go? It some positive feedback and some concerns about going 100% see ms almost improbable that anyone would think that local for our display. I have taken every-thing into humans aren’t changing our climate. In the past 200 years, consideration, including the potential loss of sales we have contributed to unsustainable population and throughout the Coop. Here’s my proposal for a 2-3 year economic growth and unthinkable pollution. This has left our phase out of non-local produce on our display. By the end of environments almost uninhabitable. I have lived in Vermont the winter of 2013 all produce that cannot be grown in New for twelve years now, and as a farmer, I have seen the England will be phased out of the display. These items can growing season change subtly since 2000. The USDA zone still be special ordered through a buying club type scheme maps have recently been updated. The zone 3 growing areas once a week. For the first year there will be a few in Vermont have been minimized. We didn’t get below -20° exceptions such as bananas, avocados, lemons, ginger (we will in Al bany so far this winter and we are in March now. I have local, fresh ginger this fall), mushrooms, grapefruit must admit that I have enjoyed the decreased, snow removal burden. The only benefit I see from the lack of and one type of orange. The following year will be the same as the previous, except that we will drop the citrus. snow is that maybe spring flooding won’t be as devastating to Vermont’s fragile infrastructure tha t still needs much Year three, we’ll see the disappearance of all produce that cannot be grown here and the final transition to a 100% local work since Tropical Storm Irene. display. I feel quite confident that this can work, especially I send much love and light to Shirley Paire and her with such a long phase out. I wou ld like to have a discussion family for the loss of her husband last month. They have at the annual meeting and possibly vote to see if we should been providing the Coop with their Cabot grown produce for proceed. decades. I saw Shirley shortly aft er he passed, and she

There is an exciting endeavor brewing called “Project said they’ll have strawberries and blueberries, but wasn’t Preserve”. This project is in response to transitioning our sure about the veggies. I am sure Shirley would appreciate produce department to being 100% local. It’s in the fledgling some extra help around the farm this year. May your Spirit stages and we should have some preserved local produce stay strong, Shirley. available this fall and winter. Once established, it will allow Peace Y’all, us to preserve the bounty that is too much for our produce Frey Ellis department. We have an incredible amount of acce ss to local Chocolate Red Wine Ink rinse the stain thoroughly from apply a little white wine if Gently massage some the back with cold water available. Then sprinkle aerosol hairspray to the Gum liberally with salt (it absorbs) stain then run it under cold freeze it by applying an ice and rinse immediately, rubbing water. cube or toss the item in the the stain out. Blood freezer. The frozen gum Sweat Spit on it. Its true – your should break off Apply mixture of water and own saliva is the best thing Coffee baking soda or a few for getting your own blood with a sponge, apply mix of ½t teaspoons of white vinegar. out fast. Then soak the white vinegar to 2c cold water Or soak in salt water stained item in cold water mixed with a handful of Parsnip Cakes salt, or apply equal parts 4 Tbls butter, divided ¼ c minced fresh chives or onion ammonia and water with a 1 lb parsnips, chopped ¼ teaspoon dill sponge veggie stock or water 2 bay leaves Make-Up salt & pepper 1-2 cups bread crumbs Regular detergent should 2 eggs do the trick. Pre-treat

Melt 2T of butter in a medium-sized saucepan and sauté thyme and onions or chives with a stain remover to cut for 2-3 minutes. any grease Homemade Oxyclean Add veggie stock, parsnips, dill and bay leaf and boil until parsnips are tender.

Strain the parsnips and remove the bay leaf. Coarse mash the parsnips and add salt 1c water ½ c peroxide and pepper to taste and add the eggs. ½ c baking soda Mix together and soak Next add breadcrumb to the mixture until it sticks together and you can form it into laundry in it for 20 m inutes small patties (approx 3” wide) or overnight and then wash You can either pan-fry the patties in butter until crispy and brown or you can bake as usual them in the oven at 350 o for 15 minutes.

Sometimes these are brushed or drizzled with a maple glaze (yummy and very seasonal): 2T maple syrup and 2T water

Lemon -Lavender Polenta Cake ¾ c plus 2T soft unsalted butter ¾ c plus 2T sugar ¾ c plus 2T almond flour 7T fine corn flour (masa) Do -It -Yourself 1½ teaspoons baking powder ½ tsp salt Mouthwash 3 eggs zest of 3 meyer lemons 2oz (4T) spilanthes tincture juice of 3 lemons ½ c + 1T sugar ½oz (2½t) goldenseal tincture 2 tsp chopped fresh lavender (or 3 tsp dried lavender) 1 dp clove essential oil

o 1 dp myrrh essential oil Preheat the oven to 350 . Mix together the flours, salt and baking powder. Beat the Up to 2 ½c water butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the lemon zest. Add 1/3 of the flour Or you can mix spilanthes mixture, mixing thoroughly, then one egg. Repeat until all th e flour and eggs are gone, tincture : water - 1:10 then scrape the batter into a 9”x 9” pan, and bake for 35-40 minutes. It might not look entirely set in the center, but the edges will have started to pull away from the sides of Toothpaste the pan. 1 t baking soda

