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Board of Directors Graffiti Board
April 2001

How could Harvest Co-op be more environmentally friendly?

Cambridge responses:
Call City Hall, get several recycling Blue Bins, one for plastic, one for aluminum, one for paper, to be picked up with the trash each week.

By offering a big bin or barrel for plastic bag recycling

Compost fruits and veggies that are past their prime. Compost bins are pretty easy to set up. The resulting compost could be donated to community gardens nearby, or used in a Harvest on-site veggie and herb garden, which could be used to teach grow-your-own classes…wow!

Yes, I second this

A wider selection of local, organic produce. If it’s local instead of California or some place, it’ll be CHEAPER and thus people other than RICH YUPPIES will be able to participate in the husbanding of remaining un-toxic farmland.

Bulk eggs – customers could bring in empty cartons and fill them themselves.

We could not sell purple loosestrife, one of the most invasive plant species creating havoc in the countryside.

Jamaica Plain responses:
Have plastic bag recycling receptacle

Sell less expensive cheeses – not so chi-chi

Sell fedex seeds like you used to

Cream of tartar for my sink drains – I have requested 2x

Have a bulletin pocket for environmental legislation (local, current) such as green design bill, and info on how to access the climate change network

Start recycling plastic bags again Harvest used to do this in Allston

Be careful about selling farm raised fish. Many of the fish raised on these farms are genetically mosdified. Also drugs are used to fight disease in these tightly packed farms. Please don’t sell us any farm raised fish unless you are certain it’s free of GMO and drugs. If you feel you must sell, please indicate the conditions they are frown under, as well as the name of your farm supplier

Plastic bag recycling box!