Linden Hills Co-op will serve as a pick-up site for folks who have shares in selected community supported agriculture farms this summer. Buying a CSA share is a great way to get locally grown, fresh food for your family and support local farms at the same time—it’s truly a win-win situation!

Produce manager Marshall Wright is on a tear about plastic bags, so the produce buyers are making efforts to find alternatives to plastic bags of fruit whenever possible. Citrus in net bags have replaced bagged oranges, and we are now providing apples in bulk that are more affordably priced than some of the apples bagged in plastic.

Here’s a not-fun fact: shoppers use 27,000 plastic bags a MONTH at Linden Hills Co-op.

Want to know who grew your bananas? Equal Exchange, Oke Bananas and your co-op can tell you that! Check the display in the produce aisle, and then visit Equal Exchange’s Beyond the Peel website. We hear there’ll be grower profiles sometime soon, too!

Yes—you CAN find great values on organic produce at your local co-op. For just one example, the price of organic Fair Trade bananas has not increased in more than three years. They’re still under a dollar a pound, every day. The reason? In part, it’s due to the Fair Trade premium paid to growers!