Hope your holidays were bright and you are ready for a healthy happy new year.

Due to popular demand, I am repeating my Creative Cooking with Sea Vegetables class and also teaching a new one, Main Course Savory Baking. As usual, many of the ingredients that I will use will be local, seasonal and organic. Hope you can join me and take advantage of early bird discounts for these classes: $50, if registered 2 weeks in advance or $65 for each class. Please note new class times!

December 23, 2008

Dear Friends:

Local living economies have clearly emerged as a leading instrument in creating the new economy. BALLE and our networks, along with many strategic partners, are working throughout North America building sustainable sources of community wealth and creating enterprises and jobs with economies that are local, green, and fair. Collectively we know how to build these economies, and we're looking to create even more successes in 2009.

Tabella Community Supported Restaurant (CSR)
For those of us who seek to eat in a locally sustainable, healthy and enjoyable way the
reality of purchasing food at "whole food" box stores and discount gourmet "traders" is
hard to digest. Each of us spends thousands and thousands of locally earned dollars in
stores owned and operated by corporations with no local ties. Most of these gourmet box
stores espouse a false sense of "local food" participation.

"The Relevance of E. F. Schumacher in the 21st Century"
By John Fullerton
May, 2008

Our global economic system is broken not because
of the credit crisis; it is
broken because it is predicated on perpetual, resource driven growth with no
recognition of scale limitations.

Dear Friends:

Our Thanksgiving Store is open again for you to have a local thanksgiving. Our Hours are: Tue and Weds b4 thanksiving from 8-5PM.

Posted on November 11, 2008

Re-published by permission from www.small-mart.org

from Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Breakfast Roundtable at MIT

I am pleased to announce the Grand Opening Celebration of my store Mixed Greens, an Eco Modern Boutique located in Amherst. Here at Mixed Greens we care about organic clothing, fair trade, local economies and products made from sustainable or recycled goods such as bamboo and other similar materials. Essentially, we are offering under one roof, clothing for adults and babies, housewares, gifts and accessories that ALL have a green aspect to them.

Increasing our use of clean energy is a great way to keep Pioneer Valley residents' money in the Valley. Solar and wind power companies and energy efficiency programs can keep money that we now send out of our region for oil and coal here in the Valley. Clean energy jobs is the topic of the Clean Energy Connections Conference and Opportunity Fair next month in Springfield. The event is on Saturday, Nov. 22, from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. at the MassMutual Center. It is organized by the University of Massachusetts Amherst.