Archived E-Letters

Great Basin Food Co Op
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2025

September 2025 Edition

GBCFC Is 20 Years Old 🥳- VOTE For Our New Leadership!

Roads Are Open To Co-op 🚧👷

September 2025

August 2025 Edition

Peak Local Food Season is RIGHT Now! Glitter You Can Eat😋

15% OFF Mary's Organic Chicken 🐔

August 2025

July 2025 Edition

Can Irish Sea Moss Transform Your Health? Free Water ALL of July 🐑 🌮

One More Week To Pre-Order Seedlings 🌱

JULY 2025

June 2025 Edition

Magnesium - The Underrated Mineral 🙌 & Housemade Banh Mi

Fall Potatoes Are In The Ground - thanks for Farmer Todd 🫶🏼

June 2025

May 2025 Edition

Local Lamb On Sale & NEW Braised Local Lamb Taco Special! 🐑 🌮

One More Week To Pre-Order Seedlings 🌱

May 2025

April 2025 Edition

22% MORE LOCAL FOOD IN 2024 Annual Report! Local STEAKS - 3 Cows this Week & Online Seedling Sale 🌱

Foodshed Cafe Deck is OPEN for the season 🌞 🥳

April 2025

January 2025 Edition

Meyer Lemon GF Mousse Cake & Meyer Lemon Flash Sale! West Coast Citrus Season is in Full Swing 🍊🍋

January 2025



2024

December Edition

NEW Member-Owners Buying Club Website & HUGE Changes In Store

December 2024

November Edition

Tis The Season For Turkeys and Homemade Pies!

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October Edition

Pre-Order Turkeys and Pies!

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September Edition

RIP Foodshed Cafe Salad Bar & Dinner Service - Winter is Coming

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August Edition

Benefits of Grass-fed, Grass-Finished and LOCAL Beef

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July Edition

Microplastics in Our Water Supply - What We Can Do

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June Edition

If It's Not the Gluten, Is It the Glyphosate?

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May Edition

What You Don't Know About The Foodshed Cafe & The Case for Breakfast 🍳🍌🥑🍞

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April Special Edition

Seedling Sale Information & Website for Pre-Sale is LIVE 🍅🫑🌱

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April

Foodshed Cafe NOW OPEN 🌯🥪🥗

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March

A Year in Review & Foodshed Cafe Update 👍

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February

Produce Signage Update & Little Frog Farm Tour 🐸

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January

2024 Farmer Commitments & Weekend Closure of No City Coffee ☕️

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2023

December

Happy Holidays 15% OFF Flash Sale

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November

10 Days Left to Pre-Order Organic Turkeys & Local Pies 🦃 🥧

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October

🦃 Pre-Order Pies, Turkeys & Vegan Alternatives!

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September

Cafe Construction Underway! 🚧 🏗

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August

2022 Patronage Dividends Are Here! 🤑

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July

Foodshed Cafe Construction Begins in July 👷‍♂️

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June

We Have Really Great Local Food News

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May

3 More Days to Pre-Order Seedlings & Local Tulips for MOM

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April

Meet Our New Co-GM & 2023 Seedling Sale Is Live!

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March

Recent Survey Results - Everyone Wants The Foodshed Cafe Back

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February

Local Food is Changing, Saying Goodbye pt. 2

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January

Give Us Your Feedback and Win A $100 Co-op Gift Card

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2022

December

Local Food is Changing, Saying Goodbye

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November

Apply Now For 2023 Round Up Funds!

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October

Turkeys, Vegan Alternatives & Housemade Pumpkin & Pie Pre-order Links!

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September

Harvest Season Sales - Local Blackberries, Mongolian Beef, Vegan Pretzels and More

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August

2021 Patronage Dividend funds coming your way and $5 off Wellness Coupon Inside ‍

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July

5 Year Strategic Plan, July Sales, Ripcord Farm & Vegan Tiramisu

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June

Help to reduce single-use plastics at the co-op & a digital coupon

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May

May Special: One LB Organic Strawberries 🍓 $3.99 & One Week Left To Preorder Seedlings 🌱

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April

2022 Seedling Sale

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March

No City Coffee Opens Today, Upstairs at the Co-op!

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January

25% off all Local Borda Ranch Lamb & Regional Organic Flour!

