How did our co-ops celebrate the International Year of Co-ops?
- Brattleboro Food Co-op is featuring a new co-op story from members and staff in each issue of their monthly newsletter, Food for Thought. You can read one here.
- City Market/Onion River Co-op put an IYC announcement on their checkout register.
- Elm City Market is featuring co-operative vendors in their food360 publication. Check out pg. 15 for a profile on Cabot Creamery Cooperative.
- Fiddleheads Food Co-op features the IYC on a website page under it’s home menu.
- Franklin Community Co-op made a beautiful hand-painted window sign for their store, and is profiling a different co-op supplier in each issue of the monthly newsletter. For sample articles to use at your food co-op visit: https://nfca.coop/co-opprofiles.
- Franklin Community Co-op worked with the Valley Co-operative Business Association to successfully encourage the Greenfield (MA) City Council to pass a resolution recognizing the International Year of Co-ops.
- Hunger Mountain Co-op celebrates its 40th birthday and IYC in 2012.
- Manchester Food Co-op held a kick-off event for the IYC.
- Littleton Food Co-op celebrated other regional co-ops with an ad in local papers
- Middlebury Natural Foods Co-op is celebrating co-ops and the IYC at its 2012 Earth Day Festival
- Monadnock Community Market Co-op is opening its doors in late 2012, adding another co-op to our region!
- Old Creamery is converting their store into a food co-op in 2012.
- Putney Food Co-op shares its co-op’s history and success in a video, Three Generations of Cooperation.