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A Port Townsend Food Co-op Blog

Whether you're passionate about healthy recipes, sustainability initiatives, local giving programs, or supporting local farms, we’ve got something for you. Stay connected with the latest co-op news, learn how we’re making a difference in the community, and discover how you can get involved. Join us as we promote eco-friendly living and share the best in organic, local food."

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Spring Greens

Some spring greens are cultivated, like spinach, endive, radicchio and Asian greens like tatsoi and mizuna. Others grow wild, including dandelion greens, nettles, fiddlehead ferns, chickweed and purslane

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Cinco de Mayo Recipes

After a while you won’t need to follow the recipes; ingredients and techniques will live in your bones, and you can cook from what you have and what’s in season.

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Read the Food Co-op 2020 Impact Report

What is a food co-op? We are your friendly, democratically controlled, community-owned grocery store. Everyone is welcome to shop and if you decide to become an owner you’ll get benefits and vote for our board of directors. That democratic process is how owners ensure the co-op stays focused on its community.

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Spring into the Co-op!

These fresh, sprightly spring rolls and dipping sauce deserve to become a recurring dish in your recipe repertoire. This is an extra-springy vegetarian version of the classic!

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Earth Day Brunch Menu

Nothing proclaims EARTH DAY like emerging asparagus. Heralded as a fertility symbol, and sacred to Aphrodite, goddess of love and beauty, asparagus is a prized vegetable.

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The Ordinary-Extraordinary Egg

Egg laying squawks and shrill clucks became everyday sounds as the flock became part of our lives. I learned how to ease an egg from under a hen and many other subtle skills.

One spring day, while the chickens…

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Takes Two To Mango!

Shopping for mangos is a sensory pleasure. The stem end should smell fruity, and the ripe fruit should yield to gentle pressure. For recipes and how to cut a mango…

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RE-ROOFING THE CO-OP

Over the years we’ve developed several tricks to cope with the sunlight that dares to enter our building. So now, given the price of both replacing the skylight and coping with mitigating the effects of the sun, we decided to go ahead and re-roof but not replace it.

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