THANKS
Thank you to all members who showed their gardens for the summer tours. They were very much appreciated. Also thank you for the pot luck dishes on September 9th at the Kelly Farm picnic.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Welcome to new members Mary Petiet from West Barnstable and Bob Ledwidth of Yarmouthport.
Save a tree! To get the newsletter online via email instead of paper mail, email polotka@cape.com with your email address.
CCOG NEWSLETTER ONLINE
Cape Cod Organic Gardeners is now online. You can add comments, suggestions and links at the CCOG website. To read the CCOC newsletter on the web go to http://ccog.wordpress.com/
FARM AID
CCOG Editor Peter Olotka attended the Farm Aid Concert on Randall’s Island in New York on September 9th. Dozens of Organic and Environmental organizations had vendors and booths at the event. From the Farm Aid website http://www.farmaid.org
The growing good food movement:
Farm Aid has united farmers, artists, consumers, and concerned citizens to create awareness about the benefits of good food from family farms. Farmers markets and local farm stands are everywhere. More people are purchasing organic food. More Americans are choosing meat products from livestock humanely raised on pastures, free of antibiotics and hormones. Rural citizens, consumers, and family farmers are stopping the factory farms that pollute and destroy the rural environment. Americans are rejecting genetically engineered food.
Good To Grow!
If you have children or grandchildren check out the GoodToGrow! website http://goodtogrow.org. A program of the Association of Children’s Museums to help combat the epidemic of childhood obesity in the US.
Living Good to Grow!
At children’s museums and online, Good to Grow! supports you and your family in:
• Eating good foods (in the right amounts);
• Getting plenty of exercise;
• Tracking your screen time (computer and TV)
• Connecting with the outdoors.
CALENDAR
October 18 Thursday 7:00 PM CCOG Meeting at The Wheldon Library (on 149 W. Barnstable
Kevin Minnigirode, one of our members will share information on the workshops he attended at the NOFA Summer Conference. Two workshops on Raising Chickens, one on Using Goat’s Milk and Lacto-Fermentation for Preserving.
November 15 Thursday 7:00 PM CCOG Meeting The Wheldon Library (on 149 W. Barnstable)
Gretel Norgeot (local organic farmer and bee keeper) will speak on bee keeping and organic gardening. This year she managed both the Hyannis and Orleans Farmer’s markets. We will be joined by the GreenCape members.
Note: There will be a November Newsletter to cover the bulk order and the January Pot Luck.
Members Dropped
If you are in touch with any of these CCOG members, please tell them that they have been dropped from the CCOG mailing list for failure to pay the $5.00 annual Dues for 2007. If they would like to be reinstated ask them to send a check for $5.00 to CCOG PO Box 4643, Cummaquid, MA 02637.
Tom Capizzi, Cynthia Cole, John Cullity, Virginia Hatch, Elaina Kramer, Ted Krula, Susan and Bob McMurray, Joan Muller, Wendy O’Keefe, Raymond Partridge, Catherine Paulson, Arline Riordan, Alexander Santilli, Debbie West.
