The Marquette Food Co-op

Situated just on the fringes of Marquette Michigan's historical downtown district adjacent the corner of Baraga Ave and Front Street sits a broad two-story stone block building dating date to the 1800's and makes home for the Marquette Food Co-op.

The Marquette Food Co-op is a locally famous area avant-garde grocer and if not just one of very few of it's kind, as well as a truly one of a kind health food grocer offering a litany of high quality health food along with a wide range of vitamins and minerals with the most stringent nutritional integrity. They even offer alternative natural remedies and supplements for those who wish to avoid over-the-counter remedies that some may have negative side-effects.

What makes the Marquette Food Co-op so unique is the fact that the co-op supports the local farming community in and around Marquette as well as the entire Upper of Peninsula farming community by offering there grown goods. If your not familiar with the U.P. as we call it, it's the mass of land above the "mitten shaped" part of lower Michigan.

You can take full advantage of obtaining part-ownership when you purchase a $100 equity share which they allow you to purchase in full or they allow you make payments that go towards your share of equity. Getting a discount is just a small part of becoming a part-owner compared to the litany of other dynamics of becoming an owner and with that said as an owner you are encouraged to participate in decisions involving many aspects of the Marquette Food Co-op and they hope that you take advantage of them as well as taking them seriously.

Some of the other benefits afforded to you as a part-owner is that you can become involved in many activities such as cooking classes, farm tours, store promotions to volunteer arrangements, local events in social planning and sometimes the painstaking involvement of maintaining their records and database's. There many other hands-on activities that will serve a wide range of backgrounds and interests.

One of the best properties of the Marquette Food Co-op is that they are very environmentally friendly by offering a discount for bringing in your own container for bulk food product purchases and by "Going Green" and by encouraging a green consciences by carrying out any realm of minimizing the reduction of packaging and waste.

Be it you come as a casual shopper in search of the latest vegan alternatives or as a part owner the Marquette Food Co-op is your one-stop-shop for everything healthy, wealthy, wiser and most of all greener.

Sources: Marquette Food Co-op