monday, September 1 1, 1978
daily nebraskan
page 13
Celebration honors new age ideas'
By Peg Sh eld rick
Approximately 300
people found something to
do besides watch the UNL
game Saturday.
They spent a few hours
participating in the second
annual Open Harvest Cele
bration. Workshops, natural
foods, displays, and live
music were available to any
one willing to stop long
enough to enjoy them.
The food cooperative
was celebrating another very
successful year, as well as
trying to acquaint the Lin
coln community with what
spokesman Keith Larsen
calls "new age ideas."
In one area of the
American Legion Park a
young woman demonstrated
techniques in yarn spinning
and weaving. Elsewhere, an
interested group was
learning Tai Chi, a disci
plined form of exercise
employing slow, flowing
movements of specific body
areas. Laurie McClain and
other local musicians filled
the air with song during the
five hour festival.
The atmosphere was de
cidedly relaxed. Though
things started later than
scheduled no one seemed
up-set about it.
Celebrants a varied crowd
Those in attendance
formed a far from homoge
neous group. Ranging in age
from infants to those past
sixty, the crowd included
Open Harvest co-op mem
bers as well as curious out
siders. Some people were
passers-by who stopped to
see what was going on.
Food prepared in the
Open Harvest kitchen was
on sale at very reasonable
prices. For example, an
"Open Harvest Taco" (pita
bread, lettuce, tomato
sauce, cheese, and rice) sold
sales tripling and member
'ship growing by about 50
percent. The current
working membership
numbers around 300.
Open Harvest was born
four veara non as a fnnrl
for 30 cents. As one might buying club (which is the
. A. 11 f
expect, au iooa was as
natural and organic as possi
ble. Even the lemonade was
made without sugar. (Honey
and maple syrup provided a
novel sweetener.) One
middle-aged woman, asked
about the contents of her
sandwich, replied, "I don't
know what it is, but it's
good."
Workshops and displays
were devoted to encoraging
new approaches to old prob
lems. Solar energy, vegeta
rian nutrition, La Maze
childbirth, and bicycle
maintenance were topics
explored in a variety of
presentations.
Gina Washburn led dis
cussions on rape. Sign-up
sheets were posted for
classes including one in
meditation.
Dancing entertainment
The object was to enter-
way most food co-ops get
started). It has burgeoned
into a store with a snack bar
and a bakery on the
premises.
Co-op easy to start
Larsen emphasized that
it is easy to start a co-op.
"Anybody in any town can
do the same thing," he says.
"It's not that expensive." It
involves getting a tax
number and a -business
name, he added.
Open Harvest is incorpor
ated, but one can't buy
stock in it. It is owned by
its members. Foods are pur
chased from local farmers
and gardeners when possible
or from a warehouse in
Iowa. The food is strictly
natural and organic.
One of the goals in in
viting the public to this
celebration, according to
Larsen, was to let every-
to the ASUN book ex
change), new bakery and
snack bar facilities.
The co-op is financially
sound ("one of the strong
est," Larsen says), and
members expect to have
many more celebrations like
this one.
"This (celebration) is
something we can give back
to the people each year,"
Larsen said.
As if to display tangible
evidence of their confi
dence, members planted an
evergreen in the park during
the festival. It will serve as
the Open Harvest Christmas
tree. The co-op, it seems,
plans to be around for
awhile.
tain as well as to edify, so body know we're more than
the University Folk Dancers just a grocery store- we're
performed, as did the
Dancers For Passers-By.
Sunny weather and a good
sound system helped make
the atmosphere pleasant.
The celebration was put
a place to come and meet
people."
Volunteer effort
The store is open to
everyone, but employees
and perons over 60 get a
on by Open Harvest because 20 percent discount. Volun
"we've had a good year," teers run ths store and snack
according to Larsen. The bar. The co-op is a non
first festival last year was in profit organization,
honor of the cooperative Open Harvest plans to
expanding its store area, take over some store space
The co-op has grown on either side to accommo
even more this year, with date a book co-op (similar
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