Materializing and Activating Radical Social Habitus
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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.... Continue Reading →
Healthy Food Financing Initiative Small Grants Program press releaseHFFI Grant Recipients list https://www.marshcoop.org/
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New Members – a brief orientation (and reminder for “old” members) Regular orders for the co-op occur every other week. The next order is due Monday, May 25, at midnight. It is preferred that members pick up their orders from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the Saturday following the order deadline (next week’s pickup will be May 30.) It’s... Continue Reading →
Member-owners continue to access UNFI food (staples like flour and dry beans, household, dairy, meat, eggs, etc) and Albert's Produce (full range of fruits and vegetables) as well as local items (produce, meat, etc, increasing as the growing season begins), and prepared foods made in the MARSH kitchen (bread, enchiladas, muffins, etc) through bi-weekly orders... Continue Reading →
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