Enjoy Life Foods has issued a voluntary recall of a limited number of bakery items due to the potential presence of small plastic pieces that were incorporated into the production process. This recall is not related to an allergen. Although Seward Co-op does not currently have any affected product that matches the use-by dates or…
Culina has issued a recall of certain yogurt products due to the possibility of glass fragments in certain lots produced by Ponder Foods. Seward Co-op does not currently have any affected product that matches the use-by dates or lot numbers, but affected products may have been sold in the last 90 days. The following products…
What is Juneteenth? Juneteenth celebrates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the United States. It’s also known as Jubilee Day, Emancipation Day, and Freedom Day. Although Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was issued Jan. 1 1863, it was not always enforced, which left many enslaved people in bondage for another two and a half years…
An ode to our elders: I am only able to digitally compose these truths because of the outpour of investment that has been entrusted to me. I pay homage to those that have and continue to struggle towards actualizing revolutionary values while being forced to navigate (let alone attempt to thrive) within these systems of…
Wisco Pop has issued a recall of their ginger, grapefruit, cherry, and strawberry sodas that may burst cans due to over-carbonation from wild yeast. There are no reported injuries, and this recall is being done to ensure the safety of consumers. No other Wisco Pop products are affected by this market withdrawal. The following products…
Food for the People Minneapolis, MN CSA Type: Mutual aid The Food for the People program was founded in the spring of 2020, a month before the murder of George Floyd and the subsequent uprising. The program was founded as a collaboration between grassroots based, radical food movement: Divine Natural Ancestry and local, immigrant farmer-owned…
As Seward Co-op honors National Farmworker Awareness Week, we share a personal story of perseverance from Natalia Mendez (they/them), Marketing and Communications Director. My Grandpa, Salvador Sanchez, has always been someone in my life I looked up to. He’s an immigrant, he’s calm, quietly funny, and he put up with the shenanigans of six kids…
Naima’s Farm Greater Cambridge, MN CSA Type: Vegetables Drop Locations: TBD Naima Dhore, a Somali-American certified organic farmer in Minnesota, shares her farming story with the Twin Cities Metro Growers Network. She first started out growing herbs in the bathroom window of her apartment. She fell in love with farming and has been growing at…
As we celebrate Women’s History Month and 50 years of cooperation, we are so grateful for the influential women that help make Seward Co-op the hub of community that it is today. As we look towards the future, we reflect on the past, in reverence, of the women that helped build our foundation. Annie Young…
Learn About Beeler’s In 1846, Fred Beeler immigrated to the United States from Germany and settled in Madison County, Iowa. He established a farm and began to raise pigs. Six generations later, his descendants are still raising pigs the traditional way he did—with a vegetarian diet, without antibiotics or bioengineered products. Support Small-Scale, Local Pork…
