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Food For Thought

Food For Thought is our Co-op’s newsletter in which we proudly feature local producers — farmers, herbalists, food vendors, and artisans

Supporting the local economy is extremely important to us and is vital to our cooperatively owned business. You will also enjoy articles from our General Manager and Board of Directors, features of new products, recipes, sales, highlights of local organizations, and more.

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Annual Meeting Panel Discussion

RSVP for the 2018 Annual Shareholder Meeting and Community Panel Discussion! Friday November 9th 6pm @ NEYT 100 Flat Street Please RSVP at Shareholder Services by Monday, November 5th. This […]

BOD Report: More Than Just a Grocery Store

I’m just completing the final year of my first 3-year term on the BFC Board of Directors, this time around. It’s very interesting to think back to my prior service […]

BOD Report: Embrace Your Community at the Brattleboro Food Co-op

by Mary Bene When I moved to Brattleboro three years ago, I was unfamiliar with the area, and I really didn’t know anyone. But I devoted some detective time to exploring […]

A Mid-Year Report

“Success is a balance of life where we can meet our own expectations while at the same time achieving success in our commitments to others.” ~Byron Pulsifer By the time […]

Co-op Discounts

Co-op Projected to Give Over $700,000 This Year As hopefully most Shareholders know, our Co-op has just had its first profitable year in many, with a net profit of about […]

Communication is Key

I really enjoy the first Monday of the month when the Board of Directors come together to discuss the state of the Co-op. We all get to enjoy each other’s […]

Serving on the Board of Directors

Please think about serving on the Board of Directors of the Brattleboro Food Co-op. I recommend it. I sure have enjoyed my board service. I’ve gotten to know so many […]

Through a Newcomer’s Eyes

I’ve heard that some of our members are curious about what the Board actually does. Given that I’m new to the Board this year, perhaps I can provide a view […]

Plans and Goals for 2018

As a follow up to Jerelyn’s February article, this one will go into more detail about the board’s plans for 2018 and how you can get involved through committee work […]

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In the Winter of 2020, the Brattleboro Food Coop and UFCW Local 1459 agreed to a contract that provided guidelines for wage increases over the course of the next three […]

Nick Dickison and Yoshi Manale have each stepped down from the Co-op’s Board of Directors. Nick was serving as a staff director, and our policy is that when staff members […]

The update in May centered around the idea of emergence. As I write this in the shadow of the horrific events in Buffalo, Uvalde, and the ongoing atrocities in the Ukraine I would like to share some thoughts about resilience. Resilience is the capacity to recover quickly from difficulty. In many ways it is easy to feel helpless in moments like these. What can we do that is meaningful for the parent in Uvalde whose child is never coming home? For a grieving mother in Buffalo who must explain to her children why they will never visit their grandmother again?

The inception of Prohibition Pig and their current success have been built miraculously on the back of a natural disaster and a global pandemic. Not many businesses can claim to have weathered such adversity but the folx at Prohibition Pig can. In 2011, the space where their current restaurant and brewery is located on Main Street in Waterbury, VT, was flooded during Tropical Storm Irene, forcing the brewery and pub that occupied it at the time, The Alchemist, to find a new location. However, the owners of Prohibition Pig wanted to keep the 200-year-old building alive and continue its history of serving food and brewing beer, so they persevered through a big cleanup of the premises.

Johanna Zalneraitis was elected to the Co-op Board in last November’s election. Her dad has lived in the area since the 1980s; she lived in a downtown apartment for 17 […]

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We will be providing weekly updates every Friday on positive tests here at the Co-op. During the week of May 9 two team members tested positive for COVID-19 at BFC in […]

Brattleboro Food Co-op Shareholders Contribute $19,000 to Groundworks Collaborative Brattleboro, VT – In January of 2022 our Board of Directors declared a patronage refund of $120,000. This was an […]

What would you tell a Shareholder? May 2022 Board of Directors meeting. I feel optimistic and excited about the direction(s) things are moving in and the ideas our new GM […]

Brattleboro Food Co-op Board of Directors April Meeting Held via Zoom Monday, APRIL 4, 2022 Directors Present: Calvin Dame, Nick Dickison, Judy Fink, Denise Glover, John Hatton, Yoshi Manale, Michele […]

As week four of my tenure at the Brattleboro Food Coop comes to a close, the word ‘emergence’ comes to mind. Emergence is the process of coming into view or being after being concealed. It is Spring, a season of rebirth and renewal so it seems only fitting that our community is also cautiously emerging as the long ‘winter’ of the pandemic begins to subside. While there are still signs of the passing winter and the threat of a new variant remains present, the signs of Spring and life beyond COVID are beginning to take shape.

Each month we focus on identifying a local producer to feature in our monthly newsletter, Food for Thought and in-store. We conduct an in-depth interview, and feature photos, creating an article that reaches over 9,000 shareholders. We invite the producer to the Co-op to show off their wares through a demonstration or a tasting. We promote the producer and event through print materials as well as our website, Facebook, and Instagram advertising. This program is central to our cooperatively owned business.

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News and Updates

FinAllie Ferments

We Hired a GM

Remembering Bruce Boardman and Ken McGee

Food For Thought

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News from the Board of Directors

Annual Meeting Panel Discussion

BOD Report: More Than Just a Grocery Store

BOD Report: Embrace Your Community at the Brattleboro Food Co-op

A Mid-Year Report

Co-op Discounts

Communication is Key

Serving on the Board of Directors

Through a Newcomer’s Eyes

Plans and Goals for 2018

Discover More News

Wage Increase for All BFC Staff

Two Board Members Step Down

Resilience

Prohibition Pig

Meet the Board: Johanna Z

Co+op Deals Flyer: June 15-28, 2022

Co+op Deals Flyer: June 1 – 14, 2022

COVID 19 Update – Keeping our Staff and Community Safe

Brattleboro Food Co-op Shareholders Contribute $19K to Groundworks Collaborative

What Would You Tell a Shareholder? May 2022

Board of Director Meeting Minutes: April 2022

Emergence

About Producer of The Month

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Round Up for Change