In the age of monolithic grocery giants, food co-ops offer a promising alternative. I live in one of the hundreds of communities across the U.S.A and Canada that is home to a community-owned grocery store – owned by the people who shop at the store. It’s quite incredible really. I co-own my grocery store! Once [...]
If you have a vegetable garden, you know that nothing compares to the taste of a homegrown tomato or a strawberry plucked right from the vine. It’s just so satisfying to harvest your own lettuce for your salad and excitedly wait for that watermelon to ripen. Have you thought much about growing your own [...]
I applaud the Co-op staff’s efforts towards achieving Zero Waste in-house. The Co-operator article, “Refocusing the 3 R’s" from 10/31/2018 (https://tinyurl.com/recyling3Rs) was enlightening, and I’m hoping for an update. In particular, there is still so much single-use plastic packaging in the store that shoppers take home and then must dispose of in a responsible way. That’s [...]
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The Board of Directors is pleased to announce our new General Manager: Maura Holliday, our current Grocery Manager! Special thanks to all of the members and staff who took time to meet with the candidates and share their feedback. This was a difficult decision to make because each of the finalists brought very different strengths [...]
Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse is a non-profit that inspires creativity, conservation, and community engagement through reuse. Register Round Up funds will facilitate education on the environmental, social and personal benefits of reuse through hands-on creative programming offered in economically disadvantaged communities.
Healthy soil and healthy water are inextricably connected. Without healthy soil, no plants could grow; without plants, no animals (including humans) could survive. It behooves all of us to protect the health of our water, soil and plants. When we protect nature, we protect ourselves. In Silent Spring, Rachel Carson wrote: “The thin layer [...]
Smudging is the act of burning special healing herbs as part of a cleansing ritual to clear energies, air or a physical space. It’s very easy to make your own smudge stick-here’s how to do it! Ingredients Dried roses, lavender or any other flower that dries well Roughly 15 sprigs of dried herbs like rosemary, [...]
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Each February, our co-op has the privilege of sponsoring the annual PASA, Sustainable Agriculture Conference. This year’s conference took place in Lancaster, PA, from February 6-9. The schedule was packed with food and farming education sessions, inspiring keynote addresses, and a very touching PASAbilities awards ceremony where Pittsburgh’s own Black Urban Gardeners & Farmers Co-op [...]