• • 1: Home
  • 2: E-Newsletter
  • 3: About the Coop
    • 3.1: Membership
    • 3.2: Join Now!
    • 3.3: Online Membership Application
    • 3.4: Our Mission
    • 3.5: History
    • 3.6: Staff
      • 3.6.1: Staff Emails
      • 3.6.2: Staff Spotlight
    • 3.7: What ARE Coops?
    • 3.8: Coop Board
    • 3.9: By-Laws
    • 3.10: Employment
      • 3.10.1: Application
  • 4: Contact Us
  • 5: Services
    • 5.1: Catering
    • 5.2: Special Orders
    • 5.3: Home Delivery
  • 6: The Store
    • 6.1: Hours & Location
    • 6.2: The Deli
    • 6.3: Prepared Foods
      • 6.3.1: Our Cook
      • 6.3.5: Our Chef/Fresh Foods Manager
    • 6.4: Meat/Poultry
      • 6.4.1: Meat Product List
    • 6.5: Seafood
      • 6.5.1: Sushi
    • 6.6: Cheese
    • 6.7: Dairy
      • 6.7.1: Dairy Product List
    • 6.8: Produce
      • 6.8.1: Produce List
    • 6.9: Groceries
      • 6.9.1: Grocery Products
      • 6.9.2: Frozen Products
    • 6.10: Bakery
      • 6.10.1: Product List
  • 7: Buy Local
    • 7.1: Local Farms

    • Current page is 7.2: Local Vendors

  • 8: Community
    • 8.1: Shared Recipes
    • 8.2: A Community Calendar
    • 8.4: Food BLOG
    • 8.5: Local News & Initiatives
      • 8.5.1: Article Archive
    • 8.6: Resources & Links
  • 9: Featured Products
    • 9.3: Gifts baskets

A Preference for Local Vendors

Supporting local, small retail business is important to the Co-op. We feel a special bond with these providers since we are a small retail business as well. Excellent quality and superior taste are essential to the local vendors with which we partner. We love finding vendors who share our passion for sustainability, green living, and community development. We have local vendors in every department of our store.

To see a comprehensive list of our local vendors, click here.

SPOTLIGHT: One Village Coffee

As a Co-op, we are so excited about featuring vendors that are doing amazing non-profit work to help others.  Here's a letter from OVC owner Steve Hackman  about his work in Nigeria. This month, we will be partnering with OVC by giving 1 dollar per bag of OVC sold at theCo-op toward the Nigeria project, with OVC matching every dollar donated by the Co-op. Together we can make a difference!

One Village Coffee's involvement in Nigeria in the past included providing fresh-water wells to a coffee farmer Bala who in the picture is the gentleman dressed in white with a group of farmers who attended several coffee clinics to educate the 30 + farmers on growing and harvesting coffee for the purpose of yielding great results for best prices on themarket. Also a small coffee roaster was provided by OVC for Bala to useand train other farmers on roasting and using their coffee for the localvillage people which is taking place today. The picture of Bala standing next to the Global Academy sign is a school built by Bala for KG1 and 2,and Primary 1, which is meeting a large need in the village where there was no school before. Now the village is asking for more classes and the money raised by OVC and Swarthmore Coop will be going to adding classes to the Global Academy in Jos, Nigeria.

Thank you,

Steve Hackman

Steve came by recently to share his pictures and stories.  Visit our Facebook page to see photos.

Do you know a great local food provider? Contact us and let us know! We're always interested in discovering new local products to carry in our store.