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IT’S HERE . . . LET’S CELEBRATE!
THE NEBRASKA FOOD COOP’S FIRST DELIVERY DAY!
MARK YOUR CALENDARS . . .
Monday, July 17: “Order Window” OPENS
Sunday, July 23, 10 pm central: “Order Window” CLOSES
Thursday, July 27: Delivery Day
We invite all members to
1. shop the Web site: http://www.nebraskafood.org/shop
2. look over the producers’ offerings,
3. try out the order process, and
4. give us lots of feedback on ways to make it even better for next month!
We anticipate several more producers will add their information during the week of July 17, so check back more than once. Remember, however: no orders can be processed after the cut-off time, Sunday, July 23, 10 pm central. (This cut-off time will give producers time to get invoices and orders ready for the delivery date.)
Pick-up Site for Lincoln area orders—
Shadowbrook Farm
2201 West Denton Road
Lincoln, NE 68523
(402) 421-2383
Between 1 pm and 7 pm
Pick-up Site for Omaha area orders—
This site is being finalized now, or a volunteer may actually be able to deliver it to you directly this first time. We will keep you informed, but we invite you to check in any time at (402) 372-5005.
Delivery availability outside the Lincoln/Omaha areas—
Call us at (402) 372-5005, and we will let you know if we have producers or volunteers from your area who will be able to transport products back to your area.
Background and details
After over a year of volunteers working together on planning, meeting, conference calling, and meeting some more, we have finally reached the point to “try our wings” and celebrate LOCAL FOOD!
We’re still at beginner stage, with a small number of producers in the database at this point, but we want to try a “soft opening,” so that all of us beginning members can see, on a smaller scale, what kinks and problems crop up, as we go through the paces together.
Once the first order cycle is under our belts, we anticipate adding lots more producers, which will translate into lots more products to choose from.
If you haven’t yet sent in your membership fee, now is the time
to do so, as only members are able to place orders!
We’re excited! We hope you are, too! This is the very beginning—
the ground floor of something that we think will GROW, and grow quickly.
It will take effort and patience on everyone’s part
to help the Cooperative grow and succeed,
but we Nebraskans are up to the challenge!
In anticipation of good things to come,
Randy Wattermann, Board Chair
Shannon Moncure, Membership Chair
Nebraska Food Cooperative
PO Box 94691
Lincoln, NE 68509-4691
(402) 372-5005