April 22 is Earth Day and your Co-op is honoring the earth all month long! Become a new co-op member in April and chances are you’ll end up with one of these fabulous environmentally-sustainable gifts.

Starting April 1, we’ll offer an earth-friendly gift to the first member-owner who joins that week. We’ll continue these offers through the month until we give them all away. So, what are you waiting for?! Support sustainability by supporting the Co-op. If you are already a member-owner, tell your friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues. We’re closing in on 1000 member-owners, so help us get there soon!

With 940 member-owners already supporting the Co-op, quadruple membership digits are in sight! And here’s what 1000 (and beyond) member-owners means for our timeline and the opening of your locally-sourced, community-owned grocery store.

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Member-owners, Kris Klinehart and LeAnn Sprau toast to the Co-op!

Where were you the afternoon of January 27? If you were a part of the more than 70 people who came to The Brass Tap in Cedar Falls, you experienced the amazing community spirit that permeated the room! Member-owners invited friends, family and neighbors to join them at our fifth annual Plus One Member Mixer, creating a lively crowd.

Co-op volunteer, Melanie Wirtz assists a new member

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February 6 is fast approaching – grab some friends, and come celebrate local producers while enjoying a delicious meal made from local ingredients. Everyone is welcome, but space is limited, so purchase your tickets soon! We’d love to see many of our co-op friends there.

Find out more information and register here.

It’s hard to escape all the pundits and opinion writers putting together their predictions for 2019. Cars, politics, science, tech – all fair game for prognosticating. (Here is an assortment of food predictions, in case you’re interested.) So, despite repeated reminders that predictions are mostly exercises in futility, I’m going to tell you what’s going to happen with your Cedar Falls Food Co-op in 2019.

Thanks to many generous local businesses, your Co-op ended 2018 with a fabulous group of new member-owners! Our 12 Days of Co-op Ownership occurred throughout December with a different business each day offering a gift valued around $50 to the first new co-op member-owner or person giving the gift of a membership that day.

Gift offers included $50 gift cards, a Chiroflow pillow, coffee, a travel mug, acupuncture, a gift basket of Rifle Paper products, a one-hour massage, a local farm basket of goodies, and a yoga class pass. New member-owners joined or had gift memberships purchased for them almost every day of the 12 Days campaign, receiving many of these items.  We are now 926 member-owners strong!

Food co-ops are local businesses that keep money in the local economy. As we focus on opening our store doors, we are grateful to the numerous local businesses already supporting our efforts. Special thanks and a shout-out to the following for supporting this latest member-raising effort through the 12 Days of Co-op Campaign:

Agape Therapy
Cup of Joe
Eagle Peak Healing Arts
Miss Wonderful Vintage
Mulligan’s Brick Oven
New Dawn Yoga
The Runner’s Flat
Sidecar Coffee Roasters
Single Speed Brewing Urban Pie
Wayson Family Chiropractic
Urban Pie
Wayson Family Chiropractic
Yellow Table Farm

Freezer Meal Club or Freezer Club is a small group of friends (anywhere from 2-8 people) who commit to cooking freezer-friendly meals (Casseroles, certain soups, marinated meat, etc.) for one another each month. Three of my friends and I formed a Freezer Meal Club in August this year and let me tell you: We are LOVING it! I should point out that two of the friends had been in different Freezer Meal Clubs for years before they moved to CF a few years ago.Continue reading→