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PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 9, 2005
NEW EXPANDED EDITION ANNOUNCED
OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ORGANIC GUIDEBOOK
Book Subtitled "Your Organic Adventure Guide & Empowerment Manual"
CONTACT:
Patricia Dines
Community Action Publications
708 Gravenstein Hwy N Suite 104-WM
Sebastopol, CA 95472
(707) 829-2999 (M-F 9am-5pm PT)
PDines@compuserve.com
The Organic Guide is intentionally designed to make it incredibly easy for locals and visitors to explore, enjoy, and support local organic food, wine, and much more in "Wine Country" north of San Francisco. Subtitled "Your Organic Adventure Guide & Empowerment Manual," this beautiful and well-designed book also includes essential and empowering information about organics, toxics, food, farms, and related topics.
In this new edition, readers will find:
* A BEAUTIFUL FOUR-COLOR COVER, inviting them to organic adventures.
* MANY MORE NEW PLACES TO EXPLORE. This new edition has over double the listings of the previous one, including triple the farms, over double the restaurants, and significantly more wineries, annual events, local products, lodging and retreats, and many other useful and unexpected categories. Readers can go to a restaurant a week and not visit them all in a year! Most places listed here do not promote their organic connection and were discovered by CAP through months of extensive primary research. Even long-time locals will discover many new places to explore!
* EXPANDED INFORMATION ABOUT EACH PLACE, WHILE REMAINING SUCCINCT, to help readers easily find places that meet their needs and criteria.
- THE LISTINGS FOR EACH PLACE include key contact information, including hours and directions, plus expanded hand-written descriptions that summarize the key eco-offerings and style of each place.- RESTAURANT LISTINGS now also include at-a-glance icons and describe: how much organic produce each place offers, if the meats are organic or natural, whether the table water is filtered, and other key details.
- WINERY LISTINGS also include the varietals offered at each winery; and the varietal cross-reference makes it easy to find the varieties the reader seeks.
* EXCITING AND USEFUL NEW ARTICLES. The Guide offers even more essential and empowering information, including articles on: the national organic standards; local GMO-Free zones; buying organic and natural meat and poultry; including organic in weddings, restaurants, and daily life; creating better pest control solutions; and much more.
* UPDATED INFORMATION AND HELPFUL DETAILS THROUGHOUT. The Guide is full of valuable information, footnoted and organized to make it easy for readers to find what they seek. The Table of Contents has been expanded, and readers can look up places either by category or with the handy overview map. Extensive cross-referencing and a Listings Index makes it even easier for readers to find the local products and places that they seek. And the thorough Resources section makes it easy to continue the exploration, with CAP's favorite places for more information, support, and action on the topics of the book.
As in previous editions, all the Guide's helpful information is presented in the attractive and well-organized format that so many Guide readers appreciate, with short sections, graphics, and clear headers that make it easy to explore and enjoy.
Previous editions of The Organic Guide have garnered praise from a wide variety of publications, including Bon Appetit, Delicious Living, Earth Island Journal, Natural Foods Merchandizer, The North Bay Bohemian, Marin County's Pacific Sun, The San Francisco Chronicle, and the San Francisco TV show "Bay Area Backroads." The Guide is also used by local schools, as part of their Sustainable Agriculture curriculum.
"In this area, we're blessed to have access to a delightful variety of fresh, local, organic food and more &emdash; produced on farms choosing not to use toxic pesticides," says Guide author Patricia Dines, "but only if people know where to look. We love making it easy for folks to support local healthier food and agriculture &emdash; and a healthier world for all."
To order the new Fifth Edition of The Organic Guide, just send $16.45 ($17.65 for California residents) to: Community Action Publications, 708 Gravenstein Hwy N #104, Sebastopol CA 95472. The Guide will also be available at local stores; a list will be provided on their website. The Guide's list price is $14.95.
All book proceeds support CAP, a local community-supported group that acts to help create a healthier, less-toxic world for all by educating people about organics and other alternatives to toxics. In their announcement, CAP also expresses its gratitude to the community for their support of this project, including CAP members and Guide sponsors. Says Dines, "Community support is truly what makes this project possible!"
