Box Tops has helped local schools earn over $800 million for things like helping build playgrounds, installing computer labs, and funding other programs that enrich their school communities since 1996. The box tops are featured on some of your favorite Natural and Organic brands like—Food Should Taste Good Chips, Larabar Multipacks, Cascadian Farm Cereal, and [...]
Every day our bakers feed our sourdough starter three times! This starter helps create many of the Co-op's delicious artisan bread loaves. The sourdough starter we use was developed 12 years ago by Nate, one of our Co-op Bakers. He's cared for it ever since by feeding it as needed. 1. The starter is precisely weighed, [...]
By Adam Calder, Produce Manager Originally published in the July/Aug/Sept edition of the Field Journal. We expect the Crimson Sweet Watermelon in a few weeks! (Updated Aug 15) This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Iowa State University Horticultural Research Station. Over the years, the horticulture department has used the research station to develop [...]
Farm to Clinic Program, Primary Health Care, Inc Primary Health Care, Inc (PHC) is a federally funded health clinic in Ames dedicated to serving the medically insured, uninsured and underinsured with their health care needs. The clinic is located at 3510 West Lincoln Way. This farm season (May-October), in cooperation with Mustard Seed Farm, PHC [...]
Board Meeting Highlights from the July 19th Board Meeting Applications are now being accepted for the 2018 Wheatsfield Board Elections. Applications are available on the Wheatsfield website and in the store, and are due Monday, Aug. 21 at 11:59 p.m. Elections will begin in-store and online in October, and will conclude at the end of [...]
July 2017 Produce Parable By Adam Calder With all of the corn and soybeans that are grown in Iowa, it can be easy to forget how much of the variety of nature’s bounty can come from Iowa’s fertile soil. We’ve got a great selection of fresh, high quality Iowa grown produce just waiting to go [...]
Join us at Brookside Park 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 26, 5:30-8pm We'll start eating at 6pm. Wheatsfield will provide a dish (meat and vegan) to share featuring local ingredients. We will [...]
Kim McDermott, Wellness Manager This article was originally published in our July, August, September Field Journal. It’s been said we’re only as old as we feel. And how we feel has a lot to do with the health and flexibility of our joints as we age. Healthy joints can determine our level of independence in [...]
Co-op Updates Linda Johnson, General Manager Printed in the July, August and September Field Journal. As we move toward the middle of summer, we are already thinking about and planning for this year’s Annual Meeting of the Members. In recent years, Wheatsfield’s annual meeting has been scheduled in mid-November. This year we have decided to [...]
One of America's most popular pastimes, gardening, has the potential to be quite hard on our bodies. All that digging, raking, planting and trimming in the outdoor elements can take their toll on more than our knees and joints. If we're not careful all that effort to create a beautiful landscape can lead to dry [...]
