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Since 1973, your North Coast Co-op has been a member-owned consumer food cooperative in Northern California operating two full-service grocery stores in Arcata and Eureka. Your North Coast Co-op has a production bakery and deli serving good food without artificial ingredients and using organic or natural ingredients whenever possible.

Your North Coast Co-op is locally committed to good food. It is important to provide our community with healthful food, nutritional education and demonstrate environmental responsibility through the products we sell and the services we provide.
Everyone can shop and anyone can join the Co-op!

You Can Be An Owner

One idea that is rarely practiced is the idea that the people can be owners of the business they choose to shop at. This Co-op is locally grown and member owned! With over 11,000 members, a high percentage of our community believes in the cooperative spirit.

In the tradition of their founders, cooperative members believe in the ethical values of honesty, openness, social responsibility, and caring for others. As a cooperative business, we adhere to these seven principles:

1	Voluntary and open membership.
2	Democratic member control.
3	Member economic participation.
4	Autonomy and independence.
5	Education, training, and information.
6	Cooperation among cooperatives.
7	Concern for community.

Like other consumer co-ops in this country, the Co-op has led the way in promoting organic farming, the importance of supporting local products, the advantages of buying bulk foods, the benefits of recycling and reducing waste, the importance of accurate product information, and the buying power of consumers informed about the food they eat and the impacts of their choices.

Way back in 1973 some of these ideas were a bit radical, but these ideas are now practiced in one way or another by every other “natural” food store.

Our Member Linkages Department welcomes your comments and suggestions about this web site. Contact us!

Share the Spirit
The Co-op will once again match 100% of donations made to our Share the Spirit fundraiser, which benefits our local food banks--Food for People and the Arcata Endeavor. From now until January 4, tell your cashier how much you would like to add to your bill and that amount will be rerouted to our Share the Spirit account. To see the amount of current funds raised, click below.

See your dollars add up! Click here!

The Co-op News Winter 2009

Read it Online!

Section 1, pages 1-10

Section 2, pages 11-15
(Cooking Class Schedule)

Section 3, pages 16-21

Section 4, pages 22-26
(Member Survey Results)

Section 5, pages 27-31

These are large files.
Not recommended for
dial-up.

Co-op News Cover

Members Out Loud Online!
The Board of Directors and the Management Team of the Co-op invite feedback and comments from members about Co-op operations and other food related topics. If you would like to post a comment on the Web Log click here. If you saw something in the Co-op News that you'd like to respond to, click here to be a part of the ongoing dialog, or send an email to jacquetorres@northcoastco-op.com.

We did it again! In March of 2008 the Co-op was recertified as an organic retailer by CCOF, a third party certifying agency. The North Coast Co-op is the first food co-op on the West Coast, and the only food retailer in California north of the Bay Area, to be certified organic!

Our certifier, CCOF, inspected both stores and verified that the North Coast Co-op handles all certified organic products in accordance with federal regulations from the delivery truck to your basket. CCOF is your assurance that your Co-op properly handles all certified organic products!