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May Co-op Nickel Recipient: Women Food and Agriculture Network

By |2017-05-01T12:56:00-05:00May 1st, 2017|Categories: Blog|Tags: |

WFAN is a community of women engaged in food and agriculture. This includes farmers, landowners, researchers, students, advocates and consumers. The organization facilitates information sharing, peer connections and thoughtful encouragement women need to be effective practitioners and supporters of healthy food and farming systems. Today there are 5,000+ women and men, working together to foster [...]

April Board Highlights

By |2017-05-01T10:44:49-05:00May 1st, 2017|Categories: Blog|Tags: |

Highlights from the April 19th Board meeting. The Annual Meeting of the Members is a month earlier this year (October instead of November). Because of this, candidate applications for the 2017 Wheatsfield Board of Directors election will be due August 21 to allow for sufficient candidate publicity in the October Field Journal. More details will [...]

March Board Highlights

By |2017-05-01T10:41:24-05:00May 1st, 2017|Categories: Blog|

Highlights from the March 15 Board meeting. The board adopted an option for board members to automatically donate their board compensation to the Wheatsfield Board of Directors Reversion Account, which is used at the discretion of the board. Most recently the account was used toward the Backpack Program at local elementary schools.   Wheatsfield made [...]

G.M. Report: Co-op Updates

By |2017-04-12T17:55:19-05:00April 12th, 2017|Categories: Blog|Tags: |

Linda Johnson, General Manager Just as we transition outside from the cold and snowy weather of winter to the new beginnings of spring, the recent Ribbon Cutting and the Grand Reopening signal the transition of Wheatsfield from the complex and lengthy construction phase of the expansion project to the reality of our beautiful new store. [...]

Board Report: Financing Update

By |2017-04-12T17:44:06-05:00April 12th, 2017|Categories: Blog|Tags: , |

Rachel Dakarian, Board President On behalf of the Wheatsfield Board of Directors, I am happy to report that we are in the final phase of the expansion project! Spring follows on the heels of Wheatfield’s successful grand re-opening event, which took place on Saturday, February 25, 2017. We reached our highest ever daily sales that [...]

Livingston’s Paragon: Perfecting the Tomato

By |2017-04-11T16:21:03-05:00April 11th, 2017|Categories: Blog|

April 2017 Produce Parable By Adam Calder, Produce Manager Before Alexander Livingston came along with his Paragon tomato in 1870, the tomato did not have a very good reputation in America.  According to Livingston, the first tomatoes he ever ate were “small, hollow, tough, sour, watery fruit.”  Those traits didn’t deter him, rather they inspired [...]

Raw Flourless Chocolate Cake

By |2017-04-05T20:00:55-05:00April 5th, 2017|Categories: Blog, Recipes|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

If you simply must have a treat, Sheree Clark, Healthy Living Coach who founded Fork in the Road suggests to only eat a small portion as a dessert. Some of us might think that’s easier said than done. By focusing on treats prepared with natural sweeteners like raw honey or dried fruit you can get [...]

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