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Radio Interview with Floyd Rogers

Sat, 03 Jul 2010 18:52:16 -0700

So this is the text about the radio interview.

This is part 2

Happening Now at the Chapman Food & Fitness Festival

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:19:28 -0700

Open until 7:30 ish. Free massage and music. Crafters. The Chapman Food & Fitness Fest is the quiet Farmers Market on the Grass. Note: Our main farmer, VaPor Yang is working his fields today - he will be back next week.

ReUse ReCycle PedalPower Vehicle Trophy Winners 2010

Sat, 15 May 2010 21:38:00 -0700

Had a wonderful time at the first every ReUse ReCycle PedalPower Show and Awards. Here are some pictures of the winners. Many thanks to all who attended and displayed their bikes. Special thanks to Sharon North who brought down the giant pedal powered Owl.

ChildFlower Bicycle Ride

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 23:28:57 -0700

1st Annual Reuse/ReCycle PedalPower Sculpture & modified Work Bikes, Trikes & Bikecart Awards Festival

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:49:03 -0700

All things Unusually Bike-Like will be featured at the Friday Farmers Market at the Dorothy F. Johnson Center on May 14th. 29 recycled motorcycle trophies will be handed out as prizes. You create the categories, you vote. First and Second Prize trophies given out for each event - plus a grand prize trophy. No trophy goes unawarded! email richard@cchaos.org or Call 624-8844 for more information - or check back later to this site as we will be updating.

Cooking Class: Let Your Body Heal Itself.

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:14:27 -0700

cChaos farmer Floyd Rodgers is putting on another series of his popular cooking classes. These are happening in Oroville. Click on the flier at left to get all the details.

Breaking Ground on Community Garden

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:20:24 -0700

We are working on a new community garden in an Apartment complex, Walnut Grove, 1118 Nord Ave, Chico. We will be turning a blacktop into raised beds. This Saturday we will be cutting up the blacktop and laying the beginning stages of the irrigation. If you would like to see and help out with this transformation, come join us 1-4pm. Call me, 354-1646, if you have any questions. Stephanie Where- Walnut Grove, 1118 Nord Ave, Chico When- Saturday, March 20, 1-4pm What- making a garden

Free Monthly Cooking Classes

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:19:59 -0700

Carol Albrecht, owner of the farm and a 3rd generation Chaffin farming our land, is starting the Chico-Butte Valley Chapter of the Weston A. Price Foundation. This new local chapter will be sponsoring monthly cooking classes. These cooking classes will focus on nutrient dense whole foods and nourishing traditional cooking methods. Carol and long time friend Kim Port will teach these classes on the third Monday of each month, (January 18th) 6:00 PM at the Chico Grange. Check out this link if you need directions http://www.chicogrange.org/info/public_html/ . FREE EVENT Chris Kerston Chaffin Family Orchards 530-370-6432 Cell 530-533-1676 Ranch Office www.ChaffinFamilyOrchards.com

cChaos launches online outreach site!

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:51:14 -0700

cChaos launches online outreach site! We have several new health outreach projects. This week we are launching the first small project. We need a heavy duty shade structure which costs about $300.00. We are fund raising for the project by offering donation "shares" for $2.70 each. Folks can contribute as many "shares" as they chose and either pay online with a credit card or paypal account - or order and send a check. We hope to raise the money in the next week or two. This little project gives us the opportunity to test out and get feedback on our new e-commerce site. Please give us your feedback. Check it out at http://www.cchaos.org/czenofchaos Both of our farmers markets are growing gradually. We have expanded our selection. Still - few people are making use of our EBT nutrition program. Please let it be known that we accept EBT cards and we invite and welcome families of low income to take part in our programs.

Butte County Economy Out $56,092,200.00

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:50:01 -0700

Butte County is missing out in over 50 million dollars in economic activity this year due to less than full enrollment in Child Nutrition Program. Dr. Cindy Wolff's presented this information at the Organic and Sustainable Agricultural Conference in November.

24,427 Butte County residents are eligible, but not participating in the Food Stamp Program.

24,427 x $104, the average amount per recipient.

Result? $2,540,408/month in federal funds is lost due to under participation.

But that is not all. For every Food Stamp $1.00, an additional $1.84 is generated in other spending. Equals $4,674,350 a month of lost economic activity.

That is $56,092,200.00 per year.

And it is just the outer skin of the onion. Better fed kids achieve better academically, are healthier, and are less likely to become delinquent - all conditions that reduce the burden of public service programs and those conditions that reflect poorly on our county.

It is my feeling that no other economic program could so dramatically improve the local economy than a program in charge of seeing that every eligible family has access to this child nutrition program.

Furthermore, money spent locally at farmers markets more than doubles the money recycled in the community over those food dollars spend in large grocery outlets - potentially adding another $2,500,000.00 a month to the local economy. Not to mention that the Leopold Center study comparing local to non-local food prices found a savings of over 10% to those purchasing produce at Farmers Markets over Supermarket prices for the same items. (Click on the graph above to be taken to the press release.) Extrapolating