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2017 Board of Directors Election Results

Congratulations to Vina Kay and Filiberto Nolasco Gomez on their election to the Seward Co-op Board of Directors, and to Lenny Nelson for his re-election to the board. The results were announced at the Annual Owner Meeting on Oct. 23. Full election results are available here. There were three at-large seats up for election this…  Read More

2017 Annual Meeting Recap

Thank you to everyone who attended the 2017 Annual Owner Meeting. This year’s meeting was held at the University of Minnesota in the Great Hall of the Coffman Memorial Union. Seward Co-op owners enjoyed live music by Kenn Wanaku and David Stenshoel, a performance by Appetite for Change, and an engaging conversation led by Diversity…  Read More

2017 Alaffia School Supplies Drive

Only 23 percent of children in West Africa who enter primary school actually finish 6th grade. The main reasons are lack of basic supplies and transportation. Since Alaffia built their first school in 2011, they have built 10 schools and donated school supplies to more than 20,000 students in Togo. Through Sept. 30, co-op owners…  Read More

2017 Annual Owner Meeting

Purchase tickets here! Share a traditional Nigerian meal with us on Monday, Oct. 23 at our Annual Owner Meeting. Guest Chef Tunde Wey, along with Seward Co-op’s Diversity and Community Engagement Manager LaDonna Sanders-Redmond, will engage co-op owners in an open dialogue around the real cost of food using the 1863 Homestead Act to spark…  Read More

Seward Co-op 2017 Owner Satisfaction Survey

During February 2017, nearly 500 Seward Community Co-op owners provided their feedback on the cooperative’s performance. Seward appears to be meeting owners’ needs quite well; nearly 90% of the respondents said they were satisfied or extremely satisfied, and we rank highly relative to other food cooperatives around the country. However, newer owners are less satisfied…  Read More

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Revol Greens

Learn About Revol Greens In 2017, Revol Greens opened their first greenhouse just an hour south of Minneapolis in Owatonna, Minn. Starting with just 2.5 acres and a goal to bring locally grown greens to the Twin Cities area, Revol soon expanded to 10 acres in Owatonna and added additional greenhouses in California, Texas, and…

Marianne Baum

Marianne Baum Artist I believe in the power of – and need for – cooperatives. Humanity’s best traits are found in our moments of collective action and interdependence, and in how we confront challenges. Our humanity will be continuously tested for the foreseeable future, and Seward Co-op is positioned to demonstrate for another 50+ years…

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Jacob Daniel Farms

Learn About Jacob Daniel Farms Jacob Daniel has always been an outdoorsy person, and working as a mechanical engineer full-time didn’t come with as much nature as he prefers. So in 2017, he joined the farm incubator program at Big River Farms at Maine on St. Croix, Minn. “I didn’t know anything about farming [back…