Recipe: A Good Minestrone (Fall Soup Basics)

A soup using whatever is around, plus tomatoes. The noodles add the thickness; the vegetables, fragrance. Sing a bit of ‘O Sole Mio’ and the soup is ready. Ingredients 2-4 cloves garlic, minced 1 large onion, chopped 3 tbs olive oil 6 fresh tomatoes cut …

Pro-Pollinator: Leave the Leaves

This is the seventh in a series of articles written by Climate Action Coffee that seek to engage readers in the importance of pollinators and native plants. Today’s article focuses on creating a winter habitat for invertebrates. Leave the Leaves Now is the time to …

Recipe: Anita’s Chili Sans Carne

Fun for the whole family, this is a wonderful dish to transition from summer to fall with. If you’re soaking dried kidney beans ahead of time (overnight), so be it. If you’re using canned kidney beans, so be it. Tonight, we’re having chili. -Chloe Ingredients …

Pro-Pollinator: Butterflies and Their Host Plants

Attracting Butterflies with Native Host Plants This is the sixth in a series of articles written by Climate Action Coffee that seek to engage readers in the importance of pollinators and native plants. Today’s article focuses on planting native host plants to attract butterflies into …

From Our GM: Why Did We Do This?

I have 3 different weather apps on my phone. When you’re running a temporary grocery store out of a tent, there’s rarely a moment of the day you’re not thinking about weather. Is it going to be windy today? Heat advisory? Gentle rain? Downpour? You’re …

Recipe: Carrot Loaf (or Muffins)

I originally made this as a loaf with Einkorn flour and I found the texture to be very wonderful, but the light density (read: indescribable) of lower-gluten content flours is often surprising to those who are not super familiar with these kinds of breads. I …

From Our GM: People First at the Co-op

TPSS Member-Owners, If you don’t start your morning with half a dozen grocery industry trade emails, it’s possible you missed a story back in April about Amazon removing the Just Walk Out technology from their Whole Foods and Amazon Go grocery stores. In describing the …