APRIL 2009:
A Sampler of recent suggestions of general interest ... and our answers:

Comment responses should be in the form of fun limericks

There once was a man from the Co-op
Whose jokes were so bad,
all said please stop!
With a limerick request
He brought out his best
And now they want more; what a flip-flop!

Hi. Could we possible get local milk? Raw milk would be even better, but anything local would be very nice. Local cheese, too.

We tried carrying Crescent Ridge Dairy in Sharon, MA, but they didn’t sell enough to continue. The same with Highland Dairy out in Lee, in western Mass – great stuff including butter, and the milk came in glass bottles. Garelick (local farms throughout Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Vermont, Maine and upstate New York) and Hood (started in Charlestown, but now national) are local, but huge – and I don’t think that is what you wanted.
In Massachusetts, we can’t sell raw milk. Only the dairy that produces the milk can – no “reselling” allowed.
We do have local cheeses. Neighborly, organic from Vermont; Cabot, a co-op in Vermont; and Grafton, also from Vermont. Just to break the pattern, we have Pineland Farms from Maine.

Stock more organic produce (less conventional) Folks would buy more Organic if it was more reasonably priced.

YOU decide what we stock, especially in produce, where product has a very short “shelf life”.
If we were selling more organic, we would order and stock more organic. Is there something specific that you were looking for? We try to offer both organic and conventional because organic is (usually) grown in smaller quantities, and with more care, it is more expensive to buy.
In the long term, conventional produce is more expensive due to the fact the price does not include the hidden costs of environmental impact of factory farming, and the cost of government handouts to large agribusinesses.

Bulk TVP – miracle food, no vegetarian can live without it! Please carry this stuff, I’d be eternally grateful. Thanks.

We do have it in bulk – right next to the corn nuts. For those of you who don’t know, TVP is Textured Vegetable Protein, also known as textured soy protein (TSP). It is a meat substitute made from defatted soy flour, a by-product of making soybean oil. It is quick to cook, high in protein, and low in fat. Used to replace ground meat in many recipes, it is also a good source of fiber and isoflavones.

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