Back for its 3rd Season! Join us for FREE Tiny Deck Concerts featuring talented local musicians. Held on select Fridays, 6-7:30pm, throughout the summer. Meet us on the east deck and grab dinner, drinks and friends! Bring a lawn chair too, the deck fills up quick! Friday, June 7th Sugar [...]
Saturday, May 11| 12-2PM | Around the Co-op! Celebrate World Fair Trade Day with YOUR Co-op! Enjoy fair trade samples (including wine!), giveaways, a kids scavenger hunt (with a fair trade prize!), information and sales! When you purchase fair trade goods you support: Principle One: Creating Opportunities for Economically Disadvantaged Producers Principle Two: Transparency and [...]
We are excited to announce our partnership with the Healthiest State Initiative on their Double Up Food Bucks program! What is it? For every $1 that those with SNAP benefits spend on fresh produce, they will receive a $1 coupon to use on a future purchase of LOCAL fresh produce! Limit $10 in coupons [...]
April 2019 Produce Parable By Adam Calder Spring is being welcomed with open arms here at Wheatsfield Cooperative. After such an icy, cold and all around brutal winter we are so very appreciative of our local seedling farmers. Onion Creek Farm right here in Ames and Wabi Sabi Farm in Granger have been quite [...]
An interview with Ben Saunders, founder of Wabi Sabi Farm, Granger, IA. WABI SABI FARM IS A UNIQUE NAME FOR A VEGETABLE FARM! WHAT IS THE STORY BEHIND THAT NAME? A: I first learned of the Japanese philosophy of Wabi Sabi from an old Mother Earth News magazine nine or ten years ago. What [...]
Join us from April 18 to April 24 for sales and samples on raw milk cheeses in honor of Raw Milk Cheese Appreciation Day on Saturday, April 20th. Traditional raw milk cheese-making has existed for centuries and reflects characteristics of local environments, terroir, and flavors. Cheese can be part of a healthy eating pattern, [...]
Earth Week Events and Classes at the Co-op! April 22-27, mark your calendars for a week of earth themed lovin'. RSVPs required for our FREE classes. End the week with a celebration of all things organic at our annual Organic Sale! Monday, April 22, 6-7:30pm Class: How to Grow Food [...]
Quarter Two Board Report Liz Kolbe, Board Member & Treasurer I've never been one for New Year's Resolutions. Birthday resolutions are slightly more my style (I did a few weeks of push-ups the summer I turned 30...). But that doesn't mean I've never made a resolution that lasted. Just that the most successful resolutions I've [...]
We are sorry, this survey is now closed. Thank you for your responses. Please let us know if you have any questions. We want to hear from you! How is YOUR Co-op doing? What is great? What can be improved? Our 2019 Member-Owner and Shopper Survey will be open for responses April 1-30. It [...]
By Adam Calder, Produce Manager This article was originally published in our April 2011 Field Journal Seed Savers Exchange Seeds are available for sale at the Co-op! Using a mixture of science, technology and thousands of hours of labor, the employees of Seed Savers Exchange in Decorah, IA, provide Iowa and the nation with [...]
