Posted on 29 January 2013. Tags: Building Local Community, co-op, Stronger Together, Tidal Creek Co-op
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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Posted in Around the Co-Op, Blog, Featured, Video
Posted on 01 June 2012.
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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Posted in Blog, Currents, Tidal Creek Co-op 30th Anniversary 2012, Vol 11 Issue 1
Posted on 20 May 2012. Tags: Annual Membership Meeting, B100 Trail, Piedmont Biofuels, Ribbon Cutting
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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Posted in 2012 International Year of Cooperatives, Blog, Piedmont Biofuels
Posted on 18 April 2012. Tags: 2012 Tidal Creek Co-op 30th Anniversary, Tidal Creek Co-op History Exhibit
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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Posted in Blog, Tidal Creek Co-op 30th Anniversary 2012
Posted on 18 April 2012. Tags: Clean Green, Co-op Greening, Expansion, Piedmont Biofuels
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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Posted in Blog, Piedmont Biofuels
Posted on 03 April 2012. Tags: Tidal Creek History
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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Posted in Blog, Tidal Creek Co-op 30th Anniversary 2012
Posted on 01 December 2011. Tags: 2012 International Year of Cooperatives, Feature Article, NCGA
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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Posted in 2012 International Year of Cooperatives, Blog, Currents, Vol 10 issue 4
Posted on 13 September 2011. Tags: Clean Green, compost, composting, Reduce
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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Posted in Choosing Organic
Posted on 28 April 2011. Tags: Recipes
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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Posted in Blog, It Starts With Me
Posted on 23 March 2011. Tags: Earth Day
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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Posted in Blog, It Starts With Me
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