OCTOBER MEMBER DRIVE
October is our annual membership drive, and this year we're excited to announce our four year plan (check out the beautiful graphic below), as well asour immediate plans to finally open the upstairs cafe!That's right, that long-awaited pot of organic local pastured gold at the end of our proverbial rainbow is within reach - but we need your help to get there. If you have the resources to pay off the
remainder of your equity at the co-op this month, you will get a brand new limited edition organic cotton t-shirt designed by none other than our resident chalk artist, . Even if you don't want a super-cool shirt, you are free to re-up your membership ahead of schedule and contribute much needed funds towards the cafe, which means somewhere warm to eat your (fresh to order!) burrito in the winter months. Oh, and the return of organic croissants. Yeah.
Oatmeal Bar is back!
Starting October 1, we will have an oatmeal bar complete with daily homemade organic gluten-free steel cut oats, and a plethora of organic toppings: organic pumpkin seeds, organic chia, organic raisins, organic coconut shreds, organic banana chips, and organic brown sugar. Welcome back, healthy breakfast! We've missed you, but we had to take the time to really make this special.
Become a member now!
Check out our 4 year strategic plan
Click the image below to see a full-sized photo, or pick up our new member brochure when you re-up your membership next time you're in the store.
How is the co-op different from other grocery stores?
...as told by our member-owners
EVERYBODY WINS!
The 2017 Board of Directors election results are in, and we are happy to share the good news: out of the five stellar candidates who were up for election, our membership chose the best five candidates. That's right, our current board voted to adopt another board member as our bylaws allow us to seat eight, so instead of the seven we have had in the past, we now have eight board members beginning this month. You may be concerned with a democratic split down the middle, but our board is so well-aligned that we won't go forward with a decision until we reach full consensus.We're also very excited to see our member participation on the rise - in 2016, only 33 member-owners voted in the board election, but this year we had 133 member-owners vote, which is a 400% increase. Yay democracy!
Director of the Board in Action!
Earstin Whitten, the current president of the board at your neighborhood co-op, is partnering with St. Mary's Regional Medical Center and Desert Farming Initiative (DFI) to help bring much needed food to the people who need it most - Reno's underprivileged communities. Catholic Charities of Northern Nevada have been providing 500 meals a week for Reno's homeless community, and Earstin and the co-op will be helping them grow fresh vegetables to contribute to those meals.
Many projects to feed impoverished and underprivileged communities are desperate for any kind of food they can get the greater community to contribute, and rely overly on preserved, canned, and expiring food. This leads to a dearth of fresh fruits and vegetables, which can have a huge health impact on the people who are least able to maintain a healthy diet.
That's why the work this collection of groups (including Rail City Garden Center, UNR Cooperative Extension, and Signature Landscapes) is so important - fresh fruits and vegetables can positively impact someone's physical and mental health, and begin an upward trend towards self-sufficiency.
Jamason Farms
Last weekend the co-op sent a crew of four staff and one spousal volunteer all the way to Battle Mountain...well, more like halfway between Battle Mountain and Austin, off a dirt road off another dirt road, found with true rural directions: turn left after the cool farmhouse, pass the cow graveyard, and when you see the rusted out schoolbus, you know you're there.
We got some planting done while the sun was up and watched the temperature plummet as the sun made its way out of that big sky valley for the evening. We spent a cold night, warmed by friendly nightcaps and a stellar community dinner, before waking in the 20 degree morning to break garlic bulbs into plantable cloves and finally, after the ground had thawed enough to make planting worthwhile, did our best to get 6,000 garlic bulbs into the ground so we can keep our steady supply of amazing organic garlic powder and special varieties of hardneck garlic (whoo boy, that Siberian is nice) in stock through the rest of the year.
Folks, this is real food, grown by the larger than life personalities that inhabit the far reaches of the alkaline desert. Dennis Jamason has spent a lifetime turning salty sand into arable soil, and dealing with freezes in July is not easy. But when you get to dig around in barely-thawed soil under a crystal sky and hear the echoes of complete silence rummaging through your head, it's worth every second.
EVERYONE IS WELCOME! Open every day from 8am-9pm
Our mailing address is:
240 Court St Reno, NV 89501
775.324.6133
info@greatbasinfood.coop
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