Thank you to everyone who donated to Hurricane Maria Relief.
From Oct. 6–Oct. 8, 6,748 customers donated $3,695 Through SEED. Seward Co-op will contribute a $1,000 match, as well. Funds raised will go to Cooperativa Madre Tierra, a cooperative comprised of 100+ farmers—owners of the cooperative—who have lost everything.

A message of thanks from la Cooperativa Organica Madre Tierra:

In the name of our Cooperativa Organica Madre Tierra and as President of our Board of Directors, I would like to express our deep appreciation for your solidarity and support. Gestures of kindness like yours brings rays of hope in our efforts for reconstruction. Many of our farmers lost all their productions, many even their homes. Our Placita Roosevelt, the place where we celebrates our farmer´s market also got greatly impacted by the Hurricane Maria. We have no electricity and no phone at the office, but thanks to the solidarity of La Liga de Cooperativas-an association of Cooperatives here in Puerto Rico, we got a temporary office space from where we can start rebuilding. We were able to contact some of the producers of bread, oils, food, and other ecological products. Our Puerto Rico is in need of good news so we decided to do our best and have at least a modest market with healthy food, music, talks and even Yoga for kids. It will be a gathering of hope, good food and healing. Thanks to volunteers and our community we were able to clean some area of the Placita and the market will happen on this coming Sunday, October 15, God permits.

We thank the Seward Cooperative for the solidarity shown in directing SEED funds to help our farmers.