When a group of people want to buy food cheaply, but don't want to pay rent or salaries or have a store, and are all willing to work, they have a food conspiracy. Buying club and co-op are other names for this kind of organization, but those names also apply to groups with paid managers, store fronts and profits. The food conspiracy movement includes people who want an alternative to supermarket shopping and people who desire direct control of the kind and quality of the food they eat, as well as its price. The first food conspiracy started in Berkeley, California, two months after the People's Park struggle. It has subsequently spread to many large cities and among people of all economic backgrounds. In July, 1969, three Berkeley residents -- Vivian, Jim and Anita, -- met in Vivian's backyard simply to figure out how they could buy food cheaply. Jim knew about the farmers' market and had a VW bus. Vivian knew about organic food. Anita knew how to formulate questions and how to organize. To enlist others to join them, they started writing blurbs in alternative newspapers and putting out pamphlets entitled variously "eat to conspire" and "conspire to eat." They posted a sign near a grocery store in the student neighborhood, ant placed notices in People's Park bulletins and in the Tenant's Union Newsletter and soon there was a group of us.

The Food Conspiracy Cookbook: How to Start a Neighborhood Buying Club and Eat Cheaply

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Wickstrom, Lois

Cooking by Ingredient

Macmillan Pub. Co.

Loretta is a mischievous girl who lives in a cabin high up in the Colorado mountains. She loves her garden and the ladybugs that protect it. But where do they go in the winter? On a cold winter day when she was collecting pine needles for her strawberry patch, she discovered ladybugs hiding under a rock. There were even more behind a chunk of loose tree bark. Through a loving relationship with her parents and her garden, Loretta learns about the life cycle of ladybugs. This is the first in a series of three books about Loretta, who loves insects. The others are Bees in Loretta's Bonnet and Loretta's Pet Caterpillar.

Ladybugs for Loretta

Children's Books

Sproing

My Big Red Monster (hardcover)

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

Look Under Rocks

Oliver is stuck in his room. His father sent him there for playing in a tree that was too young to be climbed. Oh, if only he still lived with his birthparents What could he do if he were with them? Be a scientist? Or a trapeze artist? Do other people wish for other parents when they are angry with their own? What should Oliver do? Language updated to the 21st century. Originally published in the Christian Science Monitor. Formerly published by Our Child Press.

Oliver, A Story About Adoption - Updated (hardcover)

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Maia has a friend, but Fig can't see her.Fig says Maia is just pretending.Maia knows her friend Trezzie is real.Trezzie is a mermaid.

Maia's Mermaid Friend: An Imaginary Friend tale (Mermaid Science)

Gripper Products

Stop That Lion (8 x 10 hardcover) (Kingdom of Mir)

Green, Timna

Animals

Holding Up the Sky (8 x 10 hardcover)

Maia's Mermaid Friend (hardcover)

The lion is eating our sheep.Our king declares a contest to stop her.Nothing the grown-ups try works.It's up to Wynnie, who always asks irritating questions

Stop That Lion (8 x 10 paperback) (Kingdom of Mir)

Colleen's dad walks around town with his hands in the air. He says he's holding up the sky. One day he puts his hands down. Now, what will happen?

Holding Up the Sky (8x10 paperback)

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