Archive for September, 2010
The New Fall Harvest Festival — Now With 100 Percent More Fun!
How do we love thee, Fall? Let us count the ways. Colorful leaves, Oktoberfests, cooler days, college football, the cascade of holidays, squash…the list goes on and on.
Which is why we’ve always loved celebrating this time of the year with our annual Fall Harvest Festival — our little cornucopia of food, wine, beer, and entertainment. [...]
Oh, Say Can You See…Spot Walk?
OK, how can we NOT be a co-sponsor for See Spot Walk? All you have to do is set one foot inside the Idaho Humane Society, and you’ll be tearily yanking out your checkbook, handing it to Dr. Jeff Rosenthal, the director, and saying, “I’m not seeing very clearly right now, so please just write [...]
Rising Above Abuse
One of the things we at the Boise Co-op most appreciate about being a part of the vibrant community we share here in the Treasure Valley is happening upon stories like that of Matt Pipkin and Commit65. Who is Matt Pipkin, you ask? Well, for starters he is a recent graduate of Purdue University, a [...]
King Harvest Has Surely Come
For those of you keeping score, Fall officially begins on Thursday, September 23 at 3:09 am, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) – which kinda sucks for those of us who are uncoordinated, but I digress.
It is referred to as the autumnal or fall equinox in the northern hemisphere, as well as the spring or vernal equinox [...]
Taku River or The End of the Line. Your Choice.
The Boise Co-op recently sponsored a showing of the documentary, End of the Line, at The Flicks, followed by a discussion of the movie’s subject, overfishing. Proceeds from the screening went to the Sea Turtle Foundation.
Currently, 75% of the world’s 200 commercially valuable marine fish species are overfished or are close to being overfished. The End [...]
Annual Harvest Festival at Idaho Botanical Garden
Every season has its associated culinary joys, but Fall reigns supreme as the season of bounty, and a time when the approaching equinox reminds us of our many blessings as we bring home the harvest.
Our annual Fall Harvest Festival at the Co-op has been one of our most popular events, but as the years have [...]
Are You Paper Trained?
David Pennington of Pennington Greens has been washing, bleaching and stockpiling wheatgrass pulp for 14 years, and has been supplying wheat grass and wheat grass shots to Co-op customers for ages. Every time wheatgrass juice is made, this wonderful by-product provides material for wedding invitations, greeting cards, posters, artist canvas and inspired sculpture. Now you, too, [...]
Tour de Coop
If you love chickens (and who doesn’t?) then you’ll want to indulge your backyard poultry fantasies at this Saturdays’ “Tour de Coop”, which the Boise Co-op is proud to sponsor along with North End Organic Nursery and the Treasure Valley Food Coalition (TVFC). Here are the details, courtesy of the press release from TVFC:
Boise Tour [...]
Ain’t Nothin’ Like the Real Thing, Baby
Last week we somewhat humorously alerted our customers to the presence of a Co-op counterfeit — a person going door-to-door under the name “Prime Time Meat” and claiming to be a “division of the Co-op” (mayhaps the Nut Department?). The imposter had even gone so far as to put a Boise Co-op decal on his [...]
Food for the Soul
Man Cannot Live By Bread Alone
Cathy Anderson, manager of the Boise Co-op Health and Beauty Department, believes that our store not only has an obligation to nurture our customers’ bodies, but their souls as well. Last year she was instrumental in bringing a film to Boise from the annual Sun Valley Spiritual Film Festival. The [...]
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