Saturday Feb 6th
at Greenman Music Hall
215 S Main Street, Viroqua
(Viroqua Public Market/Main Street Station)
Join the Valley Stewardship Network Food & Farm Initiative and the Viroqua Food Coop in a winter celebration of local food and farmers. Yes, even when the snow flies we are blessed with a wonderful array of locally grown and produced food thanks to our area farmers.
A local, light dinner with dessert will be served at 3:00 PM followed by the Viroqua premier of the critically acclaimed movie FRESH.
FRESH celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system.
Following the 72-minute movie will be a FRESH Endeavors
presentation. Come listen to local FRESH entrepreneurs and volunteers who are working on several exciting food system projects sure to change the way we as local eaters think our food system. You will surely be inspired by all the good work taking place here in our community!
So mark your calendars and come spend a warm, cozy afternoon with us in a celebration of local food, farmers and community!
Help HAITI's Co-ops Rebuild!
As most of you now know, a 7.0 earthquake shook the island of Haiti. Most of Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, has been destroyed and millions of people have lost their homes, workplaces, and family members. The extent of the devastation is severe; many of Haiti's coops have been severely damaged and many of those they serve are in severe need.
The Cooperative Development Foundation (CDF) has a fund strictly for the purpose of assisting people in times like these -The Cooperative Emergency Fund. The Cooperative Emergency Fund will be donating all monies received from here until July 2010 to help the rebuilding efforts in Haiti. CDF will be collaborating with international cooperative relief efforts in this endeavor to rebuild those coops afflicted by this disaster.
Over the last 20 years, CDF has raised over $275,000 for cooperative relief and rebuilding efforts for ten different disasters. The CEF was founded to give stability and constancy to CDF's emergency relief efforts, many of which are of a longer-term rebuilding nature.
Donating through the front page of CDF's website is quick and easy. We ask that you visit the
homepage
and make a donation through our GOOGLE CHECKOUT function on the upper right hand side of the website. Your support is extremely appreciated.
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WE WON!!
Staff members Joseph Ecklund, Patrick Kouba, and Ben Caldwell produced this video for the MY Co-op Rocks video contest. Thanks everyone for your votes - Down at the VFC rated 4 stars with 256 votes, winning first place (a macbook) in the People's Choice category.
NOW AVAILABLE - REUSABLE GO CO-OP TOTE BAGS FOR ONLY ONE DOLLAR! For more info on the paper vs plastic bags - see this article