Co-ops Grow Communities!
Co-ops around the world share a set of guiding principles, including “cooperation among cooperatives,” and “concern for community.” When you purchase delicious, healthy food at a locally-owned food co-op, you’re supporting a business that cares about people and contributes to a livable, sustainable community. And when you choose products from co-op farmers and companies, that […]
Spencer Mountain Mennonite Farms
Spencer Mountain Mennonite Farms is one of our largest local producers at Three Rivers Market. This hard working group produces a variety of vegetables: potatoes, summer & winter squashes, peppers, eggplants, onions, tomatoes, herbs & more. We even have a selection of their Kuntry Kitchen jams and jellies to spread on your favorite biscuits or […]
Local and Independent
Noted thinker and agrarian Wendell Berry is a prolific writer whose prescient essays get at the complexity and importance of growing a just and healthy economy. The quotation above, from his essay The Idea of a Local Economy (which you can read in its entirety here), gets at the heart of what separates Three Rivers Market […]
Award Winning!
We’ve been in our new building for over a year now, but we haven’t gotten over our enthusiasm for its great design. A panel of nationally renowned architects agreed and recently awarded Studio 4 Design, the firm responsible for the design of our building, both the Design Excellence Award and the People’s Choice Award (voted on by all […]
Wendell Berry on Local Economy
Below are quotations from an excerpt from an essay by Wendell Berry published by Orion magazine in 2009. It is posted here with permission from Counterpoint Press. The Idea of a Local Economy ‘The idea of a local economy rests upon only two principles: neighborhood and subsistence…” BY WENDELL BERRY Published in the Winter 2001 issue of Orion magazine […]