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The Communicator - February 2005

Organic Food Market. Health Food Store. Herbs. Supplements. Healthy Lifestyle. These are some of the words

descriptive of `things' and concepts that our Clintonville Community Market and Natural Living community find of

import in our lives. Most of us reading this newsletter feel a strong bond with our Market, our employees, and our

fellow market members because of our common interests and beliefs as to what we should put in and how we should

care for the remarkable `machines' we call our bodies.

There is another healthy lifestyle concept of which we may not all be aware, the concept known as Community

Supported Agriculture (CSA). As a part of such a project, you actually join forces with a local farmer with a `sub-

scription', by which you purchase a `share' of the farmer's products. There are many and varied products available

from such farms under such programs. We provide many great products in our store, but there are some things that

we cannot provide: for a prime example - unpasteurized milk. There are many who feel that pasteurization of milk

destroys many of its benefits, but we are not allowed to sell milk without it being pasteurized. The farmer, however,

can sell it directly to you, in its natural state.

Part of the beauty of our Market is its convenience drive, walk or bike a short distance, and there we find most of

what we want or need. But there is attractiveness to establishing a relationship with the person who is growing the

food you eat. If you find such an arrangement of interest, I recommend that you further examine the concept by

discussing it with others with whom you might share the bounty, and by visiting farms and farmers in person, if at

all possible, until you find one or more that you are comfortable dealing with - producers with whom you have

common interests and ideals, and then make sure that you both understand exactly what your relationship will be,

and how it will work.

If you think you might be interested, here is a listing of some CSA farmers in the Central Ohio area:

Trish Mumme at Garden Patch Produce

5260 Goose Lane, Alexandria, OH

(740) 924-4331;

gardenpatchproduce@earthlink.net

Paul Etheridge at Jumping Spider CSA

119 W. High St. Ashley, OH 43003

(740) 747-0389; etheridgepaul@hotmail.com

Kevin Eigel and Gary Cox at Just This Farm

7657 Feder Road Galloway, OH 43119

(614) 853-1036 and (614) 457-5167

Ben and Lisa Sippel at Sippel Family Farm

PO Box 375 Mt. Gilead, OH 43338

(614) 563-1139; blsippel@earthlink.net

Richard S. Jensen at The Flying J Farm

5329 Van Fossen Road Johnstown, OH 43031

(740) 967-4030; www.flyingjfarm.com; rjensen@core.com

James Cochran at Wyatt Run CSA

High Street, Columbus, OH 43214

(740) 448-4894; wyattrun@fastmail.fm

Yours in healthy living....John Maurer, CCM Board Member

John Maurer

Music and Movement Classes

For Parents and Children

with Joanie Calem and her puppet friends

Hugs and Hums for ages 1-2 1/2

Sing Along and Dance Along for ages 2 1/2 -

Sing, Dance, and Play for ages 5-10

Call Joanie @ 430-9399 for schedule

Great musical fun for birthday parties, too!