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In this issue:

• The President’s Pasture—Go Organic for Earth Day
• A Mighty Wind: We’re supporting renewable energy projects, and you can, too
• Have-A-Cow: Even city dwellers can experience life on the farm
• Yobaby Cover Baby Contest: Every baby is a YoBaby!
• More Energy Tips: Learn more at Rocky Mountain Institute
• Replenish, Relax, Rejuvenate: Stonyfield Farm Strong Women Summit returns!
• Consider Boot Camp: Stonyfield Farm invites community minded entrepreneurs to boot camp
• March recipes: Spotlight on Early Spring Vegetables
  • Asparagus and Tomato Salad
  • Baby Potatoes in yogurt and almond sauce

Gary Hirshberg The President’s Pasture — Go Organic for Earth Day Dear Friends, On April 22, Earth Day will be 35 years old! I have to admit, back in 1970, I don't think anybody envisioned Earth Day greeting cards, t-shirts, school curricula, and songs sprouting from that first grassroots effort to focus on the health of the planet. I remember our high school's classes were suspended for the first Earth Day and we tramped through streams, dug pits and looked at soils. We even had an "earth lunch" where "organic" foods were served--salads and some kind of yucky, mushy stew. Earth Day 1970 was before the birth of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and the Safe Drinking Water Act. Today it boggles the mind to envision a country without laws protecting our air and our water. Earth Day 1970 helped put environmental issues on the national agenda for the first time. Happy 35th Birthday, Earth Day! This year I'm excited that Stonyfield is part of another national Earth Day campaign. "Go Organic for Earth Day" will link us with 39 other organic food companies and 18 supermarket chains to help consumers learn the benefits of eating organic. They'll be encouraged to try new products and receive a "Go Organic for Earth Day Action Kit" with fun food facts, recipes, and news of Earth Day events. Going organic would be a great way to mark Earth Day. Learn more about organics. Here at Stonyfield Farm, we try to do business with the idea that Every Day is Earth Day.

A MIGHTY WIND We're buying into renewable energy projects, and you can, too Five million cups of yogurt are about to ship from our Londonderry, New Hampshire plant with this message on top:"Eat a few ounces, take off a few tons." But, no, we're not talking about those extra pounds around your waist. We're talking about the 9,844 tons of carbon dioxide pollution we're taking out of the air to reduce our company's impact on global warming.
While we do our best to minimize the amount of energy we use at our Londonderry, New Hampshire Yogurt Works, we know that despite our efforts, our energy use is contributing to global warming. So in 1997, Stonyfield Farm became the first U.S. manufacturer to offset 100% of the carbon dioxide emissions from its facility energy use. Carbon offsets are investments in projects that absorb greenhouse gases or prevent them. Greenhouse gases are the prime culprit in global warming.
With our partner, NativeEnergy, we’ve recently offset the carbon dioxide emissions from our 2003 and 2004 facility energy by investing in two renewable energy projects. One is the Rosebud St. Francis Wind Farm on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. The other is the Schrack Family Dairy Farm Methane Project in Pennsylvania. This family farm will use an anaerobic digester to process cow manure, capture the resulting methane, and use it to generate renewable electricity, or as NativeEnergy calls it, Remooable Energysm .
Our investment in these two projects will result in greenhouse gas savings equivalent to taking 1,640 cars off the road for an entire year! We're just trying to do our part. You can, too! Sign up for "WindBuilderssm" with NativeEnergy. Individuals can choose from 6-, 8- or 12-ton shares-the equivalent of not driving your car for a year, or powering and heating your house with wind energy for a year. You can even buy a ton of carbon dioxide (to take out of the air, not put in) as a gift for someone else! For more ways you can do your part in the fight against global warming, check out Earth Actions

HAVE A COW Even if you're a city dweller For just $3 you can sponsor a cow! You'll receive an official sponsorship certificate; a photo of "your" cow ; your cow's biography; and four updates per year in our Have-A-Cow program. For every cow sponsored in March and April, we'll donate the $3 sponsorship fee to the National Family Farm Coalition to support family farms.

Three babies and three toddlers were winners in our YoBaby Cover Baby contest that concluded in February. Originally, we intended to award only two prizes, but the voting results were so close, we couldn't decide! On March 18, all six winners flew into Boston with their parents and sat for a professional modeling photo session.
Soon their cute faces will be gracing the packages of our YoBaby yogurt. Be sure to visit our Baby Babble Blog, a daily web log where parents can meet up, rant, offer and seek advice, or just tell us their trials and triumphs. And, you'll see dozens of beautiful babies, we promise.

Ingredients
1 bunch asparagus, steamed, chilled and chopped
2 tomatoes, chopped
4 tablespoons plain Stonyfield Farm Yogurt
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
1 tablespoon grated parmesan cheese


Directions
In a medium bowl, mix yogurt, mustard and cheese. Add chopped asparagus and tomatoes and toss. Serve cold alone or as a side dish. Makes 4 servings.

Nutrition Facts
None

Baby Potatoes in yogurt and almond sauce
Baby potatoes in a sauce made with ground almonds, spices and yogurt.

Ingredients:
10 baby potatoes
12 oz Stonyfield Farm Yogurt
Small piece of fresh ginger
1 cup whole Almonds (soak almonds in water and then remove the skin and make a paste of it by adding a little yogurt)
1 green chili
1/2 tsp turmeric
2 tsp. coriander powder
2 tsp salt
Cilantro leaves

Directions
Boil the potatoes in water until fully cooked. Allow to cool, then peel. Soak 1 cup almonds in water. Remove and discard skins. Add a little yogurt to the almonds in a food processor and blend until it makes a paste.

Blend the spices, 1/2 cup of yogurt and the almond paste in a saucepan. Add the potatoes and stir. Bring mixture to a simmer.

Remove from heat and fold in the rest of the yogurt. Add some cilantro leaves on the top. Makes 1 quart.

You can always find more delicious recipes using Stonyfield Farm yogurt and milk in our recipe section Cooking with Yogurt.

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