Ripe Melon Selecting Adam Calder, Produce Department Manager No one wants to cut into a melon they just bought to find it under-ripe, over-ripe, mealy or rotten. If one is burned enough times by a bad melon, they may start to ask “Why bother to rise to the crescendo of anticipation, only to plummet [...]
July 16th Meeting Highlights The board is seeking candidate applications for the upcoming Wheatsfield Board Elections. Applications can be picked up in the store or downloaded from the website, and are due by 11:59 p.m. on Aug. 11. The board was happy to celebrate General Manager Linda Johnson’s retirement and Stacey Brown’s promotion [...]
Save on Everything Iowa! Shop your Co-op on Saturday, July 26 to save 15% on local products around the Co-op (that’s over 1,000 products!). From 11am-1pm - Enjoy a Co-op Koozie Giveaway, local samples, co-op explorers local scavenger hunt, and sign up to win our local product giveaway! Wheatsfield defines local as grown [...]
June 18th Meeting Highlights The General Manager transition will happen within the month; the Board attended the Passing the Torch ceremony on Sunday, June 22nd, where we bid farewell to Linda Johnson and welcomed Stacey Brown as Wheatsfield’s new CEO. Wheatsfield will march in the July 4th parade in downtown Ames then serve lunch [...]
Lisa Kuehl of Ames is the creator of Heartland Scrapbooks. Born in Davenport, Iowa, Lisa has lived in central Iowa most of her life and is a lifelong artist. In 1982, she earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Graphic Design from Iowa State University and has spent the past [...]
Chipotle Cherry Barbecue Sauce By: Co+op Why make your own barbecue sauce? This sweet, smoky, spice cherry chipotle barbecue sauce is one mouthwatering reason. Ingredients 2 cups cherries, washed and pitted 2 cloves garlic 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar 2 tablespoons stone-ground mustard 1 1/2 teaspoon smoked sea salt 2/3 cups canned diced tomatoes [...]
Prairie Flower Children's Center Prairie Flower Children’s Center is an independent, non-profit childcare center in Ames that runs unique nature-based programming for toddlers, preschoolers, and school-age children. Nature is the setting for most of our activities – we spend as much of the day as possible outside – and also our main object of [...]