In a saucepan on the stovetop, bring the lemon juice, lavender and sugar gently to a 1 t arrowroot or cornstarch boil. Remove from heat immediately. Prick tiny little holes over the top of the cake ½ t sea salt with the point of a sharp knife, and drizzle the syrup over the cake (strain it first if you Pinch stevia don’t want lavender bits everywhere). Try to allow it to cool before eating…. 5 dps tea tree

13-20 dps peppermint oil

2011 in Review

% of total Compared What’s New? We paid out sales to 2010 This year the deli was Gross put into action serving up $1,828,764.41 100% + 7.3% fresh sliced meats and $12,000 Grocery 25.0% +2% delicious prepared foods. in credit card fees Bulk 15.7% +6% Last years Annual last year! Produce 15.4% +23% Meeting brought record Dairy 6.9% +3% attendance – nearly 100 Cheese 4.9% -2% people! Don’t miss this We gave Bread 4.8% -1% year’s meeting on April 1 st Café 4.6% -9% at Hazen Union Cafeteria $129,644 from 5-9pm – music, Meat & Fish 4.0% +4% in discounts last year! Supplements 3.9% -1% prizes, samples, spaghetti Home Goods 3.0% +5% dinner and potluck (up 5% from last year) Coffee 2.9% +21% dessert. HABA 2.8% -5% The coop will be re- We welcomed Gifts 2.0% +17% evaluating its discount Pet Care 1.5% -15% structure this year and in- 232 Herbs & Spices 1.5% +4% vite you to join our Disc- new members ount “Th ink Tank”. We’ll Beer & Wine 1.1% -5% this year bringing our be looking at our how oth- er coops offer discounts total to and as always, balancing 1537 members This year was quite a doozy for many the needs of the store in our community; standing up against and the needs of the We spent big corporations, recovering from member-owners. Please come be part of the flooding, births & deaths. Fortunately conversation. Talk to the coop was able to help, donating $20,000 Rachel if you would like to on electricity $15,000 join the group. last year! in money and food to We are committed to our friends in need: Staffing Updates reducing our carbon Hardwick Community Dinner, Occupy We welcomed long-time footprint and are currently Wall Street in VT, Irene Relief café cook, Miranda Hunt researching alternative efforts, Hazendale Farm, Riverside into the Collective lighting options. Please pass Farm, A.W.A.R.E., G.R.A.C.E., Hardwick Management Team. She on your any of your ideas to Area Food Pantry, Cystic Fibrosis now oversees the Meat a staff member Foundation, Special Olympics, Department and Co- Heartbeet Life Sharing, Grass Roots Manages the Café with Arts, NOFA VT, NEK Arts, Truth in Deb Wilson. Rachel Davey Labeling Coalition, Vermont said a fond farewell to the Sustainable Jobs Fund, Vermont Café and moved over into Warmth and various other member of the Outreach Coor dinator our community. position.

Natural Remedies for Skin Health: Tips for

Rejuvenating your Skin & Scalp By Dr Thauna Abrin, Naturopathic Doctor

Did you know that the skin is the largest organ skin or atopic dermatitis, wearing 100% organic cot -

in all mammals? In addition to protecting all of our or- ton gloves at night with a layer of either zinc oxide gans and muscles, the skin helps to regulate body tem- cream, shea butter, or kukui nut oil will allow deep perature and to prevent fluid and nutrient loss from moisturizing and revitalization of your hands. The the body. In the midst of March, the driest month in key to rejuvenating dry skin is to apply your chosen Vermont, we are experiencing dryness and irritation of moisturizer (butter, cream, or oil) immediately after this vital organ . In this article, I will outline tips to getting the hands wet, which quickly dries the skin. both prevent and treat dry skin using natural remedies For people who develop either superficial or applied either topically or taken orally. deep cracks in the skin, vitamin E does wonders for

The most common complaint in my private prac- healing damaged skin. The easiest way to apply vit-

tice during winter is dryness and cracking of the skin, amin E to the skin is to purchase liquid vitamin E and resulting in discomfort or dermatitis (skin inflamma- apply 2-4 drops to the affected area, rubbing in for tion or rash). Regardless of whether a person has pre- a few minutes. Another option is to puncture a gela- viously had a diagnosis of eczema (atopic dermatitis) tin capsule of vitamin E supplement and rub the ent- we all have dry hands, face, and scalp. ire contents of a capsule onto the skin. Please note Remedies for Dry Skin & Scalp that vitamin E supplements are made from soy, so My most successful remedy for dry skin is shea avoid these if you have a known soy allergy. nut butter, an oil derived from the nuts of the African Dietary Tips for Healthy Skin

