By Taylor Dibbert Rachel Hardwick raised her kids in Takoma Park with her husband, loves to walk her dog around town with friends, and owns a commercial testing laboratory with her husband. She is an attorney at AARP. Hardwick served on TPSS Co-op’s Board of …
03/16/2023: Monthly Board Meeting
Our monthly Board meeting will take place on Thursday, March 16th at 6:30 PM. This meeting will be a hybrid — in-person and virtual. The in-person meeting location is the Historic Takoma building, located at 7328 Carroll Avenue. The meeting will take place from 6:30 …
(04/22/23) Earth Day: The Future of Our Food System
Earth Day 2023 Participants Will be Updated as Confirmed. Music 11:00 AM – Mr. Lilo 12:30 PM – Amareeno 1:00 PM – Juels Bland 2:10 PM – Ruthie and the Wranglers Featured Speakers MD Delegate Lorig Charkoudian Takoma Park Mayor Talisha Searcy Partner Organizations FullFillery …
Ready to cut down on single-use plastics? Here are a few ways to start.
Orly Keiner, TPSS Board of Representatives Are you among the 72% of consumers concerned about the growth in the use of single use plastics but don’t know what to do about it because PLASTIC IS EVERYWHERE? Are you troubled by knowing that even the “recyclable” …
Looking at Food Insecurity, Food Sovereignty and What TPSS Co-op is Doing to Help
Taylor Dibbert, TPSS Board of Representatives On February 8 TPSS Co-op held an event on food insecurity. With pandemic-related assistance programs winding down, what might that mean for vulnerable people? What can we expect in terms of forthcoming advocacy or legislative initiatives? And what’s the …
Our GM’s Remarks From the Hunger Cliff: A Virtual Food Insecurity Discussion
02/21/2023 SNAP at TPSS Pre-Pandemic Before the pandemic SNAP sales were a relatively small percentage of TPSS sales. From 2013-2019 they were between 1 and half a percent of overall store sales, and were actually declining year over year as a percent of sales. This …
After the Hunger Cliff (Materials + Follow-Up)
We would like to thank everyone who attended The Hunger Cliff, our virtual food insecurity discussion. We were honored to have three amazing speakers; Allison Schnitzer from the Montgomery County Food Council, JD Robinson from Maryland Hunger Solutions, and Lauren Goldberg from Crossroads Community Food …
02/16/2023: Monthly Board Meeting
Our monthly Board meeting will take place on Thursday, February 16th at 6:30 PM. This meeting will be a hybrid — in-person and virtual. The in-person meeting location is the Historic Takoma building, located at 7328 Carroll Avenue. The meeting will take place from 6:30 …