News & Events

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City Market is an exciting place to be! From cultural events that highlight the variety of local vendors that we work with in our annual Harvest Celebration to membership drives and holiday tree sales to benefit the homeless. We’ll keep you up to date on all that is happening at City Market and the community around us.

Put a Little Love in Your Heart

Submitted by TTaylor on Fri, 02/03/2012 - 13:14

This V-day, find all the goodies you need to make the day feel extra special right at the Co-op. Salted chocolates, coconut body lotion, and locally-made honey wine are sure to please. We'll also have Fair Trade roses, so you can share the love with both the recipient and the farmer that grew them!

An Eye Towards the Co-op's Future

By Clem Nilan, General Manager

Hot off the press… We’ve been working these past few months with a co-operative consultant to consider opportunities for a second store. You might remember that back in early November, some of our staff members were in the Co-op’s exitway gathering customer data. This was but one small piece of our market study. We’ve just received the results of that study evaluating our second store opportunities. What you’ll read below is the rationale for our considerations:

Great News from Blue Heron Farm!

By Meg Klepack, Outreach & Local Food Manager

Last month we wrote about Christine and Adam Bourque’s attempts to buy their first farm to continue producing eggs and veggies up on Grand Isle.

Thanks to the generosity of many of our members, customers, and broader community, The Vermont Land Trust let us know in mid-January that we’ve helped them meet the goal of raising $80,000! Plans can now move forward for the permanent conservation of the property, and it will soon be sold to Adam and Christine at an affordable price. Blue Heron Farm will remain available for agricultural use and family farming for generations to come – and City Market customers will continue to enjoy Adam and Christine’s fresh organic eggs and vegetables. For more information about the Blue Heron project, or the broader work of the Vermont Land Trust (whose work has conserved more than 725 farms in Vermont to date!), visit vlt.org.

Business That's Good for Everyone

From www.StrongerTogether.coop

In tiny little Rochdale, England, a group of people formed a grocery co-op as an affordable alternative to the company store. When the co-op store first opened over 150 years ago, it sold a mere seven items, but it started a whole new way of doing business based on fairness and concern for local communities.

Today, cooperatives exist all over the world as a different way to offer goods and services that people want and need. Cooperation is such a powerful positive force that the year 2012 has been designated the International Year of Cooperatives by the United Nations, in recognition of the influence of cooperatives worldwide. The cooperative community will be celebrating together this year, and two such cooperatives---one in Spain, the other in the UK---are interesting examples of what co-ops can accomplish and how they can thrive.

Crop Damage Provides Opportunity To Try New Things

Submitted by TTaylor on Mon, 01/23/2012 - 13:19

Both California and Florida (key growing areas during the winter months) have been hit hard by cold and freezing temperatures in recent days. This has had a huge effect on supplies of many key items including kale, cucumbers, zucchini, strawberries and several other items.