[Sosfbay-discuss] Goodbye Organic Farmers.../Tabling Seeds & info...

[Carol Brouillet]

Dear Green Party activists,

At our last meeting we discussed what merchandise 
we should get for our tabling efforts- everything 
from T shirts to pens and I volunteered to follow 
up on my idea of - organic seeds...

I contacted Seeds of Change to find out if we 
could get seeds for our tabling/fundraising.  We 
can get a collection of 4 seed packages which 
they suggest retailing at $10 each.

The 4 choices include-

Italian Kitchen Collection

Genovese Sweet          Roma Paste 
Tomato             America Spinach        Cal WonderOrange
Basil 
Bell Pepper

Kids Fun to Grow Collection

Red Core Chantenay          Howden 
Pumpkin              Mammoth          Mideast Prolific
         Carrot 
Sunflower               Cucumber

Salad Starter Collection

      Mesclun Mix                Cal Wonder 
Orange               Fox Cherry              Shungiku Edible
                                 Bell 
Pepper             Tomato                       Chrysanthemum

Zesty Salsa Collection

Jalapeno Chile          Slow Bolt 
Cilantro      Roma Paste Tomato                  Valencia Onion

It's geared for schools and for students to sell, 
but we might find Green Party members also 
interested in doing outreach to their communities 
(considering the current political situation- and 
perhaps as a way to get people more aware of the 
corporate onslaught against our ability to get 
healthy food).  I'm including here just one of a 
flurry of posts that I have received on new bills 
which do threaten small farmers.  We could create 
our own informational literature on this- but 
Seeds of Change will also send us some- though 
they tend to inform on basic health/educational 
rather than political issues...)

Here are the options for quantity.  Pleases give 
me feedback ASAP so I can order this- or we can 
go through the treasurer depending on the size of 
the order.  (I don't mind donating some $ towards 
this effort- beats the hell out of plastic coffee mugs in my opinion....)

Starter Package   MHFR09ST- S22396                             COST   $600
Includes:  100 collections at $6/box                SCHOOL PROFIT    $400
25 Italian Kitchen
25 Kids Fun-to-Grow
25 Salad Starter
25 Zesty Salsa
School Garden Starter Kit – 25 seed packs, 10 garden markers, 5 catalogs
Door-to-door order forms for future orders
Bulk order form for future orders
All shipping charges

Full School Package   MHFR09FL - S22397             COST   $2,250
Includes:  375 collections at $6/box            SCHOOL PROFIT    $1,500
100 Italian Kitchen Collections
100 Kids Fun-to-Grow Collections
100 Salad Starter Collections
75 Zesty Salsa Collections
School Garden Starter Kit – 25 seed packs, 10 garden markers, 5 catalogs
All shipping charges

Custom Order   MHFR09CT (order minimum of $100)
Includes:  Collections as selected at $6/box
School Garden Starter Kit – 25 seed packs, 10 garden markers, 5 catalogs
Door-to-door order forms for future orders
Bulk order form for future orders
All shipping charges


All potential earnings are based on sale of 
collections at the suggested retail price of $10.00 each.




Stop HR 875, HR 814, SR 425, And Soon, HR 759
OR Say Goodbye to farmers markets, CSAs,
and roadside stands




The above so called "food safety" bills in 
Congress were written by the nation-less 
corporations such as; Monsanto, Cargill, Tysons, 
ADM, etc. These bills are all associated with the 
opposite of food safety. What is this all about then?

- By Linn Cohen-Cole - March 04, 2009

In the simplest terms, organic food and a rebirth 
of farming were winning. Not in absolute numbers 
but in a deep and growing shift by the public 
toward understanding the connection between their 
food and their health, between good food and true 
social pleasures, between their own involvement 
in food and the improvement in their lives in 
general, between local food and a burgeoning local economy.

Slow Food was right - limit your food to what 
comes from your region and from real farmers, and 
slow down to cook it and linger over it with 
friends and family, and the world begins to change for the better.

And as we face an unprecedented economic crisis, 
and it is hard to be sure what has value, one 
thing that always does is food. Which is why the 
corporations are after absolute control over it. 
But what obstacles to a complete lock on food do 
they face? All the people in this country who are 
"banking" on organic farming and urban gardens 
and most of all, everyone's deepening pleasure in 
and increasing involvement with everything about food.

Farmers markets. Local farmers. Real milk. Fresh eggs. Vegetable stands.

Click here to read more...
<http://www.treehuggersofamerica.org/Say_Goodbye_To_Farmers.php>http://www.treehuggersofamerica.org/Say_Goodbye_To_Farmers.php






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