Detox Workshop
March 18th, 12:00 pm
Living in the modern world, our bodies can get to feeling pretty heavy inside. Between the sugars, refined flours, caffeine, alcohol, dairy, chemical food additives, pesticides, and environmental pollutants we encounter, our cells are exposed to myriad toxins and inflammation triggers.This month we will learn about the benefits of "cleaning house", your internal house that is. Join us as Phyllis, a certified Holistic Health Counselor with over 20 years practicing in the field of nutrition, will teach us about the basic ways you can detox your body and enjoy all the benefits it can bring to your life. Each class is $25 individually, or a four class package is $75.
Learn more: www.MountainLakesOrganic.com/Calendar.html
Also on March 18th, 6:30 pm,
Montclair Environmental Movie Night – Green Builders
NJN’s one-hour high definition special Green Builders profiles a cast of green building pioneers who have taken the leap into making their part of the “built environment” a more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly place. From The Willow School to PNC Bank to the first solar-hydrogen home, people talk about why green, the challenges, and how they fared.
Montclair Public Library, 50 S Fullerton Ave, Montclair, NJ
Learn more: www.MountainLakesOrganic.com/Calendar.html
Enjoy! Marnie
We get bags of produce on an even & odd week system. Members pick up their baskets any time after 3 pm on Tuesdays. There is no work requirement in this Co-op! Actual quantities of items will vary according to availability, price and case size. The dairy and meats come from Pennisylvania and New York State. This co-op has been in existance for over 30 years, changing with the times and the needs of the members.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Branching Out
Branching out
We now have a listing on Local Harvest and have gotten MANY inqueries. I’m considering opening branches in Montville and Madison. If there is anyone out there who would know the best way to go about this, please contact me.
March Calendar
2 Big Week
9 Basic Week
16 Big Week
18 Detox Workshop - Food Prep Class
18 Montclair Movie: The Disappearing Male
23 Basic Week
30 Big Week
Learn more: www.MountainLakesOrganic.com/Calendar.html
Bayer Pesticide Banned – Threat to Honeybees
A U.S. District Judge from Manhattan has banned the sale of spirotetramat, a pesticide produced by Bayer CropScience that is toxic and is killing off the nation's honeybee population.
READ MORE: www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_20278.cfm
Enjoy! Marnie
We now have a listing on Local Harvest and have gotten MANY inqueries. I’m considering opening branches in Montville and Madison. If there is anyone out there who would know the best way to go about this, please contact me.
March Calendar
2 Big Week
9 Basic Week
16 Big Week
18 Detox Workshop - Food Prep Class
18 Montclair Movie: The Disappearing Male
23 Basic Week
30 Big Week
Learn more: www.MountainLakesOrganic.com/Calendar.html
Bayer Pesticide Banned – Threat to Honeybees
A U.S. District Judge from Manhattan has banned the sale of spirotetramat, a pesticide produced by Bayer CropScience that is toxic and is killing off the nation's honeybee population.
READ MORE: www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_20278.cfm
Enjoy! Marnie
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Heart Health!
Heart Health - Food Preparations Class
Thursday February 25th – 12:00 to 2:00 pm
February is National heart Health Month so join us as we explore the role that whole foods play in the health of your heart. It's no secret that eating healthy foods does more than leave you feeling satiated and well nourished. It also can reduce your risk of developing cardiovascular disease. Incoporporate heart healthy foods into your life and learn how to prepare a delicious whole food based meal that your heart will love and so will your taste buds.
Info & Sign up: www.MountainLakesOrganic.com/Calendar.html
Historic litigation shines a light on toxic ingredients
Do household cleaners contain ingredients linked to asthma, nerve damage and other health effects? While investigating a potential legal strategy, Earthjustice attorney Keri Powell found buried in the pages of a book of New York State statutes a long-forgotten law authorizing the Commissioner of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to require household cleaning product manufacturers to disclose their chemical ingredients and information about the health risks they pose. Such laws are practically nonexistent in the United States, and the New York law has been altogether overlooked. Until now.
