Local at Your Co-op
The Marquette Food Co-op is committed to building local food networks and supporting local growers, farmers, and artisans by:
- Paying our farmers a fair price for their products as well as making sure that their products are attractively priced for our owners and shoppers, thus encouraging the purchase of local food over national brands
- Proudly displaying their pictures in our store so owners and shoppers can connect products with those who produced them
- Publishing a directory of U.P farms that sell directly to consumers
- Hosting an annual Farm Forum to connect farmers with the public
- Sponsoring Annual Farm Tours
- Giving presentations to schools and service groups about the importance of buying local
- Offering workshops on seed starting and growing your own food
- Assisting with the oversight of several area hoop houses
- Working with community members to build a vibrant, local food economy
- And, so much more!
To see a list of our local suppliers by department click on the links below:
You can support the local community too!
Here are just a few ways to start:
- Visit a nearby farm
- Shop at farmers’ markets
- Volunteer or intern on a farm
- Donate items (tools, buckets, work clothes, etc.)
- Shop at the Co-op
- Educate others about the benefits of local
- Participate in Community Supported Agriculture (CSA: Supporters cover a farm’s yearly operating budget by purchasing a share of the seasons harvest, ask at the Co-op for more details)
- Eat with the seasons
- Invest in a farm for the purchase of capital, implements, irrigation systems, etc.
