Our popular soap making class returns with Longfellow Soap owner John Hanson. Join John for an in-person class at the Franklin store to learn soap making techniques. Students will receive a free silicone mold and newly updated class manual during class.
Limited in-person class at our Franklin Avenue location.
$40/$35 for Seward Co-op owners
John Hanson, Longfellow Soap
Learn more about our Nourish program here.
Join Seward staff September and Nevaeh as they show how to make a castor oil mask and rice water hair mist for hair growth and health.
September Garwick Evans & Nevaeh Taylor, Seward Co-op staff
Seward Co-op is hiring! We are committed to hiring a diverse staff that represents the communities we serve. We create jobs with great benefits, and we invest in the training and growth of our employees.
Join us for a hiring fair on Wednesday August 25th from 1:00pm-3:00pm at our Franklin store location (2823 E. Franklin Ave, Minneapolis, MN). We are hiring for:
• Entry level positions
• Leadership positions
• Part-time or full time work
Our job recruiters will be on site and ready to chat about our current job openings and the great benefits the co-op has to offer, including
• Co-op ownership after 1000 hours worked
• Generous PTO
• 401k
• Discount on groceries and wellness items
• Affordable health and dental insurance
• And more!
Paper applications will be available on-site- resumes are helpful but not required.
Spanish and Hmong translation available on-site.
Miso Butter Corn & Foil Yaki are easy to prepare using easy-to-find local ingredients. Koshiki will prepare Miso Butter Corn, a great way of using miso, and Foil-Yaki, a simply cooking method that requires almost no cooking.
Koshiki Smith, The Japanese Kitchen
Meetings of Seward Co-op’s Board of Directors are open to any co-op owner. The next monthly board meeting is virtual and will be held Tuesday, Sept. 28. Co-op owners are welcome to observe; an advance RSVP is requested. The Sept. 28 meeting will include a 5-minute Co-op Owners Comment Period. The board of directors planned this in response to community members’ requests to address the board. Individual time allotment is dependent on number of owners who wish to speak. Agenda is available here. To indicate your intention to attend and/or participate in the Co-op Owners Comment Period, please email board@seward.coop prior to Sept. 28.
Seward Co-op’s Board of Directors is comprised of nine elected co-op owners who serve the co-op for three-year terms. The board typically meets 9-10 times a year on the last Tuesday of the month, at 6:15 p.m. The co-op’s board of directors appreciates hearing from you! They are available to answer questions and provide information about cooperative governance.
Join us on Tuesday, October 26 via Zoom from 6:30-8 p.m. for the Annual Co-op Owner Meeting. As we begin a year of celebrating our 50th anniversary as a co-op, we’ll reflect on who we are as part of a broader cooperative movement working for justice and the abolition of oppressive systems.
Registration for our Annual Owner Meeting is now closed, but you can use the link below to access the Zoom webinar at 6:30pm: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86202762926
If you would prefer to listen to the webinar over phone, you can do so by calling (312) 626-6799 / Webinar ID: 862 0276 2926.
Our 2020 meeting featured a dynamic panel of artists and activists; and as a co-op we expressed our shared intention to articulate a vision of community that is free from white supremacy. Through conversation, song, and movement, the panel centered on the co-op’s role in the movement for racial justice and liberation in our communities—a movement that holds parallel values of abolition with cooperative history and principles. Minutes from last year’s annual meeting are here. View this year’s agenda here.
This year’s meeting will feature Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Professor of Community Justice and Social Economic Development in the Department of Africana Studies at John Jay College, City University of New York and author of Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice. Jessica will join Seward Co-op owners, BOD members and local co-op innovators in conversation about how co-ops can be a manifestation of abolition.
The event will kick-off a year of exploring our own evolution as a co-op over the past 50 years—and who we want to be 50 years in the future.
This event was originally shared in our eNews and Sprout! starting at 6 PM, and has been updated to reflect the updated time.
Join Twin Cities Food Co-ops and Green Card Voices as we hear the stories of local immigrant business owners and learn about their journey to the US, building a life in the Twin Cities, and owning a business through a pandemic and civil unrest.
After the stories, join in a virtual discussion with local immigrant business owners, Green Card Voices and other local non-profits about the immigrant experience in the Twin Cities, how we can better connect with our neighbors, and what we can do to support immigrants in our community.
The event series “Co-op Community Conversations: Exploring the intersection of racial, social, and food justice” is presented by Eastside Food Co-op, Mississippi Market Food Co-op, Seward Community Co-op, and Twin Cities Co-op Partners as a way to examine and connect our cooperative values with social justice movements.
