We’re excited to announce that we’ve expanded our Change Matters program. We recruited local vendors to donate a portion of their co-op sales, in addition to the donations we collect from customers at the register. Now you can support our Change Matters groups by rounding up at the registers and purchasing these delicious local products!… Read More →
By Emily Truscott, Tubman May is Mental Health Awareness Month. All month long, we’re supporting Tubman with our Change Matters program. Round up at the register to support Tubman and purchase Seven Sundays muesli to increase our impact. As part of a broad continuum of services for people who have experienced trauma, Tubman offers a… Read More →
Q: I love to garden and especially enjoy eating food from my own garden, but recently I moved into an apartment. Is there a way I can still eat fresh veggies I grew myself without having the space or yard to do so? – Charles, Minneapolis A: Thank you for your grand gardening query, Charles! There… Read More →
Cooperatives are principled businesses. Principle #7 is concern for community. We strive every day to work for the sustainable development of our neighborhood and community. Change Matters, our register round-up program is one way we do this. Every time you make a purchase at the register you have the opportunity to round up your purchase… Read More →
In October 2015, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) jointly announced our nation’s first food-waste-reduction goal: a 50 percent decrease in food waste sent to landfills by 2030. This will be no easy feat. Based on the EPA’s numbers, nearly 18 million tons of food waste will need to… Read More →
In Minnesota, hunger can be hard to recognize. Besides the fact that we spend most of the year bundled up in bulky winter wear, hunger is just not a visible problem here in the way we,ve been programmed to think about it. Here, it doesn,t mean children with bloated bellies and hollow faces dying on… Read More →
by Danelle Rydel, Store Manager The store manager position is new for The Wedge as well as for me. Since taking the position last winter, I have immersed myself in all the departments to understand what really makes our co-op tick. I have focused on not just spending time with department managers but also with… Read More →
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The 55th Anniversary of Earth Day is being celebrated globally on April 22 with the theme, “Our Power, Our Planet.” Sustainability is a legacy tenet of our co-op, and a guiding value in the decision-making of our growing co-op community. Our recent conversation with Reuse Minnesota (our April 2025 Change Matters Partner) inspires us to…
National Farmworker Awareness Week is March 25-31, 2025. This week draws attention to the incredible, and often invisible contributions farmers make to our daily way of life. We spoke with our colleagues at Co-op Partners Warehouse to further illuminate Farmworker Awareness Week, farms that go above and beyond, and what we can do as consumers…