More about the Guide and CAP is at <www.healthyworld.org/news.html>. This includes the beautiful new four-color cover, more about the new edition, more ordering options, and a personal note about the making of this new edition.
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EDITORS: See below for background information about CAP, The
Organic Guide, and organics. It's also very helpful if you can alert
us to, or send us copies of, any reviews or articles that mention
this project. Please contact us for more information about the Guide,
our organization, pesticides, and organics. Thanks!
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
About Community Action Publications
Community Action Publications is a community-supported, primarily-volunteer group formed in 1997 to help create a healthier, less-toxic world by providing useful information about toxics and alternatives like organics. CAP produces this edition of The Organic Guide, as well as one for San Francisco, in order to draw attention and support to this area's luscious and diverse organic food and agriculture, thus supporting conversion to less-toxic farming.
About The Organic Guide
The Organic Guide has been produced since 1998 by CAP, a small
community group in northern California, as part of their mission
to provide empowering information that nurtures a healthier,
less-toxic world. Sonoma, Napa, and Mendocino Counties are north of
San Francisco, in northern California's "Wine Country."
The Guide features key information about local places offering organic food, wine, and related products and services, including farms, farmers' markets, natural food stores, restaurants, wineries, nurseries, lodging and retreats, community gardens, local products, pest control services, and many other useful and unexpected categories. Each section is comprehensive, with a depth of listings unmatched by any other resource. Listings are organized into an attractive and easy-to-use format, with an overview map and the key details given for each place (including hours, directions, and description). Codes make it easy to find places that offer retail and mail order products. As a result of this thoughtful design, readers can easily find new places and resources, and go straight to the fun part, while knowing that they're supporting local organics and a healthier bioregion for all.
But The Organic Guide is much more than a local organic guidebook. Subtitled "Your Organic Adventure Guide & Empowerment Manual," this beautiful resource also includes well-organized, inspiring, and empowering information about organics and related issues, including the meaning of organic, the benefits of buying local, how to buy from local farms, stories about local community gardens, the issues with toxics and GMOs, the hidden costs of industrial long-distance agriculture, and much more. Through this, readers have an opportunity to expand their understanding of the value and importance of supporting local organics, and to share that understanding with their family, friends, and other people in their lives.
At 192 pages, this new Fifth Edition offers 72 more pages than the previous edition, chock-full of local places, people, stories, and information.
About Organics
For more than a decade, organic food sales have grown at least
20% a year, making it one of the fastest growing areas in the food
market. In 2003, 36% of Americans used organic products at least
monthly, says the Hartman Group, an increase from 22% in 2000.
Consumers have increasingly turned to organics because of concerns
about toxic pesticides and fertilizers, mad cow disease, and GMOs
(Genetically Modified Organisms). Consumers, chefs, and many others
see organics as a wonderful way to enjoy delicious, healthy, and
nutritious food that's grown not with toxics and GMOs, but instead
through nourishing the soil and ecosystems, thus supporting better
health for everyone and for this precious planet. CAP's Organic Guide
Project makes it easy for this growing group of consumers to discover
and enjoy this area's organic food and wine delights.
PRAISE FOR THE ORGANIC GUIDE
SERIES
"Charmingly designed and illustrated." Lynn Lawson, Canary News
"An indispensible reference." Herb Hiller, St. Petersburg Times
"An outstanding Guide." Joe Keon, PhD, The Truth About Breast Cancer
"Even longtime devotees of the organic lifestyle will find plenty to chew on." Marina Wolf, San Francisco Chronicle
"A cornucopia of organic delights.... If a visit to northern California's wine country is in your travel plans, be sure to pick up a copy." Delicious Living!
"I keep the Guide on top of my desk and keep browsing it while I'm on hold on the phone. It really packs a lot of great info in a small space. Thanks for your hard work. Good job!" Bu Nygrens, Veritable Vegetable, San Francisco (the first organic distributor in the U.S.)
ALSO RECOMMENDED BY:
Bon Appetit, Bay Area Backroads, Earth Island Journal, the Sonoma
County Independent, Marin County's Pacific Sun - and organic fans
everywhere!
For more reviews and reader comments, click here.
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