Provide our community access to the best regional, sustainable, safe, and environmentally conscious food through the development of a community-owned grocery store and educational food center. The MNGFC provides fair value to producers for their products and living wage models for its staff while promoting co-operative value and participation.
Become an owner of your community food co-op!
A $60 lifetime investment for your entire household will have many financial and social benefits. It’s easy to join and by becoming a member-owner you will be supporting a life for your community that:
- Recognizes the importance of building a strong food-based economy;
- Thinks about food;
- Fosters a sense of community resilience, diversity, sustainability and care;
- Educates and shares ideas, knowledge, objectives and goals to all;
- Provides highest quality, affordable & natural foods and products in a beautiful and inspiring environment;
- Builds a growing membership who are served effectively;
- Promotes community interchange of ideas;
- Commits to a model of social justice through our actions
Benefits of Co-operatives:
- Co-operatives improve livelihoods and strengthen local economies
- Co-operatives use the ‘Triple Bottom Line’ approach: people, planet, profits
- Co-operatives address and serve the needs of its owners
- Co-operatives care for their communities
- Co-operatives are sustainable enterprises
- Co-operatives promote participation and give everyone a voice
- Co-operatives are true democracy in action
What you’ll find in your Co-op:
- Locally-raised frozen Meats and Fish
- Cheeses
- Fresh Produce, Sprouts, Micro-Greens
- Free range eggs
- Grains, Quinoa, Cereals, Wild Rice, Flours, Baking Mixes
- Maple Syrup, Honey, Preserves
- Coffee and Tea
- Fermented Foods
- Frozen Foods/Meals/Desserts
- Oils and Dressings
- Bulk Items and Canned Tomatoes
- Tasty Treats
- Juices and Concentrates
- Beeswax Candles
- Soaps and Shampoos
- Gifts and more…
