May 30th – Doylestown Library   Wednesday, May 30, 6:30 – 8:30 in the Pearl S. Buck Room at the Doylestown Library.  Please join us!  Already a member?  Tell your friends about this opportunity to learn more and get their questions answered. Please note that this event is not sponsored by the Bucks County Free Library.

June 20th – Warrington Township Building, 852 Easton Road, Warrington, PA 18906.  7:30 – 9:00, with presentation at 8:00.  Come learn about the store we are opening, filled with locally grown and raised produce, meats, dairy, eggs and much more! Enjoy some locally made snacks.  Participants will enter to win a raffle basket of local goodies.

]]> http://doylestown.coop/events/more-town-hall-meetings/feed/ 0 http://doylestown.coop/news/seed-planting/ http://doylestown.coop/news/seed-planting/#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 18:56:52 +0000 Lisa White http://doylestown.coop/?p=1826 We had a great turnout for the Y’s Healthy Kids day with lots of fun planting seeds, talking with families about healthy foods and sharing our excitement about the Co-op.  Thanks to all our member-owners who came out and helped.  Read more for some great pictures of the day…

We have had a generous donation from W. Atlee Burpee & Co. and Cambridge Pacific Packaging of  Co-op  branded carrot and squash seed packets, so bring the whole family, plant seeds with us, and enjoy a day of sharing games from childhood with your kids, learning new things together, participating in art and nature activities and just spending time having fun outside!

The event runs from 11 am to 3 pm.

The 1st Local Live event was a coming together of co-op members, friends, family, and area residents to celebrate local music and local food while raising funds for the establishment of a food co-op in Doylestown. And what a celebration it was.

The range of music was incredible, as the participating musicians offered styles to suit all tastes. Faith & Practice kicked it off with a great set of folk, bluegrass, country and more. Seamus Kelleher took over and had the entire crowd singing along as they enjoyed his amazing guitar work. The Lori Rosolowsky Jazz Quintet came on next with a jazzy mix of standards and original compositions. Cherry Lane Band carried on with their horn-infused brand of classic rock. And then The Mango Men took it home,  rocking the crowd and sending everyone to Key West in spirit – where every day’s a Saturday!

And the food … chef Michael Kanter took over the Puck kitchen and suddenly we were all in a 5-star restaurant! Check out the menu here. Almost all of the food was sourced from our local farms, as described on the back of the menu.

The event was staffed by a blend of co-op members and volunteers from the Central Bucks East High School National Honor Society. Our thanks go out to Jackie Patterson and all of the students who helped serve the food and kept everything running smoothly.

We also thank Lynn Goldman for donating the Puck venue, and all of the wonderful folks from Puck who worked so hard to make the event a success: Sam, Char, Ferrence, Tim, Andrew, and Mike.

We look forward to making this an annual celebration – even bigger and better in 2013, if that’s possible!

Click here for photo page.

Here are some pictures of the event. If you have others, please send them to ncarson8@me.com and they’ll be added in.

Thanks to everyone who turned out for this spectacular event.

We’re at it again!

Doylestown Food Co-op Town Hall Meetings: Sunday, April 15th

9:30 am – 10:30 am
11:00 am – 12:00 pm
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

Community Education Center
5151 Cold Spring Creamery Road Doylestown, PA 18902

Please join the Board of Directors for an informative presentation and question and answer period to learn more about our plans for a local food co-op in Doylestown!

As with any other eco-system, our community provides resources that the co-op needs to grow. An increasing number of like-minded businesses have agreed to offer support for the Doylestown Food Co-op and its members either in the form of monetary donations, in-kind donations, or discounted services to our members.

Below is a list of businesses which have agreed to offer special discounts to our member base not available to the general public. Just bring your Membership card along when you visit participating merchants to receive your discount.

  Jules Thin Crust
Doylestown & Newtown Locations
10% Discount on all purchases

oWowCow Creamery
4105 Durham Road, Ottsville, PA
591 Durham Rd, Wrightstown, PA (Carousel Village)
10% Discount on all purchases

Sun Dog Yoga
17 W. State Street, Doylestown

10% off drop-in fee
$5 off our 5 and 10 class cards
$20 off a year-long membership

Olive Oil Etcetera
22 South Main Street, Doylestown
10% Discount on all purchases

Blue Moon Acres

10% off at the Buckingham location at 2287 Durham Road from 10:00 – 4:00 on Tuesdays and Fridays and at the New Jersey outlet store when it opens.

Doylestown Bookshop

10% off all regularly priced books, not to be combined with other offers or discounts

Stan’s Vitamins and Supplements
17 W. Court Street
Doylestown
10% off all purchases

Basically Burgers
33 North Main Street
Doylestown
10% off all purchases

Attention all community and Co-op members!

If you are part of a local business which shares our passion for supporting the local economy, or local food in particular, we would like to invite your organization join us. Please contact Shawn Kaplan to discuss ways that we can join forces.

We are all in this together!

There are so many ways to get involved to help make our store a reality. You can become a member! You can fill out our survey. You can also join us in our efforts by contributing your time and talents to one of our exciting and fun committees, or just help out with an event or two. “Talk up” your co-op. Donate money, so many opportunities.

1. To become a member and help us come one step closer to securing our location, visit our Member Application page.
2. To make a generous monetary donation to allow us to continue to pay for membership drives, marketing materials, and other start-up expenses, click here.
3. To offer your specific skills or interests to creating our Co-op, join a Member Committee. Learn more here.
4. To help us shape the best Co-op experience, take our survey here.
5. To learn more about us before joining, subscribe to The Appetizer Newsletter.

Chris Darrah originally started foraging mushrooms over 20 years ago. Through Mainly Mushrooms, he now provides wild-foraged and other locally-grown mushrooms to more than 15 restaurants in the Bucks County area and to frequenters of the Doylestown Farmers market.

His foraging knowledge was passed to him from an aging antiques dealer and forager who shared her hunting spots and taught him how to find the good mushrooms and avoid the poisonous “look-alikes.” Chris says the Doylestown Food Co-op will offer him a “Wonderful way to expand my business, and a way I can provide something that is wild-foraged to the general public.” Chris hopes to expand the variety of his offerings by starting a small-scale exotic mushroom facility that will produce, among other varieties, shiitakes and hen-of-the-woods mushrooms.

The mushrooms in the photo are, from top to bottom: Maitake (a.k.a. Hen of the Woods), Oyster, Hedgehog, dried Morel, and Yellowfoot Chanterelle.