Great Basin Community Food Co-op

Update On Farm Bureau Priority Bill On Main Station Farm:  We have just received a couple of important pieces of information regarding SB 255, the measure Nevada Farm Bureau is strongly supporting in order to protect the University of Nevada from selling off portions of the Main Station Farm and redistributing the proceeds to non-agricultural [...]

Thanks to our hard working board of Directors our co-op has been able to present a bill to the legislature which will make it easier for more co-op’s in Nevada to incorporate as consumer-owned food cooperatives!  Keep and eye out and show your support for Bill #366 which will do the following: 1) Clarify a [...]

The majority of our city leaders did not vote to protect the land that will educate our future farmers of Nevada.  The 104 acres at UNR’s Main Station Farm (MSF) is also only about 100 ft away from the state of Nevada’s only currently USDA certified slaughter house facility, Wolf Pack Meats (WPM).  Imagine various [...]

For every bag or reusable container that you bring in we are going to start giving you 5 cents off your bill…yep, that could add up if you become more petroleum based plastic conscious. Just throw all your little bags or jars inside your cloth bag and keep them handy. Last Thursday The Reno Plastic [...]

Please take a moment to fill out our first survey since we moved into our new home this year.  Our staff and board would like an opportunity to learn about what direction our members and shoppers want OUR COMMUNITY co-op to head in.  BONUS — if you complete the survey there is a coupon at [...]

Join us upstairs in the co-op community cafe on Wednesday October 24th at 6:30pm for a FREE SCREENING of Genetic Roulette, “This seminal documentary provides compelling evidence to help explain the deteriorating health of Americans, especially among children, and offers a recipe for protecting ourselves and our future.”  October 2012 is NO GMO Month nation-wide, [...]