What's a $5 Dinner? Our Deli serves up a healthy portion of a made-from-scratch main dish (meat and a vegetarian option) and a rotating selection of fresh, deli-made sides. Complete your meal by purchasing a cold beer, glass of wine or dessert! Enjoy live music too! Why do we host $5 Dinners? These dinners provide [...]
Join us at Brookside Park's Maple Shelter for our annual Local Foods Potluck! Bring a dish to share featuring local ingredients (bring your own table setting too to help reduce waste!). Saturday, August 25, 5:30-8pm We'll start eating at 6pm Live Music: The Cornstars Wheatsfield will provide a dish (meat and vegan) to share featuring local [...]
All August and September enjoy these Good Food Happy Hour Specials! Monday & Wednesday: Applies to 12oz drinks, does not include additions. Thursday: Fresh baguettes available around 1pm. Friday: Limit 3 free sausages per customer. Sunday: Includes any Bakery Case item $2.49 or above.
By Adam Calder, Produce Manager The variety and quality of produce at farmers markets is ample and excellent. Gardens across the land are bursting with vegetables which were at first eagerly anticipated but perhaps more recently foisted on friends and family by the bucketful. Amidst all this produce, it is easy to overlook one of [...]
An interview with John Barber, Co-Founder of the Cellar Winery (L to R: The Cellar logo, John Barber and Barb Hokel, Josh Ellenberg, The Cellar varietals carried at the Co-op) WHO IS BEHIND THE CELLAR? A: There are five faces behind “The Cellar.” My wife, Barb Hokel, and I started the business, but now employ [...]
Saturday, July 14 Join us to save 20% on local products around the Co-op (that's right around 1,000 products!). Enjoy local vendor sampling, live music, a kids scavenger hunt and giveaways! Local Vendors 10am-Noon Kalona Supernatural Jenuinely Pure Morning Bell Coffee Roasters Noon-2pm Agri-Cultured Cado Avocado Ice Cream Raccoon Forks Farm [...]
The specials for June were so good, we decided to keep them for July! Fine Print: Monday & Wednesday: Applies to 12oz drinks, does not include additions. Thursday: Fresh baguettes available around 1pm. Friday: Limit 3 free sausages per customer. Sunday: Includes any Bakery Case item $2.49 or above.
By Kim McDermott, Wellness Manager Summertime in Iowa is a great for getting outside, traveling, or just enjoying the sunshine and the beauty in your own backyard and gardens. And though you may love the sunshine and the outdoors, these hot, windy, buggy summer days can take a toll on your skin and [...]
By Adam Calder, Produce Manager The unseasonably warm and wet spring has been somewhat of a mixed blessing here in central Iowa. The heat and heavy rains have caused many muggy days and wet basements, but that weather has also been great for local produce. We’ve got local raspberries from The Berry Patch, flower bouquets [...]
Get ready to save! Our popular Truckload Sale is back! Stop by the Co-op on Friday, June 15 and Saturday, June 16 from 9am-7pm for deep deals from around the Co-op! This year we are holding the event in our warehouse. View the Deeply Discounted Price and Product List! While supplies last, prices valid June 15 & June [...]
