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SUMMER 2017 Update on Duluth’S Deep Winter Greenhouse Growing Our Impact WHOLE FOODS CO·OP PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE PAID GARBANZO GAZETTE DULUTH, MN PERMIT NO. 492 HILLSIDE 610 East 4th Street Duluth, MN 55805 DENFELD 4426 Grand Avenue Duluth, MN 55807 www.wholefoods.coop 218.728.0884 OPEN DAILY • 7 AM – 9 PM HOLIDAY HOURS AT YOUR CO·OP: 4th of JULY Tuesday, July 4, 2017 OPEN 9AM – 8 PM LABOR DAY INSIDE: Monday, September 4, 2017 OPEN 9 AM – 8 PM New GIVE Program YOURS. TRULY. Fair Trade Feature: La Riojana SUMMER 2017 Update on Duluth’s Deep Winter Greenhouse Growing our Impact + 610 East 4th Street 4426 Grand Avenue www.wholefoods.coop Duluth, MN 55805 Duluth, MN 55807 SUMMER 2017 · GARBANZO GAZETTE Management Report HILLSIDE 610 East 4th Street Duluth, MN 55805 by Sarah Hannigan, General Manager & WFC Owner DENFELD 4426 Grand Avenue Duluth, MN 55807 Growing our Impact: As always, we’re in this together. If you have thoughts Connecting and Welcoming Everyone about the value of our business or ideas about how www.wholefoods.coop we can grow our connections and our relevancy in our As I’ve been settling in to my new role at our Co-op community, please reach out to: 218.728.0884 over the past eight months, I’ve been reflecting on a [email protected] few questions: How is our community better because of In gratitude and cooperation, OPEN DAILY • 7 AM – 9 PM Whole Foods Co-op? What is our long-term impact on the community? What can our co-op do to better serve and Sarah Hannigan, General Manager WFC be more relevant to our entire community? In the answers lie the values of our business, as well as the value of ensuring our business continues to thrive. GARBANZO GAZETTE Our Co-op’s ENDS is rooted in supporting, investing in and partnering with others in our community. We’re YourCommunity-Owned — PUBLISHED BY — on track to grow our support of local farmers and Neighborhood producers this season — with purchases from those Grocery Store WHOLE FOODS CO·OP located in the counties surrounding Lake Superior · SINCE 1970 · anticipated to exceed $1.3M for the calendar year. We The Garbanzo Gazette is published also support local businesses through the Community four times a year (March, June, Cooperation Program, which connects over 40 local September, December ) for the Owners and patrons of Whole businesses to Co-op Owners. Through the program, Foods Co-op. The Garbanzo small local businesses are promoted to our 10,000+ Gazette is published by Whole Owners who can receive discounts on things like yoga Foods Co-op to provide inform- classes, running shoes, coffee, coaching sessions and ation on Whole Foods Co-op, art supplies. Whether it’s the purchases we make from the cooperative movement, 610 EAST 4TH STREET food, nutrition and community farmers and producers, or the connections we facilitate issues. Views and opinions between Owners and local businesses, our Co-op’s expressed in this newsletter do not long-term impact continues to strengthen the local necessarily reflect those of Co-op economy. management, Board or Owners. Our Co-op began in the Hillside neighborhood, and Editor: Ali Wade strategically grew into the Denfeld neighborhood of Contributions: Owners & Staff West Duluth. While we are physically located in these Design: Emily Darnell Printer: Pro Print neighborhoods, it’s becoming more and more apparent Mailing: Barcodes Plus that we can better serve and become more relevant to Reprints by prior permission our immediate neighbors. When the 4th Street Market The Garbanzo Gazette is printed closed this winter, I participated in listening sessions on 100% post-consumer recycled where residents shared their needs as well as some paper with soy ink. This paper of the perceptions about our Co-op’s ability to meet is recyclable. these needs despite the proximity of our store. The The information in the Garbanzo conversations made me realize that to better serve Gazette is also available on our our community, we must truly embody the “Everyone website at: Welcome” signs on our doors. www.wholefoods.coop In the past few months, our team has begun focused word-of-mouth and direct mail campaigns to get the word out about the products, services and job everyone SUBMISSIONS opportunities offered by our Co-op. We’ve brought MoneyGram services to the Hillside store at the request Submissions must be received Expanding access to healthy, fresh, one month prior to publication. of our neighbors. We’re strengthening and building new relationships that include working with the Fair affordable and delicious food in The next content deadline is: Food Access campaign to ensure that canvassing teams the neighborhood. Tuesday, August 1, 2017. Check us out ! ! are knowledgeable about our Co-op and what we Refer submissions and questions to: offer. We’re also working hard to expand inclusion and [email