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.