February 2011 Onion Skin
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The FREE Onion SSharing newsk from the Co-opi and then community The Onion Skin City Market, Onion River Co-op February 2011 Attention bakers! We’re challenging We challenge you to think creatively Sound too hard? Sign up for City you this Valentine’s season to profess in concocting local sweetness from: Market’s Baking with Local Sweeteners your love for local food by making a - local sweeteners (honey and class Tuesday, February 15 from 6:00 sumptuous all-local dessert. Enter your maple syrup!) – 7:30 p.m. at Burlington’s Integrated localvore recipe into the contest and you Arts Academy and get inspired could win a year’s supply of local maple - local flour (check the bulk (sign up at Customer Service)! department!) syrup. The top three recipes will be selected - local cornmeal Here’s the deal: based on 1) Use of local ingredients, We Come up with a dessert recipe using - Quebec oats 2) Deliciousness, and 3) Simplicity by all local ingredients and drop it off at - local dairy (cream, butter, sour Meg Klepack, City Market’s Local Food local food City Market between February 11 and cream, crème fraiche, milk, eggs, Coordinator, and Caroline Homan, City 20. We know this sounds challenging soymilk, etc.) Market’s Food Education Coordinator. (no sugar or chocolate!?) but we think - local cheeses These three desserts will be sampled you’re up to it. We will allow you a few at the February 26 Burlington Winter - local frozen berries (including “wildcard” exceptions for essential Farmers’ Market and people will vote those blueberries you picked in Dessert Recipe Competition baking ingredients we don’t grow in for their favorite. The top vote getter August and stuck at the back of the February 11-20 Vermont: will win a year’s supply of maple syrup freezer) Sign up in-store - baking soda (limited to 4 gallons!). The winning - local apples - baking powder recipe will be featured on City Market’s - local carrots, beets and rutabaga website and in the March e-newsletter. - yeast (not sure anyone will take us up on Then keep celebrating local Shelburne Farms Tour - salt the rutabaga idea but just putting it sweetness with a tour of a maple syrup Sunday, March 6 - vanilla out there) sugar shack. We’ll drop by Shelburne - spices - any other local products you can Farms on Sunday, March 6 to bask in - cornstarch dream up in the dead of winter. the steam of their sugar shack, tramp through their sugar bush, and sample - nuts their syrup. While we’re there, we’ll also get a tour of their cheese making facilities! To register for the tour, contact Meg at [email protected] or call 861-9753. Space is limited so register soon! GM article New Local Items Ginger February Events Page 2 Page 3 Page 5 back page Your Community-Owned Grocery Store 82 S. Winooski Avenue, Burlington VT 05401 Open 7 a.m. - 11 p.m. every day • 802-861-9700 • www.citymarket.coop We welcome EBT, CAT$cratch, Knight & CC Cash Cards and manufacturers’ coupons The Onion Skin Adieu, Manager Nicole Fenton urged me to “get Cooperative Principles with it” (and end the print paper) a full year 1. Voluntary and Open Membership Onion Skin and a half ago before she left to start her 2. Democratic Member Control own company. Allison Weinhagen, our new 3. Member Economic Participation By Clem Nilan, Member Services and Marketing Manager, has 4. Autonomy and Independence General Manager reviewed the data, done her own studies and 5. Education, Training and Information Alas, it’s time to say goodbye and farewell has delivered the same message. to our venerable Onion Skin. This is its last 6. Cooperation Among Cooperatives Our Co-op like all co-ops is a democratic 7. Concern for Community issue. Saying farewell to our Co-op print organization and for an informed membership newsletter would have been barely imaginable effective communication is essential. The plain February’s featured Community just five years ago. But times change. truth is that we spend an inordinate amount Connection is Tocc’a Te Health Counseling. One would have to be, well, not paying of time and money putting together a paper Tocc’a Te practices a holistic approach to Board of Directors attention to the news to miss the story that newsletter with ever diminishing returns. It’s health and wellness, looking at how all areas Patrick Brown - [email protected] newspaper companies are losing our responsibility to members to of your life are connected. The goal of the Julia Curry - [email protected] advertisers, market value, and They told use our resources wisely. program is to identify and attain health and Kevin Duniho - [email protected] readers. me they