April 2, 2021

Annual Seedling Sale & 
New Co-op Member-Owner Benefit!

  Keep reading for all the details on our Annual Seeding Sale Event
and exciting new board approved Owner's Patronage
Dividend Benefit.

Click Image Above to Enter the Seedling Sale Website

Annual Seedling Sale

Saturday - May 22, 2021

8 am to 11 am (pre-order pickups)

11 am to noon (first come, first served)

  This year's seedling sale will be a hybrid of last year's online sale and
the wonderful in-person community street event of prior years. Here's how
it will work: 

• The farmer seedling sale website goes live today (April 2). You can view the offerings and place pre-orders from home at https://gbcfc-seedling-sale.myshopify.com/. Or simply click on the 2021 Seedling Sale picture above. 

• All pre-ordered seedlings will be picked up directly from the farmer you ordered them from between 8 am and 11 am at the farmer's booth. You must have your receipt either printed or on your phone in order to pick up your plants.

• All seedlings not committed to pre-orders will be available for purchase on a first-come, first-served basis from 11 am until noon directly from the farmers at their booths. Please bring cash.

• The city of Reno is letting us hold the street event in front of the Co-op like we've done for the last 15 years as long as we have a COVID-19 plan in place. So please bring your mask and prepare to social distance.

New for 2021 - Owner's
Patronage Dividend

Back in January we communicated that the board was looking at restructuring our member-owner benefits to include patronage dividends as part of the program. Well, this month the board approved it!
 What does this mean to you? It means you have a financial stake in your co-op’s success and have the potential to earn an owner's dividend in years the co-op is profitable. By its definition, a dividend is a sum of money paid to active member-owners out of the profit — or net income — the co-op makes specifically from member-owner sales. In other words, the more you shop at your co-op, the more you have the potential to earn! 
The dividend-earning period is January 1 through December 31st each calendar year starting retroactively in January 2021. Once the fiscal year is fully closed, the GBCFC’s Board will determine if a dividend will be issued for the fiscal year based on the GBCFC's financial results and the needs of the business. If a dividend is issued, it will generally be in the second quarter of the following year. For example, on purchases made in 2021, a dividend, if apprvoved, will be issued in April or May of 2022. GBCFC owner dividends are only issued to active GBCFC member-owners who are current on their equity payments. 
 
Dividends will be issued in the form of a merchandise credit on the legal member-owner's account. This credit can then be used like cash to purchase all of your favorite products from the co-op. When using the dividend in the store, you must show a photo ID and the name must match the name on the member-owner account.
In addition to this new benefit, you still get one quarterly 10% discount to use on one shopping trip of your choice each quarter. But best of all, by being a co-op owner you directly support the local farmers, ranchers, producers, and artisans that make up Northern Nevada's food system. You also provide the much-needed capital to help the co-op grow, and you help keep more money in the local economy, which is RAD! THANK YOU!

Anyone can shop, everyone can join!
Open everyday from 7:30am – 9pm
Great Basin Community Food Co-op
240 Court St Reno, NV 89501
775.324.6133
info@greatbasinfood.coop
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