Progress: February 1 – February 14, 2020 Started foundation excavation Installed form footings and set rebar for foundation walls Poured first foundation wall Completed geopier work Repaved bike path Up Next: February 15 – February 28, 2020 Continue foundation excavation and pouring walls
Mark Florenz of Archway Farm runs a small-scale farrow-to-finish pastured pig farm in Keene. Last winter, he received a grant from the Monadnock Food Co-op Farm Fund to design and print new custom labels for four of his pork products. These improved labels are larger, printed in full color, and made from more durable material. […]
The Monadnock Food Co-op will hold a two-day Round It Up Donation Drive to benefit The Red Cap Run on February 7 and 8, 2020. The Co-op’s Round It Up program empowers shoppers to make positive change in their community by donating their change. “The Red Cap Run is a compassion run to support local […]
Member-Owners of our food co-op may be familiar with the governance practice your board uses known as Policy Governance. Here’s a refresher, just in case. Member-Owners of our co-op elect and empower our board to act and make decisions on your behalf that are in the best interest of our enterprise. Your board is accountable […]
Progress: January 20 – January 31, 2020 Prepped site for installing geopiers to stabilize the soil and create foundational support Finished work to relocate gas line Re-opened bike path Up Next: February 1 – February 14, 2020 Start foundation excavation Repave bike path Form footings and foundation walls Begin installing geopiers
Our Cave to Co-op for February 2020 is Lake’s Edge—a bloomy rind, pasteurized farmstead goat milk cheese by Hannah Sessions and Greg Bernhardt, cheesemakers at Blue Ledge Farm, Salisbury, Vermont. Hannah and Greg believe in a food system that is based on a cornerstone of respect for the land, the animals, and the consumer as […]
Congratulations to Eileen — the latest employee to receive the Monadnock Food Co-op’s “Beet Award.” Eileen greets everyone with a smile and holds a positive attitude throughout her workday, even when the work gets messy. As our Custodian, much of the work she does goes on behind-the-scenes and may go largely unnoticed. However, our Mystery […]
Originally published in the Monadnock Shopper News It’s been seven years since I first wrote about Community Supported Enterprises (CSE), where individuals contribute money to a business and receive products or services — for themselves or their community — sometime in the future. It’s time to dust off that article and highlight some new CSE […]
Originally Published in the Monadnock Shopper News This Valentine’s Day show your “local love” — love for your sweetie and your whole community — by purchasing gifts (or gift-making supplies) and meals (or ingredients) at locally owned businesses. Last year, Americans spent $20.7 billion on Valentine’s Day. Imagine if we shifted some of that spending […]
Here are the recipes from our SOUPer Bowl VII. The winner this year is Fire-Roasted Jalapeno Butternut Bisque from the Prepared Food Department. We received 256 ballots during our SOUPer Bowl VII Party! “Game” Day Chili Meat & Seafood Department Servings: 8 Ingredients 2 lbs Ground Bison 2 lbs Ground Elk 2 Onions, diced 2 […]
