In celebration of March Women’s History Month, Co-op shoppers will find signage throughout the store indicating women-owned businesses. These businesses may be 100% owned by a woman, or they may be part of a partnership or family operation. The latter allows for the often significant involvement of women in agriculture and retail production where, historically, their contributions may not always be recognized. Others include cooperative or employee-owned business models. The 2025 Women’s History Month theme is “Moving Forward Together! Women Educating & Inspiring Generations.”
Learn more here.
We invite shoppers to browse the below vendors as they shop the store. Note that this list is a work in progress and may not represent each item in stock at any given time:
Alba Botanica
Al’s Country Meats
Amy’s
Andalou Naturals
Angie’s Boomchickapop
Aura Cacia
Badger Balm
Beard Family Beef
Bee’s Wrap
Beeler’s Pure Pork
Bilinski Sausage Co.
Bionaturae
Bobo’s
Bob’s Red Mill
Botanical Lucidit
Cambria Estate
Canoe Creek Produce
Caulipower
Chateau de Millet
Convergence Ciderworks
Country View Dairy
Cypress Grove
Deep Indian Kitchen
Domaine Clavel
Domaine Coulange
Dr. Bronner’s
Driftless Provisions
ECOS
Equal Exchange
Euphoria Coffee
Evan Healy
Ferndale Market
Fiddlehead Farm
Frontier Co-op
Green’s Sugar Bus
Handker Bandanas
Harmony Valley Farm
Hidden Springs Creamery
Highland View Farm
Humble Hands Harvest
Humble Organics
Impact Coffee
Jefferson Co. Cider
Jewell Enterprizes, Inc.
Kate’s Bars
La Reyna
LaClare Family Creamery
Lily’s
Linda Brinks lefse
Little Northern Bakehouse
Lynn Staley bread
Mad Hippie
Maggie’s Organics
Marieke
Matr Boomie
Meister Cheese
Miss Jones
Miyoko’s Creamery
Mulay’s Meatballs
Nancy’s Yogurt
Nixie
Nordic Creamer
Oregon’s Wild Harvest
Organic Valley
Painterland Sisters
Patchwork Green Farm
Pivo Brewery
Poppi
Pranarom
Pulpit Rock Brewery
Purely Elizabeth
Quinn Snacks
Redhead Creamery
River Root Farm
Rochdale Farms Co-op
Rock Cedar Ranch
Rolling Hills Greenhouse
Salad Girl Organics
SCREAM
Sea Witch Botanicals
Silver Hills
Sno Pac Foods
SOGO snacks
SoulFlower
SoulKu
Sow the Magic Mystic Seeds
Stacy’s tortillas
Stone Prairie Farm
Sweet Season Farm
Terra Natural Designs
Toppling Goliath Brewing Co.
Westby Co-op Creamery
Wild Carrot Herbals
WishGarden Herbs
Yellow Table Farm
Zodica Perfumery
About Women’s History Month
President Jimmy Carter established the first week of March as “Women’s History Week” in 1980. In 1987, Congress, by Senate Joint Resolution 20, designated March as Women’s History Month. This proclamation was signed by President Ronald Reagan on March 16, 1987, whereupon he stated “I call upon all Americans to mark this month with appropriate observances to honor the achievements of American women.”
Nineteen months later, on October 25, 1988, HR5050: Women’s Business Ownership Act of 1988, became law. This legislation was drafted following a series of hearings regarding challenges facing women entrepreneurs. Measures in the ruling included a woman’s right to secure seed funding or financial loans in their own name, without being legally required to have the co-signature of a male relative. This legislation may be accessed here.
The most recent Small Business Administration lending statistics note that $5.1 billion was granted to women-owned businesses in FY2023.
