Often described as the perfect balance between Socialism and Capitalism, cooperatively owned businesses are that and more. Chatting with Kye from the Upper Valley Food Co-op in White River Junction, just a cat's toss from the Vital Communities office, and the Lebanon and Hanover Co-op table, I again feel lucky to live in an area with so many co-ops conveniently located around me. This stands in sharp contrast to my living situation this summer in Chicago where Kye's daughter and I both lived without any grocery co-ops at all.
Though I worked with the Dill Pickle Food Co-op in my neighborhood to try to get its doors open, the dream remains deferred and the love of food co-ops for Chicagoans is still unrequited. Thankfully a group of granite grown New Hampshirites craved oranges from Florida (a rare non-local blessing) soon after the Great Depression and banded together to buy a few cases. From their hankering for citrus, the Upper Valley's love affair with co-ops continues to burn.
Join the Upper Valley Co-op for their next event Hemp and the Rule of Law film and presentation April 30, 6:30-8pm or for any of their other events held in store.
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I heard on NHPR as I was heading over to WRJ to do a couple more posts that 9 percent of the foods sold last year at the Hanover and Upper Valley Coops were local foods. That's phenomenal, considering the volume that they do collectively.
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