In response, a number of firms disclosed their ingredients, but four companies—Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive, Church and Dwight, and Reckitt-Bensicker—stonewalled, and thus found themselves a few weeks ago across from Powell and her colleagues in a Manhattan courtroom as defendants. They made it clear that their lips are sealed until authorities pry them open. As a Health Campaigner wryly remarked last week, Mr. Clean went to court and pled the fifth. This case could have national ramifications.
Learn More: http://unearthed.earthjustice.org/blog/2010-february/getting-dirt-household-cleaners
Enjoy! Marnie
Thursday February 25th – 12:00 to 2:00 pm
February is National heart Health Month so join us as we explore the role that whole foods play in the health of your heart. It's no secret that eating healthy foods does more than leave you feeling satiated and well nourished. It also can reduce your risk of developing cardiovascular disease. Incoporporate heart healthy foods into your life and learn how to prepare a delicious whole food based meal that your heart will love and so will your taste buds.
Info & Sign up: www.MountainLakesOrganic.com/Calendar.html
Historic litigation shines a light on toxic ingredients
Do household cleaners contain ingredients linked to asthma, nerve damage and other health effects? While investigating a potential legal strategy, Earthjustice attorney Keri Powell found buried in the pages of a book of New York State statutes a long-forgotten law authorizing the Commissioner of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to require household cleaning product manufacturers to disclose their chemical ingredients and information about the health risks they pose. Such laws are practically nonexistent in the United States, and the New York law has been altogether overlooked. Until now.
In response, a number of firms disclosed their ingredients, but four companies—Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive, Church and Dwight, and Reckitt-Bensicker—stonewalled, and thus found themselves a few weeks ago across from Powell and her colleagues in a Manhattan courtroom as defendants. They made it clear that their lips are sealed until authorities pry them open. As a Health Campaigner wryly remarked last week, Mr. Clean went to court and pled the fifth. This case could have national ramifications.
Learn More: http://unearthed.earthjustice.org/blog/2010-february/getting-dirt-household-cleaners
Enjoy! Marnie
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Happy Valentine's Day!
There are US grown berries again! We’ve really missed them. Don’t forget - no bags next week. Enjoy your vacation!
February Calendar
9 Basic Week
16 No Bag this Week - School Vacation
18 Montclair Movies: The Disappearing Male and Big River
23 Basic Week
25 Heart Health - Food Prep Class
Learn more: www.MountainLakesOrganic.com/Calendar.html
Break the Chains of Toxic Pesticides and Child Slavery on Valentine's Day
Now is the time of year when more than 20 million Americans are buying sweets and flowers for their loved ones on Valentine's Day. Unfortunately, these tokens of love aren't as sweet or pure as they may appear. Over 40 percent of the world's conventional chocolate (i.e. non-organic and non-Fair Trade) comes from Africa's Ivory Coast, where the International Labor Organization and US State Department have reported widespread instances of child slavery. Meanwhile, commercial flowers, most of which are produced in countries such as Colombia, are the most toxic and heavily sprayed agricultural crops on Earth. Supplying the global market, poorly paid workers in Third World countries put in up to 18 hour work days for poverty wages during peak flower buying times such as Valentine's Day. But don't let the bad news squelch your Valentine's plans. Show your love by choosing Fair Trade and organic flowers and chocolate for your Valentine's Day gifts.
Action exposing toxic pesticides and child slavery in the flower and cacao industries: www.organicconsumers.org/valentines/index.cfm
Enjoy! Marnie
February Calendar
9 Basic Week
16 No Bag this Week - School Vacation
18 Montclair Movies: The Disappearing Male and Big River
23 Basic Week
25 Heart Health - Food Prep Class
Learn more: www.MountainLakesOrganic.com/Calendar.html
Break the Chains of Toxic Pesticides and Child Slavery on Valentine's Day
Now is the time of year when more than 20 million Americans are buying sweets and flowers for their loved ones on Valentine's Day. Unfortunately, these tokens of love aren't as sweet or pure as they may appear. Over 40 percent of the world's conventional chocolate (i.e. non-organic and non-Fair Trade) comes from Africa's Ivory Coast, where the International Labor Organization and US State Department have reported widespread instances of child slavery. Meanwhile, commercial flowers, most of which are produced in countries such as Colombia, are the most toxic and heavily sprayed agricultural crops on Earth. Supplying the global market, poorly paid workers in Third World countries put in up to 18 hour work days for poverty wages during peak flower buying times such as Valentine's Day. But don't let the bad news squelch your Valentine's plans. Show your love by choosing Fair Trade and organic flowers and chocolate for your Valentine's Day gifts.
