2HandRevolution Vancouver Holiday Show
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Summer
Dec 5, 2008, 2:45:40 PM12/5/08
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Ranked "Saturdays Best Bet" in the Columbians weekend section, the 2HandRevolution gig is tomorrow. Mostly crafts and wonderful gift-giving ideas, there will also be some tables about local eating options, as well as snacks. We will be there, and also the SW WA CSA Farmers will have a table (there are now 18+ of us serving '09!). Come if you can! And share the event with anyone who may be interested! ~Summer
Dee Creek Farm will have some extra goodies at the event, prepared for Christmas gift-giving:
Marinated herbed feta in glass jars
Warm Winter Loose tea in glass jar with tea ball, using freetrade, organic ingredients from Rose Mountain Herbs, made at DCF, in glass jars
Pumpkin Butter, made with local pumpkins, made at DCF
Dried herb packets from Garden DElights
Raw honey from Honey House Farms
Dried mushrooms, berries, and veggies from Nature's Choice
-- will have a few gift baskets including multiple items above as well.
For those who have bought in the past and are wondering, our soap gift boxes won't be ready for another week :-) Meanwhile, we may sell out of the above, so if you want me to hang on to something, let me know!
Rory
Dec 6, 2008, 8:13:51 PM12/6/08
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Other than false hope, what exactly is Vancouver Food Cooperative
selling?
selling?
Anja Larson
Dec 8, 2008, 5:01:11 PM12/8/08
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Wow, it felt really good to revoke my membership in the past few days
from the VFC, and I am commenting along the way to the board ( fellow
downtown denizens) that I expect the VFC to be supportive of other
co-ops that may form in the area. The vague, virtuous-seeming support
when it's come along, that I've seen (I'm grasping) has been horribly
conservative, and it's a relief not to feel obligated regarding the
success of this present group. But that does not mean a co-op cannot
succeed here; the organizers would optimally be less retaliatory
against dissenters (hours-long telephone harangue about out-of-favor
person(s), anyone?), and more tolerant of the diversity of urban life,
illustrated by the various Portland co-ops, in general.
A lot of the schism I've seen within the VFC is between people who
understand the need (hunger, poverty and other current, present
cancers) from direct experience, and the ones who have been swept up in
the idealistic virtue and saintly nature of the thing. If the idea is
community, and the cooperative principles, that is what the VFC has
been offering, the opportunity to debate. It's gotten unnecessarily
heated, but I might join the VFC again if there is a neutral place to
meet that's our own, and a neutral voice fairly introducing us to the
national co-op scene.
One could model the VFC after a common agricultural-rural consumer
co-op and it might easily parallel a Mormon outpost, or a buyer's club
where the members never get to know each other very well (just like in
the VFC as I've known it). That culture is just not what the VFC
originally advertised. They suggested a tolerance of this particular
downtown area, urban, close to Portland, not insular, not exclusive of
the particularly gritty areas, which I admit are the more challenging
things to deal with in community organizing.
from the VFC, and I am commenting along the way to the board ( fellow
downtown denizens) that I expect the VFC to be supportive of other
co-ops that may form in the area. The vague, virtuous-seeming support
when it's come along, that I've seen (I'm grasping) has been horribly
conservative, and it's a relief not to feel obligated regarding the
success of this present group. But that does not mean a co-op cannot
succeed here; the organizers would optimally be less retaliatory
against dissenters (hours-long telephone harangue about out-of-favor
person(s), anyone?), and more tolerant of the diversity of urban life,
illustrated by the various Portland co-ops, in general.
A lot of the schism I've seen within the VFC is between people who
understand the need (hunger, poverty and other current, present
cancers) from direct experience, and the ones who have been swept up in
the idealistic virtue and saintly nature of the thing. If the idea is
community, and the cooperative principles, that is what the VFC has
been offering, the opportunity to debate. It's gotten unnecessarily
heated, but I might join the VFC again if there is a neutral place to
meet that's our own, and a neutral voice fairly introducing us to the
national co-op scene.
One could model the VFC after a common agricultural-rural consumer
co-op and it might easily parallel a Mormon outpost, or a buyer's club
where the members never get to know each other very well (just like in
the VFC as I've known it). That culture is just not what the VFC
originally advertised. They suggested a tolerance of this particular
downtown area, urban, close to Portland, not insular, not exclusive of
the particularly gritty areas, which I admit are the more challenging
things to deal with in community organizing.
Glenna Rose, Owner #25
Dec 8, 2008, 10:41:16 PM12/8/08
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Revoked? Does that mean you requested a refund? Have you received
it? I gave them a specific date to have it ready for me to pick up
and did not give them the luxury of taking months to send the check.
When they know it will cost an additional $49 to refund it, it's
amazing how fast they will act. I suspect the judge will not want to
see them again in Small Claims Court and will be more than a little
unkind if she does. They do not have the option of refusing the
refund; the State of Washington and our court system overrides board
decisions! (Imagine that.)
Yes, we do need to be supportive of other co-ops in our area. The
others of which I am aware understand co-op and cooperative mean
cooperative. This board does not seem to. I had such high hopes for
the new board, naively thinking things would be different; they
probably would have if several had not been driven away by the actions
and nonactions of those who moved forward from before. I held that no
former board members should be on the new board, that the old board
should act as an advisory committee only; it would have had a far
different outcome had that happened. We did have some incredible
talent elected. Oh, well.
If anyone asks me about the co-op here, I tell them to join when the
store is open. Considering they have been working on it for six
years, that likely won't be any time soon. In the meanwhile, there
are some organizations actually helping people that could use
donations as this is all your share purchase will be at this time.
it? I gave them a specific date to have it ready for me to pick up
and did not give them the luxury of taking months to send the check.
When they know it will cost an additional $49 to refund it, it's
amazing how fast they will act. I suspect the judge will not want to
see them again in Small Claims Court and will be more than a little
unkind if she does. They do not have the option of refusing the
refund; the State of Washington and our court system overrides board
decisions! (Imagine that.)
Yes, we do need to be supportive of other co-ops in our area. The
others of which I am aware understand co-op and cooperative mean
cooperative. This board does not seem to. I had such high hopes for
the new board, naively thinking things would be different; they
probably would have if several had not been driven away by the actions
and nonactions of those who moved forward from before. I held that no
former board members should be on the new board, that the old board
should act as an advisory committee only; it would have had a far
different outcome had that happened. We did have some incredible
talent elected. Oh, well.
If anyone asks me about the co-op here, I tell them to join when the
store is open. Considering they have been working on it for six
years, that likely won't be any time soon. In the meanwhile, there
are some organizations actually helping people that could use
donations as this is all your share purchase will be at this time.
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