Food co-ops are retail cooperatives owned by the people who shop there. Each member-owner has a say in decisions that affect the co-op. Co-ops are committed to the triple bottom line of people, planet, and profit and operate according to the Seven Cooperative Principles. One of those seven principles, known as …
This October, you can round up your purchase at the register and give the extra change to Community Harvest of Central Vermont, an organization that, in 2017, gleaned almost 25,000 pounds of food from local farms and donated almost 38,000 pounds in all to area nonprofit organizations. Community Harvest of …
When shopping at some stores, to find the local items, you must ask someone, “Where is your local section?” At Hunger Mountain Co-op, you simply have to walk in the front door, and you are there. We don’t have a “local section” because our local products are everywhere. Being local is ingrained …
Hunger Mountain Co-op seeks enthusiastic, customer-oriented people who are passionate about good food and local community. Currently, we are especially looking for great candidates to work in our kitchen, preparing food for our deli and hot/cold bar, among other duties. If not you, do you know someone else who would …
In collaboration with Provisions International, New England Cheesemakers, and the Neighboring Food Co-op Association, we highlight two regional artisanal cheese producers each month. Check out these deals, good through September! This month’s Cave to Co-op is Goatlet, a collaborative effort between Consider Bardwell Farm in West Pawlet, VT, and …
The Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina is a nonprofit organization that serves 34 counties in central and eastern North Carolina. The organization distributed 70 million pounds of food in the fiscal year 2016–2017. This included 25,720,411 pounds of fresh produce and 3,822,500 distributed as disaster relief. The …
