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2024 Community Choice SEED

Community Choice Voting 2024 Seward Co-op owners and customers are invited to select four of twelve 2024 SEED recipients. Selection of SEED recipients is led entirely by a committee of co-op staff – front end cashiers and staff from our Equity and Community Engagement department. This grant committee takes great care to evaluate all applications and…

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Fall in Love with Apples

Tis the season–for apples! This vibrant, multi-hued fruit is a member of the rose family, and each fall, you can find a wide variety of locally grown apples on the produce shelves at Seward Co-op. Minnesota has commercial apple orchards in nearly 90% of its counties, and there are more than 330,000 acres of apples…

Seward Co-op Annual Owner Meeting – Reconnecting in Community

October 24, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Join us for a chili dinner, Community Foods fair, live music, and more at our Annual Owner Meeting. We’ll also announce the results of our Board of Directors election and 2024 SEED grant recipients and give another warm welcome to Ray as Seward Co-op’s new General Manager.

A graphic for the 2023 Annual Owner Meeting, Tuesday, October 24, 2023 from 6-7:30 pm

2023 Seward Co-op Annual Owner Meeting: Reconnecting in Community

Here at Seward Co-op, we look forward to gathering to celebrate another year of cooperation, community building, and successes at our Annual Owner Meeting. While the COVID-19 pandemic and an uprising stirred the community, we rose together–virtually—for the last three years, and held each other up through change and upheaval. We emerge now, stronger than…

Getting Real about Organic with Lady Moon Farms

At Seward Co-op, we often talk about helping build the food systems we want, and making the choices to work with producers that align with our Ends Statement whenever possible. While we work towards our Ends and our desired food system, we also must acknowledge the demands of larger food systems that exist today, such…

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Wild Acres

Learn about Wild Acres Wild Acres Processing, Inc. is a family-run poultry and game farm located in Pequot Lakes, Minn. Owned by second-generation proprietor Pat Ebnet, Wild Acres specializes in the local hatching, raising, and distribution of birds, from chickens and ducks to pheasants and turkeys. Throughout the lifecycle of the birds, the animals rotate…

Preserve Summer’s Bounty

Early fall brings an abundance of produce to the co-op shelves, gardens, and CSA boxes. Although a joyous time, it can also be overwhelming when we’re not sure what to do with so much abundance. How do we keep from wasting food? Preservation! The many methods of preserving food will allow you to enjoy the…

Recall: Reny Picot St. Rocco Brie

The United State Food and Drug Administration has issued a recall and is investigating a multistate outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes infections linked to Brie and Camembert soft cheese products sold at various retailers under multiple labels and brands, including Reny Picot. Seward Co-op had two of these products at both stores, which may have been…