Dear Co-op Member Owners & Future Co-op Member Owners –
We really MISS seeing your smiling faces and connecting with each of you, but we want everyone to be safe and healthy. We look forward to the time when we can be gathered together again!
Your membership committee, a plucky group of volunteers who work hard to engage all of you and recruit new member-owners, needs your help! We’re a small, but mighty volunteer crew with a huge passion for our community and our co-op, just like you. Practicing social distancing has created a new challenge for us as we’re unable to host gatherings, have a presence at community events, or gather people together for house parties. So we’re reaching out to you for support & help. We NEED you now more than ever!Continue reading
The UNI Local Food Program works to develop a local and regional food system that positively impacts local farmers, consumers and businesses through education, collaboration, and economic development. Local food and knowing where your food came from is now more than ever. While some of the national supply chain is currently being affected, local food producers can help fill those gaps and allow you to still provide your customers with fresh quality products while helping the local economy. 
Gratitude is especially significant at times like these, and we are grateful every day for our community and the many ways we support one another. One way we as a co-op benefit from this support is from investment by individuals and businesses in our community who purchase member shares. A member share provides ownership in this cooperative grocery store and gives the investor an equal voice and vote within the Co-op. This is unique to most other businesses. We look with hope toward our future, and believe that local businesses and community members will be the drivers getting all of us through the uncertainties to come. We can and will do this together.
The UNI Local Food Program with Black Hawk County Public Health and other community partners are working on the Black Hawk County Community Food Assessment.
St. Patrick’s Day is always celebrated with boiled corned beef and cabbage, but I could never eat it. So over the years, I have done the traditional foods of the day in different ways. Corned beef became roasted. Instead of boiled cabbage it became coleslaw. Traditional boiled potatoes turned into a variety of options. One of my favorites is grilled lemon and chive potatoes. You can grill them alongside your corned beef.
What are some reasons a person might want to buy their meat from a local farm?
All are welcome to join us on Monday, March 16 from 6 – 8 p.m. at