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Title Issue Date

Introduction: Outside the Mold

by Stuart Reid, Food Co-op Initiative

185 July-Aug 2016 July 23, 2016

National Co+op Grocers (NCG) was pleased to present Co+efficient Sustainability Star awards to 14 co-ops in Chapel Hill, N.C. this spring.            

185 July-Aug 2016 July 23, 2016

Blake Jones, co-founder of Namaste Solar, will share how he converted his company to an employee-owned cooperative and solar electric company with offices in Colorado, New York, and California

July 22, 2016

Attention Tacoma shoppers: This week’s closing of The Central Co-op Sixth Avenue site is a perfect case of no

July 22, 2016

Clinton Hill, Brooklyn NY— The Greene Hill Food Co-op could be forced to move from its current location as the building’s owners seek to sell the prope

July 20, 2016

The Central Co-op on Tacoma’s Sixth Avenue never opened its doors early Monday [July 18, 2016].

July 20, 2016

Assabet Village Co-op Market in Maynard, MA has learned that starting a new food co-op takes time, energy, patience, and a lot of work.

July 17, 2016

Downtown Spartanburg is growing, and one example of that growth lies in the newly-opened Hub City Co-op.

July 17, 2016

Buying certain foods in bulk is a great way to save money, packaging, and shopping time, while opening up new opportunities to support good farmers.

July 17, 2016

Angelica Hollstadt turned her love of the land into a successful business selling fermented foods. 

July 16, 2016

Six things we can learn from Northern Italy’s Emilia Romagna region, where cooperatives drive the economy.

July 16, 2016

The Montana Cooperative Development Center is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to help small towns meet their economic needs by pulling community members together to launch, own and suppor

July 16, 2016

Valley Natural Meats in Northfield will begin processing meat in November.

July 16, 2016

What happens when 25 cooperators from 12 co-ops meet? A bold vision for the future of the cooperative trade movement, we discovered at the 2016 P6 Annual Meeting.

July 16, 2016

BROOKS, Maine — If the word “co-op” make you think hazily of the 1970s, Birkenstock sandals and bulk containers of carob, think again.

July 15, 2016
From Sarah Dahl at CDS CC, July 15, 2016: As we wrote about in the 
July 15, 2016

For Karen Smith, the hardest part about getting her vision for a Hillsboro Food Cooperative off the ground is convincing people it's worth the investment.

July 15, 2016

Chefanie's passion for food has taken her all over the world.

July 14, 2016

Tony Alongi laughs and says maybe it was just luck that he found himself in the right place at the right time to become the general manager of Bloomingfoods Market & Deli, a jo

July 11, 2016
BARRE — Granite City Grocery doesn’t have a home, but it might have something just as important as its recently rekindled search for a site continues: momentum.
July 9, 2016