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To Contact Us
How to contact us:
Suncoastcoop@gmail.com
Our Website: Suncoast Co-op Ordering
On Facebook: Facebook Fanpage
Facebook Group: Facebook Group.
Suncoast Co-op Meet-up: Meet-up
Suncoast Co-op Youtube: Youtube Videos
Phone #: 727-271-2754 – Eric
Membership
Membership is Ownership
For $25 a year you can become a member as well as part owner of the Suncoast Co-op. We are a worker owned cooperative and will give special perks for our member/owners. Patronize from the market and reap the rewards years to come with a vibrant local food economy.
- Receive 10% discount with no market surcharge.
- Half off on any upcoming workshops or events our co-op may host.
- Preferred Patron- If there are 5 apples on the market and 6 are sold, members get preference first on their order being fulfilled.
- You own the business Democratic election of board of directors. Each member gets one vote.
- Hiring Opportunity- we are worker owned cooperative we only hire from within. “With us, for us, we hire ourselves”
Become a member this week with a $25 investment!
Suncoast Co-op Market News
Great new Products
- Blueberries!
- Garden Bouquets
- Focaccia bread, Granola Bread, Orange Marmalade Bread
- Sweet Potato slips
- Parsley
- Georgia Collard Greens
- Brassica Crisps
- Soaps: Strawberries and Creme, Smoky Mountain, Bee Happy
In the News
Seeds of Change: Share the Good
Our co-op market gardens and community gardens are growing abundance! We desperately need storage space that is refrigerated. We are in a campaign to win potentially $25,000 grant for supporting our local food with the Seeds of Change campaign going on Facebook starting today. Please click the below link and vote for us daily till the grant challenge ends 5/17/2013. You can vote once a day. The gardens with the most attention will be up for a $25,000 grant or one fifteen $10,000 grants.
“Click here to vote for the Suncoast co-op vote Daily!”The link to share to your friends and family is:
https://www.facebook.com/seedsofchange/app_589705354373524?app_data=c7fe41fa-5244-4ecc-8103-d8e64cea52c2
We are in desperate need of a storage shed, one that can be locked, and air conditioned. Our gardeners drop off their produce,at habitat, we organize the produce, sort the names of those that ordered and store in make shift bins. We have no storage area, and no air conditioning. Without refrigeration and more storage area we are limited as to growing in our community. We live in Florida and heat wilts the vegetables pretty fast. habitat allows us to use a space on Saturday morning for the co op, but all week the area is open to the public. So we are unable to store and leave anything behind. Right now we store products such as honey, grass fed beef, free range chicken in our own homes and transport it ourselves.
Simply Fresh Customer Pick-up 1pm-2pm
Customers can now pick-up their orders from Simply Fresh 1pm-2pm in Tarpon Springs on Saturdays. Make sure you specify what customer pick up location you want to pick-up at on the second page when you place your order. Simply Fresh Produce & Peanuts is located at 1942 S. Pinellas Ave. Tarpon Springs, FL.
Now accepting all Major credit cards
We are now accepting all major credit cards for a 3.0% additional convenience fee we will use credit cards for your orders.
Side of Beef
Would any of our customer be interested in a portion of a side of beef from a local farm? We have access to grass fed beef in bulk we would have to pre-sell enough in order to consider getting the order. Would you be interested in more beef? What cuts? Please email any of your feedback so we may compile a list and research more Thanks! Suncoastcoop@gmail.com
Feedback requested
We will continue with our mission of providing fresh local food but have had requests for more diversity. Certain items are not producible in Florida but we have access to them but have put off making available. Examples include: Apples, Avocado, Mangoes, Asparagus, Sweet Corn, organic lettuce during the Summer, some of them are more North Florida, South Florida or Georgia, Some are from California, Washington. We were wondering if people would be interested in these Organic products as long as we clearly showed the point of origin and kept within the United States. We have begun to do this with some Citrus and Rice focused on Florida produced only but have many options. We would never stray away from our main focus on local food keeping it 90% of our business, just adding diversity to help grow the revenue and increase interest for our customers with more organic food. Is this something our members would be interested in we would like to hear feedback on what our customer would like? Please email any of your feedback Suncoastcoop@gmail.com
Looking for Volunteers and Board of Directors
We are always looking for new help in growing the cooperative. For inquire into assisting the growth of the co-op and local food movement please email Suncoastcoop@gmail.com
In Search of Website assistance
We would like to update our website to have more information about our co-op, a place for the members to talk as well as our grower converse, and more information about what our mission is about. Would anyone be interested in volunteering with our board on setting up a wordpress that will link to the market and vice versa. What kind of web experience do you have? Please email Suncoastcoop@gmail.com
Coming Events
You can RSVP for these events either on our On Facebook: Facebook Fanpage or Suncoast Co-op Meet-up: Meet-up
Suncoast Cafe
Every Saturday join us for talks about local food movement. $1.50 cup of organic locally roasted coffee and conversations about growing our own food. 10am-2pm at the West Pasco Habitat for Humanity Restore 4131 Madison Street.
Co-op Birthday + Permablitz
May 5th, 2012 9:00am-4pm (Come anytime)6410 River Road, New Port Richey, FL
Join the co-op for a celebration of our first year open! May was our kick off month for the co-op in 2012 and we have grown so much! We are growing still, Barbara is in need of setting up more garden space at her home to grow more veggies for the co-op market. So we are hosting a Birthday Permablit for the co-op to keep on growing! Our permablitz group will keep them going over the summer for every 3 blitz’s you go to your property is eligible to be blitzed. This is a pot-luck event please bring your favorite dish, plates, utensils, drinks. Learn more details on our meet-up: Meet-up RSVP
Click here for Flyer for event to print and help market our co-op birthday!
Critical Thinkers book club: One Straw Revolution
May 7 at 6:00pm
New Port Richey Public Library in New Port Richey, Florida
Join our book study club at the New Port Richey Library upstairs room B for a discussion about the book “One Straw Revolution” You can read it online for free here: One Straw Revolution
We thank you for your interest and support of our efforts to bring you the healthiest, the freshest and the most delicious locally-produced foods possible!