Featured Store Specials Featured Owner Specials Feb. 14 – Feb. 27 Feb. 28 – Mar. 13

Midwest Food Connection (MFC) is a local education nonprofit founded by local food co-ops, including Seward Co-op. MFC provides lessons in cooking, gardening, and eating healthy food to elementary school students. Since 1993, they have reached more than 60,000 children. MFC receives many thoughtful and caring letters from students. Through drawings of fruits and veggies,…  Read More →

As many co-op shoppers know, soil is a valuable natural resource essential to agriculture. Healthy soil helps plants soak up essential nutrients, capture carbon from the atmosphere, and resist drought and disease. Many in the organic and natural foods industry are increasingly focused on practices that enrich, rather than degrade, the Earth’s soil. A conversation…  Read More →

At Seward Co-op, we love being able to help local vendors and farmers distribute local honey throughout the year. While Minnesota honey is definitely sweet, there are so many different types of honey throughout the world, each one unique to the region it’s produced in. Patagonia Bee Products is one such company working hard to…  Read More →

Featured Store Specials Featured Owner Specials Jan. 31 – Feb. 13 Feb. 14 – Feb. 27

Ask any of the pioneers of the Twin Cities cooperative movement if they recognize the name Annie Young, and chances are they’ll say yes. In 1981, after helping start the Wiscoy Valley Land Cooperative, Young hitchhiked with her infant son across southwestern Minnesota to attend gatherings of food co-op activists. Eventually she moved to Minneapolis…  Read More →

Featured Store Specials Featured Owner Specials Jan. 17 – 30 Jan. 31 – Feb. 13

On Jan. 16, we kept the cold outside to share warmth and good food at the Creamery Café’s third Farm Table dinner, with Southside Community Health Services. Chef de Cuisine Matt Kappra provided a mostly vegan, multi-course meal to celebrate our partnership with Southside, the co-op’s SEED recipient this month. Crisp and refreshing beverage pairings…  Read More →

Featured Store Specials Featured Owner Specials Jan. 3 – 16 Jan. 17 – 30