Re: Linden Hills Co-op Reborn

[Guest guest]

I stumbled into it on Day Two (yesterday), and was delighted as well at all the

nice changes. Hooray for the expanded meat and seafood sections! And of course

I ran into another trad foodie there (Kathy-jo).

I had a specific shopping list with me, since I'd planned on dropping by the

Wedge when I noticed this was on the way home from another errand. I was a

little surprised they were out of bulk cinnamon and didn't carry green (non

extract) stevia in bulk. They also didn't seem to have any grass-fed butter, at

least at the moment (out of Pastureland), and said the hand-rolled kind (on

sale) MIGHT be grass-fed, although they were unsure of this -- and we agreed

that if it were, it would probably be labeled prominently as such. There was

another kind of local butter, very pale, and it said it was fed " harvested

grass " , so would that be hay or grass clippings to cows in confinement? I told

the nice staffer that I was in search of butter from cows out on pasture, and we

went into a discussion about vitamins A & D from the green grass and sunshine,

and since she seemed to be a butter aficionado I said if she ever ate grass-fed

raw butter she'd think she'd died and gone to heaven (her eyes lit up at the

thought).

I was disappointed they didn't have canning jar lids without BPA, only the

Ball/Kerr kind that are lined with it. I think if enough of us ask about this,

the co-ops might respond to the demand in the future.

I was happy they had a big pile of the excellent Michigan peaches that are

transitioning to organic. Hey, if Michigan can grow peaches, can we in

Minnesota? I know we can do pears, to many people's surprise, since we have an

enormous and hugely prolific one in our front yard.

Overall, the new Linden Hills Co-op is a nice bright spot on the health food

horizon!

~Beth