Tidal Creek Cooperative Food Market

What’s to love about food co-ops?
by CoopStrongerTogether
An animated infographic demonstrating just a few of the social, economic, and environmental impacts that food co-ops have on their local communities. How does your grocery store check out?
“What’s to Love About Food Co-ops?”
 

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A Celebration of Cooperation for 30 Years at Tidal Creek Co-op
by Christina McKenzie
with Autumn Beam
“Robert Holst stumbled upon the store by accident and eventually became an active member,” states UNCW Public History graduate, Autumn Beam in her research titled, “Small Beginnings: The History of Community Building at Tidal Creek Cooperative Food Market.” One of Tidal [...]

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The Piedmont Biofuels Community has expanded to Wilmington. Let’s celebrate!  To apply for Piedmont Biofuels cooperative membership, enabling you access to the Wilmington biofuels pumping station, visit here for more information.

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The UNCW Public History Program has unveiled the Tidal Creek Co-op History Exhibit “Feeding Tradition: A History of the Tidal Creek Cooperative Food Market.” Concluding a year of research, interviews, and exhibit fabrication; students and faculty, owners and staff share in an exploration of Tidal Creek Co-op’s growth and change throughout its 30 year history.  [...]

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Welcome to our info page about the utility building under construction at Tidal Creek Co-Op in Wilmington, NC! This site will serve as a fueling dispenser of 100% biodiesel (a compostable fuel source) by Piedmont Biofuels Industrial, LLC (PBI, LLC), a NC-based alternative fuel cooperative and B-Corporation. When PBI, LLC contacted us in February 2012 [...]

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Small Beginnings: The History of Community Building at Tidal Creek Cooperative Food Market
“In a constant flux, like a true tidal creek…” A Spatial History of Tidal Creek Cooperative Food Market
Environmentalism at Tidal Creek: A Food Cooperative’s Connections to a Social Movement
All Mixed Up: Gender in the Founding and Growth of Tidal Creek
Professionalization and Modernization: Changing [...]

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When you hear the word “co-op,” what springs to mind? For some people, “co-op” may be their local grocery store; for others it may be a housing community. Whatever your initial association, you may be surprised by the many types of co-ops around you.
More than 800 million people around the world belong to cooperatives, and [...]

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By Kirsten Lovan
September 11, 2011

Composting is something everyone can do, no matter your living space; there is a way to compost! All you have to do is type composting into your preferred search engine and you can immediately find 20 ways to compost everything from kitchen scraps and yard waste to cardboard and you can [...]

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Plastic-Free Strawberry & Apple Fruit Leather
Yesterday, as I danced around my kitchen… I once again realized one of the many rewards of striving to reduce our families plastic footprint.  The reward, of course, is the victory of figuring out how to make something that has been so commercialized that we think that [...]

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Our Daily Ocean: Day 52
If you’ve been reading this blog for awhile, you may know that I only decided to create this blog after a nudge from my friend Tracy.  She’s awesome like that… always giving me inspiration and encouraging me to do more.  On Tuesday, Tracy and her two kids joined me and my [...]

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