kept So how do we communicate life goals. Owner Amy Venman works with Maura Finn - [email protected] This majority of the staff at informed effectively? Freeing up resources individuals and groups who are ready to make Rachel Jolly - [email protected] the Co-op are young. Alison Miner, from the Onion Skin will allow a positive change in their health and their lives. Susan Munkres - [email protected] our beer and wine buyer, says, “I get through our us to enhance our website, blog, Venman received her training to Nancy Nesbitt - [email protected] my news from every source except e-mails, our Facebook page, e-mail messages, practice Health Counseling at the Institute Molly O’Brien - [email protected] the newspaper: internet, blogs, website and Tweets and in-store signage…the for Integrative Nutrition—the only nutrition Wayne Warnken - [email protected] etc.” Erin Cavalier who works in way the majority of our members school integrating many different dietary the front end told me the only time in-store currently receive information. theories—combining the knowledge of she gets news from a paper is when signage. We will also begin a monthly traditional philosophies with modern concepts Onion Skin Editorial Staff she’s at a coffee shop (and sees one e-newsletter that we’ll work to like the USDA food pyramid, the glycemic Editor: Allison Weinhagen on the table) or occasionally she’ll take a peek make “printer friendly” should members wish index, the Zone and raw foods. at the newsstand at the Co-op. Erin keeps up to read a paper copy. Production Coordinator: Allison Weinhagen Says Venman, “I firmly believe that you with the news through the Internet. She told Layout: Aaron Toth I know change is difficult. There may can’t be the best version of yourself if you me doesn’t have any peers who buy a paper. (I Illustration : Aaron Toth, Becky Rouleau be some members who will not be happy. A constantly feel drained by stress, poor sleep, felt like I was asking Erin about Hula Hoops.) wise person once told me that trying to make lack of energy, those annoying little aches and This past August, seven candidates everyone happy is the certain path to make no pains; just not feeling as well as you know you attended the Board of Directors meeting. I one happy. Our highly esteemed Operations can. My goal is to help people feel their best so Advertising Information: asked them how they kept informed about the Manager Pat Burns won me over with this they can be their best.” For an ad information sheet, please e-mail Co-op and knew there were Board vacancies. advice, “trying to keep all of the media going For more information, please visit www. Allison Weinhagen at AWeinhagen@ They told me they kept informed through will result in us doing a poor job. Concentrate toccatehealth.net or email amy@toccatehealth. our e-mails, our website and in-store signage. on what works and do it really well.” citymarket.coop (City Market members net. receive a discount on ads.) I asked if any of them read the Onion Skin. Adieu, Onion Skin. Not one raised a hand. Throughout the month of February, City If you don’t currently receive e-messages from the Market members can enter to win a free initial My personal inquiry to folks whose Co-op, please visit our website to sign up: http://www. health consultation from Tocc’a Te Health opinion I esteem mirrored the results of the The Onion Skin is the official newsletter of citymarket.coop/news/newsletters and complete the Counseling. Stop by the Customer Service much larger and sophisticated market study The Onion River Cooperative. Submission form at the bottom of the page. desk to enter today! the over the course of several years by our deadline is the 5th of the month prior to Marketing Department. Our former Marketing publishing (e.g., May submissions due April 5th). Submissions are encouraged and may be edited for clarity, style, or length. The editorial staff reserves the right to accept or reject articles. Views expressed are From Thursday, January 20 through City Market’s donation results were tallied those of each individual author and do not Sunday, January 23, City Market donated 1% Monday morning, January 24th. City Market’s necessarily reflect City Market policy. of sales to help Pete’s Greens rebuild and, at donation from the four day event amounted the same time, we accepted donations directly to $3,550. In addition, City Market customers from customers. When Mary Manghis, City donated $1,651.29 at the registers in that time Market’s Produce Buyer, called Pete Johnson period. With many thanks to the community to talk with him about City Market’s offer, he for supporting this event, the total donation was appreciative.