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The Lasting Legacy Of Communality...
High Falls Food Coop to Celebrate 40 Years

HIGH FALLS – Back in 1976 soy beans were a rare fad. Granola was just becoming a thing in certain parts of the country. Locavore wasn't a word yet, and 'sustainable' hardly a concept. And yet the Back to the Earth movement was still a big thing, with the Woodstock Generation continuing to make inroads into mainstream culture. Whole Earth was a catalogue, Foxfire a way of life, and between 1969 and 1979, close to 10,000 food co-ops were established in the United States and overseas, taking a 19th century British idea into something that felt almost political, were it not so community-based.

In the Rondout Valley, Rosendale was becoming a hipster outlier for New Paltz, and High Falls was a destination for foodies drawn by all that John Novi was building up at his Depuy Canal House. Think Woodstock, around the area, without that town's celebrity music scene and all THAT entailed.

Now prepare to celebrate all that was started back then, and has survived...

Open for forty years, the High Falls Food Co-op is celebrating its anniversary with a big party to thank the local community for its support this Saturday, October 1, from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Black Barn in High Falls, on Route 213 at Bruceville Road. Live music, comedy, and organic, vegetarian food from the Co-op's kitchen will be served up in an adjoining big tent. The music will be acoustic, family friendly material from Dog on Fleas, legendary Malian musicians Amadou & Mariam, the Bloom Community Choir, and the jazz stylings of Jade Cruz. Master of ceremonies Joe Raiola, past editor of Mad Magazine and a longtime WDST radio personality and stand up comedian (and long time Co-op member) will address the pros and cons of coconut water... among many subjects.

The party will also pay tribute to community non-profits including Marbletown Holistic Health Services, Marbletown Emergency Services, Woodstock Farm Sanctuary, the Rochester and Rosendale Food Pantries, the Rosendale Theatre and the High Falls Conservancy.

A raffle in support of these groups will be held, with an array of great prizes such as a case of organic wine from Stone Ridge Wine & Spirits, a delicious dinner for two from the Co-op's own Culinary Institute trained chef, a Mad Magazine gift pack, and pet gift baskets from Rosendale's Paws & Tails Pantry and Sara's Style grooming (the raffle will be held at 4 p.m.)

Talk about celebrating the sort of history that we're all now becoming known for in the Rondout Valley and surroundings!

For more info call 687-7262 or check the High Falls Coop's Facebook page.



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