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Cornucopia Cookies

Rose Lord is the person behind Cornucopia Cookies, which you now find on the healthy and organic snack food shelves everywhere.

Here is some information on her healthy cookies:

Facts About Cornucopia Cookies The Guilt-free Goodies that are Good for You and Good for the Earth

Cornucopia Cookies
• Are made without preservatives
• Contain no eggs or dairy (even vegans can eat them)
• Are made with natural and organic ingredients, including stone-ground 100% whole wheat flour
• Contain flax seed which provides essential omega fatty acids
• Are made with Demeter Certified biodynamic flour, flax seed, oats and raisins
• Are so delicious you’ll be amazed that they’re good for your taste-buds AND the rest of your body too!

Cornucopia Cookie Ingredients

Chocolate Chip: Biodynamic Whole Wheat Flour, organic cane sugar, organic non-dairy chocolate chips, Earth Balance – non hydrogenated natural buttery spread, organic applesauce, biodynamic ground flax seed, potato starch, non-aluminum baking powder, organic vanilla extract, sea salt,

Oatmeal Raisin: Biodynamic Whole Wheat Flour, organic cane sugar, biodynamic oats, biodynamic raisins, Earth Balance, non-hydrogenated buttery spread, organic applesauce, biodynamic ground flax seed, potato starch, non-aluminum baking powder, maple syrup, sea salt,

Butter Pecan: Biodynamic Whole Wheat Flour, organic cane sugar, Earth Balance – non hydrogenated buttery spread, organic pecans, biodynamic ground flax seed, potato starch, non-aluminum baking powder, organic vanilla extract, sea salt

The Gourmet Line

Date Nut: Biodynamic Whole Wheat Flour, organic cane sugar, organic Medjol dates, organic applesauce, maple dipped organic pecans, biodynamic ground flax seed, potato starch, non-aluminum baking powder, organic vanilla extract, sea salt,

Mint Chocolate Chip: Biodynamic Whole Wheat Flour, organic cane sugar, Earth Balance, organic non-dairy chocolate chips, organic applesauce, biodynamic ground flax seed, potato starch, non-aluminum baking powder, ground dried mint, organic vanilla extract, sea salt,

Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip: Bob’s Red Mill GF Baking Mix (garbanzo bean flour, potato starch, tapioca flour, whole grain sweet white sorghum flour, fava bean flour), potato flour, dried cane juice, Earth Balance—non hydrogenated natural buttery spread, organic dark sweet chocolate chips, organic pecans, organic applesauce, non-aluminum baking powder, water, sea salt, organic vanilla flavoring

Butter Pecan with White Chocolate Chips (not vegan): Biodynamic Whole Wheat Flour, organic cane sugar, Earth Balance – non hydrogenated buttery spread, organic pecans, biodynamic ground flax seed, potato starch, non-aluminum baking powder, organic vanilla extract, sea salt

For further information: call 412-655-3063 (Rose) or e-mail rose@food4peace.com

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Cardoza ITP

Homepage of the Irwin Peace Garden Project
An initiative on Urban Farming in Irwin!

The IRWIN PEACE GARDEN was
Installed on May 12, 2007 at Bell Park, on Main Street, in downtown Irwin, PA.

Sponsor: Irwin Business & Professional Association (IBPA).

What is a Peace Garden? A Peace Garden is an Earth-friendly method for producing sustainable, high-yield and low cost crops in very small spaces of land. In fact, you can grow vegetables, herbs and flowers together in a Peace Garden.

Who needs a Peace Garden? Everyone, especially urban neighborhoods where available land for community gardening is very limited or very expensive. Peace Gardens can produce large amounts of nutritional crops at very low costs -- startup and operation costs are very low. Peace Gardens are also ideal for schools, youth groups, senior citizen communities, churches, and health care facilities.

What do I need to start one? Not much! Locate a 1 meter by 1 meter garden space, with good sunlight and away from tree roots. Follow some simple instructions to build the grid, prepare the soil, and to select the appropriate combination of plants for your garden.

Who can I contact to help me get started? There is an increasing network of Peace Gardeners and Intensive Gardening fans in the Pittsburgh area. You may start with Rose Lord (412-655-3063 or rose@food4peace.com), and then engage others in your community. You will not regret it! It is FUN and also HEALTHY!

Photos:

Rose and friends placing the vegetables in each of the grids spaces in the 1m by 1m space at Bell Park.

This is how the Garden looked originally in May 2007 after we planted all 12 varieties of herbs and vegetables in Irwin's first Peace Garden.

Many thanks to Rose Lord from the Global Coalition for Peace, for her generous inspiration and guidance to construct this beautiful teaching garden for the community.

"May it bring peace to all who enjoy its natural beauty and abundance through cooperation."
-- Rose Lord

Local Resources:

Pictured L-R:
Anne Cloonan, Fernando, Rose Lord, Sandra Esch, Susan and Debbie Kelly.

Not pictured:
Mike Pochan, Dave Gibson, Bob Cervi & Jack Resnick.

Helpful Links:

The world enters a new food consciousness: Touch the Soil magazine
Gardening page on the Global Coalition for Peace (GCFP) web site http://home.earthlink.net/~coalition4peace/theglobalgridgarden.htm.
For the information on the GCFP work in Guatemala, go to: www.globalcoalitionforpeace.net/wsrp.
The Weston A. Price Foundation, publishers of the Wise Traditions quarterly journal on food, farming and the healing arts.

Join us to work on integrating our ...

Food farming in the world may be in crisis... according to many economic experts in the food sector, we may have lost our way as relates to food security in the U.S. and the world. From a global perspective, the situation appears daunting as governments and global food companies have consistently failed to act over the past 10 years to address issues with crop and land management, grain reserves, the impact of ethanol, and price inflation. However, from a local and regional perspective, the situation is ripe for a new kind of economic and social revitalization where the consuming public can be am integral part of the solution.

Join us on increasing the area's food farming consciousness!

Need Ideas to Act on? Raise your own food... Raise chickens in the city... Know where your beef comes from... Take Sustainable Gardening lessons... Talk to your farmer... Have an Organic wedding... Take kids to the farm... Make your own cheese... Save your fruits for up a year... Understand what is underneath your feet... Have a Compost Tea... Choose Organic foods... Eliminate pesticides from your garden... Learn about Urban Food Security... Grow a Garden and Reduce Stress... Eat Duck eggs... Organize a LOCAL FOOD FIRST Campaign...

Where can you find out information about all of these topics? Subscribe to Touch The Soil magazine, published by Ben and Susan Gisin.

DEEP ECONOMY: The Wealth of Communities and The Durable Future, by Bill McKibben (2008)