Endings and Beginnings

Plates-Giving at MARSH

MARSH Grocery, located at 6917 S. Broadway, 63111, is a sliding scale cooperative natural foods grocery with a wide selection of produce, much grown in our own gardens, baked goods and prepared foods created in our on-site kitchen, and a full line of healthy frozen, refrigerated, bulk, and grocery items, all available on a pay-what-you-can...

Cooperative Grocery Shoppers Want to Know . . .

If you haven't been to the new MARSH Grocery yet, here's a peak. You can still place an order any Tuesday before 10 a.m. from the whole catalog at marshcoop.org for pickup the following Saturday OR just stop in Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Saturday between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. or Friday between 4 and 8 p.m.REMEMBER...

Cooperative Dramaturgy

Founding MARSH collaborator Esther Neff wrote and assembled the attached collection of thoughts and resources regarding cooperative organizing. Contents include: Principles, Orientations, and Values Assessment Inquiries Cooperative Principles Example Manifestos Social Processes and Communication Cooperative Structure and History Praxis This material is especially relevant to the ongoing processes in which MARSH is engaged, namely building...

Weekly Newsletter, July 4th

Our worker-management team is devoting huge time and energy to developing the framework for a sliding scale cooperative community grocery store. The to-do list has grown to include: laying out the store, inventory and product selection, building upgrades, Point of Sale system development, cleaning, and numerous other tasks. We do these day-to-day tasks all while...

MARSH Receives HFFI Grant

The MARSH Food Cooperative/Community Grocery was among 20 grantees announced December 9, 2020 as receiving financial assistance awards through the 2020 round of America’s Healthy Food Financing Initiative’s (HFFI) Targeted Small Grants Program. Funding for the HFFI grants program is provided for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Awardees were selected through a competitive...

January Newsletter

Welcome to the new year at MARSH to all of our active members! If you haven't joined the co-op (or haven't been purchasing your groceries at MARSH) yet, here is some info to get you started. We had a great member’s meeting in December and elected two new board members to bring our total to five....