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Co-ops Featured at the 2012 Slow Living Summit

Posted in Co-op Updates, Events, tagged Humanizing the Economy: Co-operatives in the Age of Capital, John Restakis, Neighboring Food Co-op Association, Slow Living Summit on May 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

The Slow Living Summit, May 30 – June 1, 2012 in Brattleboro, VT, will have a special focus on co-ops and their contribution to sustainability and the common good. John Restakis, executive director of the British Columbia Co-operative Association and author of Humanizing the Economy: Co-operatives in the Age of Capital, will speak during the [...]

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Monadnock Community Market Co-op Celebrates the International Year of Cooperatives

Posted in Events, tagged International Year of Cooperatives, Neighboring Food Co-op Association on January 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Monadnock Community Market Co-op joins 25 other food cooperatives and the Neighboring Food Co-op Association to celebrate and promote cooperatives in the year 2012, the International Year of Cooperatives (IYC). The year’s theme is “Cooperative Enterprises Build a Better World.” In his announcement of the IYC, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stated, “Cooperatives are a [...]

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Send a Farm to Washington

Posted in Co-op Updates, Events, tagged Neighboring Food Co-op Association, New England Farmers Union on December 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

By Erbin Crowell, NFCA Executive Director, and Annie Cheatham, NEFU President Congress is making decisions about your food and our farms. The Neighboring Food Co-op Association (NFCA) is partnering with the New England Farmers Union (NEFU) to help raise funds to send farmers to Washington to talk to our lawmakers. Several times a year, the [...]

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Where’s Bonnie Now? Membership & Outreach Coordinator with NFCA

Posted in Co-op Updates, tagged Bonnie Hudspeth, Farm to Freezer, International Year of the Co-ops, Neighboring Food Co-op Association, Sunrise Orchards on November 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

On October 17, Bonnie Hudspeth, former Project Manager at Monadnock Community Market Co-op, started her position as Membership & Outreach Coordinator with the Neighboring Food Co-op Association (NFCA). Bonnie is thrilled to join the NFCA: Our Co-op movement has a rich history of accomplishing extraordinary feats through collaboration, and what gets me so excited about [...]

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Celebrate Co-op Month in October: Co-ops Build a Better World!

Posted in Co-op Updates, Events, tagged Co-op Month, Erbin Crowell, Neighboring Food Co-op Association on September 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

By Erbin Crowell, Neighboring Food Co-op Association Every October, co-ops across the country celebrate Co-op Month. And this year we have something special to talk about. You may have heard that the United Nations recently declared 2012 the “International Year of Co-ops,” recognizing the unique role that co-ops play in communities around the world. It [...]

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Opening Up a World of Opportunities for Local Farmers

Posted in Co-op Updates, tagged Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society, La Montañita’s Co-op, Neighboring Food Co-op Association on June 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Bruce Bickford, in the recent “Sharing the Green” article, stated, “If the Monadnock Community Market succeeds in establishing a stable market for locally grown food, it could open up a world of opportunities for local farmers.” That is exactly the vision that motivates me to volunteer for the Monadnock Community Market Co-op. I want to [...]

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