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With Thanksgiving coming up this is your chance to stock up on LOCAL and ORGANIC on Nov 18t- BUY LOCAL DAY!. There are a few farmers markets continuing to offer products, such as the Lansing Farmers Market on Cedar St, downtown Lansing, across from the Lugnuts stadium, on Saturdays. Of course there are local food coops. What are your favorite spots to buy local in the "off season". I hope that you will take a moment to "Reply All" on this email and tell us where you get local food this time of year. It's the time we prepare the biggest meals that are shared with the largest number of friends and family, but the most difficult time to buy local. Those with hoop houses or are members of CSAs with hoop houses, YOU LUCKY DEVILS!!! Happy Thanksgiving to you and all of your local friends and family Vicki ________________________________ From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 6:08 PM To: Vicki Morrone Subject: Buy Local Day! Sat, Nov. 18th Importance: High <https://img.getactivehub.com/gv2/custom_images/cfs/spacer.gif> Center for Food Safety <http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/home.cfm> <https://img.getactivehub.com/gv2/custom_images/cfs/tfnbox.JPG> <https://img.getactivehub.com/gv2/custom_images/cfs/people.jpg> Dear Vicki, <http://img.getactivehub.com/gv2/custom_images/cfs/farmers_market.jpg> Buy Local Day! Saturday, November 18th ________________________________ Alarmed by industrial agriculture's interference in the food chain? It's easy to meet local growers and sellers. This Saturday, November 18th, show your support for local food by joining us in Buy Local Day! There are thousands of local farmer's markets, community supported agriculture farms, co-ops and local retailers across the country where you can show your support on Saturday! The typical industrial supermarket food travels an average of 1300 miles from the farm to the dinner table. Subsequently, consumers get farther away from their food sources while farmers command lower prices for their products. For every dollar a consumer spends on such food, farmers receive ten cents or less! Just a few decades ago farmers earned up to seventy cents. But in today's industrialized food system, more and more of our food dollars go to the corporate middlemen for processing, marketing, packaging, storage and shipping, and the people who actually grow it receive increasingly less. The good news is that we can change this industrialized system by demanding and supporting local, organic foods! <http://ga3.org/campaign/buylocalpledge/w5bebxgrr53kwmb?> Take our Buy Local pledge! ________________________________ Resources for Choosing Local and Organic: Find <http://www.localharvest.org/> a local Farmer's Market, CSA, or Food Co-op Find <http://www.eatwellguide.org/> organic, sustainable and humanely raised meat and dairy in your area through Sustainable Table's Eat Well Guide Find out more about Buy Local Day <http://www.buylocalday.org/> and events in your area Check out the 100-Mile Diet <http://www.100milediet.org/> for tips on eating locally ________________________________ ** If you have trouble with the links in this email, you can take the pledge online at http://ga3.org/campaign/buylocalpledge <http://ga3.org/ct/w1L8V461UXyY/> ________________________________ Visit the web address below to tell your friends about this. Tell-a-friend! <http://ga3.org/join-forward.html?domain=cfs&r=hpL8V461ZRhL> If you received this message from a friend, you can sign up for Center for Food Safety <http://ga3.org/cfs/join.html?r=hpL8V461ZRhLE> . This message was sent to [log in to unmask] Visit your subscription management page <http://ga3.org/cfs/smp.tcl?nkey=w5bebxgrr53kwmb&> to modify your email communication preferences or update your personal profile. To stop ALL email from Center for Food Safety, click to remove <http://ga3.org/cfs/remove-domain-direct.tcl?ctx=center&nkey=w5bebxgrr53 kwmb&> yourself from our lists (or reply via email with "remove or unsubscribe" in the subject line). <http://www.getactive.com> <https://img.getactivehub.com/gv2/custom_images/cfs/spacer.gif> <https://img.getactivehub.com/gv2/custom_images/cfs/spacer.gif> <http://ga3.org/nlor/w5bebxgrr53kwmb> If you would like to access previous postings to the Mich-Organic listserv you can copy and paste the following URL into your browser address bar http://list.msu.edu/archives/mich-organic.html