SUPPLIER SPOTLIGHT: GOTHAM GREENS
December 30, 2025 By Dan Bergsagel In July, the Gazette reported on the important role that one of our distributors, the worker-owned cooperative and Fair Trade advocates Equal Exchange, plays at the Coop. This conversation with a like-minded distributor and our Coop buyers highlighted the stories of many Coop suppliers in our carefully curated supply…
WHAT THE COOP’S SUPPLEMENT AISLE TELLS US ABOUT HEALTH AND WELLNESS TRENDS
December 30, 2025 By Zach Schiffman If you want to understand the American vitamins and supplements industry—its booms, busts, fads, fears and the quiet ways it reorganizes our anxieties—there may be no better vantage point than the Park Slope Food Coop’s own supplement aisle. And there may be no better guide than Jessa Fisher, who…
Rising to the Challenge: Coop Members Support SNAP Recipients during Shutdown
December 9, 2025 By Lora Kelley On November 1, the Park Slope Food Coop posted on Instagram requesting donations to support members affected by disruptions to SNAP benefits. Within a week, members had given more than $20,000. The PSFC SNAP Assistance Fund was organized to provide relief to those who rely on benefits from SNAP,…
Uphill Battles: The Challenges of Replicating the Success of the PSFC
December 9, 2025 By Kim Velsey When the Park Slope Food Coop opened in 1973, it was one of some 3,000 coops started in the United States during that era, according to Anne Meis Knupfer’s Food Coops in America—part of a movement to bring lower-priced, healthy foods to communities through a noncorporate grocery model. Only…
Want to taste Black history this year? Look for sweet potatoes in the produce aisle
November 18, 2025 By Femi Redwood When I walk into the Coop’s produce aisle and see boxes of sweet potatoes, I see more than a root. I see history. The sweet potato’s journey began in South America, became a survival food for enslaved Africans in North America and later found a lasting place in Black…
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