Check out our new logo, designed by NOWBCer Julia Hilton (thank you!!). We like it a lot and hope you do too. We’ve also given our web site an overhaul, giving it some new color and design, but mostly moving it into a system that is easy for us to update! We hope to add many more profiles of our farms and suppliers, and will enjoy being able to keep our home page more easily up to date with current news.
# orders (week of): 68 (Aug 23); 70 (Aug 16); 68 (Aug 9); 71 (Aug 2); 77 (Jul 26); 65 (Jul 19); 80 (Jul 12); 94 (Jul 5); 60 (Jun 28); 85 (Jun 21) . . .
The summer is a slow time for the co-op. There are so many wonderful local, organic food options out there–which is GREAT! Though we still need the co-op to survive for those other 9 months of the year when access to local farms’ bounty becomes harder and NOWBC’s service even more important in keeping local food flowing. We’ve been keeping busy by helping deliver boxes for Glen Valley Organic Farm’s CSA this summer, though still need at least 80 orders a week to survive the summertime! Please remember the co-op! Remember, when you’re eating out of your garden, or visiting the farmer’s stalls at the markets, NOWBC can also bring you milk, peanut butter, grains, and even eco-friendly toilet paper too! As well as any produce, or cheese, or eggs, or meats or other things that you didn’t manage to pick-up at the market on Saturday/Sunday . . . 
Thank you for ordering, whenever you can. –Joanna, NOWBC Volunteer
We have reached our goal and raised $3,300 in membership investments! Thank you everyone for ensuring NOWBC Co-op continues connecting local farms with local eaters. To everyone who has invested in member shares, recommended NOWBC to a neighbour or friend, and/or has been reliably placing a grocery order every week (helping maintain critical mass to ensure NOWBC breaks even every week), a tremendous THANK YOU!!
Through your help with membership dollars, combined with support from the Cooperative Development Initiative, Kirsty is now able to work on expanding the selection in the on-line market. Look for lots of wonderful produce from more farms as we get into harvest season, as well as you will be seeing more good stuff like the free range, no antibiotic pork added recently. Also through your help, we have achieved a volume of orders enough that the co-op is now able to cover the costs of deliveries, which were higher than predicted with the demise of a very old delivery truck. Thank you, and please keep up the orders!
