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Food Co-ops in the News

News from around the world about food co-ops.

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Food Co-ops: What are Those All About? BY external news source It’s the holidays, and we’re told to buy, buy, buy. But we also want to save, save, save.	December 13, 2017
What is a Co-op? BY Erbin Crowell While the modern co-operative movement has been in existence for more than one hundred and fifty years — and its roots go back even further in history — the co-op business model	April 3, 2018
Can Food Co-ops Survive the New Retail Reality? BY external news source As mega-retailers lik	April 3, 2018
Lakewinds Food Co-op is Growing Organically with Organics BY external news source The co-op is thriving in the suburbs, despite the hottest grocery sector competition in decades. Lakewinds Natural Foods Co-op, founded as the Minnetonka Buying Club in 197	April 27, 2018
Common Myths About Food Co-ops BY National Co+op Grocers For food lovers on the hunt for fresh lo	April 30, 2018
Bethlehem Food Co-op Works Toward Opening Local Grocery Store, Uniting Community BY external news source Seven years ago, Colleen Marsh came across a flyer that raised the question, “Do you want a grocery store in downtown Bethlehem?”	May 2, 2018
Birth of the Kale BY external news source How a food-loving community center became the most infamous — and best — socialist grocery utopia in America.	May 9, 2018
This Woman Is Taking On The $120 Billion Cheese Industry BY external news source This past March more than 80,000 people descended upon Anaheim, CA.	May 16, 2018
Cedar Falls Food Co-op Enters Final Stage of Planning BY external news source	July 10, 2018
Worker Co-op Greenhouse Makes First Delivery of Fresh Lettuce BY external news source	August 2, 2018
Greenfield’s Food Co-op: BY external news source Eight years ago, First Lady Michelle Obama told the nation: “Our goal is ambitious. It’s to eliminate food deserts in America completely in seven years.”	October 18, 2018
Columbus Food Co-op Ends Dream of Local Grocery: BY external news source The Columbus Food Co-op is ending its eight-year pursuit of opening a grocery store in the city. Instead, it plans to dissolve the group.	October 20, 2018
Film Explores History, Importance of Food Cooperatives BY external news source Filmmaker Steve Alves’ movie “Food For Change: The Story of Cooperation in America” will be shown next week at Durango Arts Center. The event is hosted by Durango Natural Foods.	October 21, 2018
Why Doesn’t Chicago Have More Co-Op Grocery Stores? BY external news source Michael David Franklin spent a decade in the Twin Cities before he moved to Chicago.	October 22, 2018
Cooperatives and Neighborhood Development: BY external news source It’s no secret downtown Indianapolis is seeing rapid growth in neighborhoods long-dismissed by developers as undesirable.	October 24, 2018
Middlebury Food Co-op Details Purchasing Guidelines BY Karin Mott I read with interest the press release from Healthy Living on its new Product Ingredient Standards.	October 28, 2018
The Earthy-Crunchy Generation Helped Change the Way We Eat BY external news source About 40 years ago, I stood in an Allston warehouse looking into a cardboard box of gritty potatoes. This is where we get groceries?	October 30, 2018
North Coast Co-op Lays Off Employees BY external news source The North Coast Co-op is in financial trouble, and General Manager Melanie Bettenhausen has no intention of sugar-coating it.	October 31, 2018
USA Food Co-ops Win Recognition for Work to Reduce Refrigerant Emissions BY Anca Voinea Two co-operatives were praised by the USA’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for their control of refrigera	November 1, 2018
Spreading the Good News of Worker-Owned Businesses in D.C. BY external news source For Juan Reid, starting a worker cooperative opened the door to legal work, business ownership and healing from trauma after incarceration.	November 2, 2018

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