2023 Seedling Sale and Pre Order Website Is Open
Save the Date for the In-Person Seedling Sale - Saturday, May 20th, 2023 from 8:00 am until 12:00 pmSpring is taking her sweet time this year but you can still start to plan your garden! 🌱🌱🌱🌱
The Seedling Sale pre-order website opens today, April 4, 2023! You can buy from all of our local farmers' available inventory and then pick them up at the actual event on Saturday, May 20th.
* All seedlings not committed to pre-orders will be available for purchase on a first-come, first-served basis. Please bring cash.
* All pre-ordered seedlings will be picked up directly from the farmer you ordered from between 8am-12pm. You must have your receipt either printed or on your phone to pick up your plants.
CLICK HERE - 2023 Seedling Sale Pre Order Website
Welcome Melanie, Our New
Co-General Manager!
The GBCFC Board of Directors recently approved a proposal to move to a joint
GM structure. The Co-GM model would promote a stronger leadership team with better work-life balance. Current GM, Amber Sallaberry (pictured to the right), and current Operations Manager, Melanie Stephenson (pictured above in the ice castle), are looking forward to a very bright future working together as CO-General Managers!Melanie has been the operations manager at our co-op on and off for the past 4 years. She left at one point to hike the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. 🏆🧗♀️
Melanie was born and raised in Northern Utah where she received a B.S. Degree in Economics. After 20 years working as a traditional corporate manager, she decided to pursue work and life experiences that better aligned with her personal beliefs and interests--namely food, food politics, food systems, and long distance hiking. She's also a co-op nerd and has visited more than 50 cooperative grocery stores across the country.
Since leaving her career in 2017, she received a professional chef certification from the Natural Gourmet Institute in NYC and has hiked over 4,500 miles.
The primary thing that drew her to Reno (besides the Sierras and Northern Nevada's gorgeous high desert) was our food co-op. She believes our co-op is a place where good food, community, and food activism converge, and that's what she wants to spend her time growing.
Sales & Cash Flow Remain Strong Despite Higher Expenses in 2022
Beginning in July 2022, the operations team (with the support and blessing from our Board of Directors) made the decision to offer all full-time staff members, working 30+ hours per week, 100% EMPLOYER PAID HEALTH & WELLNESS BENEFITS. This led to significantly increased expenses, we went from paying $6,000 to $16,000 per month in healthcare and wellness benefits. In addition to offering the Hometown Health Gold EPO package, Best Dental, and Arch Vision insurance, our co-op also offers alternative wellness packages for staff members who do not use traditional insurance.
2022 sales growth continued at 5.14%, nearly 2 points above the national goal of 3%. Beginning in June of 2022, we started to see really high-cost increases in goods, anywhere from 6% up to 20%. Since we weren't sure how permanent these inflation prices were going to be, we decided to hold off on raising prices until the end of 2022.
We WORK REALLY HARD to ensure that we are competitive on all brand-name items that other retailers in town sell. Check out these basket comparisons below with Whole Foods (Amahole) and Sprouts (Pouts). We were not able to compare any of our produce with Pouts since they do not sell very much organic produce, theirs was mostly conventional. Amahole did have the organic produce items in stock and, as you can see, our prices were lower.
*These co-op prices are our everyday public prices, not on sale and no membership needed.
APRIL HUGE INVENTORY SALE - LOTS OF ITEMS AT COST OR BELOW!
No City Opens For The Weekend Warriors
No City Coffee spring hours are here! Beginning on Saturday, April 1st we moved back to our weekend hours - open every Saturday and Sunday from 7:30am - 1:00pm ... this means that we are open every day of the week until 1:00pm ☺️
Turkey Bacon Wrap!
Our new Turkey Bacon Ranch Wrap 🤤- is made with the best organic ingredients and served with a side of our housemade (seed oil free) buttermilk ranch dressing.
Ingredients: *INDICATES ORGANIC INGREDIENT
*Mi Rancho Tortilla, *Diestel Turkey, NON GMO Nitrate Free Bacon, *Spinach, *Tomato, *Avocado, Housemade Ranch Dressing(Primal Kitchen Mayo (*Egg, Avocado Oil, *Vinegar, Sea Salt, *Rosemary Extract), *Bellwether Farms Creme Fraiche, *Buttermilk, *Lemon, *Mint, *Parsley, *Chive, *Garlic Powder, *Onion Powder, Kosher Salt
$1 Off
Klepper & Klepper Licorice
On Sale April 1st - 30th
Regular price $4.29
10% off Biggest Little Mushroom Tinctures
On Sale April 1st - 30th
Regular price $29.99
2 for $7 Organic Strawberries
On Sale April 1st - 14thRegular price $6.99
$2.99/lb Organic Asparagus
On Sale April 1st - 14thRegular Price $5.99/lb
New!! Chicken Pot Pie
$2 off
On Sale April 1st - 3othRegular Price $12.99
Foodshed Family Salad $2 off
On Sale April 1st - 30th
Regular Price $12.99
$2 off No City Bagged Coffee Beans
New COMPOSTABLE bags and labels to get excited about!
On Sale April 1st - 30thRegular Price $16.99
BEST TEXT MESSAGE EVER!
Below is a text from Jeannie Damonte, one of the local producers that the co-op works with. Jeannie provides vibrant basil bunches to our produce department and our kitchen department. She also grows over 8,000 seedlings for the annual seeding sale. Jeannie has recently moved and she was in the process of signing a new lease. The man that she is leasing the property with wanted to spray their 100-acre plot with Round Up - a glyphosate product that we do not allow in the . Fortunately, Jeannie worked with Rob Holley of Holley Family Farms and they were able to figure out an alternative herbicide that is OMRI* approved. This is a HUGE win for Northern Nevada! No cancer-causing herbicides seeping through the soil and destroying everything in their path to the Walker River ❤️ - Thank you so much Jeannie Damonte and Rob Holley...it's little actions like this that slowly change the direction of agriculture in our state.
*The Organic Materials Review Institute (OMRI) is an international nonprofit organization that determines which input products are allowed for use in organic production and processing. OMRI Listed products are allowed for use in certified organic operations under the USDA National Organic Program.
Kennedy Ranch 1/4 Beef For Sale
Sue Kennedy (Lamoille Canyon, NV) has 1/4 cows available, grass-fed & grass-finished. Each quarter weighs between 130 - 150 lbs. 3 weeks dry-aged and packaged up. Order directly on the Kennedy Ranch website here: https://kennedyranch.net/
E-GIFT CARDS... PERFECT GIFT
We've got the perfect gift for any occasion! Buy a co-op gift card online and then text or email it to your recipient. They can scan it from their phone at the register to pay for their next grocery trip. 🥳
ORDER YOUR ONLINE E-GIFT CARD
Soup's on!
All soups are made daily with ❤️ in the co-op kitchen. We use all certified organic ingredients and as much local as seasonally available.OMNI = short for omnivore.
All soups in this listing are always Gluten-free.
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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