No baskets on the 27th

That’s in two weeks. 

More purchasing power on the website

I have started to put the refrigerator items on the website for one time and repeating orders. If you purchase through the website, you can choose the regularity of it – one time, weekly, biweekly, and monthly. If your creditcard has been charged for it, the sticker on your basket will state what items have been paid for. If you have any trouble, please call me for assistance.

This also opens up Dairy and meat purchasing capabilities to the outer pickup sites. Please be aware the items will be in a cooler with ice blocks waiting for you at the site. They are left there between 1 and 3 pm, so the sooner your pick up the better.

Christmas presents from a local green store!

Check out : http://transitioningtogreen.greenhome.com/

Enjoy the Season!

Marnie

Organic Consumers Association Initiative – Label GMOs 2012

Organic Consumers' best opportunity for a strategic victory against Monsanto in 2012 is the California Ballot Initiative for mandatory labeling of genetically engineered foods.

SACRAMENTO, CA - Nov. 10th, 2011, a wide-ranging coalition of consumer, public health and environmental organizations, food companies, and individuals submitted the California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act to the State Attorney General. The initiative requires genetically engineered foods (also known as Genetically Modified Organisms, or GMOs) and foods containing GMO ingredients to be clearly labeled, similar to current labels with other nutritional information.

A genetically engineered food is usually a plant or animal that has had its DNA altered at the molecular level in a lab to include genes that produce foreign compounds from other plants, animals, viruses, or bacteria. This genetic alteration is not found in nature and cannot occur naturally.  Labeling GMO’s will allow health professionals to track any potential adverse health impacts of these foods. "Genetically engineering food can cause unintended consequences and because there have been no long term studies, we are unsure of how GMOs may affect our health."

Fifty countries including the European Union and Japan have laws mandating that genetically engineered foods be labeled, but the United States does not have such a requirement. Efforts to enact labeling laws in Congress and the California legislature have been blocked by big food and chemical company lobbyists. California voters are expected to have the chance to vote on the initiative in November 2012.

Do you shop at Trader Joe's?

Ask this California-based natural and organic food retailer to kick Monsanto out of their stores and join us in the fight for mandatory GMO labels! http: //www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_23157.cfm

Master massage therapist offers discount to Co-op members

Take $20 off any one hour, first time medical massage with massage school Director Larry Heisler, M.A., LMT, or for any of our other services with any of our other wonderful teacher practitioners. Read about us at www.newjerseymassage.com

Philosophy: As we get older our muscles get harder, shorter and colder, eventually settling into our body pattern and determining how we move in space for the remainder of our lives. Can you say frozen in time. I’ll tell you what I say “Rigamortis sets in way before your die,” and medical massage addresses your soft tissue complaints and frozen muscular gait with great Deep Tissue, Myofascial and Neuromuscular Trigger Point massage work. It breaks up the rigamortis, unfreezes your connective tissue and activates your Acupuncture Energetic System. Pain, stiffness, poor circulation, inflexibility be gone!

NJ Massage

3699 Route 46 East, Parsippany, NJ 07054
Telephone: (973) 263-2229

NJ Massage Director Larry Heisler is a member of our Co-operative.

The Next Two Weeks are Co-op Vacation – August 16th and 23rd

We will have no baskets those two weeks. 

Enjoy! 

We’re back in action August 30th.

On-line control of your membership

You can control your own basket choice & vacation dates, and payments will be automatic on your credit card.

• Go to www.MountainLakesOrganic.com and click the “Member Login” link. 
• On that page you can then go to “New Users” by pressing the “Create Login Account” button. 
• Fill out the basic information asked for, and you will be taken to the “Member Dashboard”. To prepare baskets for you, you will need to “Subscribe to Co-op” and “Update credit card on file”. Follow the steps and your baskets will be under your control. 
• If you have any problems, you can go to the Contact us page and email your question to me, and I am here to help by phone too: 973-335-4469.

Enjoy! 

Marnie

On-line control of your Membership

I first want to thank all of you who signed up for the automated control! We have 1/5th of you on the list! Bravo!

Please take a moment and sign up through our website for your baskets. You can then control your own vacation dates, and payments for your baskets will be automatic on your credit card.

• Go to www.MountainLakesOrganic.com and click the “Member Login” link. 

• On that page you can then go to “New Users” by pressing the “Create Login Account” button. 

• Fill out the basic information asked for, and you will be taken to the “Member Dashboard”. To prepare baskets for you, you will need to “Subscribe to Co-op” and “Update credit card on file”. Follow the steps and your baskets will be under your control. 

• Then, please play around and get familiar with the member’s capabilities. 

• If you have any problems, you can go to the Contact us page and email your question to me, and I am here to help by phone too: 973-335-4469.

Enjoy! 

Marnie

Sign up for on-line control of your Membership

The website is ready. Please take a moment and sign up through our website for your baskets. You can then control your own vacation dates, and payments for your baskets will be automatic on your credit card.

Go to www.MountainLakesOrganic.com and click the “Member Login” link. On that page you can then go to “New Users” by pressing the “Create Login Account” button. 

Fill out the basic information asked for, and you will be taken to the “Member Dashboard”. To prepare baskets for you, you will need to “Subscribe to our CSA” and “Update credit card on file”. Follow the steps and your baskets will be under your control. 

Then, please play around and get familiar with the member’s capabilities. If you have any problems, you can go to the Contact us page and email your question to the CSAware group, and I am here to help: 973-335-4469.

Co-op Vacation!

Co-op vacation weeks will be August 16th and 23rd. We will have no baskets those two weeks.

Enjoy! 

Marnie

Please Read!

I’m very excited! The Co-op soon will be changing over to an application where the members can control their baskets and payments online called CSAware. The software is owned by Local Harvest, which many of you know. I have found them to be a tremendous asset in running this co-operative. 

Here in the beginning, you will have the choice to stay as a cash or check paying member, or switch over to CSAware. With CSAware, all your payments, except the last minute refrigerator decisions, will automatically be made by credit card each week, and you can add, change and cancel baskets in your private members account.

I have been working with the CSAware team and the website is almost complete. For ease of set up we will ask each of you to claim your membership online in the next few weeks (you will receive an email invite from CSAware). If for any reason, you have trouble with the site, you can always email or call me and I will correct the problem.

Choosing to move to this automated system, removes the guesswork from the billing. I will no loner need to send out emails asking if you paid because there is loose cash and no payment record from you. I also will not have to spend hours each week inputting the payments, and can spend that time on other aspects of the co-op that are demanding attention.

Again, If you would rather stay with paying by cash or check, please feel free to stay with the present system. CSAware is not hooked in to the website yet, but will be soon. So stay tuned!

Co-op Vacation!

Co-op vacation weeks will be August 16th and 23rd. We will have no baskets those two weeks.

Enjoy! 

Marnie