Blooming prairie food coop
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Owned by over 8, residents of Monroe County and beyond, Bloomingfoods is open to the public and everyone is welcome to come enjoy the products of our local community. Eastside Food Co-op is your community-owned grocery store located in the heart of Northeast Minneapolis Austin Central Market provides area producers and craftsmen consignment retail space in a Continental-style marketplace to make a variety of fresh, local foods, nursery and hatchery stock, tools, craf We are a community-owned natural food cooperative, and your trusted source for fresh, local and organic food As both farmers and shopkeepers, our mission is simple: to bring you the best in local foods! Ferndale Market is a specialty food store dedicated to sustainability 
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The Neighboring Food Co-op Association (NFCA) is a network of more than 25 food co-ops that are working together toward a shared vision of a thriving regional economy, rooted in a healthy, just and sustainable food system and collaboration among co-ops. Food co-op trends reached a remarkable turning point this summer in scenarios that accelerated the decline of cooperatively owned distributors and underscored the crucial role that boards of directors play in cooperatives. In the space available, I will offer background and summary views of these organizations and their recent changes. See also the articles by Robynn Shrader and Marilyn Scholl in this edition. The board responded by accepting the resignation of the CEO responsible for launching the new subsidiary, Frontier Natural Brands; its new line, Simply Organic, continues to grow. North Farm Co-op announced a long-predicted bankruptcy Chapter 7 on August 5, following years of decline. Early this year, maneuvers to stave off the inevitable included obtaining credit extensions from a number of vendors and cash payments from member customers. North Farm members will meet October 12 to formalize its dissolution. blooming prairie Lakewinds Food
Blooming Prairie Agronomy Hwy 30 Blooming Prairie, Minnesota Services Agronomy Central Advantage. On September 28, members of Blooming Prairie Cooperative Warehouse voted approval, by 62 percent of the members and 73 percent of the votes, of a proposal from the board of directors to sell the cooperative to United Natural Foods Inc. A second proposal, to create a Blooming Prairie Foundation, also was approved. Comments appear below, in the editorial p. Owners of Blooming Prairie have voted to disband the largest collective asset in the history of the food cooperative movement, choosing to sell the cooperative to an investor-owned competitor. Unless we act wisely now to caretake some of these assets for the future of our movement, we will all be losers. Valley Community Food Coop
The Blooming Prairie Foundation, a self-sustaining non-profit organization, was created by the members of the Blooming Prairie Warehouse Cooperative with the purpose of education and enlightening buying clubs, cooperatives and privately owned businesses. It is natural to have an emotional response to such news and to feel a sense of grief at the possible loss of another cooperative business. If the members of Blooming Prairie decide to sell their warehouse, the implications for our collaborative network are immense. I listened as Michael Funk, CEO of United Natural Foods UNFI , described at the Blooming Prairie membership meeting how important size and strength are to the purchasing, efficient operating costs, and other pragmatic concerns in the business of selling food. He cited these and their impact on the ability to compete effectively as the reasons that he merged his northern California distribution business with others across the country in recent years to form UNFI. The same reasons apply directly to our National Cooperative Grocers Association NCGA network, and this situation serves to further illustrate how important it is that we work closely together.