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Harvest Moon Grand Opening Event
(Sunday, September 12, 2010 : Noon - 5PM)
| The Moon has Risen’
Join us for a howlin’ good party
and celebrate our harvest together.
Sunday, September 12, 2010
2380 West Wayzata Boulevard
Long Lake, MN
Member-owner ribbon cutting ceremony at 3pm - bring your clippers!
Talk up your experience with the “Eat Local, America Challenge”
Meet our natural food vendors with demonstrations, samples and door prizes throughout the day. Outdoor music, chair massage, family portraits, local art and lots of really good food to share. The tribute wall to our Founding Member-Owners will be on display.
Walk in or Bike over and enjoy the afternoon, for goodness sake.
Details of the schedule of events leading up to the grand open
will be updated here on our website. |
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EAT LOCAL beginning August 12th, 2010
(Sunday, September 12, 2010 : Month long)
| Harvest Moon is excited to join natural food co-ops coast-to-coast in the third, national “Eat Local, America!”
For a tasty incentive, we are offering a reward to the household that embraces the challenge the fullest. Write us your story - of less than 500 words - describing what you did.
• What percentage of your diet came from local farms?
• How much of your food did you get within a 100 miles of your home?
• What new foods or recipes did you try?
• How did the experience change how you see your food?
The prize will be a beautiful new tabletop picture book “Eating Local: The Cookbook Inspired by America’s Farmers”, published by Sur la table. Your written piece will also be published on our website. Submit your entry at Harvest Moon Grand Opening celebration where we will all join for a howlin’ good party and celebrate our local harvest together.
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Harvest Moon Natural Foods Annual Meeting
(Thursday, September 23, 2010 : 6pm-8pm)
| Harvest Moon Annual Meeting of Member-Owners, business update and voting on the Board of Directors election. Guest Speaker, Greg Reynolds, Riverbend Farm, Delano, MN. "Dynamics of Local, Sustainable, Organic, Foods in your Community - What does it mean to you?" |
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Preserving the Best of the Harvest
(Tuesday, September 28, 2010 : 6:30 - 8:30 PM)
| So much goodness all at once! In partnership with Orono Community Education and Jean Peterson of Peterson Produce, Harvest Moon Sponsors a canning class at the Orono Discovery Center. $10 for Harvest Moon members, $20 for non-members. Registration at www.oronocommunityed.com or 952.449.8350. |
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National Co-op Month is October!
(Sunday, October 31, 2010 : Month Long)
| Talk up your Co-op.
Each October, cooperatives all across America celebrate the role, accomplishments and contributions of our nation’s cooperatives.
The annual celebrations play a key role in promoting cooperatives to our members, the public and policy makers. Through a combination of media outreach, member education, and interaction with policy makers, co-op month events help raise the visibility of your cooperative, and improve public understanding of cooperatives.
Research shows that when consumers know a business is a cooperative, they are more likely to do business with it. And with consumer trust in co-ops topping investor-owned companies, promoting your business as a cooperative is a win-win proposition.
Though each cooperative chooses how to celebrate and promote its work during October, each year a planning committee of national cooperative associations representing cooperatives of all types develops a national, unified theme and provides supporting materials that help individual co-ops celebrate their accomplishments. Reflecting the diversity of the cooperative sector, and the community-wide nature of Cooperative Month, the committee works together to fund, develop and implement Co-op Month activities.
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| 2010 Corn Days Parade |
Harvest Moon in Long Lake Corn Days Parade August 2010.
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| Oh, What a Night! |
Harvest Moon Founding Member-Owners
gather together for their first look at the new store and FMO Moon at “Preview Night.”
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| 2010 Member-Owner Potluck: A Cause for Celebration |
Our annual member-owner potluck dinner was held April 11 at Calvin Presbyterian Church. We were thrilled by the more than 125 FMOs who came to share not only their incredible food but also their excitement about the Moon.
It’s hard to believe how much things have changed since our 2009 potluck. A year ago we were facing the fact that this dream of a community market might not come to be, unless people really stepped up and insisted it happen. And you did! Thanks to the generosity, vision and persistence of this community, Harvest Moon will be open in only weeks.
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Opening Edition