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Check out the new SPRING GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING Come by for a Sneak Preview Golden Beet and Kale Salad! May 23rd • BBQ, Meet and Greet at 4 p.m., Meeting at 6 p.m. of our Chestnut Hill store Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting, 100 East Mermaid Lane (8424 Germantown Ave.) at the Agenda: Opening and Welcome • Candidate recognition • Approve minutes from Fall 2009 GMM CHESTNUT HILL HOME President’s Report • 6 p.m. Last call for election ballots • General Manager’s report Financial update New store update • WWCP update • Farm/CSA update AND GARDEN FESTIVAL Speaker: Yael Lehman, Executive Director of the Food Trust • Q&A • Announce election results Sunday, May 2 • 11 am to 5 pm April 2010 Vol. 39 No. 4 The Shuttle Serving the Co-op and the Northwest Community since 1973 Expansion Large Turnout at Co-op’s Chestnut Hill Job Fair Update by Jonathan McGoran, Shuttle Editor HundredS turned out on March 15 for Weav- by Kim Spelman-Hall, ers Way’s Chestnut Hill Job Fair, held to help Chestnut Hill Store Manager fill the 30 jobs being created by the new store in Chestnut Hill, which is scheduled to open in Spring iS coming and so is the opening of May. Over 300 applicants attended, and 285 the Chestnut Hill store. We are finally see- had preliminary interviews that day. The Job ing the light at the end of the tunnel. All Fair took place at 8400 Germantown Ave., next of our large refrigerated equipment will be to the new store. arriving the first week of April, and Do- “We are excited about opening in Chest- mus, our contractors, should be handing nut Hill for many reasons,” said Weavers Way the building over to us by the end of April. President Nancy Weinman, “but one big reason Once we are able to work inside, there is that we will be bringing so many new jobs will be a mad dash to assemble shelving, to Northwest Philadelphia, and at a time when set up our kitchen and office, and fill the they are sorely needed.” shelves with an exciting array of healthy items including a large offering of local General Manager Glenn Bergman agrees. photo by Jonathan McGoran products. “Weavers Way is all about local,” Bergman These applicants were among the more than 300 who attended Weavers Way’s Chestnut says. “We are committed to local products— Hill Job Fair on March 15. The job fair was held to help fill the 30 jobs being created I am very excited to say our inter- local milk, bread, cheese, and other products, by Weavers Way’s new store. Weavers Way full-time employees earn a living wage and views have been going well. We have an and produce from our own farm right in North- receive a full benefits package, including medical and dental insurance, retirement plan, excellent group of qualified candidates. west Philadelphia. But local also means invest- paid vacation and sick time, and employee discount. Ideal candidates will be able to work some early evenings and at least one weekend day. For more information about ing in our community, and we are very happy to employment at Weavers Way, contact [email protected]. (continued on page 5) be doing just that.” Henry Got Goat Cheese! Member Loan Campaign Yellow Springs Farm Goat Cheese CSA offered through Henry Got Crops! CSA and a Taste Testing April 15 Enters Second Phase by Stuart Katz, Member Loan Committee by Nina Berryman, Henry Got Crops! CSA co-manager and Al Renzi, Yellow Springs Farm CSA tHe Support of our members has kept As the new store nears completion, we are Henry got Crops! CSA, a the Co-op a vital community organiza- now initiating a second stage of the cam- partnership between Weavers tion for over thirty years. Our expansion paign, to raise at least another $250,000. Way and Saul Agricultural High to a new and larger store in Chestnut Hill, Because the renovation required of the old School, is expanding beyond with a wide range of fairly priced food Caruso’s space was far more extensive vegetables to include artisanal and household products, will improve our than expected, the project has cost more goat cheese. You do not need to service to the community. In addition, we and taken longer to complete. The Mem- be a member of the Henry Got will have a broader reach for our commu- ber Loan Committee has produced an up- Crops! CSA (or a member of nity programs, including support for local dated Offering Memorandum to include Weavers Way Co-op) to join the growers and vendors, health and well- current store costs as well as the latest fi- goat cheese CSA. ness initiatives for members and commu- nancing sources for the expansion. nity residents, and education programs on Al and Catherine