EVERY DAY IS "OCCUPY YOUR FOOD SUPPLY" AT JLF

Occupy your Food Supply. Occupy Just Local Food.

Crystal Ball. Coon Creek. Blackberry Hills. Buvala. Hilsgen. Whole Grain Milling. Marieke. Gingerbread Jersey. Big Donkey. Lazy Monk. Obsession Chocolates. Wheatfield Hill. Sunbow. Werlein. Bullfrog. Honey Hill. Kickapoo Coffee. Lambalot Acres. Beaver Creek Ranch.

This is a (very) short list of the more than seventy local producers who now occupy our shelves.

Monday, February 27 marks “Occupy our Food Supply" (http://ran.org/occupy-our-food-supply), a day of global action to unite the Occupy movement with sustainable farming, food justice, buy local, slow food, and environmental movements.

Take back YOUR food supply by supporting Just Local Food, by purchasing directly from local farmers, or by planting a garden. When you spend money in your community, you support a healthy local economy. With every seed you plant, you take a small step towards ecological and personal health.

In honor of “Occupy our Food Supply”, we encourage you to venture out to Just Local Food and try something new. Our friendly and food-centric staff will be elated to point out our locally produced and fairly traded goods.

For nearly eight years, Just Local Food has been building an alternative to the corporate food system. Please join in our movement to create a paradigm shift in the way people grow, process, distribute, buy, cook and eat food!

ONLY $1.99 per packet

Get out your hand trowels! Seed Savers Exchange Seeds have 

arrived!

Spring fever is on the horizon. Temperatures are rising. Snow (what little we have) is melting. AND it’s nearly time to garden!

This year’s Seed Savers Exchange Seeds have arrived at Just Local Food and they’re ONLY $1.99 per packet!

Seed Savers has hundreds of heirloom and open-pollination vegetables, herbs and flowers. Check out their catalog online (www.seedsavers.org) or check out their catalog while you’re in the store. WE’RE ACCEPTING SPECIAL ORDERS FOR ANY SEEDS WE DON’T HAVE IN STOCK IN AT JLF!! While perusing the Seed Saver’s online catalog, be sure to read more about this amazing company and their determination and commitment to preserve seed heritage.

In store, we’re loaded up on varieties well suited to unpredictable Wisconsin weather. Some of our selection includes: Lemon Drop Cherry Tomatoes (they continue to produce even in cool wet weather). American Spinach (slow to bolt and heat and drought resistant) and Bright Shining One Watermelons (fast maturation rate and well-suited to northern climates) as well as peppers, root vegetables, herbs, Scarlet Nantes Carrots (a staff favorite), peas, beans, corn and more!

Spring is around the corner and gardening season will be here before you know it… so get your early season cool weather and indoor starter seeds now!

Serrv Your Valentine with Fair Trade

SERRV is a nonprofit organization with a mission to eradicate poverty wherever it resides by providing opportunity and support to artisans and farmers worldwide.

Good Paper Valentine's Cards

Show your Valentine that you support developing economies all over the world! Available only at Just Local Food Cooperative!



"When you choose to purchase one of our handcrafted products from the developing world, you are making a statement that the poor should get to participate fully and benefit from global trade. But more than that, you are giving a mother a dignifying work option that enables her to support her family. You are empowering an orphan to rebuild the economy of a country ravaged by genocide and disease. In short, you are helping the world become what it ought to be, an interconnected global family. That's our dream and that's what it means to buy paper with a purpose." -From Good Paper's website.

NEXT SAMPLING: Tomorrow (Thursday), 4-6 PM

 

Tomorrow, February 9th, from approximately 4-6 PM, resident Just Local Foodies/JLF chefs Laura and Noel will be sampling fresh gingersnap cookies, creamy horseradish root dressing, and a succulent pasture-raised beef roast!  Recipes will be provided.  Come and get it!

WHEATGRASS FRESH LOCALLY GROWN

ONLY $21.99 per flat (includes $1.50 deposit for the flat)

Grown in Hastings, WI by Jason Birtzer of Emerald Mist.

This tray will supply 18+ shots of fresh, invigorating, nutritional wheatgrass for the Healthfood and Raw Food enthusiast. A wheatgrass juicer is essential for proper juicing.

Juice more than a weeks supply from one tray if consuming 1-4 shots per day.  Cut a bunch of wheatgrass, rinse and then juice.  Drink as soon as possible for the best nutritional value and freshness.

Return the FLAT with roots and bottom stalks to get your $1.50 deposit back.

New Roots Coffee Now at Just Local Food!

New Roots Coffee is now available in Eau Claire, WI and ONLY at Just Local Food Co-op!

As the coffee buyer for our store, I had heard about this place via a recommendation from a family member. After tasting some of the varieties New Roots offers, I had to get it in our store. And to make a good thing even better, New Roots supports the coffee growers by paying ABOVE fair trade pricing and has a deep commitment to quality. You can expect a focused lineup of beans coming from some great coffee-producing regions. New Roots coffee is roasted-to-order, which happens every week here at Just Local Food. Based out of Ringle, WI this coffee is only coming from 100 miles away to Eau Claire once roasted. We're proud to work with yet another Wisconsin coffee roaster (in fact, that's all we work with)!




We now offer the Daylight in the Swamp! Breakfast Blend in bulk with more varieties on the way. Check out this great blend the next time you're in the store!

If you care about clean rivers and streams please make your thoughts known to the EPA. But time is running out!

The Pew Charitable Trust has compiled this information through their PEW Environment Group. Please take a moment to read and respond.

What's the Big Secret?

Much of the pollution in U.S. rivers and streams today comes from the manure generated by CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations), which confine thousands of animals on a single site. To determine the extent of the problem and how it might be better addressed, the public and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) need to know more about these facilities and the waste they produce. But unlike many other industries, CAFOs do not regularly disclose facility-specific information to the EPA—and the powerful interests behind CAFOs want to keep it that way.

Under a recent settlement agreement, the EPA promised a regulation that would require CAFOs nationwide to report some basic facts, such as the location of the operation and number of animals housed. The EPA is now asking for public comments on a proposed rule to collect some of this data from the nation’s largest CAFOs. Having this information will vastly improve the agency’s ability to ensure that CAFOs comply with the Clean Water Act and do not contaminate our lakes and waterways.

Gathering this information is about simple transparency and protecting the environment, but industrial animal agriculture is fighting to keep CAFOs shrouded in secrecy. The industry is pressing the EPA to withdraw the proposal or limit its application. So please act now, and urge everyone you know to do the same.

Ask the EPA to finalize a rule that collects information from CAFOs across the country. We have only until Jan. 19 to get as many comments as possible.

Click here for more information on the proposed rule and Regulations.gov.

Spread the word:

THIS MONTH:


One FREE AVOCADO



with a purchase over $10



with your 2012 V1 CARD.