Coop Committees Looking for New Members
Join the Equity Access & Community Committee (the EACC) in doing important work for our Coop. Formerly known as the Diversity and Equality Committee, we are preparing a survey for members to answer anonymously. It will provide for the first time, an idea of the diversity of the Coop membership, to inform policies and practices…
Featured Articles
A Virtual General Meeting in May
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 possibility of holding…
At Hepworth Farms, It’s Full Steam Ahead: PSFC’s Leading Supplier Pivots to Meet the New Age
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 of produce to…
Keeping It Clean at the Corona Coop
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 proactively instituted policies to ensure a safer shopping and working environment for its members. Sanitation safety protocols were posted at the entry check-in and…
Report
Coordinator’s Corner
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, tireless, dedicated and excellent work as we all adjust to life in this…
Recipe
Baked Polenta with Goat Cheese
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. RW was ever and always fixated on…
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Film Night: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Join us for a screening of a documentary about the artist and activist Nan Goldin and her fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the opioid epidemic. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, AT 7 P.M., SCREENED ON ZOOM The film’s editor, Amy Foote, will be present for a Q+A after the screening. Directed by Academy Award-winning…
Canadian Thanksgiving
The Coop is considering getting turkeys for Canadian Thanksgiving this year (October 9), but first we need to gauge interest from our members. If you would like to buy a turkey for Canadian Thanksgiving, please reach out to the Coop’s meat buyer, Masha, and let her know. Her email address is masha_bezlepkina@psfc.coop.
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…
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