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Peters Family Farm: Get Your Goat

Have you ever tried goat before? Right now, the Seward Meat Department has goat cuts from a new P6-producer Peters Family Farm in Fountain, MN, and we’re very excited for you to give them a try. “We began raising goats in 2008. We have a 40-acre place,” Travis Peters of Peters Family Farm tells us,…  Read More

Half Way There!

Ten weeks into the capital campaign and we’ve passed the halfway mark with $1,362,750 in owner investments, which represents 52 percent of our goal. Thank you once again to our owners for your support! At Seward Co-op we have 11,908 (and counting) owners. With $1,137,250 left to raise, if 2,275 owners (roughly 20 percent of…  Read More

Produce at its Peak: Growing Conditions

by Hannah B., Produce staff This week a customer asked me if the local spinach we have right now is a different variety than the kind we had last week, because the leaves are so much thinner and flatter, and also somewhat pointed. Meanwhile, I spent some time researching Vidalia sweet onions to see what…  Read More

Produce at its Peak: Growing Conditions

by Hannah B., Produce staff This week a customer asked me if the local spinach we have right now is a different variety than the kind we had last week, because the leaves are so much thinner and flatter, and also somewhat pointed. Meanwhile, I spent some time researching Vidalia sweet onions to see what…  Read More

Produce at its Peak: Signs of Spring

If it were a “normal” year, by now we’d have lots of local produce: ramps, radishes, a wide selection of tender herbs, watercress, spring mix, etc., etc., etc. But it is gloomy and chilly yet, the trees in Powderhorn Park just barely showing evidence that leaves will exist again. One hundred years or so ago,…  Read More

A Million and Counting

With the investments tallied from the first week of May, we officially surpassed one million dollars with $1,116,420 in owner investments. This number is the result of 114 investors and includes a healthy mix of Class C stock purchases and owner loans. With the introduction of the “Grow Together” t-shirt, investments now range from $30…  Read More

New Seward Co-op "Grow Together" T-Shirt

The next time you’re in the big green co-op, go to register lane 4 and you’ll find a display of brand new, crisp and beautiful t-shirts that are brimming with cooperative POWER: These shirts were designed by Tammy Ortegon, a South Minneapolis artist where she runs the ColorWheel. Ortegon has also been a founding board…  Read More

3 Ways to Help Seward Co-op

To make the Friendship Store and Creamery Building projects a reality, Seward needs to raise $2.5 million by June 30, 2014. Want to help us do it? Here’s how: 1. Invest We’re offering an investment opportunity to Seward’s owners that will make you money while strengthening the financial base of Seward Co-op. We aren’t asking…  Read More

Community Meeting Q&A

On March 18, 2014 from 6–8 p.m., Seward Co-op convened a community meeting to discuss the new Friendship Store. The meeting, held at Sabathani Community Center, was designed and facilitated by Yvonne Cheek of Millennium Consulting Group. The community had the opportunity to submit questions to Seward Co-op covering a range of topics. Seward Co-op…  Read More