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2021

December

The BEST Regional Organic Mandarins & Plantable Gift Cards!

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November

GBCFC LETTER REGARDING 2021 TURKEY PRICE INCREASES - P.S. Please Buy Your Turkey From Us ❤️

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October

We Did It! Our Co-op Is Debt Free After 16 Years!

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September

Board Elections, New Automatic Doors, New Grocery Shelving & 70 New Products!

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June

POST SEEDLING SALE

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May

2020 Annual Report & Seedling Sale Website Closes Soon

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April

2021 Seedling Sale & New Member-Owner Benefits

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February

Round Up + New Items from the Co-op Kitchen

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January

Wrapping Up 2020 and Looking Forward

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2020

December

Holiday Catering - Plus New Holiday Gift Merchandise

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December

Small Business Saturday Flash Sale

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November

Turkeys and Whole Pies Available!

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November

Order your Thanksgiving Turkey or Catering Online Today!

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September

Helping Hulsman Ranch

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August

Special Order Local, New Kitchen Items, Garlic!!

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July

New Kitchen Items, Flash Sale Results

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June

Flash Sale & Special Ordering on Coop Site

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June

June Dropp - Closure 2020

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May

Beer & Wine Online. New Seedlings. Compost.

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April

Seedling Sale Update 2020

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April

Seedling Sale Starts 2020

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April

Shopify & Home Deliveries

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March

Local Producer Feature: Thali and More Alive Now

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February

Save The Date: 2020 Seedling Sale!

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January

Brand New from the Co-op Bakery

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January

It's Juice Cleansing Time!!

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2019

December

Local Farmer Feature: Gary Romano

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December

2019 Holiday Gift Guide

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December

Local Organic Saffron & Holiday Juice Cleanses

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November

2019 Small Business Saturday Flash Sale

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November

Local Rancher Feature: Avanzino

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November

Thanksgiving Items Available Now!

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November

Order Local/Regional Pumpkin Pies Online Now!!

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November

Thanksgiving Turkeys 2019 - Order Your Thanksgiving Turkey Now!

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November

Farmer Feature: Kennedy Ranch

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October

Equity Drive Update

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October

Equity Drive

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September

HeART for Food Justice

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September

LITERARY CRAWL 9/14

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September

NEW VEGAN BAKERY & LOCAL MELON JUICES!!

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August

NEW BAKED GOODS AND LOCAL ORGANIC PRODUCE!!

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August

THE PAK IS BACK!!

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July

Your Round Up Donations Are Making a Difference!!

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June

.99 ORGANIC CORN EARS & New Bakery Items!

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May

SATURDAY SEEDLING SALE & ORGANIC GRADUATION BOUQUETS!!

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May

New Salads, New Muffins, and $2.99 Organic Strawberries!

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April

New LOCAL Wine, Easter Goodies, Spring Events!

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April

New Spring Menu Items!

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March

New Vegan CBD Mylkshakes & Local Artisan Bread!!

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February

Our 2018 Annual Report & Your Round Up Funds Hard At Work

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February

We Won a Golden Pinecone Sustainability Award!!

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February

Local Gluten Free Grains! Tiramisu and Compost too!

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January

5 Essential Books, Citrus Season, Riverside Farmers Market!

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January

.69/lb Organic Fair Trade Bananas & New Years Juice Cleanses!

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2018

December

Nevada's First Poultry & Organic CBD Are Now Available At The Co-op!

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December

Local Producer: Dayton Valley Aquaponics

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December

10% OFF GIFT CARDS UNTIL THE END OF THE YEAR!

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November

15% OFF EVERYTHING FLASH SALE - SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY!

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November

Turkeys are here and we have plenty!

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November

Organic Turkey Order Info Inside!

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October

GBCFC SHOPPING BAG MADE FROM PLASTIC WATER BOTTLES?! JOIN THE OCTOBER MEMBER EQUITY DRIVE

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September

BOARD ELECTIONS BEGIN TODAY! Current Co-op Deals, Love Your Geneva, Meet Your Farmer & More!

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July

DROPPin on the Playa, Raw Milk in NV, Unbeatable Summer Sales!

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June

CORRECTION on the free farmer training!

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May

Free Farmer Training, Regional Eggs Getting Local Support, and more!

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May

11TH ANNUAL SPRING SEEDLING SALE THIS SATURDAY!

