Alex Kent, Board President

JuPong Lin, board member

31191709 – pile of veggies with carrots, beets and kale

Amherst Food Co-op PROGRESS UPDATE
Sunday, March 11, 3-5pm
Unitarian Universalist Society (121 N Pleasant St)

Chi Lin

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JuPong Lin and Darnell Adams, former project manager of the Dorchester Food Co-op, Boston (now an independent food co-op consultant)

JuPong and Alex at the conference

Representatives from the Flint Food Market (Flint, Michigan)

Didi Firman, Contributor

Felicia Sevene, Board Member

Alex Kent, Board President

Andy Grant, Outreach Coordinator

Andy Grant, Outreach Coordinator

JuPong Lin, board member

Image: RCC founders celebrate the store’s soft opening and welcome owners on October 14, 2016. Photo Credit: Renaissance Community Cooperative.

CIRCLES AND BOXES

Phoenix Fruit Farm

Elly Vaughan, Fruit Farmer (and Honey)

House Party hosted by Arleen and her husband Chuck

Presentation about the Co-op by Alex and JuPong

New ‘co-operators’!

Arleen Thomson

Cactus Orchid May 2018, photo by JuPong Lin

Photo by JuPong Lin

by Morgan Goode, Digital Communications Manager of FoodCorps

Yarrlow, by Portland artist, Sarah Farahat of JustSeeds Artist Collective

Feature Image from NPR. Anthony Bourdain with NPR correspondent Ofeibea Quist-Arcton in Dakar, Senegal, 2016.

Amherst Town Hall, Tibetan Review June 2018

The United Nations recognizes the human right to food in the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, stating “the right to adequate food is realized when every man, woman and child, alone or in community with others, has the physical and economic access at all times to adequate food or means for its procurement.”

JuPong and Chi Lin

JuPong Lin leading listening facilitator training at Jones Library in August 2018

C. Ross

Participants in Soul Fire Farms’ Black and Latinx Farmers Immersion program.

Photo by Jonah Vitale-Wolff.

African-American farm and home demonstration agents pose for a group photograph under the Booker T. Washington monument at Tuskegee Institute, July 15, 1925: Wikipedia

Frederick McKinley Jones

George Washington Carver, who lived 1864-1943.

Henry Blair: Patents by Negroes, by Henry Baker, vol. I, 1834-1887

Collective Courage
A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice

Jessica Gordon Nembhard

Ellen Evert Hopman

Photo by Alex Lau, food styling by Anna Stockwell

Ross, our Blog Editor shared information on upcoming volunteer opportunities

Diana Alvarez played some of her incredible music

Thanks to Dean’s Beans for donating custom coffee bags to all of our guests

Mycoterra brought some of their beautiful local mushrooms to sell

Our raffle featured over twenty items donated by local businesses

Thanks to everyone that came to our membership party!

The Kitchen Garden sampled some of their delicious salsas and hot sauces!

Photo by virginia lackinger on Unsplash

bees!

Food sharing illustration. Human hands with fruits. People of different nationalities take food from plate. Design for charity, volunteer organization, restaurant or cafe. Background for flyer, banner