Hours & Location
Monday - Saturday
7:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Sunday
9:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
34 Cypress Street, Keene
603-355-8008
Directions
Co-op ManagementBoard of DirectorsBoard Meetings are held the 3rd Monday of each month at 4:45pm in the Railroad Square Senior Housing Conference Room (49 Community Way, Keene). If you are interested in attending, please contact the board at [email protected].
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Updates
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
We celebrated our One-Year Anniversary earlier this month and we feel incredibly grateful that so many of you came out to celebrate with us. We set a sales record that day!
In the spirit of Cooperative Principle #6, Cooperation among Cooperatives, our Co-op donated over $300 to support the Manchester Food Co-op start-up efforts. Principle #6 states that cooperatives serve their members most effectively and strengthen the cooperative movement by working together through local, national, regional and international structures. We wish the Manchester Food Co-op great success in opening the Manchester Food Co-op to serve their community.
You all continue to use the Co-op more and more -- and our sales are up 50% from just 6 months ago. Thank you for making our Co-op such a great success. We look forward to growing together in the coming year and finding ways to continue to meet more and more of your needs.
Meanwhile, inside the store we are planning to make next year as successful as our first. The management team, with input from staff, is busy developing plans and priorities for next year. One of our many goals is to continue to offer you more and more local products, and continue our work to help build a stronger local, sustainable food system. What would you like to see as a Co-op priority for the coming year? As always, we welcome your input.
Yours Cooperatively,
Michael Faber
Monadnock Food Co-op General Manager[email protected]
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 A Little Bit of Reflection
By Joe Marks
Board of Directors President
It's always good to do a little reflection on the eternal question, "How did I get here?" -- and there's no better time than an anniversary to do some reflecting!
As we mark our one-year anniversary, it's rewarding to see the store's sales growth and customer traffic has dramatically increased from the levels we saw in our first month or two of opening. I'm also happy to note that we hosted events for the regional co-op community at Keene State College due to our status as an exciting new store.
From the board perspective, milestones are a bit harder to describe, but I think I can say with confidence that the board has greatly enhanced its understanding of store operations -- now that we have real data to analyze. I think we also learned to embrace our job as described in our policies:
In order to govern successfully, we will:- Create and sustain a meaningful relationship with Member-Owners.
- Hire, compensate, delegate responsibility to, and hold accountable a General Manager.
- Have expectations in the form of written governing policies that realistically address the broadest levels of all organizational decisions and situations. We will write these policies in the form of Ends, Executive Limitations, Board Process, and Board-Management Relationship, as described in the Policy Governance principles.
- Assign responsibility in a way that honors our commitment to empowerment and clear distinction of roles.
- Rigorously monitor operational performance in the areas of Ends and Executive Limitations, and Board performance in the areas of Board Process and Board-Management Relationship.
- Perpetuate the Board's leadership capacity using ongoing education, training and recruitment.
One area we are always seeking to deepen and improve upon is the meaningful relationship with Member-Owners. To that end, we are "tabling" at Co-op events to give you a chance to give us your feedback conveniently. Look for us at the April 25th Wine Tasting -- we'd love to speak with you at this event or email us anytime: [email protected].
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Farm Tour at Picadilly Farm
Sunday, May 4 at 2pm, Winchester
This growing season, join the Monadnock Food Co-op for a series of farm tours. Meet the farmers and learn more about their growing practices. Our first farm tour of the season is at Picadilly Farm in Winchester. Cost: Free. Please register so we can send you directions and other updates.
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Who Needs a Boss?
Worker-Owner Cooperatives
By Shaila Dewan; From the New York Times
If you happen to be looking for your morning coffee near Golden Gate Park and the bright red storefront of the Arizmendi Bakery attracts your attention, congratulations. You have found what the readers of The San Francisco Bay Guardian, a local alt-weekly, deem the city's best bakery. But it has another, less obvious, distinction. Of the $3.50 you hand over for a latte (plus $2.75 for the signature sourdough croissant), not one penny ends up in the hands of a faraway investor. Nothing goes to anyone who might be tempted to sell out to a larger bakery chain or shutter the business if its quarterly sales lag.
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From our Friends & Neighbors
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Fueling an ExpeditionBy Emily Hughes, From Kroka Expeditions
Recently Hanah LaBarre, Keene resident and Kroka Expeditions Food Manager, stocked up two grocery carts full of fresh milk, yogurt, bread and other staples at the Monadnock Food Co-op to prepare for meals for fourteen hungry semester program students. The students just completed their backcountry ski expedition traveling the length of Vermont and will now turn their focus to paddling the length of Lake Champlain. Such physical exercise requires up to 6,000 calories a day. 
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RhubarbBy Joan Menefee, From Stronger Together
Each spring, pretty much as soon as the snow recedes, I begin checking the rhubarb patch. I check all of the perennials, in fact, because I never tire of watching plant bodies force their way out of the soil. Part horror movie, part miracle of nature, the stretching of plant fiber as the soil warms seems so improbable, especially in Northern Wisconsin, where frost locks up the soil for months on end. In early spring, as the first few leaves breach the surface, I realize that the rhubarb knows a world inhospitable to me, a world as strange as the ocean or space, a nearby world whose alterations and dramas are barely apparent to me as I sleepwalk through my preferred element of air.
Try this Recipe: Rhubarb Vinaigrette
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