Karite tree Vitellaria paradoxa or nilotica. Rich in vit- Another important key to rejuvenating your amins A, E, and F (omega 3 & 6 fats), shea butter nour- skin is to drink adequate amounts of water. The rule ishes dry skin deeply by soothing, hydrating, and prot- of thumb for how much water to consume is to divide ecting the skin. Shea b utter promotes skin renewal, your weight in pounds by half. You should drink that increasing circulation and accelerating wound healing. many ounces of water per day. For example, a person I recommend applying 1-2 teaspoons of either raw who weighs 120lbs should drink 60oz of water per (slightly more odorous) or naturally refined shea but- day, or 7 cups (8oz x 7 cups = 56 oz). ter to the hands after potentially drying activities Finally, an adequate amount of essential fatty such as bathing or washing dishes. Shea butter can acids in our diet ensures a healthy skin and scalp. also be applied to the rest of the body, especially the Omega 3 and 6 fatty acids are called essential fatty

feet, legs and arms, and scalp. acids because our bodies do not manufacture them; Another favorite for dry skin is kukui nut oil, they must be consumed in our daily diet. As a vegan used historically as massage oil for Hawaiian royalty. naturopathic doctor, I recommend flax seed oil with Kukui nut oil relieves dry and damaged skin immediately added DHA (docosahexaenoic acid derived from because it penetrates the skin quickly, leaving a yellow algae), which will provide ALA (alpha-linolenic smooth, non-greasy feeling. This oil can leave even the acid). Your body should convert ALA into EPA roughest and driest skin feeling soft and hydrated. (eicosapentaenoic acid) and DHA. I recommend 1

Rich in vitamins A, C, E, and F, kukui nut oil provides teaspoon of flax seed oil per day, drizzled over hot antioxidants that help protect the skin from damage. cereal in the winter, or on salads during the summer.

I recommend using kukui nut oil as a scalp treatment for dry and itchy scalp or dandruff by applying 1-4 Dr Thauna Abrin is a new co-op member and a naturopathic teaspoons to either wet or dry hair. doctor setting up practice in the Hardwick area. Contact: Prevention of Dry Skin [email protected] (802) 533-9228 The best way to prevent dry hands is to wear gloves - thick rubber gloves when using water for activities such as dishwashing, and work gloves when handling wood and other materials. For those with severe dry

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 COLLECTIVE “Co-operatives have a rich and diverse MANAGEMENT history in the United States and around

David Allen the world,” said National Co-operative Kate Arnold Business Associati on President and CEO Barry Baldwin Paul Hazen. William Bridwell Kathy Castellano Throughout this year the Buffalo

Rachel Davey Mountain Food Coop will be highlighting co- 39 South Main Street Frey Ellis operative business through guest speakers, P.O. Box 336 Annie Gaillard Bullsheet articles on other co-operative Hardwick, Vermont 05843 Deborah Hartt 802-472-6020 business; signage, samples and specials on Miranda Hunt 802-472-5946 the products i n our stores that are Denise Jackson [email protected] produced by co-ops Lori Leff www.buffalomountaincoop.org Marisa Neyenhuis For more information about the International Regina Troiano Store Hours Year of Co-ops, please visit: www.nfca.coop/iyc Deb Wilson Monday – Friday 9am-7pm The Neighboring Food Co-op Association is Saturday 9am-6pm more than 25 food co-ops in Vermont, New COOP BOARD Sunday 10am-5pm Hampshire, Massachusetts and Connectic ut

MEMBERS working together toward a shared vision of a Café Hours thriving regional economy, rooted in a healthy, Sharon Fialco Monday - Friday 8am – 3pm (self-serve 3-close) just and sustainable food system and a vibrant Steven Gorelick Saturday 9am – 1pm (self-serve 1-close) community of co-operative enterprise. For Maggie McGuire Sunday self serve all day Jason Miller more information: www.nfca.coop Buffalo Mountain Coop Accepts SUB STAFF Cash

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Grace Hurley Jen Marlier BUFFALO MOUNTAIN FOOD COOPERATIVE Myrna O’Neil MISSION STATEMENT Ivy Pagliari The purpose of the Buffalo Mountain Food John Pepe Cooperative is to develop within its area of Emma Podolin influence a community-owned and operated, Emily Purdy health-oriented, thriving enterprise; • Emily Sacco To continually educate the community as a Sarah Urban whole in regard to food polit ics, health issues, Jamie Young and our social-cultural activities; • To demonstrate alternative approaches to structuring our work environment so that it is more decent and compassionate; • To offer healthy, pro-active choices and • To open our doors to, and develop all aspects of our community. We provide food for all people, not for profit.