Category: Events

Turtle Farm Cohousing Project

May 24, 2011
by Gary Huber

Turtle Farm plays an active role in The Iowa Food Cooperative.

Not only is Turtle Farm a wonderful CSA, but current farm manager, Ben Saunders serves as a passionate member of our board. Ben’s enthusiasm for local produce is apparent if you spend but 5 minutes with him.

Turtle Farm Owner, Angela Tedesco continues to be very involved with farm operations. In addition Angela has worked hard to make the following vision come true. Please come learn about CoHousing with Turtle Farm!

Learn About CoHousing & Turtle Farm Cohousing Project – Flyer

Learn about Cohousing & the Turtle Farm Cohousing Project

SPEAKER BIO: Charles Durrett is the leading North American expert on cohousing and has designed over fifty cohousing communities through the U.S. and Canada. With his wife, Katie McCamant, they introduced cohousing to North America with their book Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves. Chuck recently completed The Senior Cohousing Handbook.

For more information on Turtle Farm Cohousing or this presentation, go to www.turtlefarmcohousing.org or contact Nancy Rambo: nancyslist@ramtell.com or Angela Tedesco: angela@turtle-farm.com or (515) 278-4522.

We are creating sustainable communities in Central Iowa. Be part of the movement!

  • Sustainable intergenerational neighborhood design
  • Individual homes + extensive common areas
  • Shared spaces for dining, creating, workshops, etc.
  • Energy-ecient and sustainably-designed buildings
  • Residents participate in planning & design process
Sponsored by Turtle Farm Cohousing Community, Indigo Dawn, Silent Rivers, and RDG Planning & Design
Thursday, July 14, 2011, 7:00 pm
Windsor Heights Community Center
Colby Park
6900 School St.
(69th St. south of University Ave.)
Des Moines, Iowa
$10 admission

 

Kick the Can: Healthy & Hearty Soups

May 20, 2011
by Gary Huber

The Des Moines Raw Food MeetUp Group and R Studio Fitness welcomes Sheree Clark, health counselor and raw vegan chef, on Wednesday, May 25 at 7:00 p.m. at R Studio, 3988 NW Urbandale Drive, Des Moines for a presentation and demonstration on the raw food diet.

Sheree’s talk, Kick the Can: Healthy & Hearty Soups will cover how easy it is to make soup that’s m-mm good for you! From Pickle Soup to Carrot/Coconut/Lime, these recipes are all vegan, low-cal and souper scrumptious!

Think of them as a savory version of a smoothie—and there’s no crock pot or kettle to wash when you’re done. So grab a spoon and get ready to add some zip to your sip.

The $15 fee includes food samples. For more information and to register, visit http://www.meetup.com/RawFoodDSM, email sheree@fork-road.com or call (515) 249-2992.

You Are What You Eat

May 17, 2011
by Gary Huber

The Livewell Clinic and Birthwell Doula welcome Sheree Clark, health counselor and raw vegan chef, on Wednesday, June 1 at 6:30 p.m. at 2614 Beaver Avenue (Prenatal/postpartum center) for a presentation and demonstration on the raw food diet.

Sheree’s talk, “You Are What You Eat,” will cover how easy it is to prepare and eat real, fresh, vegan fare: the foods your body can assimilate most easily.

Best of all, she will offer tastings of some of her yummy raw creations! The $5 fee includes food samples. For more information and to register, visit http://www.meetup.com/RawFoodDSM email sheree@fork-road.com or call (515) 249-2992.

 

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Iowa Food Coop Open House!!

November 27, 2010
by Gary Huber

Come and join us for our holiday Open House!

We are hosting some of our best Producers in an open house celebration at our pick up site in Merle Hay Mall!

December 4, beginning at 11am our fabulous producers will be giving away samples of their products.  Meet the fine folks from Wild Rose Pastures, Grandma’s Soap, Griffieon’s Family Farm, Ebersole Cattle Co., Wheat Grass To Go, Wagner Enterprises, Raccoon Forks Farm, Hedgeapple Farm, Anna’s Place Poultry Products, Two Cedars Weaving just to name a few!  Meats, fall veggies, soap, poinsettias, baked goods, candy and much much more will be available for purchase too.

If you have family or friends who are still undecided, this would be a good time for them to sample what the coop has to offer before joining.  If there was something YOU wanted to try before buying this is a good opportunity for you too.  I’m not kidding, Ebersole’s jerky AND beef sticks are out of this world!  Wagner Enterprises caramels are a delicious treat, and don’t you deserve that after all that Christmas shopping?

So come out to our pickup site at Merle Hay Mall, its located on the southside, just inside the doors across from the parking garage, we are next to the Post Office. We will be sampling from 11am to 4pm, and gift memberships will be available too! 

See you there!

