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Tips for Reading Food Labels

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By Angela Sidlo/ Certified Health Coach and Co-op Board Member Most packaged foods have a Nutrition Facts label. Here are some tips for reading the label and making smart food choices: Check servings and calories. Look at the serving size and how many servings you are actually eating.  That bowl of

Growing Forward

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By Matt Stanley/General Manager Published in the Co-op’s Winter 2017 Newsletter I recently ran into Sarah, a regular Co-op shopper. She was excited to share with me her recent visit to Lexington Co-op in Buffalo, New York. I was excited to hear this, as Lexington Co-op is a favorite of mine fo

New Holiday Products

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You know what’s great? When companies make the holiday things all the kids want, with great ingredients! Check out these new products we got in for the holidays:                                      

Holiday Pie

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The wonderful cooks in our deli are making holiday pies this year.  Pumpkin and apple are available.  They’re made with high quality organic ingredients.  Got a special diet?  No problem!  Gluten free options are available for both types of pie and our apple pies are vegan.  Just talk to a cas

Turkey Time

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We’ve carried Mary’s Turkeys for many years and have been impressed with the quality. This year our free range birds have been raised with non-GMO feed! As you can see in our Fresh Deals flyer, they’re priced to sell, first come first served. We also have a limited number of organi

Recipe Contest

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The most common question our produce team hears this time a year is “what is that?” Nine times out of ten the question refers to a knobby, scraggly, pale-green vegetable known as celeriac or celery root. While it can be intimidating to first reach for celeriac, the rewards of getting to know this fl

Food Film

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UNBROKEN GROUND (2016) – FREE! Sunday October 23 noon-12:30 Liberty Theater 1203 Commercial Street Astoria, OR Astoria International Film Festival Our food choices are deeply connected to climate change. Unbroken Ground, a compelling new Patagonia Provisions film directed by Chris Malloy, expl

Beans for Bags

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When you bring a reusable shopping bag to the Co-op you’re doing something really cool not only for our entire planet but for our community as well.  The Co-op takes the money (a nickel) that we would have spent on a bag and gives it to a local non-profit.  A token representing the nickel is a

Gaining Ground Film

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A new film on growing food, empowering communities & changing lives Sunday October 9 at 4 p.m. Columbian Theater 1114 Marine Drive Astoria The negative impacts of industrial agriculture are everywhere. The increasing threat of genetically engineered food and the destruction of local communities

Generally Speaking

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By Matt Stanley/General Manager Published in the Co-op’s Fall 2016 Newsletter Over the last year and a half the Co-op Board of Directors has spent considerable time overseeing the continued maturation of the business as we prepare for expansion. We also sought ways to maintain the relevance of