E DI TOR 'S L E TTE R
A natural foods cooperative since 1976 OPEN EVERY DAY TO EVERYONE Store hours 7:00am - 8:00pm IT IS WITH MY HEARTFELT APPRECIATION to wish all of you a happy and healthy new year. Your support of our local community store of 46 years allows us to continue to offer so many healthy, organic, and local products for you and your families to enjoy. Thank you for the support and patronage from our member-owners and shoppers. The past year was incredibly challenging for all of us. We are ever so proud, grateful, and happy that our remodel/expansion project is successfully complete, allowing us to open and offer new food services including the beautiful seating area. It is with my upmost gratitude and appreciation to our board of directors, and our staff who gave their personal best, support, and care in keeping the Co-op fully stocked and operable. This year, there will be three Board of Directors’ seats up for election, each for a threeyear term. If you possess the experience and particular business skills that could be helpful to the Co-op, please consider running. Interested candidates can find the application packet online at ukiahcoop.com. The application deadline is January 31, 2022, and the voting period will run the month of March. We hope you enjoy the winter edition of our quarterly newsletter, featuring a local business, Boonville Barn Collective, with their story of success and passion. Our marketing team had a fun day going there and captured some great shots of what they do. We proudly sell their products along with many other local producers in our county. Thank you for your continued support of our locally owned and operated Cooperative grocery store.
community powered
In Cooperation, Lori Rosenberg
Organic Espresso & Juice Bar 7:00am - 7:00pm Soup & Salad Bar 10:30am - 7:00pm Bowl'd Bar 11:00am-7:00pm M-Sat 721 South State Street Ukiah, CA 95482 707 462-4778 www.ukiahcoop.com e-mail: UNF@ukiahcoop.com
UNF Management General Manager Lori Rosenberg Facilities Dan Thompson-Sagehorn Finance Anne Wright Café Sebastian Knox Front End Lodie DeAlba Grocery Chris Jepson Human Resources Susan Winter Information Technology Tasha Jelen
UKIAH NATURAL FOODS CO-OP GENERAL MANAGER
Marketing & Outreach Yvonne Boyd Produce Libee Uhuru
VISION
We envision a community in which everyone has access to healthy food, where Ukiah Natural Foods Co-op is a vital part of the local food system.
MISSION
To sell trusted food, with knowledge and compassion.
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PURPOSE
Provide and promote organically grown, sustainably produced food, goods, and services that are locally and regionally sourced whenever possible. Promote the health and wellness of our community by providing facilities, resources, and information, and by offering effective, positive community education and services. Embody and model sustainable, humane, equitable, green ways of working and living, creating and maintaining an ideal workplace. Add to the enjoyment and enrichment of our greater community ventures and networks.
Wellness / Health & Beauty Katie McClure
Co-op Beet Managing Editor Yvonne Boyd Editor Lori Rosenberg Design & Production Nicole Martensen - Tierra Design Contributors Lori Rosenberg, Yvonne Boyd, Sara Balsaldua, Grey Wolfe Smith, Escarled Simon Views expressed in the Co-op Beet are the writers’ opinions and are not necessarily the views of Ukiah Natural Foods Co-op.
