Nutritional Yeast by Rob Branch-Dasch You, my dear friend, are part of an extraordinarily cool little band of radicals. You live in Portland (narrow portion of the population), you shop at a cooperative grocery (narrower), you even read its blog (narrower still), and you’re so unwaveringly devoted that you even clicked an article with the dubious […]
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2015 Patronage Dividends!
Dear Alberta Co-op Owners: Good news, cooperators! Thanks to your patronage at the store, Alberta Cooperative Grocery made a $44,193 profit last year from owner purchases alone! Under our newly minted patronage dividend system, we are excited to announce that the board is returning 20% of that profit to our owners in the form of […]
Fighting Food Insecurity for 28 Years!
We are excited to partner with St. John’s Food Share, formerly known as Golden Harvesters. They have been running a 100% Volunteer organization that feeds people in need since 1988 are preparing to grow with the increasing need for access to healthy food. Our fundraising will help with some of costs of growth including expansion […]
Keeping it FRESH with Double Up Bucks!
Alberta Coop has been supporting the awesome Fresh Exchange program since 2009 and 2016 brings some big, exciting changes! Fresh Exchange is now called Double Up Bucks and has expanded to serve 50 markets across Oregon. This program enables people who receive SNAP (food stamp/EBT) benefits to double their money at farmers markets which increases access […]
We Love BARK!
For the month of April we will be raising funds at the register for Mt. Hood National Forest’s greatest advocate, BARK. Since 1993, BARK has been monitoring, organizing and taking action against deforestation and other activities that disrupt and destroy the ecosystem of Mt. Hood. They have also been a driving force behind Keep Nestle Out […]
