147 March - April - 2010
Issue's Articles
Title | Issue | Date |
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Ten years ago, the Community Food Co-op (Bellingham, Wash.) initiated the Farm Fund, through which a portion of the co-op’s donation budget goes directly to specific farm projects. |
147 March - April - 2010 | March 22, 2010 |
Cooking and wellness classes. Taste fairs. Farm and field days. Store tours for local schoolchildren. All are familiar and important outreach tools for food co-ops. |
147 March - April - 2010 | March 22, 2010 |
As shown again in this issue, food co-ops operate in the crosscurrents of dynamic local revival and deep national problems: Slow Food and junk food. Slow Money and accelerating debt. |
147 March - April - 2010 | March 22, 2010 |
Recent Farm Bills have established programs that provide financial assistance for organic folks, and there also are helpful services that are partly funded by United States Department of Agricultur |
147 March - April - 2010 | March 22, 2010 |
A major project over the last four years at Seward Co-op, in Minneapolis, Minn., has been its Scorecard. |
147 March - April - 2010 | March 22, 2010 |
Many local cooperatives, as well as the International Cooperative Alliance, have organized donation drives for Haiti relief. |
147 March - April - 2010 | March 22, 2010 |
If you are a produce manager, you wear many hats: stocker, scheduler, buyer, counselor, margin manager. |
147 March - April - 2010 | March 22, 2010 |
Weaver Street Market is the Southeast’s largest cooperatively owned grocery, with over 14,000 consumer and worker owners. It opened its first location in Carrboro, N.C. in June 1988. |
147 March - April - 2010 | March 22, 2010 |
The importance of rebuilding local and regional food systems has, thankfully, become mainstream; and co-ops are right where they should be—smack dab in the middle of it. |
147 March - April - 2010 | March 22, 2010 |
Once a year or so, I have been writing about the work of Food Co-op 500 and the newly forming co-ops that we support. |
147 March - April - 2010 | March 22, 2010 |