JOINING THE CO-OP
As a part of helping our community be more prepared for a disaster in our
area, we have organized a bulk food buying cooperative. To join this cooperative
you do not need to be a member of any organization, church or group. You
do not even need to live in our neighborhood. Anyone who wants to get
better prepared for a disaster can join us. If you would like to be on
the mailing list of one of or all of the co-ops, just send an email to
the coordinator. Please put ADD TO CO-OP MAILING LIST in the subject line,
and in the body of the email, PLEASE put your FIRST and LAST NAME and
a PHONE NUMBER where we can contact you, so we could contact you if we
need to when we have a problem with your order or if we have something
like a change in time or place of delivery of product.
From time to time you will receive news letters or other Emergency Preparedness
and Food Storage information related to or outlining what we are buying
at the present time. (That information will also always be posted here
on this web page.) We will also try to include some educational information
about food storage in the emails you will receive.
There will also be a lot of other Emergency Preparedness information on
our web page at:
goldenmailbox.com/ep
If you ever want to be removed from the co-op mailing list, just hit REPLY
to one of the newsletters and put REMOVE in the subject line.
SEE ALSO:
PENINSULA EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS COMMITTEE
http://www.pep-c.org/
(NOTE: You will have to type these
email addresses into your email program and not just click on them here.
This is just a picture of their email address so COMPUTER JUNK MAIL
ROBOTS can not scan this web page and put them on their junk email mailing
lists.)
At the present time anything you order through the
PES-C committee you need to just order it yourself and go pick it up your
self.
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BUYING AND SHIPPING INFO
You can buy from the same places we do. The advantage in buying with our
CO-OP is savings in the shipping costs when we all order at the same time
and combine those orders into one shipment.
If the vendors we buy from charge the state sales tax or out of state use tax, we pass that tax charge on to you.
We do not endorse any company or commercial outlet.
We may or may not order something every month. We know that not every
one will want to buy every item every time. That is not a requirement
to belong to the co-op. You can buy as much or as little as you want.
But if the item comes in a certain size, (i.e. 25 pound sack of rice)
normally we will not break that unit down into smaller quantities for
individuals. If you have items that you would like to suggest we purchase
in bulk so you can buy them with us cheaper, lease email your suggestion
to us.
We search the prices and quality of all stores and Internet outlets
and try to choose the best price and highest quality for our co-op members.
NOTE: We reserve the right to return your payment for
any order without delivery if for any reason, including circumstances
where we either are not able to get the goods we ordered in bulk, they
have not been delivered to us in a timely manner, if the distributor changes
the price between the time you give us the money and we actually place
the order, or we have not received payment in full from you before we
place the order with the distributor. Payment and delivery of all orders
will be coordinated the co-op coordinator.
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The main places we are buying from right now are :
LOCAL STORES:
Costco
WinCo Foods
ON LINE:
www.beprepared.com
MillerHoney.com
WaltonFeed.com
www.AzureStandard.com
www.6lights.com (Fruit Farmers)
Honeyville Food Products
(shipping is $4.49 per order no matter how big your order is... WHAT A DEAL)
BePrepared.com (lots of good info on
their web page besides the stuff they sell)
Survival GearPack of Gig Harbor. 3225 Harborview Dr. Suite 3 Gig Harbor WA 98335. (253)405-4785. If they
don't have it, you don't need it. Prices are unbelievable. Check them out!
www.SurvivalGearPack.com
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We will add to this list as we find low prices and high quality from
farmers, vendors or stores that will work with us on shipping costs.
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WHAT IS A YEAR'S SUPPLY?
For one adult with normal health, The LDS DRY PACK CANNERY recommends
that you have the following stored:
400 lbs. Grains (17.5 oz/day)
60 lbs Beans (2.6 oz/day)
10 quarts Cooking Oil (0.87 oz/day)
60 lbs Honey (2.63 oz/day)
8 lbs Salt (0.35 oz/day)
16 lbs Powdered Milk (0.70 oz/day)
14 gallons Drinking Water (a 2 week supply)
There is more information about storing water on our web page at
www.goldenmailbox.com/ep
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LINKS TO OTHER PAGES
OTHER GOOD FOOD STORAGE WEB PAGES: (will add more as I find them)
LDS CHURCH
www.providentliving.org/content/list/0,11664,2003-1,00.html
An Excellent guide on what to store for 3 months or a year.
RED CROSS:
www.redcross.org/services/disaster/0,1082,0_8_,00.html
Good list of "what to store" by the RED CROSS.
PEP-C (Peninsula Emergency Preparedness Committee)
web site: www.pep-c.org
PO Box 1217 Gig Harbor WA 98335
EMAIL: prepare@pep-c.org
They have a news letter if you want to subscribe.
One of the best Emergency Preparedness Web pages on the Internet!
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