Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Organic Food and cohousing

[Racheli Gai (racheli]

IMO it's totally on topic.

I can't say that in Sonora Cohousing, which is where I live, organic 
food
has been taken up as a community value.  I think quite a few people buy
at least *some* organic food, and a number of us belong to a CSA, but
there hasn't been, for example, a strong community-wide urge to really 
work
on making common meals mostly organic.
(Our common vegetable garden is organic, though).
I do think that some people who haven't used to think much about this 
topic,
have started to do so, and I see some positive change - but this is a 
slow
process like all serious changes in people's habits are, especially 
where
a commitment to a cause involves what's for most is a significant 
ordering
of one's priorities, because of the up-front cost.

Racheli.


On Jun 4, 2005, at 8:26 AM, Mary Ruthsdotter wrote:

> Two Acre Wood makes a point of buying organic whenever possible.  The
> incremental cost increase seems small in life's long run.
>
> Mary Ruthsdotter
> 660 Robinson Road
> Sebastopol, CA  95472
> (707) 824-6844
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris ScottHanson [mailto:chris [at] cohousingresources.com]
> Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 7:45 AM
> To: Cohousing-l
> Subject: [C-L]_ Organic Food and cohousing
>
> Would I be correct in assuming that virtually ALL cohousers support,
> and even possibly promote the organic food movement?  That some of us
> can't afford to always eat organic, but that most if not all of us
> try to do so?
>
> Just wondering, because I thought the recent Store Wars movie was a
> great educational and fun piece promoting the use off organic foods.
>
> What are your thoughts, cohousers?  Oh!  And please let me knot if
> you think this is off topic.  A cohouser sent me this link, below and
> we agreed it would be good to circulate widely, especially to
> cohousers with kids.
>
>
> Chris ScottHanson
>
>
> On Jun 3, 2005, at 12:55 PM, Fred H Olson wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Chris ScottHanson wrote:
> >
> >
> > >   http://www.storewars.org/flash/index.html
> >
> > Is this really related to cohousing?
> > If so why not a few words of explanation?
> >
> > Fred
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