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- Subject: RESOURCES: organic produce
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- For more information on buying, or encouraging local stores
- to stock, organic produce, try the following resources:
-
- [This information is compiled from "The Next Step: 50 More
- Things You Can Do to Save the Earth" which also has a section
- on encouraging your local store to provide organic produce. Like
- the original book, "50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth",
- "The Next Step" is available in bookstores and from EarthWorks #25,
- 1400 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley CA 94709]
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- Pesticide Alert: A Guide to Pesticides in Fruits
- and Vegetables"
- by Lawrie Mott and Karen Snyder
- (Sierra Club, 1990)
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- "Diet for a Poisoned Planet"
- by David Steinman
- (Harmony Books, 1990)
- Did you know even milk and cookies can have pesticide?
- Consult this book for more information.
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- "What Organic Means"
- Californai certified Organic Farmers
- PO Box 8136
- Santa Cruz, CA 95061
- (send SASE for free brochure)
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- Pesticide Organizing Kit
- National Toxics Campaign Fund
- 1168 commonwealth Ave
- Boston, MA 02134
- ($10 for kit)
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- Healthy Harvet III 1989-90
- Potomac Valley Press
- 1424 16th St NW
- Washington DC 20036
- ($18.25; includes lists of organic growers' assoc. across
- the USA)
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- "Organizing a Certified Farmer's Market"
- California Dept. of Food and Agriculture
- Direct Marketing Program
- 1220 N St.
- Rm. A-287
- Sacramento, CA 95814
- (targeted at Californians, but has good general info.
- Free, but send SASE)
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