Your co-op is a 2109 Golden Pinecone Sustainability Awards Recipient for Small Business!!
Local non-profit GREENevada recently announced the winners of the 2019 Golden Pinecone Sustainability Awards. The co-op is thrilled and honored to have been chosen to receive this award in the Small Business category! These meaningful awards recognize outstanding individuals and organizations for their achievements toward improving and sustaining the environment, and for their efforts to make our community environmentally healthy and safe.
The Awards will take place on February 20, 2019 at the Renaissance Hotel in downtown Reno. The ticket price for the evening is $60 per person or $500 for a table for 8. The event begins with a cocktail hour at 5:30pm where attendees can play bocce and enjoy the other attractions at the Bundox Bocce room at the Renaissance hotel. The dinner will begin at 6:30pm and the awards ceremony at 7pm. The event concludes at 8:30pm.
For more event and ticket info, check out their website.
Food Shed Cafe Turns 1!!
Happy Birthday 🎈BB! Today the Foodshed Café turns 1 year old 🖤Admittedly, our café gestation and early infancy periods were pretty intense. The first six months of the café were spent figuring out how to run a whole new business. It was a whirlwind trial-by-fire experiment, and we learned something new every day. In addition to breaking the mold with a truly Organic and Locally focused menu, we also took matters of furnishing the cafe into our own hands. We decided to build everything using as much recycled or found material as possible.
"The orange-covered wall was built using pallets that once brought us groceries, lumber from a decommissioned skateboard ramp, and was trimmed with wood from the old wellness counter. The school chairs, metal table frames, and swivel chairs were purchased for a song at Twin City scrap yard. A few of the tabletops were made out of wood that was once wellness department shelving. We modified a pair of discarded boxy merchandisers from another grocery store to serve as the bus and trash station. One night I saved all the little stool bottoms from a dumpster somewhere in Sparks. They may have been casino chairs in a past life - there’s a hideous dull gold finish under that ‘java’ powdercoat. My favorite deal was when we traded a couple 6 packs of local brewski to a guy who had a yard full of giant wooden spool pieces. A van full of those became the bases and tops of all the round tables. I think this process is pretty consistent with how the co-op exists. It seems to have persisted on sheer grit, boldness, imagination, and a radically unlimited supply of love. It has thrived often against great odds, with fearless do-it-yourself creative problem solving as its bread and grass-fed butter. In my mind, that is at the heart of what is so unique and appealing about our co-op - and now, our cafe. While we were playing with big kid legos, our admin team were working incredibly long hours on all the backend cafe logistics, recipe and menu development, educating a new team, and overseeing the nitty-gritty of the endeavor, and still managing to successfully run the day-to-day of the co-op. We can't state enough how much this was a non-stop, immense labor of love by everyone involved. Much gratitude to Ben Rush & Farmer Todd and everyone else for spending the long days and nights with us bringing the Food Shed Cafe to life!" -Dane Haman.
This is just the beginning folks. We’ve got so many cool things coming down the pipeline this year for upstairs so stay tuned! 🎉 🎁
Local pies from The Pizza Collective are in! They’re fresh and ready after just 5 or 10 minutes in your home oven. These pizzas are made in downtown Reno by a team of sourdough enthusiasts who have raised the bar for pizza by committing to using the finest ingredients, with an emphasis on local and organic. They regularly source vegetables from local organic farms like Prema, Bee Here Now, and Lattin. Holley Family Farms and First Fruits supply local pastured meat toppings as well. The crusts are made using organic heirloom wheat varieties from small mills in Oregon and Utah. Even the cheese is top notch - Cypress, Belafore, and Cowgirl [yes, Cowgirl on a pizza, no longer just happening in your home kitchen]. Every pizza is made in the Collective’s 6000 pound Italian wood-fired brick oven. We currently offer the margherita and the cheese & pepperoni. You’ll find them in our cooler in the bulk aisle!
Love Your Farmer mugs are back! We made sure to get them in red AND black to reflect your love or irreverence for Feb 14th. Whatever your stance, we believe lovin' your farmer is a year-round, glasses-in-the-air affair. These classic ceramic coffee mugs are also make great planters for little guys like these succulents - found alongside some beautiful organic flower bouquets in our produce department. Show some love to your farmers, your favorite human, or your ever-dwindling pen supply at work.
Your board of directors has voted to apportion all 2019 Round Up donations as well as $5,000 of 2018’s donations to Soulful Seeds, a gardening nonprofit growing in the heart of downtown Reno. These funds will help build the infrastructure for the organization as they work together with Washoe County’s NNAHMS Campus project for the homeless and the Northern Nevada HOPES tiny home project. The main intention of Soulful Seeds is to bring the community together to teach those who live with limited resources how to raise gardens and utilize what they grow for themselves and others in need. Their vision is simple: it takes a village. What Soulful Seeds is doing is a wonderful “from the ground up” extension of Round Up’s past cooking and nutrition classes. They recognize that many of our area’s low income, homeless, veteran, and senior individuals do not have access to healthy food and the knowledge of how to make use of the produce. They believe these barriers can be overcome simply by providing what most of us take for granted through hands-on farming and educational experience. Teach a man to fish, right? To learn more, check out www.soulful-seeds.com. Want to help? Send an Email to for info on volunteering. Short on time but still want to help? Its easy to Round Up For Food Justice at the register!
Above: Dee and Earstin, Soulful Seeds founders.
Below: The beds in the heart of downtown await spring, young gardeners and the harvest.
A few weeks ago we visited Brenton Aikin at his Ital Farms backyard plot and were lucky enough to see this amazing drill-powered microgreen harvester in action. The ropes spin around and gently separate the plant from its roots at soil-level, shuffling them into the carrier - an entire row can be done in only seconds. This gadget was just one in a string of DIY post-harvest processing solutions that were part Mad Max, part Willy Wonka. Its inspiring to see all the ways small scale farmers have found to resourcefully grow food and run a successful business. Standing in his garage you can't help but imagine entire neighborhoods full of these setups. Seems like the biggest limitation might simply be our own concepts of what a farm [or backyard] can be. Brenton has done the math - his farms [yeah he has a third plot in the works already] use just 50% of the water that the average lawn requires each week! And that water turns into FOOD, not just grass. [Wink-wink... nudge-nudge... what are you waiting for?] Oh yeah, did you know that shoots and microgreens are different than sprouts? Microgreens [often called shoots] are grown in soil and just the stem and leaves are harvested. Sprouts are grown in water and the entire plant is harvested. You can find a variety of Ital Farms migrogreens in our produce department including radish, rainbow and broccoli - perfect for salads, sandwiches, smoothies and more. Whats so great about these tiny guys? They are 4-6 times more nutrient dense than their full sized adult version! Thanks Ital!
Need to detox, improve your digestion, or just restore your supply of hydrochloric acid? We now offer 3 different juice cleanse options for pre-order on our website, and its easier than ever to order and pay online. Choose from the 1 day Master Cleanse, the 1 day Love Your Farmer Cleanse and a 3-day Celery Juice package. Orders placed before 10:00am will be available for in-store pickup the following morning by 8am. Orders placed 10:01am and after will be available the day after next. Click the button below to get redirected to the website for more information.
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240 Court St Reno, NV 89501
775.324.6133
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