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Co-op Farm Visit & Local Flower Workshop

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Straight from the Cutting Garden: Growing and Using Your Own Cut Flowers On the summer solstice, join Kathleen Barber, owner of Erika’s Fresh Flowers and Floral Designer Erika McDowell for a three hour workshop on how to use fresh flowers from your own cutting garden to decorate your home.  Kathleen

Co-op Class: Fermented Food

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Fermentation is an ancient way of preserving food with modern appeal in today’s food culture, for its taste and health benefits.  Local farmers, Carol Carver and George Exum of Island’s End Farm on Puget Island, Washington, ferment many of the vegetables they grow.  They will share their fermenting

Co-op Class: Edible Landscapes

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Learn how to transform your backyard into an edible landscape, featuring native plants.  Join us Thursday March 13th for our monthly food and wellness lecture we call “Beers to Your Health”.  Why do we call it that?  It’s located in a space generously offered up by our neighbor, Fo

Food Culture of Clatsop County

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We are teaming up with the American Association of University Women (AAUW) to host a lecture called “Food Culture of Clatsop County” in February.  This is part of the Co-op’s monthly food and wellness lecture series called “Beers to Your Health” at Fort George Brewery, and it is one in a series of m

December Giving at the Co-op

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This season of giving, the Astoria Co-op will be taking a portion of the money you spend at the store in December, and donating it to local causes. Coming up on Sunday December 22, we will donate 10% of everything you spend to Clatsop Community Action’s Regional Food Bank. A quarter of residents in

Co-op Adds 3rd Checkstand & New POS

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Have you seen the new front-end of our store?  We’re pretty excited because on Tuesday November 12th, 2013 our new POS system and check-stands made their debut and staff are getting up to speed on the new equipment. We think these changes are very positive for the Co-op and will make your groc

Co-op Manager Presents at Next “Beers to Your Health”

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Over the past two decades, GMOs have been entering U.S. grocery stores at a dizzying rate. While certified organic foods are prohibited from containing GMOs, the Congressional Research Service estimates that 60 to 70 percent of processed conventional foods contain GMO ingredients, none of which have

Fall Fruit Guide

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Our amazing produce manager, Kelly Huckestein created some charts below explaining the differences between all the varieties of apples and pears available in the fall season.  Apples: Pears: