If you’re not yet a Co-op Owner, October is the time to join! We’re celebrating both Co-op Month and Fair Trade Month by giving the first 125 new Co-op Owners a gift bag of Fair Trade and cooperatively-made goodies. And that’s just for starters! When you join our 13,500-plus current Owners for a one-time fee of $70, you’ll get all kinds of benefits like Owner Sale Day, where you get 10% off non-sale items on one day of your choosing every month, special Owner Bonus coupons, access to exclusive events and tours, a vote in Co-op elections, and the chance to receive patronage dividends in profitable years.
Your special gift bag of Fair Trade and cooperatively-made products is a great opportunity to learn about Fair Trade practices, support cooperatively-owned business, and if you’re lucky, even discover a new favorite product! Let’s learn about the mission-drive businesses you’ll get to enjoy:
Equal Exchange Tea & Dried Mango: FAIR TRADE | Authentic Fair Trade means Equal Exchange partners with farmer co-ops who are democratically organized, sharing resources and decision-making among their members.
Co-op Kitchen Chocolate Chip Cookie: FAIR TRADE | The Co-op Kitchen is proud to exclusively use Fair Trade Equal Exchange chocolate in our baked goods & desserts.
Beyond Good Chocolate: FAIR TRADE | Beyond Good’s Fair Trade chocolate supply chain is simple: 93 farmers in Madagascar earn premium prices selling cocoa directly to Beyond Good.
Tony’s Chocolonely Chocolate: FAIR TRADE | Tony’s Chocolonely exists to end exploitation in cocoa. They work to achieve this through using traceable cocoa beans, creating long term partnerships farmers, and paying farmers a higher price & living wage.
Aura Cacia Body Oil: COOPERATIVELY OWNED | As part of the Frontier Co-op family of brands, Aura Cacia is a member-owned co-op that puts people and planet ahead of profits.
Café Mam Coffee: FAIR TRADE | 100% certified organic, fairly traded coffee from producer cooperatives in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico.
Whole Flower Farms Vegan/Gluten Free Cookies: FAIR TRADE | Locally made! All chocolate & cacao-derived ingredients are organic, fair-trade, and single-origin sourced.
Pachamama Coffee: FAIR TRADE | Pachamama coffee comes directly from farmers who carefully grow their beans utilizing organic, indigenous farming practices.
Dr. Bronner’s Soap: FAIR TRADE | Dr. Bronner’s main ingredients are certified fair trade, which means that ethical working conditions and fair prices are provided in the supply chain.
Just Ice Tea: FAIR TRADE | All Fair Trade ingredients used pay a premium to farmers that is reinvested directly in their communities. The workers democratically vote on how the money is spent.
SIMPLi Beans & Grains: FAIR TRADE | SIMPLi partners with farming communities to ethically source authentic, Regenerative Organic Certified® ingredients. By building simpler & fully transparent supply chains, middle distribution channels are eliminated, resulting in a direct impact on the environment and the farmer, so the livelihoods of the farmers and their communities are greatly improved
Become an Owner today at either Co-op store or online at firstalt.coop/ownership.