Cooperative Difference

2026 SEED Recipients

The Seward Co-op SEED program is a way in which we work towards our Ends. The SEED program is a simple yet powerful community giving opportunity that allows customers to “round-up” their grocery bill for recipient organizations that share our commitment to a healthy community. All funds donated at the register are given directly to the…

2026 Community Choice SEED

Community Choice voting is closed. We will announce the winners at our Annual Owner Meeting on Oct 27. Each year, a staff-led grant committee takes great care to evaluate all applications and determining the following years’ SEED recipients. The committee also nominates eight organizations to be considered by community members, all of which will receive…

Celebrating 10 Years of Cooperation, Community, and Friendship

Each October, we celebrate National Co-op Month, and this year marks the 10th anniversary of Seward Co-op’s Friendship store. As we reflect, we honor the long history of local cooperation and community in South Minneapolis that led to the milestone of opening our second location on 38th Street in the Bryant-Central. For over 50 years,…

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Starting Small to Feed the Local Food System

Working with local farms has been a longstanding priority at Seward Co-op. Whether in the form of fruits and veggies, eggs, meat, or cheese, locally farmed products from Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa come with a plethora of benefits: they help support the local economy, use fewer resources—and thus create fewer carbon emissions—in transporting product, and…

2025 SEED Recipients

The Seward Co-op SEED program is a way in which we work towards our Ends. The SEED program is a simple yet powerful community giving opportunity that allows customers to “round-up” their grocery bill for recipient organizations that share our commitment to a healthy community. All funds donated at the register are given directly to the…

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Celebrate National Co-op Month This October

Happy fall, and happy National Co-op Month! Each October, we celebrate cooperatives as a way to bring awareness to their demonstrated success as business structures. For more than 50 years, Seward Co-op has been a staple in the Twin Cities food co-op scene, but cooperatives have existed formally, and informally, for much longer. Cooperatives throughout…

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Eener’s Farm

Eener’s Farm Boyceville, WI CSA Type: Vegetables, Herbs, Meat, Eggs Drop Locations: Hampden Park Co-op Eener’s Farm is a fifth generation family farm located near Connorsville, WI about 60 miles from Hudson and Stillwater. The farm has been in Eener’s family since 1927. Their mission is to grow good, clean, food on good, clean, land,…

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A Seward-Made St. Patrick’s Day

We’re seeing green for St. Patrick’s Day! At Seward Co-op, we celebrate with community members observing St. Patrick’s Day by offering special, seasonal delights. 

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Farmer to Farmer Coffee

Farmer to Farmer Coffee Glenwood City, WI, Comayagua, Honduras, & Heuheutenango, Guatemala CSA Type: Coffee Drop Locations: UP Roastery, Home delivery Farmer to Farmer has been running a direct-trade business as an expression of solidarity with coffee farmers in Honduras and Guatamala for a couple of decades. Their goal is to pay the farmers a…

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Laune Bread

Laune Bread Minneapolis, MN CSA Type: Bread/Baked goods, Jams/Jellies, Mutual aid option Drop Locations: Dogwood Coffee E. Lake, Modern Times, Tare Market, & more Laune Bread operates a bread and pastry subscription program that offers pick up locations and home delivery around the city. Their breads and pastries are made with locally sourced grain and…