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Market Director
Donna Putney
EDITOR
Heidi Williams
GREENWOOOD Market Manager:

Courtney Rebovich
Packing Coordinator: Shae Smith
DROP_OFF SCHEDULE

Recipes

Ina Garten’s Pan-Fried Onion Dip
Localized for USLG

4-6 large Carolina sweet onions
4 Tablespoons unsalted Happy Cow butter
¼ cup organic vegetable oil
¼ teaspoon ground cayenne pepper
1 teaspoon kosher salt
½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
4 ounces Happy Cow cream cheese, room temperature
½ cup Happy Cow sour cream
½ Duke’s mayonnaise

Cut the onion in half and then slice them into 1/8-inch thick half rounds. (You will have about 3 cups)
Heat butter and oil in large saute pan on medium heat. Add onions, cayenne, salt, and pepper and saute for 10 minutes. Continue cooking until onions are browned and caramelized. Allow the onion to cool.

Place the cream cheese, sour cream, and mayo in bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment and beat until smooth. Add the oinion and mix well. Taste for seasonings.

• These products can currently be found fresh on the Market page at USLG
  

Market News

Featured and Fresh Products to Look for this Week:
Greens
Fresh Herbs
Baked Goods galore
Beef
Pork chops
Pork sausage
Scallions
Carolina Sweet Onions
Spinach, lettuce, and beet greens
Rutabaga
… plus all your favorite Putney Farm eggs, Happy Cow milk products, and much, much more!

IMPORTANT USLG UPDATES
In Transition: Remember to continue to draw down your balances to zero, and pay-as-you-go for a time. USLG is on the move, with many good changes ahead of us.

NEW DROP-OFF LOCATION! SWAMP RABBIT CAFE AND GROCERY, Cedar Lane, Greenville, will be our newest drop-off location for USLG’ers near Traveler’s rest or Downtown Greenville: located along the Swamp Rabbit Bike trail!

New Year, New Opportunities for Potential MARKET HELPERS!
It takes a villiage to make a food system work, you know! We have need for:
- Extra hands at drop off
- Tuesday order packers
- Writers to contribute to Harvest News
- Facebook/Twitter page administrators
- Web helpers (to work on the back end of the site managing weekly orders)
Whether you have an hour a month, a couple of hours a week, or a few extra minutes at drop-off, there are so many ways that we could use your unique talents to benefit local farms, artisans, and families. To see if you might fit into a slot, please email (click here:) Donna at putneyfarm@aol.com

Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle Your Egg Cartons With USLG!
Reduce greenhouse gases and save a trip to the recycling can by throwing your CLEAN Putney Farm cardboard or PET egg cartons back in your reusable grocery bag when they have been emptied out, and bring them to drop-off next time. We can reuse these for your future egg purchases. Thanks!

Prayer Request
Please keep Donna and her wonderful husband, Lenard, in your prayers as they struggle through some health issues. We need your support and helping hands to carry us through this rough spot.

Have a wonderful week, happy shopping on USLG, and good family meals from all your goodies! Donna and Lenard, and the whole gang of Market helpers.

Food News You Can Use

A primer on GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) courtesy of the Non-GMO Shopping Guide, a project of the Non GMO Project, The Institute for Responsible Technology, and Voice of the Environment. Please click through to these links for more detailed and incredibly informative writeups.

WHAT IS A GMO?
A genetically modified organism is a man-made, patented, organism created in a laboratory through genetic engineering. It is created when a gene from a totally unrelated species is shot into the genetic material of another species. Scientists worldwide now admit that the rush to sell genetically engineered product has put people’s health, property and the environment at risk.

HASN’T RESEARCH SHOWN GM FOODS TO BE SAFE?
No. The only feeding study done with humans showed that GMOs survived inside the stomach of the people eating GMO food. No follow-up studies were done. Various feeding studies in animals have resulted in potentially pre-cancerous cell growth, damaged immune systems, smaller brains, livers, and testicles, partial atrophy or increased density of the liver, odd shaped cell nuclei and other unexplained anomalies, false pregnancies and higher death rates.

WHAT INDICATIONS ARE THERE THAT GMs ARE CAUSING A PROBLEM?
Soon after GM soy was introduced to the UK, soy allergies skyrocketed by 50 percent. In March 2001, the Center for Disease Control reported that food is responsible for twice the number of illnesses in the U.S. compared to estimates just seven years earlier. This increase roughly corresponds to the period when Americans have been eating GM food. Without follow-up tests, which neither the industry or government are doing, we can’t be absolutely sure if genetic engineering was the cause.

GMs COULD BE CONTRIBUTING TO ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE?
Yup. The techniques used to transfer genes have a very low success rate, so the genetic engineers attach “marker genes” that are resistant to antibiotics to help them to find out which cells have taken up the new DNA. That way, scientists can then douse the experimental GMO in antibiotics and if it lives, they have successfully altered the genes. The marker genes are resistant to antibiotics that are commonly used in human and veterinary medicine. Some scientists believe that eating GE (genetically engineered) food containing these marker genes could encourage gut bacteria to develop antibiotic resistance.

TIPS TO AVOID GMOs:
Although most Americans say they would avoid brands if labeled GMO, unfortunately labels are not required. Here are tips to help you shop non-GMO.
Tip #1: Buy Organic
Certified organic products cannot intentionally include any GMO ingredients. Buy products labeled “100% organic,” “organic,” or “made with organic ingredients.” You can be doubly sure if the product also has a Non-GMO Project Verified Seal.
Tip #2: Look for Non-GMO Project Seals
Products that carry the Non-GMO Project Seal are independently verified to be in compliance with North America’s only third party standard for GMO avoidance, including testing of at-risk ingredients.
The Non-GMO Project is a non-profit organization
committed to providing consumers with clearly labeled and independently verified non-GMO choices.
Tip #3: Avoid at-risk ingredients
If it’s not labeled organic or verified non-GMO: Avoid products made with ingredients that might be derived from GMOs. The eight GM food crops are Corn, Soybeans, Canola, Cottonseed, Sugar Beets, Hawaiian Papaya (most) and a small amount of Zucchini and Yellow Squash.
Sugar: If a non-organic product made in North American lists “sugar” as an ingredient (and NOT pure cane sugar), then it is almost certainly a combination of sugar from both sugar cane and GM sugar beets.
Dairy: Products may be from cows injected with GM bovine growth hormone. Look for labels stating No rBGH, rBST, or artificial hormones, or check brand listings at NonGMOShoppingGuide.com