Join us for one of our favorite events of the year – Chocolove chocolate and wine tasting! Sample a variety of delicious chocolates paired with a lovely assortment of wine, as well as some decadent samplings from the Co-op Kitchen! While you’re here, pick up a yummy gift and a local greeting card for your special Valentine.

Join Sheen Perkins of Agape Oils for this FREE lecture in the Tidal Creek Co-op Community Center. Learn how to make your own delicious and therapeutic chocolate truffles, oozing with love and romance as you experience the healing benefits of essential oils. Combine the sensuousness of raw cacao and other raw super-foods with the healing benefits of essential oils to create the perfect package: Therapeutic Chocolate Truffles. Register at Customer Service or by calling 910.799.COOP.

Please join us for our Co-op Owner Store Tour, created to help answer your questions and welcome you to Tidal Creek Co-op.  The session will include a brief orientation and overview of Co-op basics including; Tidal Creek owner benefits, a quick store tour, and tips on how to shop and save at the Co-op.  Open to all Tidal Creek Co-op owners.  Please gather upstairs in the Community Center.  RSVP at Customer Service or by calling 910.799.COOP.

Future Co-op Owner Store Tours will be held the last Wednesday of each month.

Bring the little ones to the Co-op for story time and a fun activity! Meet in the Tidal Creek Community Center. Parents are welcome to stay, or get your shopping done while the kids read and play!

We’re brewing up something special again this year.  You may enter to win Tidal Creek’s Free Coffee for a Year contest with every purchase of bulk coffee between now and March 31st!  Choose any amount from our bulk dispensers of organic, fair trade, shade grown, and/or local coffee.  Purchase at the register.  Place your name and phone on an entry slip and drop it in the jar.  Do this up to once per day until the drawing on March 31st, when you could be drawn as the winner of Free Coffee for a Year; to receive 1 pound of coffee, any roast available in stock, every week from April 2012 through March 2013!  So what are you waiting for?  Come on down to Tidal Creek Co-op to see what all the buzz is about!

Art Soup, a local nonprofit arts organization and Tidal Creek Cooperative present Rawl Color: a presentation of paintings, featuring local artist Emily Rawl. On display from December 2011 – February 2012, this is part of a continual series of art exhibits from Art Soup and Tidal Creek. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Emily Rawl is a self-taught artist with an inherit skill and an accomplished technique well beyond her age. Spending most of her youth in Arizona, Rawl was raised by a family of artists and continues to educate herself through incessant training and a continual push of the brush. With a focus on color and motion, Rawl’s work seems to dance across the canvas with delight. Her unconventional use of surrealism and form, capture a unique perspective that pushes the viewer into the work. Also an accomplished saxophone player, Rawl’s talent is showcased throughout her work, both audibly and visually. This young artist is surely one to watch and a must see in this three month solo exhibition. RawlColor is a series of recent work from Rawl that showcases conceptual imagery from a surrealist viewpoint. With flowing circles and chaotic forms, this collection of paintings includes an interpretation of the natural world as seen through the eyes and mind of the artist. From simple forest landscapes to octopus tentacles and caterpillar limbs, RawlColor is a stunning example of the power of paint and the artist’s ability to manipulate and perfect the tools of her trade. Art Soup is an arts education and event organization whose mission is to provide, educate and promote the performance and appreciation of the arts in the Cape Fear region of North Carolina. Focusing on art in a variety of forms, Art Soup hosts live events, presentations, educational services, artist services/donations, arts advocacy and promotion, as well as the general appreciation and participation in the arts.