protected] diversity in the workplace. Every day, and in so many Whole Foods Co-op · HILLSIDE ways, we’re working to better represent, and better at 4th Street and 6th Avenue East serve, our entire community. ADVERTISING Ad space is limited and will be reserved on a first come, first served basis for each issue. If you wish to advertise in the Gazette, WHOLE FOODS CO · OP. COMMUNITY OWNED. THAT’S THE DIFFERENCE. visit our website at: www.wholefoods.coop/advertise and enter in your contact information to be added to our database of advertisers so you'll be included in future notifications about advertising opportunities. The next ad reservation deadline is: Saturday, July15, 2017. Live This Life For advertising questions, contact: [email protected] on Purpose If you are ready, then coaching can help you identify who you SHARE THE LOVE are at your core, where you want to go, and how you can Paula Williams, Before recycling this copy of the Certified Integral Coach Garbanzo Gazette, please pass best get there. 218.428.2862 it along or share it with a friend [email protected] or neighbor. It’s a great way to livethislifeonpurpose.com introduce your friends, family and co-workers to your Co-op! 02 SUMMER 2017 · GARBANZO GAZETTE Our Collective Impact By Co+op Stronger Together, The Power of National Co-op Grocers (NCG) Co-operation... Cooperatives Grow Communities: La Riojana Olive Oil In the town of Arauco in the La Rioja province of Argentina stands the oldest olive tree in the country, planted in the 1600s. Although not native to Argentina, the Arauco olive is highly prized for its buttery smoothness and meaty texture, and for the robust floral and fruity flavor notes it contributes to olive oil. There, in the Antinaco-Los Colorados Valley, the cooperative SMALL CHANGE ADDS UP producers of Riojana extra virgin, fair trade organic olive oil are cultivating much more than their 350 olive trees. The Minnesota FoodShare March Through cooperation, they are growing a healthy, vibrant and Campaign wrapped up with sustainable community. Minnesota Co-ops contributing a whopping $116,379.28 in cash and 9085 pounds of food to the effort Reinvesting Profits for Health and Education to end food insecurity in the state. La Riojana’s founders came from Italy to Argentina in the Whole Foods Co-op participated 1940s and began cultivating grapes for the production of in a “round-up” at the registers wine, and planting olive trees as a natural companion plant. at both of our Duluth stores, and Certified fair trade by Fairtrade International in 2006, the we were thrilled to collect over members of the cooperative have invested more than $11 Focusing on Environment $10,000 dollars to replenish the million Argentinian pesos (~ $730,000 US), primarily from the to Ensure a Bright Future CHUM Foodshelf thanks to the sale of their fair trade organic wines, in projects including a generosity of our shoppers and new drinking water supply for the village of Tilimuqui, where Besides supporting health and education, the cooperative is Owners. many of La Riojana’s workers and their families live. invested in green initiatives and sustainability, so transitioning more of its growers to become equivalency USDA Certified With the increased buying power The fair trade premium has also been invested in production Organic is another important goal. With a focus on becoming that food shelves have during the improvements, new community centers and medical carbon neutral, La Riojana Cooperative is introducing campaign, that donation will enable equipment, but the most visible result of the cooperative’s improved water management techniques, the use of solar and CHUM to purchase $70,000 worth reinvestment in its farmer members and their families can be bio energy and a reforestation project. of food for families in need here seen in their commitment to education. in Duluth! That's pretty amazing When you purchase Riojana olive oil you are not just and a testament to the power A new secondary school specializing in agriculture opened in purchasing a delicious ingredient to enjoy, you are casting of co-operation!! Tilimuqui in 2010. Offering free education to children age 13- a vote in favor of cooperative, fair trade businesses — and 18, the school has had a profound impact on its community, helping more than 422 cooperative members continue to Due to this great success, we are providing a catalyst for local development, increasing invest in a brighter future. NCG employment by the creation of more than 50 new jobs at the continuing a year-round “round-up” school, and providing training in technical agronomy to help at the registers, we call it our GIVE slow the migration of young people to larger cities. National Co+op Grocers (NCG) is a business services cooperative (Generously Invest in Vital Entities) for retail food co-ops located throughout the United States.
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