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Supporting Food Access This November

Dear Seward Co-op Community, We are reaching out to update you on the co-op’s plans to help continue food access in our communities in light of the temporary inaccessibility of SNAP and other government assistance programs due to the government shutdown that took place at the beginning of the month. With our cooperative principles in…

2025 Annual Owner Meeting and Social Hour Recap

Re-center and Connect Thank you to all who joined us for the 2025 Annual Owner Meeting and Social Hour on Oct. 27, 2025. We had perfect fall weather while we gathered to share the results of the board of directors election, the results of the Class-A stock increase vote, celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the…

A green tree

Financial Update – Aug. ’25

Dear Seward Co-op Community, The co-op’s most recent fiscal year ended June 30. We prepared our internal financial statements and are well into the annual audit conducted by our accounting firm. Before tax considerations, we will see a loss for the year on our income statement. The biggest driver of this loss was the sale…

2026 Community Choice SEED

Community Choice voting is closed. We will announce the winners at our Annual Owner Meeting on Oct 27. 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 receive…

Whitney Peterson

Whitney Peterson Multi-Department Clerk, she/her Hello! My name is Whitney and I’ve been a worker at Seward Co-op Franklin since September of 2022. I’ve resided in South Minneapolis since my move to the “big city” from North Dakota in 2010. I’m a homebody who loves to create; my talents include adding half-mastered hobbies to my…

Better Greens LLC

About Better Greens LLC Immigrant farmer Funwi Tita saw a disconnect between what was available on store shelves and the culturally significant vegetables that remind many African immigrant families of home. With a goal to reconnect communities to foods that both nourish the body and honor heritage, he founded Better Greens LLC in 2016 in…

Latinx Heritage Month – Corn Tortillas and More

October 2 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Join us for a celebration of Latinx history, culture, and tasty food that can be vegetarian or vegan. We’ll learn about the history of tortillas while making scratch-made quesadillas and roasted jalapeño salsa.
$10 non-owners / $5 Seward Co-op owners

Celebrating 10 Years of Cooperation, Community, and Friendship

Each October, we celebrate National Co-op Month, and this year marks the 10th anniversary of Seward Co-op’s Friendship store. As we reflect, we honor the long history of local cooperation and community in South Minneapolis that led to the milestone of opening our second location on 38th Street in the Bryant-Central. For over 50 years,…