Ice Cream Social When we celebrated our 10-year anniversary of the Friendship store opening last year by hosting a free ice cream social, we had such a fun time we decided to do it again! This September, we held another festive ice cream social at the Friendship store presented by Seward Co-op’s Microgreens program alongside…
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, November 24. To indicate your… Read More →
Local, Sustainable, and Inclusively-Owned Fishing Minnesota’s state fish is the walleye, and overfishing has led them to become a protected species. While many of us enjoy the mildly flavored, thick-filleted fish served many ways, if you’re eating it at a local restaurant or purchasing it from the store, there’s a high likelihood it was caught…
Seward Co-op is located on the ancestral land of the Dakota people, where Dakota, Ojibwe, and many other Native people continue to live and exercise their sovereignty. As a cooperatively-owned and community-based business, we are committed to deepening our engagement with Native-led organizations as we continue to learn and grow in our practice of acknowledging Indigenous land…
Indigenous Peoples’ Day is Monday, Oct. 12, and it recognizes that Native people are the first inhabitants of the Americas, including the lands that later became the United States of America. This holiday challenges the narrative that European colonizers “discovered” America when, in fact, many Indigenous nations had been thriving on and living in harmony…
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GoMacro has issued a recall for their Mini Double Chocolate Bars because of incorrect UPC barcodes on the labels. The incorrect UPC labeled on this lot is 810039910825 (White Chocolate Macadamia Nut 4pk). This product could have been sold at either store location between Sept. 12 – 28, 2026. If you purchased this product at…
Community Choice voting is now closed. We will announce the winners at our Annual Owner Meeting on Oct 26. 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…
Come meet this month’s SEED recipient! Learn about their work and ask questions, and say “yes!” to rounding up for them at the registers when you check out! Under Little… Read More →
This is our latest ongoing quarterly financial update for Seward Co-op employees and owners. On our normal schedule, we would have sent this out in August, but at the time we were negotiating our new collective bargaining agreement (CBA). You can read the May update here. Our previous CBA expired Aug. 21. We began negotiations…
