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The House now has a big Jenga-like toy where you try to build a tower by taking parts from the lower levels and stacking them on to the top. It’s fun!

Hello Everyone!

We are celebrating our 50th Anniversary on July 13th.

We’d like to invite all the cooperative people we can find to a pot-luck dinner at our house at 6pm. We will be cooking up a storm, so if you can’t bring anything to eat, you’ll still be fine. It will be vegetarian and there will be options for diet-constrained folks. But if you like to bring food to events because you love to cook and share, by all means, that is the “luck” part of the pot-luck so thankyee kindly and we’ll have a special place at the table!

At 8pm, we’ll have a jam band musical extravaganza, so bring your instruments, too.

Then, around 9 or so, we’ll try to have a dance party. Of course, it might start earlier, or it might start later. But at any rate, that’s the intention.

Please email us at cambridgecoop@gmail.com if you are interested in attending and we can give you our address. Thank you!

See you soon,

The Wombats!

Above: one of our founders describing how they organized to buy the house 50 years ago!

Thanks, Fred!

We had a lovely time taking a weekend away from the house all together as a group this year for our annual retreat. This time we went to Cape Cod – in Orleans on the outer cape. The house was nice, bedrooms on the bottom and living room / kitchen on the top – with views of the ocean!

We worked for many hours on various things related to a well-functioning cooperative entity. Especially we took time to work on a new “House Norms” document to help us see more clearly the things we expect from each other. Thanks to Yutaka for organizing that.

Nice sunrise on the Saturday morning – coming right out of the ocean!

 

Thanks to Samantha and Brittany for organizing the whole retreat. It was really a great time. And we even got down to the beach!

Whew! It was still a bit chilly there.

 

 

We worked around the living room to discuss issues and broke out into smaller teams to go over some of the terms we were exploring.

 

 

Then, after doing a lot of intellectual work, Dan led us in a group harmonica symphony!

 

Later on, we had a little dance party. That was a really fun time!

Yay for house bonding and getting some good stuff done!

 

The Cambridge Coop  is 50 years old!  On April 6, celebrate our anniversary along side old and new members. Bring family and friends for an evening of sharing stories, catching up and enjoying our thriving community.

 

When: Saturday, April 6

Time: 4:00 to 8:00, but feel free to stay later

Where: Cambridge Coop

 

More details to come soon!

 

This year, we’ll be fundraising for the Poverty Initiative. We ask for suggested donations of $5. We thank you in advance for helping to support the movement to empower grassroots efforts nationwide to put an end to poverty.

You can donate at the door or online at:
http://www.povertyinitiative.org/donate

We hope to see you on the 27th for great music, dancing and celebration!! Costumes are encourages and guests/additional friends are welcomed!!

Also we will be mindful of keeping noise to a minimum, but if the ghouls and ghosts get a little too loud for your liking, please do let us know and we’ll be happy to quiet down. Our house number is: (617) 876-1750

– Cambridge Coop
Dan Eric, Garga, Grey, Laura, Nancy, Paul, Samantha, Yao, Yutaka & Zahra

You’re invited to FIESTA for the Finca at the Cambridge Coop! 

Come celebrate the blossoming of spring, community, and a shared commitment to taking care of our Earth and support the initiatives of Finca Guanacaste, a permaculture farm in Nicaragua focused on sustainable agriculture and ecological regeneration.

Saturday, May 5th

10am-5pm 

Cambridge Coop

See our Schedule of Events Here

We’ll enjoy:

• Fun!
• Food & home-brewed beer and kombucha
• Music & jam session
• Give aways and swaps of: plant cuttings, seeds, and tomato plants, and kombucha and kefir starters
• Spoken word poetry in honor of Mother Earth
• Skill-share workshops on worm composting, herbal first aid remedies, the basics of bike mechanics, water conservation, raising heirloom tomatoes, and other eco-living skills throughout the day
• Earth meditation 
• Fair Trade Artisanry from Nicaraguan artists

This Fiesta will benefit Finca Guanacaste to support our 1,000 Trees Campaign. By the end of the day on May 5th, we hope to have raised $1,000. For each $1 we raise, one tree will be planted (avacado, mango, jackfruit, ojoche, and other high-yield trees) with families in the local community in Nicaragua to promote food security and reforestation of wildlife habitats.

You are welcomed to bring:

• A suggested donation of $10 or whatever you’d like to offer to benefit Finca Guanacaste. Donations can be made online here too, and are greatly appreciated!
• A poem, song, or musical instrument to share
• Seedlings, plant cuttings, and/or seeds to swap and share
• Yourself! We are happy to see all your smiling faces and to celebrate together!

May 5th is 350.org’s Climate Impacts Day. We’ll be a “dot” connecting environmental actions in Cambridge, with the farm in Nicaragua, and thousands of others gathered around the world! 

We’ll have festivities all day, so we hope you’ll stop by to celebrate with us! Bring your friends, loved ones, and neighbors!

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Thanks to all our friends and neighbors who came out this past Sunday to celebrate our 49th birthday with us!

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You are cordially invited to  the Cambridge Cooperative Club’s 49th Birthday, Open House, Bike Fix-up, and plant swap. Sunday, April 15th from 12-3 pm!

All are welcome.  Bring your best friends, your grandchildren, your sweethearts, your friends, your neighbors, your dogs, and your bicycles. Learn about coops for the first time, or reconnect with old housemates. Trade clipping from house plans or seedlings. There will be snacks, stories, and supplies for basic bike tune ups.

RSVP if you can, but feel free to just show up! And please spread the word to anyone who might be interested.

Hope to see you soon!