Hi Everyone,

Just reaching out to welcome Carole Mapes of Flywheel Flowers to our community space for a workshop on Everlasting Wreaths on November 2nd at 1:00pm. If you want to try your hand at this craft email flywheelflowers@gmail.com to let her know you’d like to join in!

Hey Folks,

We are pleased to announce that we are going to have several events going on in the next several weeks time, now that the craziness of summer is coming to a close. If you have any questions about these events please free to reach out to us or stop in the Co-op. In date order we have the following events on the schedule so far!

• Carbon Cessation Round Table, October 26th 6:00pm at the Co-op, Hosted by Ed Hamel. – Come and participate in a discussion on how to reduce our individual carbon footprints. Bring your ideas and what you are doing to reduce carbon output. Share your knowledge!
• Brooks Trunk or Treat, October 31st 5:30pm to 7:30pm. While not directly in the Co-op everyone is welcome to the center of town for a glorious trunk or treat and the Co-op will be providing fresh popped popcorn on the front porch for kiddos!
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• Marsh River Coop Inaugural Wine Tasting, November 1st 4:30pm – 6:00pm After many years of folks asking we having completed all the necessary steps to host our very own wine tasting. Folks will be treated to a selection of 5 wines from our very first wine distributor, Easterly Wine in Belfast.
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• Community Potluck and Annual Meeting, November 10th at 4:00pm – Join us for good food and discussion about how the Co-op is doing, provide feedback and direction as to where you would like it to focus and vote for our new slate of board members. This is your chance to affect the direction of the Co-op!
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Hey Everyone,

We wanted to pop a quick note so you could put it on your calendars that we will be having our Annual Meeting & Potluck coming up in November on the 10th at 4pm! We will send out additional details as we get closer to the date including an agenda and Annual Report for everyone to review. We are also electing board members as well so if you are interested in being on the board please let us know!

 

Hey Everyone,

We just wanted to pop out a quick note to welcome our first MOFGA certified cheesemaker, Balfour Farm in Pittsfield. We’ve added a small selection from them to start in our Cheese Case so if there is something specific you are looking for please let us know! For now we have;

1. Torrin Tomme
2. Summit “A SHARP FRENCH-STYLE PYRENEES CHEESE AGED 90+ DAYS, SEMI-SOFT AND SHARP. BLACK WAX.
3. Haymaker “MILD TO MEDIUM ENGLISH-STYLE HARD CHEDDAR-TYPE CHEESE. OUR BASE CHEESE RECIPE FOR ALL HERBED HARD CHEESES. YELLOW WAX.”
4. Smokey Ghost “MILD TO MEDIUM SHARP ENGLISH-STYLE HARD CHEDDAR-TYPE CHEESE WITH A FIREY KICK, GROUND CHIPOTLE PEPPERS AND GHOST PEPPER SALT. BLACK WAX.”

Hey Everyone,

First we’d like to take the opportunity to thank Senator Herbig @erin_herbig for coming out yesterday and meeting with members of the public and the Co-op. We are always happy to welcome our legislatures to our space to meet with folks!

We also had a wonderful meeting with a member of the Co-op ME Business Alliance @maine.coop. It’s always good to connect with folks who are doing different things to support local Co-ops around the state!

And now onto the new and returning items to our shelves!

1. Rocky Ground Cider Lucia (Newburgh)
2. Rocky Ground Cuder Pips (Newburgh)(this brings our total to 15 Maine Hard Ciders!)
3. Flying Embers Lemon Orchard (Organic)(Member Request)
4. Ippongi Denshin Junmai Ginjo (this one is a little bit pricier than we normally do but one of our members requested it and our favorite thing to do is bring in something that our members wanted and put it on the shelves!)
5. Eden Brown Mustard (Organic)(Customer Request)
6. Thompson Ginkgo Biloba (We are slowely working on adding additional suppliments, and if you’ve let us know of one you’d like to carry don’t worry we are still working on getting those for the shelve)

And we have some returning/seasonal items as well;

1. Organic Medjool Dates
2. Apple Farm Apple Cider (Fairfield)

And returning for hopefully the long term;

1. A Small Good Proper Bacon (Rockport)
2. A Small Good Perfect Italian Sausage(Rockport)
3. A Small Good Kranjska Sausage (Rockport)