cChaos will be there!!!

Chico, California (August 25, 2010) – Nonprofits participating in the Annie B’s Community Drive will showcase their services in the Chico City Plaza during the Thursday Night Market Presents on September 16. North Valley Community Foundation, sponsor of the Annie B’s Community Drive, is partnering with the Downtown Chico Business Association, on this special Thursday Night Market event.

Radio show taped on Tuesday August 3rd.

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

Ruby Hollow Band will be playing at the Chapman Food & Fitness Festival on Friday July 31st from 5 to 8 PM ish. A familiar musical family they have grown (by 1) since they were know as Willowgreen back in the 1980's. Here pictured are Dave Cowan, Jo Chavez,

We will post new pics as they come in. Caution!! Click on pics and they WILL BLOW UP!

Ruby Hollow Band is nothing short of a "phoenix rising" band.....rumbling and rising from the wonderfully, musically eclectic dust of the past 1980's "Willowgreen" (Alice Peake, Jo Chavez, David Cowan), to a smashing new configuration of even more cool instrumentation and incredibly beautiful, intricately woven harmonies (now 4 part with addition of David Bilinski) ....all in the package of Hot Pogo Folk instrumentation and song! What in the world is Hot Pogo Folk music you may well ask?

Think of a child's pogo stick hopping and bopping around from place to place, staying long enough for the balance and fun, and then moving on to another adventure.... only, in song and music! The Hot Pogo Folk instruments we use (with additions coming!) are: guitars (including a 7 string), dobro, mandolin, electric bass, accordian, banjo, south american keynas and panpipes, rattles and drums...and, of course, our 4 well-blended voices.

We take some old Willowgreen tunes and dress them up to fit new instrumentation, some wicked bluegrass/newgrass tunes, smooth originals by the band, a pinch of country, gospel, passionate mexican and spanish music, Irish (of course) and some legendary cover songs with a twist.........Hot Pogo Folk!

Fun, frisky, passionate, heartfelt, interactive..........Ruby Hollow Band!

We are pleased to announce that our Community Garden Exchange project
has begun!