Did you know the average average meal in the United States travels 1,200 miles from the farm to your plate? Buying locally saves fuel and keeps money in our community.
One way to buy local is to sign up for a weekly share of fruits and/or vegetables. Here's the skinny. You pay one, up front fee. Then you get a portion of whatever the crop is that year. These are the available programs in our area:
Clear Spring Farm
FULL SHARE $475.00 in full or $237.00 now and $238.00 by 5/1
1/2 SHARE $250.00 in full or $125.00 now and $125.00 by 5/1
Approximately 30 different vegetables - harvested from June through November.
Covered Bridge Produce
$675 for ten fruit or organic vegetable items each week of the growing season which runs 23 weeks from early June to early November. Pick up in Allentown or Bethlehem on Tuesdays.
14 Acres Farm
$600 for June through November. A typical bag will contain 6+oz. of high-end spring mix, bunches of beets and carrots, onions, garlic, potatoes, peas or beans, a loaf of organic bread, one or more specialty vegetables with recipe cards, and an assortment of herbs.
Friday, January 19, 2007
Don't miss out on January's membership discount!
Time is ticking away, and once January ends, you will no longer be able to purchase a NET membership at $27. Don't miss out! Join the many new members who have joined NET this month.
Those individuals that join or renew their membership in January will receive a 10% off the current membership dues of $30. Click here to take advantage of this offer.
Already a dues-paying member? No problem. The current dues-paying member who refers the most individuals to sign up for membership in the month of January, will receive one year of NET membership for free. Just have your friends put your name in the appropriate field.
NET membership is the key to NET’s fantastic social, educational, and cultural events. In the past year, we’ve had political roundtables, professional development seminars, community volunteer opportunities, and recreational outings. And of course, we’ve hosted lots of social events including our regular First Thursdays, which are free for NET members.
In addition, the NET membership card is a gateway to discounts at businesses throughout the Lehigh Valley. We currently have over 100 participating businesses, and with our aggressive new campaign, that number is rapidly growing.
Local merchants, insurance companies, theaters, and restaurants all recognize that suave little card and those who carry it. Click here for the most up-to-date listing. With only a handful of uses, through these discounts the NET membership card easily pays for itself.
Our newest Affiliate Member, Lehigh Valley Style, will be providing a free subscription to all NET members.
As a dues-paying member, you are able to vote in NET elections, run for the NET officer positions, and serve as committee chair. To find out more on how to become further involved in the NET come to our next organizational meeting.
Most importantly, your membership fee helps fund the NET, making all that we do possible.
Those individuals that join or renew their membership in January will receive a 10% off the current membership dues of $30. Click here to take advantage of this offer.
Already a dues-paying member? No problem. The current dues-paying member who refers the most individuals to sign up for membership in the month of January, will receive one year of NET membership for free. Just have your friends put your name in the appropriate field.
NET membership is the key to NET’s fantastic social, educational, and cultural events. In the past year, we’ve had political roundtables, professional development seminars, community volunteer opportunities, and recreational outings. And of course, we’ve hosted lots of social events including our regular First Thursdays, which are free for NET members.
In addition, the NET membership card is a gateway to discounts at businesses throughout the Lehigh Valley. We currently have over 100 participating businesses, and with our aggressive new campaign, that number is rapidly growing.
Local merchants, insurance companies, theaters, and restaurants all recognize that suave little card and those who carry it. Click here for the most up-to-date listing. With only a handful of uses, through these discounts the NET membership card easily pays for itself.
Our newest Affiliate Member, Lehigh Valley Style, will be providing a free subscription to all NET members.
As a dues-paying member, you are able to vote in NET elections, run for the NET officer positions, and serve as committee chair. To find out more on how to become further involved in the NET come to our next organizational meeting.
Most importantly, your membership fee helps fund the NET, making all that we do possible.
Great turnout at Riverport Condos last night
Over 60 people attended the NET's business card exchange at Riverport Condos last night. Young professionals mingled, exchanged business cards, and sipped on wine at a jam-packed condo.
Don't miss out on the NET's upcoming events. We have a dine-out tonight at Nuts About Ice Cream. And next month's highlights include a trip to the new restaurant Melt and a great Italian restaurant Sette Luna in Easton.
