Honest Weight Food Co-op

On Sale This Month...

Current sales and specials at the Co-op

For more sale specials, also check out the
Co-op Advantage Program (CAP) flyer (PDF).

From the February Coop Scoop...

Stop in for some samples...

Donna offers food sanokes weekly. Photo by Shannon DeCelle

Knudsen Juices
Dr. Bronners Soaps
Candied Pecans
Q Bel

Special Events Blog!

See what we're doing out in the community... and join us!

Issues and Alerts

Pesticides:A Public Problem

What's On My Food? is a searchable database designed to make the public problem of pesticide exposure visible and more understandable. Read more...

A Return to Real Food

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

We have become so disconnected from nature that we have forgotten what real food is. It is time to relearn how to live with the planet.

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What's new at
Honest Weight Food Co-op?

Have you made YOUR loan to the Co-op yet?

Or bought YOUR Building Blocks?

We are preparing to start construction on our new store in the spring of 2010. We've raised over $600,000 in loans but we've got a ways to go to so we need your help!

You should have received a brochure and letter in the mail a month or so ago outlining our Member Loan Program. Please read them carefully and then let us know how much you're ready to loan!

To make a loan or for additional information, please email GoCo-op@honestweight.coop or call Lynne at 427-7386.

Building Blocks

Now you have a new way to invest in our future:

Building Blocks

Building Blocks are a simple way for you to make an investment in our future.You choose the denomination that you would like to invest. A $25 investment today will get you $30 worth of goods in seven years. A $50 investment will be worth $60 and $100 investment will be worth $120.

Any shareholder can participate, even if you've already made a loan. Just ask at the service desk how you can get started today!

HWFC & WAMC present
"No Impact Man"
Food for Thought: An Evening of Socially Relevant Cinema

Thursday, February 18th, 6:00 PM - $6

Co-presented by the Honest Weight Food Co-op and WAMC's Documentary Film Series, Food For Thought is a monthly evening of food, film and discussion with a focus on films of social, political, environmental and community interest. Held on the third Thursday of each month, the night features food samples by Honest Weight Food Co-op, a feature film screening, and an open panel discussion.

Colin Beavan decides to completely eliminate his personal impact on the environment for the next year.It means eating vegetarian, buying only local food, and turning off the refrigerator. It also means no elevators, no television, no cars, busses, or airplanes, no toxic cleaning products, no electricity, no material consumption, and no garbage. No problem -- at least for Colin -- but he and his family live in Manhattan. So when his espresso-guzzling, retail-worshipping wife Michelle and their two-year-old daughter are dragged into the fray, the No Impact Project has an unforeseen impact of its own.

Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein's film provides an intriguing inside look into the experiment that became a national fascination and media sensation, while examining the familial strains and strengthened bonds that result from Colin and Michelle’s struggle with their radical lifestyle change.

Info: http://www.wamcarts.org/artsched.html

The Linda, WAMC's Performing Arts Studio 339 Central Ave, Albany, NY

Upcoming Meetings and Events:

New Member Orientations

Sat. Feb 6 10 am
Tues. Feb 9 7 pm
Sat. Feb 20 11 am

More orientations and info

Next General Membership Meeting

TBA. more info

Board of Directors Meeting

Board meetings schedule

Chair Massage

With Ed Thomas. Tuesdays, from 2:00 to 5:00 pm, in the Co-op Community Room

We also offer reiki, reflexology, and many other Health and Wellness classes, support groups, and seminars in our Community Room every day, free, and open to the public! Upcoming Classes

What is HWFC?

The Honest Weight Food Co-op welcomes you as a customer, member and co-owner of a community interested in being conscious of and in control of our food source. We are a for-profit organization incorporated under the New York State Cooperative law. Honest Weight, along with many other cooperatives, has adopted the principles of International Cooperative Alliance Statement of Cooperative Identity which is derived from the Rochdale Principles. Members have equal voting rights (one member, one vote). The nine Board of Directors are elected by the membership for 3 year terms.