While many summer foodlums are gardening in the foodlums garden, Demmler Park and peace gardens, shopping at the farmers market, connecting with CSA's, Just Local Food, etc. I've started to think about ways to start learning more of the art of hunting and gathering!
Please let the foodlums know if you have any experience in hunting wild foods of many sorts! morel and other mushrooms, wild berries, edible barks and wild flowers, and even squirrel and other wild critters would be dainty!
Also, We've just started keeping a foodlums calendar of events on the bottom of this website, please join us at all these events as they are public! Please let us know if you have any events or hear of any commnunity events that you'd like us to post and attend! Some of us are even happy to volunteer wherever and whenever possible!
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
The ultimate ethical (Omnivore's) meal: a grey squirrel
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Foodlums Summer Fund Raising!
The Foodlums are raising money for our campus garden and so please check out the following links to what we'll have to offer!
Compost and Potting Soil!
-50 lbs. bags
-$10 Organic Composted Cow Manure
-$12 Organic Potting Soil
Kitchen Counter Compost Pot
-Handcrafted by potter, Barry Weiss
-Collect kitchen scraps - fruit and vegetable leavings. When full, empty contents on your outdoor compost pile and watch for results.
Good for your garden soil... and for Mother Earth.
-Be environmentally responsible! High-fire, handmade, stoneware clay.
-$65
Earth Day T-Shirts 2008
$15 Adult colored t-shirts
$11 hemp shirts
$12 youth shirts.
Help raise money for next year's Earth Day!
Email us at foodlums@gmail.com to place an order or ask any q's!
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Foodlums Dirty Spring Special!
The Foodlums are now selling (for the second consecutive year) Rosenow Farm's "Dandy Dirt!"
Profits from this fundraiser will go toward the Foodlums' campus garden and other summer projects in the eau claire community!
Please schedule an appointment with us to pick up your order or meet us at Eau Claire's farmers market in Phoenix Park.
Potting Soil: $12 for 50 lb. bag
Composted Cow Manure: $10 for 50 lb. bag
Bulk orders: (foodlums receive a commission for setting up these orders)
$28.00 PER CUBIC YARD
DELIVERY WITH COWSMO'S TRUCK
(Waumandee-Eau Claire = roughly 50 miles)
$2.00/mile for deliveries in COWSMO truck.
To set up an order please contact us at foodlums@gmail.com
we will be more than happy to coordinate a delivery to your home and garden!
Where does our dirt come from?
All ingredients meet NOP organic standards
ROSENHOLM-WOLFE DAIRY
S 1843 CO. RD. U
COCHRANE, WI. 54622
A JLF Possibility...
As Just Local Food announced at their open house this Tuesday (4-29-08), they are exploring a few options for our new location, which we will finalize soon. One of the main contenders is across from the YMCA downtown, on the corner of Graham Avenue and Seaver Street. Our Co-Op has the opportunity to take long-term care of this site, rejuvenate a blighted spot in downtown and remain within blocks of the current location. It also has clear and realistic options for expanding on site, to meet future growth.
This is a conceptual drawing by a friend, Lori of the front of the possible new store. (this picture isn't a good representation of the drawing - sorry, the real one is at the store) There will be bike and handicap access, several vehicle parking spots and ample on-street parking nearby. As with any space we will occupy, it will undergo a thorough environmental analysis and all steps will be taken to ensure the safety and quality of the food , workplace and social environment for us all.
Another friend, Ken, drew a quick layout sketch for us. This shows how we would fit now, then expand over time to occupy a larger footprint. Getting excited? So are we!
Thoughts on building sites?
Want to help make it happen?
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