Wauna Bulk Food Buying and
Emergency Preparedness Cooperative

Located in the Key Peninsula area of Washington State
(Members mostly live on the Peninsula in communities South of Hwy 16 and West into Belfair)

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ARCHIVE OF PAST INFORMATION


All about Honey
All about Water
All about Medical Masks
NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE

2007

Key Center co-op - 14 July 07Water Storage
Key Center co-op - 17 July 07 Co-op orders from AzureStandard.com about once every 3 months
Key Center co-op - 28 July 07 PCV Pipe Green House Plans
Key Center co-op - 01 Aug 07 Ordering Freeze Dried Foods
Key Center co-op - 04 Aug 07 Final order info for Freeze Dried food
Key Center co-op - 01 Sept 07 Pandemic Medical Masks
Key Center co-op - 04 Sept 07 Getting ready for winter
Key Center co-op - 06 Sept 07 September Order with Loa Anderson
Key Center co-op - 08 Sept 07More on Medical Masks and Smoker Instructions
Key Center co-op - 14 Sept 07 More on Medical Masks and CERTS training Update
Key Center co-op - 24 Dec 07New name for coop and Emergency Prepairdness Plans

2008

Key Center co-op - 04 Jan 08 New page on Providentliving.org
Key Center co-op - 13 Apr 08 Canning Jar Sale
Key Center co-op - 05 May 08 Run on Rice and New coop email addresses
Key Center co-op - 07 May 08 Use caution buying wheat
Key Center co-op - 08 May 08 Sausage Gravy at Costco
Key Center co-op - 27 May 08 50 Disaster Blankets Available (30% wool)
Key Center co-op - 06 Jun 08 New Pandemic Prepardness Web Page released
Key Center co-op - 25 Oct 08 Lana Nelson's excellent handouts on food and water storage
Key Center co-op - 26 Oct 25 Beef Jerky and Freezing Milk
Key Center co-op - 06 Nov 25 Puyallup Emergency Management - Preparedness Fair Nov 8
Key Center co-op - 14 Nov 25 Welcome letter to two new coop family members
Key Center co-op - 15 Nov 08 Portable Nylon Stretcher
Key Center co-op - 22 Nov 08 Dying Food With The Door Knob Technique
Key Center co-op - 26 Nov 08 Mushrooms will kill dogs & Finding and using Glass Bottles to preserve food



Did you see our homeade - portable Stretcher?


Loa Anderson helped make it. This is my son David as the DEMO DOLL"
Either 6 people can take the straps and carry an injured person or you can put two poles
between the hadles and 2 people can carry it. Folds up into a nice little bag.
Made out of Nylon fabric and Nylon bag handles for the straps.

Local Specials You May
Want To Check Out

Loa - I just wanted to pass on some info. You can share if you would like. Perhaps some are already aware of this but, Costco has a bucket of dehydrated food supplies (275 servings in 5 serving packets) for around $97. They are all vegetarian main dishes and pancakes all in one bucket. I have it from a friend of my aunt's that they are all on the good side of edible. I saw the big white buckets on the end of the rice aisle. Cost effective - I don't know, but convenient to get a variety in one bucket easy to toss in your house with a 10 year plus shelf life.

Heather Capper

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Thanks for the tip Heather......
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Meat Preservation

I have now built a successful meat smoker.



Eventually we will get to a whole month of providing information on meat preservation. For now, I am making progress on learning how.


I have learned how to make Jerky (which will keep almost indefinitely with out refrigeration).



and now I have even a smoked whole turkey



After we have learned more about smoking meat and other things like preserving it with salt, we will have a whole month featuring it so you can share in the information we have learned. For now, this is just a couple of snapshots to show you we are making progress and give you a indication of things to come.



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.


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)

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.

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

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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Last Updated 23 Nov 2008