<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><a name="LETTER.BLOCK7"><table bgcolor="#f4b78a" border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" id="content_LETTER.BLOCK7" style="margin-bottom: 6px; background-color: rgb(244, 183, 138); "><tbody><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1" align="left" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left; "><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" style="margin-bottom: 6px; "><tbody><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1" align="left" style="text-align: left; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Attention Gardeners!</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br></b>There will be a special summer class at GreenStar Cooperative Market, 701 W. Buffalo St., called<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Planting Cover Crops all Season Long in the Garden<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>on Wednesday, August 3 at 7 pm. Cover crops provide so many benefits. They protect and improve the soil, suppress weeds, can help manage pests, and add diversity and beauty to the vegetable garden. However, they are often underutilized by gardeners. </span></div><p style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "> </span></p><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">In this class, instructor<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Elizabeth Dyck</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>will discuss strategies and methods that make incorporating cover crops in the garden easy and that maximize their benefits. She will focus on summer cover crops, including buckwheat (the cover crop queen), sorghum-sudan grass, Japanese millet, and cowpea but will also outline late summer, fall, and spring options. Elizabeth Dyck of the Organic Growers Research and Information-Sharing Network (OGRIN) is a long-time cover cropper. Each class attendee will receive seed samples and a coupon for a discount on locally grown organic buckwheat seed. </span></div><p style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "> </span></p><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">This class is free and open to the public, and is held in the meeting room at GreenStar Cooperative Markets West-End Store, 701 W. Buffalo St. Space is limited and registration is required. To register, sign up at GreenStar's Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.</span></div><p style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; "> </span></p><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Views expressed by the presenters do not necessarily represent GreenStar Cooperative Market, Inc., its Council, management or staff.</span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>