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Join us for Eat Local Every Day: Homegrown Co-op Open House

You’re invited! Eat Local Every Day: Homegrown Co-op Open House Tuesday November 15, 5-8 pm Meet the faces who bring you your food each week and sample their local creations. Homegrown Co-op producers, kitchens, and farmers will be sharing their … Continue reading

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Fall Into Savings with our Pantry Plan!

–Sign up for a Pantry Plan– Want more selection and variety in our Farm Store … and a discount on your Homegrown purchases? Pantry Plan is a pre-purchase program that pays you back with real grocery savings!    Just like … Continue reading

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Nominees for Monday’s Annual Board Elections

Greetings members, We are thrilled to announce the nominees for the 2011 Board Elections.  Elections will be held at our 2011 Annual Membership Meeting on Monday September 19th at 7 pm at the Co-op. Currently there are two Patron Member … Continue reading

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Free-Range Chicken from Pasture Prime Family Farm added!

The Red Ranger chicken is a slower growing bird which takes about ten weeks to reach harvest weight, compared to about 6 weeks for your conventional chicken.  The breast meat is on a long keel and is in natural proportion … Continue reading

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Guide to Submitting Written Comments to FDA

Posted on September 13, 2010 by John Edward Burt at Food Health Culture blog A number of people have asked me about submitting comments to the FDA regarding the genetically engineered salmon. I have finally submitted my own public comments … Continue reading

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FDA panel to consider GMO salmon

By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON | Mon Sep 20, 2010 9:30am BST WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The first genetically modified animal could move one step closer to the U.S. market on Monday, when a federal advisory panel makes its recommendation on whether … Continue reading

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Interview – Percy Schmeiser vs Monsanto: The Story of a Canadian Farmer’s Fight to Defend the Rights of Farmers and the Future of Seeds

Amy Goodman interviews Percy Schmeiser. Hear the Story of a Canadian Farmer’s Fight to Defend the Rights of Farmers and the Future of Seeds

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Corn Syrup Gets Rebranded “Corn Sugar”

The Corn Refiners Association appears to be taking a cue from Blackwater: After all that bad press, they are rebranding. Starting now, we are all supposed to start referring to high-fructose corn syrup by the gentler, more fresh-from-nature sounding “corn … Continue reading

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Minnesota farmer battles Gulf ‘dead zone’

Windom, Minnesota (CNN) — Within moments of meeting Tony Thompson, you can tell he sees the world from a different tilt. His frayed shirt pocket is stuffed so full of notes that it’s ripping at the seams. Hairy eyebrows spring … Continue reading

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GMO Crop Sabotage on the Rise: French citizens destroy trial vineyard

By Rady Ananda Early Sunday morning, French police stood helpless as sixty people, locked inside an open-air field of genetically modified grapevines, uprooted all the plants.  In Spain last month, dozens of people destroyed two GMO fields. On the millennial … Continue reading

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