SOI - Bake sale

For the SOI bake sale I originally planned to bake a gingerbread cake, but upon looking at the box I realized that the baking mix was not organic. Now I could have baked the cake and claimed that it was organic since I had organic eggs and oil to make it with, but I did not wish to compromise the integrity or the goal of the bake sale. I went out and bought some brownie mix and organic chocolate chips to make some double chocolate brownies. I feel that my dedication to the cause was due to the watching of food inc.I also think that it was better for me to give the people true organic baked goods in order to show them, and the community, that Organic goods can be just a tasty as other food.

SOI - Bake sale plans

Today at SOI we plan to have a bake sale on next Friday. After watching Food Inc. for the last few days we have been discussing how we plan to raise awareness of non-organic and industrial foods. I loved Food Inc. since it gave us some great talking points about organic foods. The film itself made me feel disgusted about some of the ethics and sanitary standards of the food industry, and it did open my eye to a lot of things, like how the food industry is controlled by 4 or 5 corporation, not the 10-15 that I originally thought. This meant a lot to me since getting some facts and outside and inside opinions really helped renew our faith in the cause and give us a greater body of people to relate to, and work with. Hopefully our watching will give us some good incentive to continue on our mission, and help win the hearts and minds of people in and out of Sturgis.

SOI - Bake Sale failure and SOI potluck plans.

Last week we had planned to work a "bake" sale of healthy organic foods and tea. We were all assigned to different days to work and different foods to bring in. I was assigned to bring in tea and work on Monday. Since we had plenty of left over tea from our first sale that counted as my contribution. Because of this I forgot about the bake sale completely and when Monday came around I was not there for the sale and i missed out. If I had talked to anyone in SOI, wrote the schedule down, or bought more tea, I would have been able to remember the bake sale.

Today at the meeting I found that overall the sale was a bust, and that we were going to scrap the idea for now so that we can focus on a SOI pot luck for us so that we can see if we can branch it out to the greater Sturgis Community. Through this preparation we hope to be sure that we can work as a "separated group" to create enough food for us so that we know what needs to get done for when we have the Sturgis wide one. Hopefully through these pot lucks we will be able to increase awareness of organic products.

First SOI Meeting

For the first meeting I was regrettably late by a few minutes. I didn't miss much and I had several ideas that I feel helped. This meeting was mostly brainstorming but we seem to be branching out from the school and onto main street with our ideas. Jade set up a blog for SOI to use and brainstorm out of meetings. I have yet to use it yet, but I have talked with some members about possible ideas. This thursday we have another meeting. We will hopefully be able to narrow down what we want to do.