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Savvy Seafood Shopping at the Co-op
October is Seafood Month! Seafood is a whole category of animal protein with diverse flavors, textures, and preparation methods in addition to offering serious nutritive content. Even if you love seafood, you may worry it’s too expensive to incorporate weekly or too...
Adapting My Great-Grandmother’s Recipes for the Co-op’s Holiday Meal
Adapting my Great-Grandmother’s Recipes for the Co-op’s Holiday Meal Reflections by Marketing Specialist Christine Ciganovich Each July, at the peak of summer, the Marketing Team begins planning the Holiday Meal. The Co-op has hosted the Holiday Meal, a...
Hispanic Heritage Month 2023 Staff Recipes
It’s Hispanic Heritage Month Celebrated each year from September 15th through October 15th, Hispanic Heritage Month recognizes the cultures, histories, achievements and contributions of Hispanic Americans. September 15 was chosen as the starting point for the...
Maui Wildfire Relief Efforts
Support Relief Efforts in Maui Like many around the world, we have been devastated by the loss of life and land caused by a recent wildfire in Maui. When these tragedies occur, it is natural to want to lend support to relief efforts that are helping victims. However,...
National Farmer’s Market Week 2023
National Farmers Market Week is an annual celebration that takes place across the United States to honor and promote the importance of farmers markets in local communities. This week-long event typically occurs in early to mid-August and is a time to recognize the...
Ujamaa Farmer Collective – DFC’s 2023 Apple-a-Day Recipient
Each year, the Co-op donates $0.10 for every pound of apples sold over the course of a year through our “Apple-a-Day” program. With 61,959 lbs of apples sold from July 2022 – June 2023, we were left with $6,196 to donate to a local organization. For this year’s...
Rawgust Recipes: Raw Foods for Summer Scorchers
Rawgust This is not a hardcore raw food blog. You don’t need any fancy equipment to make these recipes. And you certainly won’t be making raw spinach and apple “tortillas” for raw “burritos”. This is not that kind of raw food blog, no offense. This is the kind of raw...
Students Can Live their Values and Transform their Community
In a world where corporate giants dictate our choices, where every dollar we spend seems to feed into a system that values profit over people, it’s easy to feel like just another cog in the machine as you make your purchases. This feeling may become most...
Juneteenth Celebrations in Davis this Month
On January 1st, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation freed enslaved Black people in Confederate states, at least it did on paper. About 500,000 of 3.9 million enslaved people were able to liberate themselves by escaping behind Union lines between 1863 and the end of...