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SAVE UNR FARMS! Wednesday March 27th, 6:00pm at City Hall is the final hearing to decide the fate of the 104 acres at Main Station Farm. If you care about the future of local food and farming in Northern Nevada then don't miss your chance to come out, show your support and let our city leaders know that we would rather have sustainable ag land preserved as opposed to more unneeded commercial development. Email RSVP@greatbasinfood.coop if you are planning on coming down.
The April GBCFC Board Meeting has been moved Monday April 22nd at 6:00pm upstairs in the community cafe. All members are welcome to attend!MORE Awesome FREE workshops comin' up!
RSVP - workshops@greatbasinfood.coop
Join us this Sunday the 31st at 3pm for a Raw Food workshop with member-owner Casey Robbins. Casey will be preparing Garden Dill Sun "Burgers" and Unbaked Apple Pie Cookies :) The class will be able to sample these healthily scrumptious goodies while learning more about healing with raw whole foods.
On Sunday April 7th at 2:00pm Amber Sallaberry will be doing the second part in a series of GUT BUG LOVE. This time she will be focusing on vegan based probiotic beverages, kefirs and lacto-fermented soda pop! The class will discuss the importance of of good colon colony health and how that plays out in mood, immune system, skin, allergies, digestion, weight and more! We will be sampling her latest homemade probiotic soda pop flavor - lemon ginger lavender and then also some creamy raw coconut kefir pudding :)
Sunday April 14th at 3:00pm: Gardening with Essential Oils with Jodi Patterson and Jennifer Agnew from DoTerra Essential Oils. Learn how to gently and safely keep bugs and pests out of your garden and have a BONUS aromatherapy session!
Next Friday night April 5th the Reno Bighorns are hosting an evening of Battle Born fever and YOUR co-op is going to be there talking up our great Nevada food! Come say hi at our booth and check out one of the Bighorn's last games of the season. Held at the downtown events center, doors open at 6:00pm and Game at 7:00pm. Get tix here!
CLOSING EARLY AT 6:00pm EASTER SUNDAY (March 31st) FOR INVENTORY! Be sure to come in early to get your Easter favorites like Nevada's very own organically raised grass-fed lamb from Albaugh Ranch, Farm Fresh organically raised eggs from Back 40 Farms & Holley Family Farms, Natural Easter Egg Dye and and of course organic/ fair trade vegan, dark and milk chocolates :)"We shouldn't forget that the sustainable-food movement, taken as a whole,has never really been elitist. It is industrial food, which concentrates production and profit in a few hands while churning out mountains of highly marketed junk, that is truly elitist."
Tom Philpott, 2011
The new show is up in the gallery and it's a zinger. Yay for our artist members!! GBCFC Cafe Gallery Show opened March 1st and runs until April 15th. The show features Jorgi Day's beautiful hand sewn quilts, Lindsey Dimitri's stunning rain forest bird photographs and Kim Musser's incredible abstract graphic acrylics. 
Thanks to our awesome board of Directors OUR co-op has been able to present a bill to the legislature which will make it easier for more co-op's in Nevada to incorporate as consumer-owned food cooperatives! Keep and eye out and show your support for Bill #366 which will do the following: 1) Clarify a current limit on dealing in the products of nonmembers
2) Allow elected board members to enact and amend bylaws on behalf of members
3) Facilitate mergers and conversions
email board@greatbasinfood.coop if you have questions or would like to learn more :)
EDIBLE LANDSCAPE Thursday workshops begin again! Join us each Thursday from 9:00am - 11:00am to learn more about gardening, edible landscaping, soil care and plants that thrive in Nevada. Edible Landscape Architect Jana Vanderhaar will be leading these hands-on sessions and sharing her immense amount of knowledge in the area of FOOD NOT LAWNS!| |
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