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Please answer our annual survey before 1/31!

Best wishes for 2024! If you are a member and/or shopper at the coop, please fill out our annual short survey and let us know about your experience. We welcome any feedback and (constructive) suggestions to collectively improve what we are doing!

The survey should take less than 10 minutes and will be open until the end of January. All working members, non-working members, and regular or occasional shoppers are encouraged to answer. Feel free to circulate widely!

Link to the survey: shorturl.at/dNOS9

If you have any question[s] related to the survey, please contact: survey@4thstreetfoodcoop.org.

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Try our zero-waste laundry options!

For clean clothes and a cleaner planet, try out several package-free, sustainable, skin-friendly laundry options:

  • Tru Earth laundry sheets or “eco-strips”: 1 strip = $0.40/load
  • Pure Soap Flakes BULK Laundry powder ($8.19/lb, 1 tea spoon per load = less than $0.15/load) or pure Castile soap flakes ($15.56/lb) to make your own cleaning products
  • Ecos unscented or magnolia lily BULK liquid laundry detergent ($2.65/lb, approximately $0.20/load)
  • Vermont BULK Castile soap
  • Dr Bronner’s BULK Castile soap
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Don’t make toilet paper out of trees, make a tree out of toilet paper!

Discover Who Gives a Crap‘s Limited edition 100% bamboo toilet paper!

“These 48 double length, 3 ply rolls stack to create an eco-friendly tree that gives the happiest room of your home the festive treatment. Wrapped with cheerful ornaments and hidden surprises, this toilet paper makes even the grinchiest go to the bathroom with glee.” (Picture: https://us.whogivesacrap.org/)

$1.66/roll. The company donates 50% of its profits to build toilets around the world. More details: https://us.whogivesacrap.org/products/stackatree

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Sign a petition to save NYC Compost Program

As co-operators, it’s safe to say we’re friends of community composting. But recently announced city budget cuts may completely eliminate the NYC Compost Project, Food Scrap Drop-Off Sites, Community Composting, and Outreach for the city’s Curbside Composting / Brown Bin program. Please consider signing this petition to urge NYC’s mayor, sanitation commissioner, and city council to halt the elimination of community compost programs. 

Link to the petition: https://www.grownyc.org/petition#newmode-embed-47342-61846


Community composting ensures 8.3 million pounds of organic waste are processed locally and diverted from landfill each year, and provides 325+ community groups with thousands of pounds of finished compost to enrich our street trees and green spaces while preventing flooding and erosion. Furthermore, there cannot be a successful Curbside Composting program in New York City without the outreach, education, and support provided by community composters. Thank you for your support!

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Thanksgiving is coming!

Save a bird and try a TOFURKEY recipe with our BULK extra-firm tofu (@ithacasoy). You can find it at the bottom of the fridge for $3.15/lb. Bring your own container(s)!

Credit: www.instagram.com/postgrrrl

An example of recipe that you can make with ingredients you can find at the coop, all organic, vegan, almost package-free, and possibly gluten-free: https://frommybowl.com/homemade-vegan-holiday-roast/

All BULK ingredients: Extra-firm tofu, Tamari, Vegetable oil, chickpea flour, balsamic vinegar, etc.

Stuffing & seasoning: Bouillon cubes or “Better than Bouillon” paste, tomato paste, onions, celery, bread (could be home-made with our gluten free flours), herbs, pecans, etc.

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Have you tried our coffee?

The days are getting darker and the caffeine is becoming more necessary…. Source your daily cup ☕ from the coop– organic, fair trade, whole bean, bulk by the pound, dark, medium, light, decaf…. we even have a grinder! We wish we could post the smell for you, mmmmmm

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Our fridge is full!

Come taste some of our new products (vegan nut-based cheeses, Sunwink drink, seitan, etc.) and our regular ones (delicious Cocojune and Forager coconut and cashew-based vegan yogurts, kefir, vegan butters and veganaise, various kombucha options, sauerkraut and kimchi, natto, tempeh, etc.). Remember we have BULK tofu, black olives, miso, tamari, spirulina, bee pollen… Just look at the bottom of the fridge!

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The co-op in Grub Street: “It tasted like gold”

Musician Kazu Makino referring to the co-op: “Ate a grapefruit. This grapefruit looked like a grandma, so wrinkly, and it tasted like gold. I don’t go to normal stores. I go to this co-op in the East Village […]. They go out of their way to find local produce that is really, really the quality stuff. Things that look ugly but taste so good.”

See full article: https://www.grubstreet.com/2023/10/blonde-redhead-kazu-makino-grub-street-diet.html

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Lots of vegan options in our back fridge!

Try our usual + new vegan options, including:

  • Cocojune (coconut-based) and Forager (cashew-based) vegan yogurts
  • Miyoko’s creamery oat milk butter and cashew-based cheeses (smoked gouda and mozzarella this week)
  • “Nuts for cheese” cashew-based fermented “un-brie-livable”
  • Pumfu, a pumpkin seed alternative to tofu
  • Our classic organic veganaise and tempeh
  • Seitan (The Bridge brand) — Or try to make your own with bulk wheat gluten!
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Shea butter is back in stock!

Shea Butter
Shea Butter Bulk (Photo: Monserrat Soldu)

Organic raw Shea butter was delivered from our supplier Vermont Soap (as of May, 2023), imported from Northern Ghana. It is a great moisturizer and can be used for burns, dry and irritated skin, and wrinkle smoothing.