Port Angeles Locally Grown Mercantile

PALG Mercantile is Open for Ordering

PALG Mercantile is open for its seventh week of business. There is a new listing of Happy Bee Honey in reusable quart jars.

Please tell your friends and neighbors about PALG so we can help grow our food security in Port Angeles.

Growers and Producers will be adding new items during the ordering cycle, so come visit the site often and place as many orders as you like. We will combine multiple orders into one order at the end of the ordering cycle. I will email you an updated list of current items on Saturday morning for your convenience. Please place your order(s) before 8PM Sunday night. Local up. Sid

PALG Distribution this Week

As you are aware, I am currently in Tennessee visiting our folks. Tina is running Tuesday distribution at the Vineyard Fellowship hall in PA. Steve of Live Bread has agreed to transport Sequim area products to PA. Sequim growers/producers>> please deliver your orders to Steve at the Grange parking lot on Tuesday 2:15-2:30 PM. Everyone else can deliver to the Vineyard 3:30-4PM. I will be mailing checks out on Wednesday that will include PALG and SLG orders. Thanks for working with me this week to do things a little different.
Take care.
Sid
808-7300

PALG Update and GE Animals

Keep genetically engineered animals off the dinner plate

The Food and Drug Administration recently released its draft plan for approving animals that are genetically engineered to grow faster, produce more milk, or even produce drugs in their tissues. To make matters worse, the FDA is not requiring that food from GE animals be labeled, so consumers won’t know if the food they buy for their families was produced with this controversial technology.

Tell FDA to ban the use of genetically engineered animals for food.

Many new items including Jerusalem Artichokes and from Nash >> wheat & rye grains, red & purple potatoes, green & red cabbage, and baby bok choy along with Live SPELT Apple Pecan Cranberry bread, Live SPELT bread and LIVE cinnamon rolls, and tomatoes and Batavia Green Crisp Lettuce.

Please find attached an updated product listing for your convenience in ordering thru Monday at 8AM(I will be on the road Sunday night). New products can also be added before Monday, so check back with us.
Local forever! Sid

Take the pledge - at least one locally grown on your Holiday table

The
Eat Local for Thanksgiving campaign was created to shine a public spotlight on the connections that buying local has to the environment, use of fossil fuels and energy, supporting our local community, and helping to keep our local farmers farming. Thanksgiving, with its rich cultural meaning and food traditions, is a perfect time to add another dimension to how we think about food when we are already making thoughtful food purchases.

The campaign was conceived and initiated by the Acting Food Policy Council, King County, the Cascade Harvest Coalition and Good Food Strategies and has been made possible through the generous support of Department of Neighborhoods — Climate Protection Fund and King County’s Agriculture Program.

Additional coordinating partners include: Neighborhood Farmers Market Alliance, Farming and the Environment, Seattle Tilth, Jubilee Farm, and the Pike Market Senior Center.

Take the pledge by November 21 and be entered to win one of 5 heritage turkeys from the Puget Sound region, one year of Organic Valley dairy products or other fun prizes.

Winners must pick up turkeys on Nov. 25 in Seattle or at the farm in Olympia.

PALG Mercantile is Open for Ordering

PALG Mercantile is open for its sixth week of business. Lots of new listings including yellow carrots, tomatoes, and seasonal handmade pizzas.

Please tell your friends and neighbors about PALG so we can help grow our food security in Port Angeles.

Growers and Producers will be adding new items during the ordering cycle, so come visit the site often and place as many orders as you like. We will combine multiple orders into one order at the end of the ordering cycle. I will email you an updated list of current items on Saturday morning for your convenience. Please place your order(s) before 8PM Sunday night. Local up. Sid

PALG Reminder

Ordering for the fifth week of PA Locally Grown closes in 2 hours. Place your orders now for the freshest local products you can imagine. Local on. Sid

Don't Let the Organic Label Be Greenwashed at Fish Farms

11/8/08 Don’t Let the Organic Label Be Greenwashed at Fish Farms

The National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) – at the request of the industrial fish farming industry – is considering allowing farmed fish to get the organic label even though the practices are anything but organic. This astonishing greenwashing covers up unsustainable practices like feeding wild fish to fish in open net pens in the ocean.

Feeding wild fish to farmed fish not only disrupts ocean ecosystems by wiping out the fish on the bottom of the food chain, but may also increase the amount of dangerous pollutants like mercury and PCBs that end up in the farmed fish consumers eat. And raising farmed fish in open nets can pollute the ocean with massive amounts of waste and exposes wild fish populations to parasites and other diseases.

Tell the NOSB to stop the greenwashing and vote against lowering the bar for organic standards!

PALG Update

Ordering for the fifth week of PA Locally Grown closes tonight at 8PM. Lots of new listings including two Special Fall Pizzas, a Chanterelle/Leek and a Grape/Hazelnut .
Place your orders now for the freshest local products you can imagine. Local up. Sid

PALG Update - I forgot to attach the listings

Sorry about that!
Sid

PALG Update

Lots of new listings including Guatemalan Guaya’b coffee, Mexican Nayarita Decaf coffee, several new styles of Greener Gift Bags, and locally grown & handspun Yarns including Alpaca.

Please find attached an updated product listing for your convenience in ordering thru Sunday at 8PM. New products can also be added before Sunday, so check back with us.
Local on! Sid