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PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 20, 2001
CONTACT:
Patricia Dines
Community Action Publications
708 Gravenstein Hwy N Suite 104-WM
Sebastopol, CA 95472
(707) 829-2999 (M-F 9a-5p PT)
PDines@compuserve.com
"Now, for the first time, it's incredibly easy for locals and visitors to explore, enjoy, and support San Francisco's organic food, wine, and much more," says Patricia Dines, President of CAP. "We've uncovered and gathered together a wide variety of delights &endash; including many places that most people don't even know are committed to organics! And while folks are having fun, discovering new places and enjoying fresh delicious organic food, they're also joining with others to encourage this area's less-toxic agriculture &endash; and helping create a healthier world!"
This handy, well-organized book includes a luscious array of SF sources for organic food, wine, clothes, products, and services, including restaurants, health food stores, specialty stores, farmer's markets, farm CSAs (for baskets of farm-fresh food), nurseries, "wet" (not dry) cleaners, less-toxic pest control, mail order products, and much more. Readers can use the overview map, category headings, and index to find treasures they'd like to explore. Then, with the address, phone, website, description &endash; even hours, directions, and transit connections &endash; conveniently at their fingertips, they're ready to go! To support their journeys, there's information on SF transit, parks, lodging, and much more.
But the Guide offers even more than that. Subtitled "Your Organic Adventure Guide and Empowerment Manual," this well-designed Guidebook also offers useful and engaging information about pesticides, organics, biodynamics, SF's community gardens, what's in season when, the City's pesticide reduction program, plus the best resources for finding out more. Throughout are information boxes on topics like organic dairy, meat, cotton, coffee, gardening, and natural home pest control. This valuable information supports readers in their further exploration, deeper understanding, and constructive action on these vital issues.
"Organic is an oasis," says Dines, "in a world full of bad news about pesticides, genetically-modified foods, toxics in fertilizers, dying species, and polluted air and water. People have enough worries. They just want to know that their food is healthy and supports healthy agriculture. Organic gives them that choice &endash; and delicious treats as well!"
"The Organic Guide to San Francisco" joins CAP's companion book, "The Organic Guide to Sonoma, Napa, and Mendocino Counties." (This region just north of San Francisco is also known as the North Bay or Wine Country.) First published in 1998, the North Bay edition has been hailed by a wide range of local and national periodicals in a diverse variety of topic areas, including Bon Appetit, Delicious Living!, Earth Island Journal, Natural Foods Merchandizer, The San Francisco Chronicle,The Sonoma County Independent, and The Pacific Sun. It's also been featured on the San Francisco TV show "Bay Area Backroads."
"We're at a pivotal crossroads for agriculture, both locally and around the world," says Dines. "We're blessed in this area to have small local farms that offer us beautiful open space and a delightful variety of fresh, local, organic food &endash; if people know where to look. But these small farms are struggling against a tide of corporate consolidation, long-distance food, and industrial agriculture. The Guides make it easy for consumers to make healthy, life-affirming choices for themselves, their families, and their communities &endash; helping ensure the viability of our precious area farms &endash; and having fun doing it!"
For your very own copy of either Guide (both quite reasonably priced at $9.95), look at select area stores. (A current stores list is on CAP's website at <www.healthyworld.org>.) Or send $11.25 postpaid ($12 for California residents to include sales tax) plus the desired Guide name(s) to: Community Action Publications, 708 Gravenstein Hwy N., Suite 104-M, Sebastopol CA 95472. Or order both Guides for only $21 ($22.50 for Calif. residents). For more information on the Guides, plus other useful information on toxics and organics, see CAP's website at <www.healthyworld.org>. Or contact CAP at (707) 829-2999 or by email at PDines@compuserve.com.
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EDITORS: It's 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!
PRAISE FOR THE ORGANIC GUIDE
"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
"The Guide is fabulous - there's nothing else like it." Nina Zeiger, Organic Wine Company
"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.
Community
Action
Publications
708 Gravenstein Hwy N #104, Suite 104-WM
Sebastopol CA 95472
info[at]healthyworld.org
<www.healthyworld.org>
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