Cultivate newsletter articles.
Our friends at Metro Blooms offer some tips and ideas for supporting pollinators as you plan for spring gardening. Pollinators are essential to keeping our neighborhoods beautiful and livable by pollinating our food, trees, flowers, and other plants. Plant a native plant garden. Gardens with native flowers provide nectar and pollen for our pollinators. Make… Read More →
Co-op Partners Warehouse (CPW) has always donated non-saleable produce items to local food organizations. Until last April, nonprofit groups were invited to “shop” a food bank at the warehouse to find items they needed. But when the pandemic began in March, CPW staff streamlined the donation process, strengthened their relationships with key food-rescue partners, increased… Read More →
This year, we’re celebrating the Power of We. The Power of We runs through the seeds planted by local farmers to the produce they drop off at Co-op Partners Warehouse, to the hands of the staff person who stocks the co-op shelves, to your kitchen table. It’s the understanding that by collectively building a local… Read More →
Our Commitment to you during Covid-19 AND always Twin Cities Co-op Partners (TCCP) is committed to remaining a trusted resource for our owners, shoppers and staff. We’re constantly adapting our stores to best meet the needs of the community during this time of uncertainty. Please visit our website for our safe shopping practices, Follow us…
Looking Ahead As the board looks ahead to the coming year, it has established two key priorities of board service. 1. Continue its work on Diversity, Equity, Accessibility and Inclusion (DEAI) with specific goals, strategies, actions, and metrics. 2. Deepen Twin Cities Co-op Partner’s connections with community stakeholders, partners and leaders as we further strengthen…
Our Change Matters program supports local nonprofits through small-change donations collected at our registers. Now more than ever, Change Matters funding is critical in helping local nonprofits continue their work in empowering the community, feeding those in need, lending a helping hand, and making our communities better places to live. Here are some highlights from…
At the co-op, our Purchasing and Merchandising team researches food trends, samples products and collects customer feedback to help support the unique product selection we have at our stores. Owners and shoppers let us know what they love by purchasing products that become best sellers. This year, we’re sharing our customer favorites in this Best…
Meet Charles Linden Hills Health & Body Care Manager Former Health & Body Care Manager Emily Kaster is now the Store Director at Linden Hills! Charles was hired to fill her role in August. What brought you to Linden Hills Co-op? My passion for all things health-related. Over the last 15 years, I have quietly studied…
Meet Kirk Co-op Partners Warehouse (CPW) Operations Manager What is your role at CPW? As the Operations Manager, I oversee the warehouse workers, quality control team, inventory control and drivers. Generally, if there is a problem that someone needs help solving, it is brought to me. I also help figure out how we are going…
Holiday celebrations are going to look different for many of us this year. We talked to Casey from The Mindful Hapa about her ideas for entertaining for a smaller-than-usual group. 1. Assemble a cheese board with local cheese, jellies, honey, fresh fruit and crackers. It’s nice to have something prepared for people to munch on…
