Vendors

Below please find links to some of our vendors who supply us with food and other items for sale in the store.

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Community Homestead

http://www.communityhomestead.org/

A non-profit rural community living and working with people with special needs. We raise chickens, bake bread, make furniture, create crafts for sale at craft fairs, and through our catalogue, cook, eat, sing, laugh, dance, canoe, hike and have fun together!

Divine Chocolate

http://www.divinechocolate.com/

Divine Fairtrade chocolate is the flagship brand of The Day Chocolate Company, a unique farmer-owned business set up back in 1998 to offer a delicious Fairtrade alternative to chocolate lovers.

Equal Exchange

http://www.equalexchange.com/

As a worker-owned co-op, we offer consumers fairly traded gourmet coffee direct from small-scale farmer co-ops in Latin America, Africa and Asia.

Full Circle Organic Grower's Cooperative

http://www.oakcentergeneralstore.com/FullCircleOrganicGrowersCo-operative.htm

Full Circle Organic Growers Co-operative is best known for the extraordinary quality of fresh ecologically produced, Local Fair Trade labeled, fruits and vegetables our farm members grow.

Native Harvest

http://www.welrp.org/nativeharvest/nativeharvest.html

Native Harvest produces and sells a selection of traditional foods, including wild rice, hominy, maple syrup, and jellies. With each purchase, you support sustainable income opportunities for Anishinaabeg tribal members on the White Earth Reservation.

Natural Ovens Bakery

http://www.naturalovens.com/

Natural Ovens of Manitowoc was founded in 1976 by Paul Stitt, M.S. (biochemistry, University of Wisconsin) because he saw a need for fresh, filling and satisfying, preservative-free whole grain food in the Midwest.

Natural Value

http://www.naturalvalue.com/

Natural Value believes natural and organic foods and planet-friendly products should be affordable for everyone. They produce a variety of more than 230 natural and organic foods and nonfood products an every day low price 10 to 50 percent less than comparable national brands.

Oskri Organics

http://www.oskri.com

Oskri Organics is a small company located in Ixonia, Wisconsin. NCC carries their great bars, barley coffee and olive and linseed oil.

Peace Coffee

http://www.peacecoffee.com/

An alternative approach to coffee based on the belief that coffee should reward your taste buds while respecting coffee farmers and the environment.

Links

Here are some links to affinity groups of NCC and its staff, as well as to information on the cooperative movement, collectivism, and democracy.

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Grassroots Economic Organizing

http://www.geonewsletter.org/

Helping build a nation-and worldwide movement for a cooperative social economy based on democratic and responsible production, conscientious consumption, and use of capital to further social and economic justice.

KFAI People-Powered Radio

http://www.kfai.org

A volunteer-based community radio station that exists to broadcast information, arts and entertainment programming for a Twin Cities audience of diverse racial, social and economic backgrounds.

Local Fair Trade Network

www.localfairtrade.org

The Local Fair Trade Network brings together farmers, farm workers, retailers and consumers to work for social justice through creating a sustainable local food system.

Local Harvest

http://www.localharvest.org/

Do you want fresh, locally grown, organic food, but don't know where to find it? The LocalHarvest map makes it easy to find family farms, farmers markets and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area.

Minnesota Worker Cooperatives

http://www.mncooperate.org

Provides information about worker cooperatives, collectives, and other democratic workplaces.

Organic Consumers Association

http://www.organicconsumers.org/

Campaigning for Food Safety, Organic Agriculture, Fair Trade & Sustainability

Renewing the Countryside

http://www.renewingthecountryside.org/

On this website you will find stories of everyday people making a difference in their rural communities. The stories here are of farmers, artists, business owners, community leaders, non-profit organizers, youth and others who are living, working and playing in ways that benefit their families, their communities, and future generations.