Action exposing toxic pesticides and child slavery in the flower and cacao industries: www.organicconsumers.org/valentines/index.cfm
Enjoy! Marnie
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
12 Steps to Raw Foods
I got a great book on eating raw for Christmas and it’s a really easy read. I switched my breakfast to raw. My lunch already was. Dinner is still cooked, but I feel great! I’ve lost 4 pounds at this point and I look so forward to my green smoothy for breakfast every morning. The book is 12 Steps to Raw Foods. I’ve bought a few wholesale, so we can offer it and a few other books by Victoria Boutenko to you, each at $2.00 below retail. Phyllis, our resident Holistic Health Counselor, just gave a class on preparing fabulous raw dishes and will offer another Raw class in June too!
February Calendar
2 Big Week
9 Basic Week
16 No Bag this Week - School Vacation
18 Montclair Movie: The Disappearing Male
23 Basic Week
25 Heart Health - Food Prep Class
Learn more: www.MountainLakesOrganic.com/Calendar.html
Stop Factory Farms Degrading Organic Standards
The USDA is coming out with new rules to enforce the requirement that organic cows must graze on pasture, rather than be confined in feedlots. One last hurdle remains: the President's Office of Management and Budget review.
To prevent factory dairy farms from driving ethical organic farmers out of business, and stop special interest manipulation of organic standards, we need to act today. Tell the President that you won't settle for less! If a farm's dairy cows are kept in confinement or aren't on pasture, then its milk and dairy products are not organic!
TAKE ACTION: http://capwiz.com/grassrootsnetroots/issues/alert/?alertid=14607871
February Calendar
2 Big Week
9 Basic Week
16 No Bag this Week - School Vacation
18 Montclair Movie: The Disappearing Male
23 Basic Week
25 Heart Health - Food Prep Class
Learn more: www.MountainLakesOrganic.com/Calendar.html
Stop Factory Farms Degrading Organic Standards
The USDA is coming out with new rules to enforce the requirement that organic cows must graze on pasture, rather than be confined in feedlots. One last hurdle remains: the President's Office of Management and Budget review.
To prevent factory dairy farms from driving ethical organic farmers out of business, and stop special interest manipulation of organic standards, we need to act today. Tell the President that you won't settle for less! If a farm's dairy cows are kept in confinement or aren't on pasture, then its milk and dairy products are not organic!
TAKE ACTION: http://capwiz.com/grassrootsnetroots/issues/alert/?alertid=14607871
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Monsanto’s Infiltration
Senator Puts a Hold on Obama's Pro-Pesticide Nominee Siddiqui
President Obama is trying to get the Senate to confirm Islam Siddiqui as the US Trade Representative for Agriculture. Islam Siddiqui is one of Obama's "Monsanto men." A contributor and fundraiser for Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, Siddiqui currently serves as the Vice President of CropLife, a powerful lobbying arm for the pesticide and biotech industry, representing, among others, the six multinational corporations that control 75% of the world's seeds and chemicals: Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer, BASF, Dow and DuPont.
There is still time to block Siddiqui's Senate confirmation. Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY), for partisan political reasons of his own, that have nothing to do with protecting us from GMOs, has put a hold on Siddiqui's confirmation - giving us time to voice our opposition to Monsanto's takeover of U.S. Food and farm policy.
TAKE ACTION: http://www.organicconsumers.org/usda_watch.cfm
Mtn Lakes Green Cafe – A Chemical Reaction
Please join us for lunch and a movie at the Mountain Lakes Library Meeting room this Thursday, January 28th, 12-2pm. We will be showing A Chemical Reaction - a film which explores the heavy usage of chemical fertilizers, their effect on us and one town's fight to ban them. Winter is the perfect time to plan alternative strategies for your lawn care.