Renzi, The terms of the new offering for green and sustainable products. from Yellow Springs Farm, Member Loans are as follows: in Chester Springs, PA, have a To support the expansion, the Co-op • Members can loan from $2,500 to small herd of goats and make has made use of a traditional co-op pro- $500,000 photo by Catherine Renzi gram, a Member Loan Campaign. In the delicious artisanal goat cheese. • The member-lender chooses the term Henry Got Crops! Farmer Nina Berryman (l) with Yellow first stage of our Member Loan Campaign, If we can get 20 people signed of the loan, from six to ten years. Springs Farm’s Al Renzi and some of the farm three-day- from April to October last year, we raised up for their goat cheese CSA, old goats (awww...) $458,000. This was a tremendous result. (continued on page 8) (continued on page 8) Weavers Way Cooperative Association Presorted Standard InsIde... 559 Carpenter Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19119 U.S. Co-op News Community News www.weaversway.coop POSTAGE PAID CHANGE SERVICE REQUESTED Philadelphia, PA WWCP Update 2 Ned Wolf Park Plant Sale 15 Permit No. 2658 Farm News 2 GRINCH Weird Waste Day 18 Product News 3 Kid Stuff Exchange 20 Managers Corner 4 Stenton Easter Egg Hunt 21 Stormwater at Chestnut Hill Store 11 Community Café 22 Finance Report 12 Mt. Airy Farmers’ Market 26 Member of the Month 13 Chestnut Hill Home & Garden Fest 26 2 The ShuTTle April 2010 Editor’s Winding Road WWCP Update Note to WW Farm by Rachel Milenbach, WWCP Executive Director by Jonathan McGoran Education Conventional wiSdom once held that while everybody doesn’t like something, by Adam Forbes, Farm Educator nobody doesn’t like Sara Lee. Well, no more. Norman Weiss, among others, is JuSt a few months ago, I was touring taking Sara Lee to task for Greenwashing the Weavers Way Farm on a frigid Janu- with their “Eco-grains” bread. ary day, chatting with the crew and tast- Frankly, when I saw the “Eco-grains” ing over-wintered arugula. I was naturally label, I thought at first that it was an at- nervous to be interviewing for this job and tempt by Sara Lee at being hipster-retro- somehow managed to have sweaty palms cool-ironic by coming up with a phrase in the middle of a frozen tundra. After that so totally reeked of lame, old school my interview I wandered around the Mt. pseudo-sustainability. But no, they were Airy store reading housing ads and trying serious. Then I thought maybe Norm was to figure out the correct shopping proto- being too hard on them for greenwashing; col. I tripped over other Co-op members at least they’re washing, right? as my mind filled with details about the Part of Sara Lee’s marketing for the farm and community programs. The store brand includes the tagline, “How your felt foreign but surprisingly comfortable turkey sandwich can help preserve the to me. I found myself daydreaming about Kids from Stenton Family Manor and grown-ups from WWCP at the Philadelphia Flower Show, earth.” Well, if the threat your sandwich is what it would be like to work as a part of courtesy of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. preserving the Earth against is ecological, this organization. However, the prospect the answer would be: very slowly. While of working for Weavers Way was still a Funding Updates Weavers Way, and an amazing Northwest “Eco-grains” do use less pesticides than distant dream. It was just a possibility that Philadelphia, urban agricultural, and local conventional grains, it is only three percent I couldn’t let myself get too excited about. Looking back at past Shuttle articles, food systems community. Many thanks to less. And since the Ecograin bread uses a During my first week, the same snow I see that it was over a year ago that I all of you who gave through the December maximum of 20 percent “Eco-grains,” the that soaked my feet during those interview wrote about the generosity of individuals 2009 cash register campaign. And thank net maximum reduction in Earth-threaten- days still covered the farm in a white blan- and foundations in their support of Weav- you to the following foundations for their ing chemicals would be 0.6 percent. ket, but I was in a totally different mind- ers Way Community Programs. In that generous support over the last two years: year, we have gotten used to the change in To be fair, your turkey sandwich could set. All of a sudden I was a part of this our economy, the fact that a lot of people 2010 be more effective if the threat was com- grand project and consumed with plans still cannot find jobs, and that some busi- ing from, say a killer tomato, which could for the upcoming season.

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