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In this
issue:
- The President's Pasture
- Bid with Your Lid! You can vote on how Stonyfield Farm supports three
environmental groups
- Strong Women Saturdays coming this fall
- From Romania to Stonyfield Farm and back again
- Love letters
- Recipes for the Summertime "Blues"
- Brilliant Blueberry Smoothie
- Berry-licious Parfait
 The President's Pasture
At Stonyfield Farm, we often partner with like-minded companies
who offer superb, top-quality products, who show support for environmental
preservation and protection, and who are dedicated to giving back.
This month, we're teamed up with The Organic Wine Company to offer
our yogurt lovers a special deal on a variety of earth-friendly
wines that have become favorites among my family and friends.
My wife, Meg, and Stonyfield Farm Co-Founder Louise Kaymen have
both discovered that drinking these fine reds, made with organically
grown grapes and minimal sulfur dioxide, have stopped the headaches
they get from conventional wines. The Chateau Veronique variety
is a particular favorite at dinner in our house. In addition to
the generous discount you'll receive on any purchase, the Rain
Forest Action Network will receive 2 percent of the proceeds.
Don't
miss out on this special offer.
Also during July and August, we hope you'll bid with your lids!
The lids on our yogurt cups explain how you can help us direct
$100,000 to three organizations that help the Earth.
Gary Hirshberg
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 Three
great environmental groups will receive Profits for the Planet Funds—based
on your votes
Join us in supporting the National Wildlife Federation, the Beyond Pesticides
organization, and the American Hiking Society's National Trails Day. Through
our Profits
for the Planet program, we're donating $100,000 to these three organizations,
but we need your help in deciding how to divide the money. Each organization
will recieveget a minimum of $20,000, but the remaining $40,000 will be
divided based on your votes. Bid
with your lids! Save the lids from Stonyfield Farm yogurt cups
and use them to cast votes for your favorite cause, or visit our website
to cast one vote with a simple click.
National Wildlife Federation educates and empowers people
to protect wildlife and habitat and is the nation's largest and oldest
protector of wildlife.
Beyond Pesticides is a national network committed to
pesticide safety and the adoption of alternative pest management strategies
which reduce or eliminate a dependency on toxic chemicals.
American Hiking Society National Trails Day promotes
physical activity and wellness through trails. The organization promotes
healthy lifestyles, connects the general public with trails in their communities,
builds partnerships to protect trails, and cultivates new volunteer trail
stewards.
Cast
your vote and get rewarded, too!
You can learn more about Stonyfield Farm's everyday efforts to support
the environment, and about current environment news at Earth
Actions. Also visit our Dairy
Planet blog — our web log. The Dairy Planet features news, information,
advocacy and fun environmental stuff. It changes daily, so visit early
and often.
Strong Women SaturdaysTM
coming this fall
As an offshoot of our popular 3-day Strong
Women SummitsTM, we're happy to announce
two 1-day events, the Strong
Women SaturdaysTM, coming this fall.
We hope you can join us at one of these Saturday events!
Boston
— September 18
Washington,
D.C. — November 6
The Strong Women SaturdayTM programs provide
information on women's health and stress-busting strategies, and making
a difference in your community. The day includes interactive workshops,
fitness tips and tests, and inspirational speakers such as Erin Brockovich,
Dr. Miriam Nelson, and others. You'll have plenty of opportunities to
meet and network with other strong women, too. Visit the Stonyfield Farm
Strong Women SaturdaysTM or our Strong
Women SummitTM, November 12-14 in New
Paltz, New York. You can now register online for any of these events.
Also visit Strong
Women Daily News, our web log, for up-to-the-minute changes in the
Strong Women programs, along with relevant tips, tricks, and news stories
for strong women everywhere.
 From
Romania to Stonyfield Farm and back again!
Nearly 14 years ago, Elena Pintea arrived here from communist Romania,
after her 10-day hunger strike persuaded government officials there to
give her a passport. She knew no English, but arrived in awe of America's
clean air and its astounding shopping malls. Within her first year in
this country, she was honored by her then employer, Holiday Inn, for outstanding
work. She joined Stonyfield soon after that, beginning her employment
by hand-packing yogurt (a process that is entirely automated now). When
President Bill Clinton visited the Stonyfield plant, he stood next to
her to pack and she showed him how it was done.
Elena also made it possible for her mother to join her in America, but
the two of them will return to Romania when Elena retires at the end of
2004. She needs to be with two nephews there, who lost their mother, Elena's
sister, recently. Elena's retirement earnings will make her a rich person
in Romania, where average wages are about $100 per month, and no one has
enough food, clothing or shelter. She loves America and its people, she
says, and remembers with fondness the fellow Stonyfield employees who
helped her learn English in the employee breakroom by reading out of a
newspaper. Elena still reads a newspaper everyday and is quick to remind
folks that she passed her citizenship test in 1994 with a perfect score!
 Love
letters
Our Quality Assurance department continuously samples our yogurt to make
sure each cup is of the same high quality. Instead of dumping the tested
samples, we ship them to a local hog farmer who feeds it to his hogs.
We like avoiding waste, and the hogs benefit from all the protein, calcium
and immune system boosts of our yogurts. This week we've been amused by
a series of emails with an animal theme. One yogurt eater reports she
buys 4 or 5 of our large, 32-ounce yogurts a week. That's a lot, we thought,
until we see that she's also feeding it to her dogs! Well, that wasn't
that surprising—we've heard of dogs snarfing up our yogurts before. But
then we got this note: “I've been a client for years. I LOVE the BaNilla
yogurt. I buy 4 to 6, 32-ounce yogurts every week. Also, my Asian water
dragon loves it, too. She's on a diet.”
Asian water dragons? Who knew?
Recipes for the Summertime "Blues"
Here in New England, the wild blueberries are just about to turn ripe.
Many of us will head out to our favorite picking places (keeping them
secret so we have more for ourselves) and load up our baskets. Whether
your blueberries are wild or cultivated, these recipes and our great yogurt
will just sing out with the tastes of deep summer!
 Brilliant
Blueberry Smoothie
A sure "whey" to get you going in the morning!
Ingredients:
1 cup plain yogurt
1 cup blueberries, fresh or frozen
1 cup orange juice
2 tablespoon wheat germ
5 ice cubes (if using fresh blueberries)
Directions:
Combine blueberries, orange juice and yogurt in a blender, and puree on
high until smooth. Serve immediately.
Yields: 2 tall glasses
Nutrition Facts Per Serving:
Calories 170; Calories from Fat 25; Total Fat 2.5g; Cholesterol 5mg; Total
Carbohydrates 32g; Protein 8g
 Berry-licious
Parfait
As the weather gets warmer, everyone starts looking
for ways to eat "lighter". Yogurt parfaits make a perfect
brunch or dessert treat and will help to satisfy your
sweet tooth. Try making these simple, yet impressive
treats with any of your favorite seasonal fruits!
Ingredients:
2 cups lowfat vanilla yogurt
1 cup fresh strawberries, sliced
1/2 cup fresh blueberries
6 tablespoons granola
Directions:
Clean and cut the strawberries into quarters, mixing them with the blueberries.
Using a tall glass, alternate layers, first beginning with yogurt, then
berries, and then yogurt again. Repeat this layering until the glass is
full. Top with granola and enjoy
Yields: 2 parfaits
Nutrition Facts Per Serving:
Calories 270; Fat 3.5 g; Fiber 4g; Protein 11g; Calcium 35%
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