Don't miss out on the NET's upcoming events. We have a dine-out tonight at Nuts About Ice Cream. And next month's highlights include a trip to the new restaurant Melt and a great Italian restaurant Sette Luna in Easton.
Townhome plan ok'd for Cross Country Clothing factory site in Northampton County
Developer Joseph C. Posh won over officials with his plan to put 40 townhouse-style condominiums on the 4.5-acre property at 27 W. 21st St., capping a struggle with the borough that's lasted since 1999.
Most of the Cross Country property has been unused since the factory was razed in 1998, three years after it closed.
Posh Properties built and still owns a CVS Pharmacy and Redner's Quick Shoppe on the part of the site closest to 21st Street, leaving the remaining 4.5 acres undeveloped while Posh struggled with borough officials.
More here.
Most of the Cross Country property has been unused since the factory was razed in 1998, three years after it closed.
Posh Properties built and still owns a CVS Pharmacy and Redner's Quick Shoppe on the part of the site closest to 21st Street, leaving the remaining 4.5 acres undeveloped while Posh struggled with borough officials.
More here.
Townhomes planned for Martin Tower development
Martin Tower would be redeveloped into 266 condominiums and its surrounding property would give rise to another 552 new homes, according to a sketch plan released Thursday.
The sketch submitted this month to city planners shows the homes built around seven pocket parks on the 53-acre site, including two designated for dog walking. Paths would connect to the Monocacy Creek trail at the Burnside Plantation and to the Monocacy Park ball fields off Schoenersville Road.
A clubhouse with pool and parking garages for some of the site's 2,124 parking spaces are also planned, as is 13,000 square feet of retail space. Bethlehem-based developer Lou Pektor said he envisions neighborhood retailers such as dry cleaning, a coffee shop and salon.
The submission of plans marks the first tangible sign of progress on the roughly $300 million project since city council rezoned the property last March. The new zoning allows homes and retail while requiring the preservation of Martin Tower, built in the 1970s as Bethlehem Steel Corp. headquarters.
More here.
The sketch submitted this month to city planners shows the homes built around seven pocket parks on the 53-acre site, including two designated for dog walking. Paths would connect to the Monocacy Creek trail at the Burnside Plantation and to the Monocacy Park ball fields off Schoenersville Road.
A clubhouse with pool and parking garages for some of the site's 2,124 parking spaces are also planned, as is 13,000 square feet of retail space. Bethlehem-based developer Lou Pektor said he envisions neighborhood retailers such as dry cleaning, a coffee shop and salon.
The submission of plans marks the first tangible sign of progress on the roughly $300 million project since city council rezoned the property last March. The new zoning allows homes and retail while requiring the preservation of Martin Tower, built in the 1970s as Bethlehem Steel Corp. headquarters.
More here.
Thursday, January 18, 2007
February NET First Thursday
If you've heard about the NET and would like to see what it’s about, this is
the event for you. Come meet and network with NET members.
Come alone, bring your friends, introduce someone new to the NET, introduce
yourself to someone new. Expand your network.
When: Thursday, Feb. 1, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Where: Starters Riverport, 17 W. 2nd Street, Bethlehem
Admission: FREE to NET members, $3 for non-members
Not a member yet? Join now!
the event for you. Come meet and network with NET members.
Come alone, bring your friends, introduce someone new to the NET, introduce
yourself to someone new. Expand your network.
When: Thursday, Feb. 1, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Where: Starters Riverport, 17 W. 2nd Street, Bethlehem
Admission: FREE to NET members, $3 for non-members
Not a member yet? Join now!
Rendell unveils "Prescription for Pennsylvania": A New PA Healthcare Plan
Gov. Ed Rendell wants Pennsylvania businesses to offer basic health insurance to all workers and a statewide ban on smoking in workplaces, restaurants and bars under a sweeping plan unveiled Wednesday. There are nearly 600 restaurants that have banned smoking Valleywide already.
With medical costs outstripping both inflation and wage growth and the prospects for relief from Washington remote, Pennsylvania can no longer ignore its uninsured, Rendell said in the first major policy speech of his second term. Paying for them, he said, costs state taxpayers $1.4 billion annually.
Rendell stopped far short of calling for the kind of single-payer health care espoused by progressives within his party, but he described his ''Cover All Pennsylvanians'' plan as universal because it would benefit most of the 767,000 adult residents who lack medical coverage.
