147 March - April - 2010
Issue's Articles
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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 | 
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 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 | 
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 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 | 
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 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 | 
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 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 | 
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 Many local cooperatives, as well as the International Cooperative Alliance, have organized donation drives for Haiti relief.  | 
                      147 March - April - 2010 | March 22, 2010 | 
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 If you are a produce manager, you wear many hats: stocker, scheduler, buyer, counselor, margin manager.  | 
                      147 March - April - 2010 | March 22, 2010 | 
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 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 | 
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 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 | 
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 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 | 
