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August/September Newsletter

Posted Tue, 08/31/2010 - 1:48pm

Click here to view the articles in the latest newsletter: plans for building renovation, wild rice in Minnesota and recipes, asian cooking, call for Board nominations, and more.

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HPC Plans for Building Renovation

Posted Mon, 08/30/2010 - 7:10pm

—by Sarah Matala

The Hampden Park Co-op is developing a master plan for the administration, remodeling, and use of the building, with the goal of final presentation at the Annual Meeting on October 17th. We want to access the opinions of the HPC membership, nonmembers, and neighborhood allies.

Call for Nominations

Posted Mon, 08/30/2010 - 5:00am

—by Lisa Scribner, co-chair, HPC Board of Directors

The Board of Directors of the Hampden Park Cooperative invites YOU to become more involved in YOUR cooperative. Being on the Board of Directors is a great way to become more involved in HPC. Learn more about the benefits of serving on the board and how to apply.

June/July 2010 Newsletter

Posted Tue, 06/01/2010 - 5:00am

Click here to view this newsletter's fare: Eating daylilies, what's in our dairy cases, rain barrels, and a profile of members Al Uhl and Nancy Adair.

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New Logo

Posted Sun, 04/18/2010 - 11:56am

Matt Haas, HPC General Manager, talks about our new logo that you see above and on the newsletter.

UN proclaims 2012 International Year of Co-operatives

Posted Mon, 02/01/2010 - 6:00am

The ICA is pleased to announce the adoption of the UN resolution, "Co-operatives and social development: which proclaims 2012 International Year of Co-operatives. The resolution (A/RES/64/136) passed on 18 December 2009 by consensus was proposed by 55 UN Member States. It recognises that the co-operative business model is a major factor in realising economic and social development and calls on governments, international institutions, co-operatives and other stakeholders to support the development and growth of co-operatives worldwide."

Source: www.ica.coop/al-ica

Greetings from the aisles of HPC - August, 2010

Posted Tue, 08/31/2010 - 11:46am

Our general manager, Matt Hass, talks about our produce suppliers, summer deli offerings, new faces at the co-op, and end-of-year inventory

Adventures in the Asian Food Aisle

Posted Tue, 08/31/2010 - 11:04am

—by Anne Holzman

“Korean food requires a lot of preparation; you have to chop everything up.” – Hyun Sook Han

My Asian culinary adventure started with a cousin adopted from Korea, who grew up in Minnesota and had trouble finding family members who would venture into kimchee country with her. We went out to lunch at some Korean spots on Snelling, and I was hooked. Soon I became the mother of a Korean child, who is now nine years old and begs for our milder American-Korean hybrid dishes.

Will the Real Wild Rice Please Stand Up?

Posted Mon, 08/30/2010 - 8:43pm
Featured resource: 
Native Wild Rice

—by Emma Onawa

It’s Manoominike-Giizis, the wild rice moon, and hundreds of Anishinaabeg gather at lakes on the White Earth Indian Reservation for the annual wild rice harvest. It’s an intergenerational family, community, and cultural way of life that’s generations old and central to Anishinaabeg life. The harvest is done traditionally, using canoes, push poles, and wooden sticks to knock rice into the canoes. Ricers can knock as many as four to five hundred pounds of rice in a day. Many Anishinaabeg rice their entire lives.

Donate to the Midway Food Shelf

Posted Mon, 08/30/2010 - 8:23pm
Featured resource: 
Keystone Community Services

Because our local food shelf serves a wide variety of ethnic groups, they can always use foods that reflect this diversity. They offer the following suggestions:

Asian: jasmine rice, bean thread, rice noodles, fish sauce, soy sauce

Hispanic/Latino: dry pinto beans, rice, white hominy, canned tomatos and chili peppers

Somali: pasta, rice, couscous, canned tuna

They can also use basic household supplies such as cooking oil, toilet tissue, and dish soap.

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Under My Hat

Under My Hat - June, 2009

Posted Mon, 06/01/2009 - 7:00am

—by Helen DuFault, General Manager

Leadership Changes

Living in Minnesota, where we experience changes all year long, means we are not surprised by change. It can be cooking hot one day and cold the next—all the more to not let us get too complacent.

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Book reviews

Book Review: A Review of The China Study

Posted Sun, 02/01/2009 - 8:00am

by T. Colin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell II (Benbella, 2006)

—by Steve Anthony

In the early 1970s Frances Moore Lappe’s Diet for a Small Planet challenged the “sacred cows” of prevailing nutritional orthodoxy—that we can’t get adequate protein without regular consumption of meat and dairy products. In his landmark book, The China Study, Dr. T. Colin Campbell, a renowned authority in the field of nutritional science, stands the old shibboleth completely on its head by making the case that, far from leading to good health, our high level of animal protein consumption is implicated in virtually all the major “killer” diseases in the West—from various cancers to heart disease to diabetes—as well as a number of other chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, obesity, and Alzheimer’s.

Coming from a two-quarts-of-milk-per- day farm-boy background, Campbell’s career has led him to the conviction that a plant-based diet easily provides all the nutrients we need while protecting us from a broad range of diseases. At the heart of the book is the China Study itself, which capitalized on a massive data base of mortality statistics compiled in China in the late 1970s at the behest of Chou En-Lai and known as the China Cancer Atlas.

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Interviews

Member Profile: Al Uhl and Nancy Adair

Posted Thu, 06/03/2010 - 7:04pm

by Rachel Fang

I first sat down with Al Uhl at his favorite Chinese restaurant on University Avenue in St.Paul (where he bought me lunch!) and we talked about his long history in St. Anthony Park and with the co-op movement.

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Opinion

What Does the Federal Farm Bill Have to Do With Me?

Posted Fri, 12/01/2006 - 8:00am

—by Lois Braun, HPC Member (October/November 2006)

About 45% of all land in this country is used for agriculture, more than for any other single activity. Thus agricultural policy is everybody’s business, not just that of farmers. Farm policy affects you even though you live in a city, and even though you might not have any family left on the farm. It affects you because, not only do you eat food, but you drink water, breathe air, and pay taxes. It affects you if you like to fish, canoe, or swim in natural bodies of water.

As a human being, you deserve safe nourishing food, clean air, and clean water. The farm bill should deliver these, but it doesn’t; and thus it is wasting taxpayers’ money—YOUR money. In the farm bill we are not getting what we pay for. Discussions are starting now about the next farm bill, which will come out in 2007. It is time for city people to get involved.

Origins of the Farm Program

The original idea of the farm program was good. It started at a time when the majority of our nation’s population were farmers, and a majority of farmers were poor due in part to wildly fluctuating crop prices. So price support systems were enacted that made up the difference to farmers when prices of “commodity crops” (corn, wheat, soybeans, rice, cotton) fell below a baseline.

Why It Hasn't Worked