A Hard Look At Bulk
By: Nate Furler, Marketing and Outreach Manager Though not as frequently these days, you might see one. Walking through the front doors, their reusable bags already full of containers – yet they haven’t even been through the store. Sometimes they carry boxes of containers. New and old, glass and plastic containers, oftentimes labelled with tape […]
Ferndale Market: Just Great Turkey
By: Nate Furler, Marketing and Outreach Manager – September 2016 At the Co-op we love to learn as much as we can about our producers – especially our local producers. This past July, Kaija (the Co-op’s Graphics Coordinator) and I were fortunate to attend a farm tour at one of our local turkey producers. It […]
Neem: The Evergreen with Many Uses
By Gretchen Schempp The neem tree is a member of the Meliaceae family and is indigenous to India and South Asia. The tree has spread throughout drier lowland tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, the Middle East, the Americas, Australia and South Pacific islands. The leaves are used as medicine and are available year round […]
Local Summer Salads
Shaved Fennel & Arugula Salad www.epicurious.com Ingredients: 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice 1 teaspoon red wine vinegar 1 teaspoon anchovy paste 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil fine sea salt 1 5-ounce package arugula 1 fresh fennel bulb, trimmed, halved, sliced paper-thin 1/3 cup oil-cured black olives, halved, pitted 2 cups Parmesan cheese shavings Directions: Whisk […]
European Cheese & Miles of Memories
By Beth Rotto, Cheese & Chill Buyer Time marches on. Yes, I’m stable, persistent, enduring. I’ve spent my entire adult life involved with Oneota Community Co-op. At age 20, I volunteered to do childcare at the Co-op annual meeting and now it’s 40 years later. I’m still here, happily and solidly spending my working days […]