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May

Spring is here with farming news from local to international!

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April

Annual Report Updates (more LOCAL!), Changes to Bag Credits, and Two Seedling Sales!

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April

Change to Bag Credits, Farm for Sale, and Biodynamic Compost Workshop!

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March

Our Look Back at 2017

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February

The Day We've All Been Waiting For

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January

INVENTORY LIQUIDATION SALE

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January

The Cafe Marches Forward: New Vegan Sushi + Giant Wellness Sale

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January

2018 Don't Blink

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2017

December

$10 Off Gift Cards, Local Hunger Relief, $75 Grocery Raffle!

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November

The Cutest (Local!) Baby Quail

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November

Last Chance Turkeys, Recipes for Thanksgiving, and Organic Aquaponics!

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Novembery

Order Your Organic, Heirloom, or Pastured Turkey, Vegan Options, and Local Better-Than-Pumpkin Pie!

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October

Upstairs Cafe Update, Fair Trade Bananas, and $5 Off Coupon Inside!

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October

The Great Basin Community Cafe. Can It Finally Happen?!?

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September

Happy Birthday to US!

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August

Compost Workshop TONIGHT! Plus, Local Season Is In Full Bloom, New Juice Bar Hours, and More!

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August

Local Farm Aggregation (DROPP) Has a Warehouse! Board Elections Begin Today.

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June

10% Off Pre-Inventory Wellness Sale Today!

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June

Don't Read This If You Are Hungry!

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May

The Skinny on Fats, Gettin' Tipsy With Our Values & Savings Galore!

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May

Grilled Lattin Farms Asparagus * Local BBQ * Mother's Day Flowers* Seedling Sale!

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April

GBCFC Certified Organic & City of Reno Local Food Master Plan!

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April

Annual Seedling Sale & One Month Free Compost Pick Up For Co-op Members!

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March

Coop Scoop: We grew local purchases by 18% in 2016! Annual Members Report Inside

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February

LF & S Blog Begins, Apply for Round Up, Sales & Member Coupons

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2016

December

Feeling Holidazed and Confused? We've got all of your last minute gifts

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November

Local & Organic Pumpkin Pies, Rolls & Cranberry Sauce

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November

Order Your Organic, Heirloom or Pastured Turkey, Vegan Alternatives, $5 Coupon Inside

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October

Local Carving Pumpkins & NV Ginger!

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October

DIY Fire Cider - Free Co-op Whoopee Cushion - Take Co-op Survey, Get $5 - Sustainable Seafood

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September

$5 off $10 produce coupon! Voting ends Sunday, Niman Ranch & Applegate bought by Hormel & Purdue

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August

Organic vs. NON GMO? Local Blackberries...

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August

Organic Co-op Croissants, Sales, Final Farm Tour, Playa Deliveries, NV Organic Pastured Eggs

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June

Local Rainier Cherries, $4.99 Bouquets, 25 - 40% off Wellness Sale Ends Today!

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June

Become a part of your co-op's future by applying for a seat on the board

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May

May 28th 2016 Seedling Sale...baby goats are back!

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April

2016 Seedling Sale, Voting with your dollars, Kids in the Urban Sprawl & SALES!

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March

Senate rejects the DARK ACT! GBCFC back as one of the fastest growing co-ops in the nation....

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February

2015 in review & our $200K turn around!

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February

Juice Specials, 2016 is the Year of DROPP, Co-op Sales, City of Reno talks about GMOS.

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2015

December

Final Christmas E-Letter

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December

Local Wheatgrass & Carrot Juice! NV Grown Cookbook Launch Party...

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November

OPEN Thanksgiving, Organic and Gluten-Free LOCAL Pumpkin Pies.

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November

A Cornucopia of Organic Produce Sales!

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November

Turkey Sign-up, Holiday Recipes, John Oliver on Chickens & November Coupons & Sales

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October

October Sales, LOCAL JACK-O-LANTERNS, Membership Drive - Limited Edition Anniversary T-Shirt

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October

New membership benefits & savings $$ - by email only! Free limited edition 10 Year GBCFC T-shirt...

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October

Your co-op launches first-of-its-kind Meet Your Farmer app!

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September

Block Party Schedule, Sales & GBCFC launches America's first Meet Your Farmer digital app!

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