August is P6 Month, and P6 Month is very special to Seward Co-op.

During this time, we celebrate all our P6 producers and applaud their tremendous work in contributing to a more equitable and just food system!

You’ll only see the P6 label at co-ops because that’s what “P6” means – co-operation among co-ops, the sixth principle of cooperatives. Seward is proud to have been the first co-op grocery to carry this label and even prouder that there are now seven grocery co-ops in the national P6 program:

• Viroqua Food Co-op, Viroqua, WI
• Three Rivers Market, Knoxville, TN
• Seward Community Co-op, Minneapolis, MN
• Ozark Natural Foods, Fayetteville, AR
• Eastside Food Co-op, Minneapolis, MN
• Bloomingfoods, Bloomington, IN
• Menomonie Market Food Co-op, Menomonie, WI

For a product supplier to receive the P6 label, it must meet two of three criteria: It must be locally owned, small-scale, and/or cooperatively owned. So when you buy P6, you’re promoting small-scale farmers, local foods and goods, and cooperatives. Most of these producers are single-person operations or family-run farms with small stories that could get easily missed by busy shoppers.

Celebrate P6 producers with us all through August!