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Every day, we make decisions that we feel can best serve our
world, through our buying of sustainable foods, our fair
wages and health insurance for our treasured staff, our
commitment to help to fill the needs of our community, and
the respect for our earth and for everyone with whom we
share it. We donate 10% of our profits to charities.
Presently, we are working with The Growing Connection, a
United Nations Food and Agriculture project to help
alleviate world hunger by teaching the art of growing food.
The first two schools we are working with are the Barnard
School and the Jepson School, two wonderful magnate schools
in New Haven. We feel that by teaching the art and pleasures
of gardening, everyone, regardless of income, will have
access to wholesome, fresh foods. During the winter months,
we'll grow herbs and tender greens indoors in Earthboxes,
and as the weather warms, we'll bring the boxes outdoors and
grow both in and out of the boxes. Our goal is to encourage
children to start vegetable gardens in their back yards and
to learn the many lessons from growing; nurturing,
nutrition, commitment, history, science, and math, and
entrepreneurship, while enjoying delicious and wholesome
foods, fresh from the garden.
We work hard to buy sustainable and organic ingredients
because we think you're worth it and because we all depend
on our future and this requires caring for our earth in
every way possible.
Our
take out cold cups and our take out food boxes are
completely compostable, and are printed with soy ink, and
we've always used paper cups rather than Styrofoam, and
paper bags rather than plastic for our take out foods.
We
eliminated trans fats from our menus in 2001, replacing
shortenings in our pie crusts with organic and trans fat
free and our pie crusts remain tender yet flaky, the way you
like them.
And, as we continue to learn, we will continue to make
improvements to help protect our future generations.
Of course, we could not
work at our mission; our love, without the ongoing support
from our dedicated and amazing staff, our beloved customers,
our farmers and suppliers, our treasured community partner,
People's United Bank and Yale University office of New Haven
and State Affairs, who always come through with sponsorship
of our major fundraisers that benefit the children and
families in our city. Truly, we are all in this -- together.
If we can ever change the world, and I know we can, it will
be through our good work - Together!
Peace,
Claire and Frank Criscuolo
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