Cinnamon cassia co-op
Cinnamon cassia has been proven to decrease insulin levels and actually improve metabolism particularly when eating carbs, helping your body to turn them into muscle as opposed to fat cells. Sounds like an ideal way to boost metabolism by eating more cinnamon (cinnamon roll anyone haha). It is an ingredient that is widely used in so many sweet and savoury things and with these great health benefits i thought it might be interesting to make sure the cinnamon we sell is infact cinnamon cassia (both in stick and powdered form). I found this great 'Cassia co-op' from indonesia that produces the cinnamon and also acts as a training centre. If people are interested in discussing this at a food cafe or next meeting i could email the suppliers to discuss a few things!
Jenny ScattergoodTue 9 Dec 2014 7:43PM
Sounds good, personally I think we're going to struggle if we get loads of direct individual suppliers but if we can manage it then great! :)
MURAL WORDS
proposal by Georgie May Birch Closed Mon 16 Feb 2015 11:05AM
As emailed it would be great to get some suggestions on what words to include in the green action tree mural design that has been emailed around. I propose about 6 words that describe the values of the food co-op within green action. Words like 'ethical, organic, health...' can all be used to attract future members to engaging with the shop. Put down your suggestions here and then we can hopefully get painting very soon :)
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JoyFri 13 Feb 2015 1:10PM
gotta get those photes from the meeting somewhere where we can all see them! we created such an epic tree. I'll find the words we wrote down and add them to this discussion tomorrow
Isabelle Sat 14 Feb 2015 11:31AM
Grassroots
Community
Local/ ethical/ organic food
Planting
I know this is not really relevant (or possible) but i quite like how the words and phrases are clearly shown in these illustrations, really like the colourful ones!
http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/gallery/2015/feb/11/dreams-of-freedom-human-rights-amnesty-international?CMP=fb_gu
Joy ·Tue 9 Dec 2014 7:29PM
great researching! probably many of the spices we use without thinking have some serious sustainability and supply chain implications. This one has a really interesting story, and I like the idea of cutting the supply chain. I'm up for a food cafe on spices sometime (alongside all the other ones we've got in the pipeline!)