June 2012 Newsletter
- At June 6, 2012
- By Michael Tiner
- In Blog Post, Co-op Business Development, Event, News
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June 2012 Newsletter
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Beautiful New Website! Exciting Kids Event! Local Art Opening! Blue Berry Mania! & More! | |||
| ATTENTION KIDS & PARENTS! DON’T MISS THIS EVENT.
Who: Kids! {ages 7-15 years old} What:Snack War Challenge What’s That? Its kinda like a healthy themed Iron chief episode staring your kids. *Free to Participate* | *Everyones a Winner* *Prizes for Top Snack Warriors* presented by the Reid Family authors of the newly release book: Portion Size Me RSVP: What’s the Point? This event is design to be fun and educational through demonstration and a little healthy competition. The point to teach our kids that good healthy decisions are within their grasp. To create excitement in youth to lead in making the best decisions for themselves. How is the challenge going to work? We’ll have three Snack Wars for different age group kids. 13-15yrolds go 1st |10-12 go 2nd|7-9 last| Each participant will take place at a station behind the table with a few moments to look into our refrigerator and pantry cabinet to get an idea of what is available. We will also have different serving plates and utensils for you to choose from. No cooking will occur, everything must be made fresh. When you are told to do so by Marshall you will open your tub of secret ingredients. Then you will have 12 minutes to make your snack for three judges. That means you have to put your snack on three separate plates or all on one platter. When the 12 minutes are up participants will go stand at the judges table to present their creation for evaluation. The judges will then tally your healthy score card and a winner and runner up will be selected for each age group. Every is a winner with Sweat Prizes awarded to the judges top pick snacks. Event Parking: Oniste Farm Store parking for this event will fill up fast, so please plan to use one of the designated overflow parking lots right around the corner.  ______________________________ mark your calendar! Next Event: Local Art Opening June 23rd 12noon – 5pm Its going to be a party! The 1st of many local art and music exhibits to come. *Music * Raffle Prizes *Food * Featuring photography by Sam Bourne; plus artwork & live painting by Natasha Brockman will also be onsite with smiles, info & delicious samples.  | ||
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Fresh Baked News
While you’ve enjoyed the breads and other baked items we’ve had for a while, now you can more easily see our offerings in our new bakery case. We hope you’ll come in and see what else we have that new. If you haven’t been in to the Farm Store in a while, it’s changed!
Yes, we listen to you when you tell us what you want and need, and we make wonderful improvements each day, from our store layout to additional items for purchase. Feel free to leave a comment about something you’d like to see in our Farm Store. Better yet, come in to the Farm Store and tell us; the pastries taste so much better in person!
Survey Says… Shopping at Homegrown Saves You Money!
Products sold at Homegrown Co-op are often LESS expensive than Publix or Whole Foods!
A price comparison survey conducted in December 2011 confirmed that shopping with Homegrown Co-op saves you money on quality food while supports local farmers, our local environment and our local economy.
Of 25 produce items we surveyed at random, Homegrown offered the best value for the money, especially in the produce department.
Not only did we offer the best value, but our products were the most local, too:
Give Camp Orlando gifts HomeGrown with new Website
We are so grateful to Give Camp Orlando for our awesome new website. I spent the last 72 hours inside Full Sail studies with a group of talented programmers working 8 to 12 hour shifts jamming out new code for our content management system driven website. The new website will help Homegrown Co-op bring you more information in real time. We now have an event calendar and other features to help push forward our local food community initiatives. Thanks to Jall Hill, Susan Gold, Full Sale University, Marecell, Brian Hall, Vish Jiawon…