We will be serving a complimentary healthy lunch of organic and local foods. Please stay for a post-film discussion on the film's presentation of fertilizers and their impact on life in Mountain Lakes.
Learn more: http://www.MountainLakesOrganic.com/Calendar
Enjoy! Marnie
President Obama is trying to get the Senate to confirm Islam Siddiqui as the US Trade Representative for Agriculture. Islam Siddiqui is one of Obama's "Monsanto men." A contributor and fundraiser for Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, Siddiqui currently serves as the Vice President of CropLife, a powerful lobbying arm for the pesticide and biotech industry, representing, among others, the six multinational corporations that control 75% of the world's seeds and chemicals: Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer, BASF, Dow and DuPont.
There is still time to block Siddiqui's Senate confirmation. Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY), for partisan political reasons of his own, that have nothing to do with protecting us from GMOs, has put a hold on Siddiqui's confirmation - giving us time to voice our opposition to Monsanto's takeover of U.S. Food and farm policy.
TAKE ACTION: http://www.organicconsumers.org/usda_watch.cfm
Mtn Lakes Green Cafe – A Chemical Reaction
Please join us for lunch and a movie at the Mountain Lakes Library Meeting room this Thursday, January 28th, 12-2pm. We will be showing A Chemical Reaction - a film which explores the heavy usage of chemical fertilizers, their effect on us and one town's fight to ban them. Winter is the perfect time to plan alternative strategies for your lawn care.
We will be serving a complimentary healthy lunch of organic and local foods. Please stay for a post-film discussion on the film's presentation of fertilizers and their impact on life in Mountain Lakes.
Learn more: http://www.MountainLakesOrganic.com/Calendar
Enjoy! Marnie
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
More about Monsanto’s Monopoly
Genetically Modified Corn Found Harmful to Mammals
The International Journal of Biological Sciences reported that three varieties of GMO corn — including the so-called “Roundup ready” version — harm primary organs of rats. Rats, mice and rabbits are the primary mammals used for testing.
Jan 12th’s Huffington Post spells out the findings quite well in lay terms: www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/12/monsantos-gmo-corn-linked_n_420365.html
For those of you who would like to wade through the actual study: www.biolsci.org/v05p0706.htm
Introduction to Raw
Thursday, January 21, 2010 12:00 PM
Eating only raw foods is considered by many the healthiest diet. There are innumerable people who have cured themselves of cancer, thyroid problems, alergies, diabetes, etc just from cutting out cooked foods. Phyllis Deering, our resident expert, will teach us the basics of eating raw and show us how to prepare tasty recipes to add more raw foods in to our diet.
Learn more: http://www.MountainLakesOrganic.com/Calendar
Montclair Environmental Movie Night
The Story of Stuff and Trashed
January 21, 2010 6:30 PM at the Montclair Public Library
Join us as we examin a fundamental element of modern American culture – the creation and disposal of what we call “waste.”
Learn more: http://www.MountainLakesOrganic.com/Calendar
Enjoy! Marnie
The International Journal of Biological Sciences reported that three varieties of GMO corn — including the so-called “Roundup ready” version — harm primary organs of rats. Rats, mice and rabbits are the primary mammals used for testing.
Jan 12th’s Huffington Post spells out the findings quite well in lay terms: www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/12/monsantos-gmo-corn-linked_n_420365.html
For those of you who would like to wade through the actual study: www.biolsci.org/v05p0706.htm
Introduction to Raw
Thursday, January 21, 2010 12:00 PM
Eating only raw foods is considered by many the healthiest diet. There are innumerable people who have cured themselves of cancer, thyroid problems, alergies, diabetes, etc just from cutting out cooked foods. Phyllis Deering, our resident expert, will teach us the basics of eating raw and show us how to prepare tasty recipes to add more raw foods in to our diet.
Learn more: http://www.MountainLakesOrganic.com/Calendar
Montclair Environmental Movie Night
The Story of Stuff and Trashed
January 21, 2010 6:30 PM at the Montclair Public Library
Join us as we examin a fundamental element of modern American culture – the creation and disposal of what we call “waste.”
Learn more: http://www.MountainLakesOrganic.com/Calendar
Enjoy! Marnie
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