Happy Earth Day!

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Celebrate Earth Day by shopping local at your community-owned co-op! We have lots of sustainable items available, from locally grown vegetables and our extensive bulk department to reusable plastic-free products, plant-based meals and more. Since we installed solar panels on our roof in March 2021, we’ve saved over 262,000 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions, the equivalent of planting 1,980 trees! We also have electric vehicle charging stations in our parking lot for customers to use while they shop.

Save the date for a presentation called “Celebrating Coastal Ecology” at the co-op the day after Earth Day, April 23 at 5:30 p.m. Katie Voelke, executive director of the North Coast Land Conservancy, will present about the land-to-sea connection on the coast – from nudibranchs to beavers, coniferous trees and humans. The presentation will also touch on the importance of land and marine conservation in ensuring the Oregon Coast remains a place where healthy communities of people, plants and wildlife all thrive. This local nonprofit works to conserve Oregon’s coastal lands and waters.

Earth Month Talk: Celebrating Coastal Ecology

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Save the date for a talk at the co-op the day after Earth Day, April 23 at 5:30 p.m. Katie Voelke, executive director of North Coast Land Conservancy, will give a presentation titled “Celebrating Coastal Ecology” about the land-to-sea connection on the coast – from nudibranchs to beavers, coniferous trees and humans. The presentation will also touch on the importance of land and marine conservation in ensuring the Oregon Coast remains a place where healthy communities of people, plants and wildlife all thrive.

Cheese Madness

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Let’s get ready to crumble!
Cheese Madness begins March 1! What’s Cheese Madness? Only the fiercest fromage face-off this co-op’s ever seen! From March 17 to March 31, 16 cheeses go head-to-head to earn your votes, but only one will be crowned the winner. Got a hunch which cheese is the crowd favorite? Pick up a bracket at our deli and submit your guess in the basket by March 16. Guess the winning bracket and you could win one pound of the champion cheese and perfectly paired gourmet goodies.

We’re hiring for a Line Cook

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We’re hiring! The Astoria Co+op is looking for a positive, team-oriented person to join the co-op kitchen as a Line Cook! We are looking for candidates with proven experience as a line cook to support the timely preparation of food for our hot bar and other production kitchen programs.
 
Apply today at astoria.coop/employment 

Honoring the History of Black Cooperatives

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This Black History Month we honor the long tradition of African American cooperation, as written about in the book, “Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice,” by author Dr. Jessica Gordon Nembhard. From mutual aid societies to independent fugitive communities and from farmer cooperatives to consumer co-ops, Professor Gordon Nembhard details how people work together in the face of racism and active sabotage to improve each other’s lives in tangible ways.