Come Join Us & Help Build . . .

• A Food Co-op/Buying Club
• Support for Local Producers
• Community Gardens
• Local, Natural, Organic Connections
• A Community of Like-Minded Individuals

Membership Benefits:

• Bulk Ordering (ex. beef, lamb, fruit, staples)
• Group Projects (ex. canning/preserving, gardening)
• Free Workshops (ex. cooking, pruning fruit trees)
• Monthly Meetings (with potluck dinners)
• Sharing of produce & plants/seeds
• Sell your items at the Farmer’s Market
• Lending Library http://www.librarything.com/catalog/CanonCo-op

Annual membership is $25.  You can mail your check made out to Canon Co-op to 322 N. Diamond Ave., Canon City, CO 81212.

10 THINGS YOU CAN DO TO CHANGE OUR FOOD SYSTEM

1.  Action:  Stop drinking sodas and other sweetened beverages.                                      Fact:  If you replace one 20 oz. soda a day with a no-calorie beverage (preferable water), you can lose 25 lbs. in a year.

2.  Action:  Eat at home instead of eating out.                                                       Fact: Children consume almost twice (1.8 times) as many calories when eating food made outside the home.

3.  Action:  Support the passage of state and local laws to require chain restaurants to post calorie information on menus and menu boards.                                                           Fact:  Half of the large chain restaurants do not provide any nutrition information to their customers.

4.  Action:  Tell schools to stop selling sodas, junk food, and sports drinks.                     Fact:  Over the last two decades, rates of obesity have tripled in children and adolescents aged 6 to 19 years.

5.  Action:  Meatless Mondays . . . Go without meat one day a week.                               Fact:  An estimated 70% of all antibiotics used in the United States are given to farm animals.

6.  Action:  Buy organic or sustainable food with little to no pesticide use.                      Fact:  According to the EPA, over 1 billion pounds of pesticides are used each year in the United States.

7.  Action:  Protect family farms, visit your local farmers’ market.                                       Fact:  Farmers’ markets enable farmers to keep 80 to 90 cents of each dollar spent by the consumer.

8.  Action:  Make a point to know where your food comes from – READ LABELS.           Fact:  The average meal travels 1,500 miles from the farm to your dinner plate.

9.  Action:  Tell Congress that food safety is important to you.                                          Fact:  Each year, contanimated food causes millions of illnesses and thousands of deaths in the United States.

10.  Action:  Demand job protections for farm workers and food processors, ensuring fair wages and other protections.                                                                                                  Fact:  Poverty among farm workers is more than double that of all wage and salary employees.