Community sustainability forum

Hans Geier, FCCM board member, attended a forum at Noel Wien Library Nov. 4 on community sustainability and food security. From the blog of the UAF School of Natural Resources & Agricultural Sciences:
Hans Geier spoke on the imminent establishment of the Fairbanks Community Cooperative Market. Geier, who is a board member of the FCCM, is [...]

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Essay on Sustainable Agriculture

for SARE New Voices Contest
December, 2007
I didn’t grow up on a farm.  When I was young, I never learned how to fix a screen door let alone a tractor.   I didn’t know which end of a seed to plant in the ground.  If you had told me twenty years ago that I would own the [...]

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First of a Series – Organic Pancake Feed – Sunday, October 4, 2009

Breakfast Series
Organic Pancake Feed featuring local berries
Ken Kunkel CommunityCenter – 2645 Goldstream Road
Sunday, October 4
11 am
$10 for adults and
$7 for children under 12
Free for children under 5
The purpose of this breakfast series is to exchange information and ideas, as well as raise funds.
View our powerpoint presentation and visit with the board members.

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Articles on the Harvest Fair

Here’s an excerpt from the article in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner on the Harvest Fair that appeared August 30, written by Rebecca George:
Despite humble beginnings, a locally owned and operated cooperative grocery is becoming a reality in Fairbanks.
More than 500 people attended the Pioneer Park Civic Center for the Harvest Fair on Saturday to check [...]

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Story on the FCCM and the Foodland building

This story on the FCCM was published recently in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. “Fairbanks Community Cooperative Market looks to take over Foodland building,” by Rena Delbridge, was published Monday, July 13:
It’s dark and cool inside the old Foodland building at the end of Lacy Street.
And it’s a bit of a mess, scattered with the behind-the-scenes [...]

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Hear local music, promote local food at Co-op fundraiser

Latitude 65, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
by Glenn Burnsilver
November 21, 2008
The fundraiser will feature performances from talented local musicians, and raise money for the local co-op to purchase and establish a natural foods grocery. Performing musicians include Robin Dale Ford, Pat Fitzgerald, Alex Clarke and Ron Veliz. Ford and Fitzgerald regularly perform together, as a duo, and [...]

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News story on the co-op on KUAC

KUAC interviewed Dave Lacey about the co-op, and aired the story Thursday, Nov. 21. To listen to it, go to KUAC’s website. It’s about 1:07 in Dan Bross’s newscast.

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Downtown Fairbanks co-op grocery store in the works

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, September 28, 2008
by Rena Delbridge
As prices rise at the grocery store, stories spread about contaminated food and people grow increasingly concerned with carbon footprints, a Fairbanks man is pursuing a grocery alternative.
Dave Lacey wants to establish a cooperative grocery store with a full line of natural foods and green products. Think hormone-free [...]

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Group eyes local natural food co-op

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, March 27, 2007
by Eric Lidji, staff writer
A local group is hoping to attract support for a natural food co-op in Fairbanks.
“We felt there was a need in the community for it,” said Dave Lacey, one of the leads on the project. “We can’t depend on corporate or government to take care of [...]

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