The sweep of Rendell's proposal made its prognosis difficult to determine. Final action on any facet seems at best months off. Four-dozen pieces of legislation, federal and state approval and a host of regulatory changes are needed to implement the program fully.
Funding for Rendell's plan would come from several sources. First, the state would impose a ''fair share'' tax — equal to 3 percent of payroll — on the roughly 100,000 businesses that do not cover their employees. In the program's first year, the first 50 employees of those businesses would be exempted from the levy, with the threshold declining each year.
Second, the state would boost its $1.35-per-pack cigarette tax by an undisclosed amount and impose a new tax on cigars and smokeless tobacco. Administration officials are withholding details until Rendell's annual budget address Feb. 6. Tobacco taxes would earn the state federal matching money.
Essentially, Rendell wants to expand the state's adultBasic insurance program, which covers people age 19 to 64 who can't afford private insurance and who don't qualify for Medical Assistance, as Medicaid is known here. He would partially subsidize insurance costs for businesses that can't afford to offer benefits to their employees.
Rendell would expand income limits under adultBasic from 200 percent of the federal poverty level to 300 percent, or from about $40,000 to $60,000 for a family of four. Those people would pay monthly premiums of $10 to $60.
Businesses with fewer than 50 employees earning less than the state's average yearly wage of $39,000 would purchase coverage at $130 a month. Their employees would pay $70 a month in premiums, but they could claim a rebate depending on their income.
Self-employed individuals earning more than 300 percent of the poverty level could purchase coverage by paying the full, unsubsidized premium of $280 a month.
Rendell called for other reforms aimed at reducing health care costs while improving the quality of care. These include expanding the Insurance Department's ability to regulate rate increases, encouraging more schools to fight childhood obesity, allowing nurse practitioners to perform more medical procedures and reducing the use of hospital emergency rooms as walk-in clinics for the uninsured.
More here.
With medical costs outstripping both inflation and wage growth and the prospects for relief from Washington remote, Pennsylvania can no longer ignore its uninsured, Rendell said in the first major policy speech of his second term. Paying for them, he said, costs state taxpayers $1.4 billion annually.
Rendell stopped far short of calling for the kind of single-payer health care espoused by progressives within his party, but he described his ''Cover All Pennsylvanians'' plan as universal because it would benefit most of the 767,000 adult residents who lack medical coverage.
The sweep of Rendell's proposal made its prognosis difficult to determine. Final action on any facet seems at best months off. Four-dozen pieces of legislation, federal and state approval and a host of regulatory changes are needed to implement the program fully.
Funding for Rendell's plan would come from several sources. First, the state would impose a ''fair share'' tax — equal to 3 percent of payroll — on the roughly 100,000 businesses that do not cover their employees. In the program's first year, the first 50 employees of those businesses would be exempted from the levy, with the threshold declining each year.
Second, the state would boost its $1.35-per-pack cigarette tax by an undisclosed amount and impose a new tax on cigars and smokeless tobacco. Administration officials are withholding details until Rendell's annual budget address Feb. 6. Tobacco taxes would earn the state federal matching money.
Essentially, Rendell wants to expand the state's adultBasic insurance program, which covers people age 19 to 64 who can't afford private insurance and who don't qualify for Medical Assistance, as Medicaid is known here. He would partially subsidize insurance costs for businesses that can't afford to offer benefits to their employees.
Rendell would expand income limits under adultBasic from 200 percent of the federal poverty level to 300 percent, or from about $40,000 to $60,000 for a family of four. Those people would pay monthly premiums of $10 to $60.
Businesses with fewer than 50 employees earning less than the state's average yearly wage of $39,000 would purchase coverage at $130 a month. Their employees would pay $70 a month in premiums, but they could claim a rebate depending on their income.
Self-employed individuals earning more than 300 percent of the poverty level could purchase coverage by paying the full, unsubsidized premium of $280 a month.
Rendell called for other reforms aimed at reducing health care costs while improving the quality of care. These include expanding the Insurance Department's ability to regulate rate increases, encouraging more schools to fight childhood obesity, allowing nurse practitioners to perform more medical procedures and reducing the use of hospital emergency rooms as walk-in clinics for the uninsured.
More here.
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