Merry

Iowa Food Cooperative 2nd Annual Meeting

October 2, 2010
by Gary Huber

Dear Iowa Food Coop Members,
You’ve seen the mentions in the regular e-mails and the last newsletter; the time is fast approaching for

The 2nd Annual Membership Meeting of The Iowa Food Cooperative!

We highly recommend you attend this get-together to help guide the Iowa Food Cooperative into the coming year.

What:

  • The 2nd Annual Membership Meeting!
    • Town-Hall, Potluck & Business Meeting

Where:

When:

  • Saturday, October 16th
  • 4:00 – 4:30 Town Hall Meeting
  • 4:30 – 5:30 Potluck Dinner
  • 5:30 – 6:00 Board Member Elections & Acknowledgements
  • 6:00 – 6:30 Presentation – Urban Agriculture by Jason Grimm
  • Announce Results of the Elections
  • 6:40 – 7:00 Business Meeting

Town Hall Meeting: This meeting is for those who of you who have any specific requests or suggestions, or if you want to tell us how we’re doing. We’ll be expecting you promptly at 4:00.  If you can’t make it to the Town Hall Meeting, we will also have a suggestion Box for your feedback.

The Potluck: Last year’s potluck was a hit! So we’ll do it again! Like last year, we are asking each family to bring one main dish plus one side dish (a salad, vegetable or dessert).  To keep our gathering as “green” as possible, please also bring your own table service, utensils, and cup for beverages.
(*Coffee, lemonade, and water will be provided by the coop. As this is a school please do NOT bring alcoholic beverages.)

Producer Members – please bring some of the foods you grow for your pot luck contribution or make a dish using the food you grow.

All Attendees – Bring your recipes for the foods you bring to share. You may also e-mail them to recipes@iowafood.coop. We’ll post those on the website too! When you bring or share a recipe with us, be sure to include the following: name and source of recipe. If you have used ingredients that you bought through the coop, it would be nice to have the producer’s name for those ingredients, too.

You can find new recipes and those from last year here: https://iowafood.coop/category/recipe/

The Meeting: The business portion of this get-together will be a short business meeting with presentation of our Annual Report and election of four new board members.  We will also have a short presentation by our guest speaker, Jason Grimm. Jason is the Food System Planner with Iowa Valley RC&O in Amana, and coordinates the Iowa Corridor Food and Agriculture Coalition; he is also working to establish a food cooperative in the Iowa City area.  Jason’s presentation will be on “Urban Agriculture.”

Volunteers & RSVP:

  • IN ORDER TO PLAN FOR SUFFICIENT BEVERAGES AND SEATING, PLEASE RSVP BY OCTOBER 9th TO DAVID COUCH.
  • If you bring your children please bring a game for them – these adult events can be kind of boring for them.
    • We will need a volunteer to supervise the children.

See you on October 16th!

David Wade Couch
V.P. Membership & Education
The Iowa Food Cooperative

& Awards Presentation

Lynn Fallon Kicks-Off August Membership Drive

July 28, 2010
by Gary Huber

Dear Friends,
Happy Summer!

I am very excited to share the good news that we now have nearly 450 members! When I first visited with Gary and Jason last December, one of the things I was impressed with was their ambition. They set a high, challenging goal of getting 600 members by the end of September. I, for one, like a good stiff  challenge – especially when it’s for a good cause.

But I’m also a big believer in the power of community, and I know that’s what has gotten us this far. Many of you have hosted a house party (and I’m hoping many more will do so in the future!) and they have been very successful. Others share information about the Iowa Food Cooperative with family, friends, and co-workers whenever you have the opportunity and that too has generated new members.

We want to up the ante and tell you about the next big push to reach our goal of 600 members before the first of October. And, we want to provide some incentive to you to help. During the month of August, each person who brings a new member to the Iowa Food Co-op will receive a $10 gift certificate to the IFC. But for those who like a good challenge – we’ll have three gift baskets that will go to the three people who bring in the most new members. These gift baskets will, of course, have a food theme: a Breakfast Basket, a Lunch Basket, and a Dinner Basket.

Many of our producers are donating to the baskets, so you know they’ll be good!

When you invite someone to join, just make sure they put your name in Section 5 where it says, “Please give more detail.” We’ll tally up the new members on September 1, and announce the winners in the September newsletter.

Let’s make it happen!
Lynn

Open House at Des Moines Social Club

March 27, 2010
by Gary Huber

The Iowa Food Cooperative would like to invite you to a gathering to learn how you can get healthy, local food from local farmers. We’ll have delicious samples prepared by members of the IFC, local chef, Jason Kapela and his wife Cynthia. Come visit local producers and Iowa Food Cooperative members eager to share their stories and answer questions.

Cynthia has posted more details on her Posterous Blog.