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Coop Board of Directors Nominations Are Due

Interested in serving on the Coop’s Board of Directors? Nominations are now open! OPENINGS There is one opening on the Board for a term of three years. CANDIDATE DEADLINE If you wish to submit your name for nomination, you must declare your candidacy by submitting a statement of up to 750 words to gazettesubmissions@psfc.coop. Candidates…

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A Virtual General Meeting in May

Illustration by Valerie Trucchia By Christopher Cox On March 20, 2020, a representative from the New York City Department of Education emailed Jason Weiner, the Membership Coordinator in charge of renting space for the Coop’s General Meetings. The Coop’s permit to hold its March General Meeting at John Jay High School was canceled, and the…

At Hepworth Farms, It’s Full Steam Ahead: PSFC’s Leading Supplier Pivots to Meet the New Age

Illustration by Caty Bartholomew By Frank Haberle Hepworth Farms is the Park Slope Food Coop’s oldest—and one of its biggest—working partners. Located in Milton, New York in the Hudson Valley, the 550-acre farm, run by twin sisters Amy and Gail Hepworth, has worked with PSFC coordinators to plan, produce and deliver an incredibly diverse array…

Keeping It Clean at the Corona Coop

Please read the Shopping Protocols – Do your part to help the Coop provide a safe working and shopping environment | Photo by Caroline Mardok By Jiwon Choi Seven weeks ago, when lines were just beginning to snake up Union Street and items like toilet paper, frozen and canned goods started growing scarce, the Coop…

Report

Coordinator’s Corner

Co-op General Manager Joe Holtz in his Coop office. | photo by William Farrington Report to the Member/Owners, April 12, 2020, by Joe Holtz, General Coordinator, General Manager, and Co-Founder of the Coop Dear Members, Thank you, our members, for your support of the Coop and the staff. Thank you, our staff, for your exhausting,…

Letters

Recipe

Baked Polenta with Goat Cheese

Rosewater Restaurant | Photo from John Tucker’s collection By John Tucker Obviously, as sad as it was for me to close RW after 19+ years in business, the timing has turned out to be fortuitous, to put it mildly. I miss my staff, and the warm buzz of our little kitchen, and especially the produce.…

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Film Night: Menashe

This documentary will be screened on Thursday, May 25, at 7 p.m., on Zoom. (Meeting ID: 895 2584 9483) Set within the New York Hasidic community in Borough Park, Brooklyn, Menashe follows a kind but hapless grocery store clerk trying to maintain custody of his son Rieven after his wife Lea, passes away. Because they…

Environmental Committee Seeks New Members

The Food Coop’s Environmental Committee is looking for multiple new members! The mission of the committee is to provide education, research and policy motivation to ensure the Food Coop operates with fidelity to its official environmental policy, which mandates that the Coop is to “support the best products and practices with regard to the health,…

Sign Up For the July 26 General meeting!

Sign up to attend the next General Meeting here, on July 26 at 7 p.m. You must sign up in advance! The agenda is here. Topics include the General Coordinators‘ reports, committee reports, electing members to the Committee Oversight Committee and the Coop‘s mask mandate.

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