The Co-op Scoop

Annie Woo is a chocolatier and multimedia artist. Her chocolate obsession began when she was working in a chocolate shop in Lower East Side, Manhattan. Annie then traveled through Europe to find her own chocolate expression in the fine chocolate world. She returned home to LA and started a Farmers Market stand, FKA Woohoo Sweetery.Follow Annie Woo on Instagram @sweetduetchocolateOn hold for Santa - A Sweetduet Short

Renewal Mill is an upcycled food company that fights climate change and global food loss by upcycling byproducts from food manufacturing into superfood ingredients and premium, plant-based pantry staples. We sell their dark chocolate brownie mix, chocolate chip and sugar cookie mixes.

The Good Stuff Jam was born in 2012, creating jams and marmalades from local organic fruit in small batches by Janet Mcdonald.

Albert Katz joins us from KATZ Farm, a 30 acre farm of mature olive trees that are CCOF certified organic in the historic and agriculturally rich Suisun Valley. We are lucky to have their olive oils and vinegars for sale at the Co-op.

Founded on the steps of St. John’s Lutheran Church in 1985, Saint John’s Program for Real Change has helped more than 30,000 women and children transform their lives from poverty and dependence to confidence and self-sustainability. Dedicated to the eradication of homelessness. Their up-to-18-month comprehensive residential program provides families with the tools they need to address the root causes as well as the symptoms of homelessness. Here are ways you can support St. John's ...

The Alchemist Kitchen helps aspiring local food entrepreneurs with business planning and development to make their dreams a reality. The Microenterprise Academy is held twice a year and is now working with its 5th cohort. Graduates have the opportunity to participate in an incubator program to further develop their business. Our guest, Jacob Sacks manages the program. We are also joined by Christopher Boone, whose Boone’s Red Onions are a brand new product available at the Co-op. He’s a ...

Alfred Melbourne is the leader of Three Sisters Gardens, which has four different urban farms in West Sacramento. Its main goal is to give back to the community by inspiring and empowering youth through gardening. Like the Three Sisters legend of companionship planting, Three Sisters Gardens believes that our communities can begin to heal and thrive when all components, the youth, adults and elders are working together as one.

Linda Easton joins us from GullyRumpus Farm, a 2.5 acre farm in Rio Linda. Farmer Linda has been raising chickens for more than two decades and now also raises Japanese quail. We are lucky to have her quail eggs for sale at the Co-op!

Desiree Lopez started Desi Milk after COVID crippled her art business. She saw the need for accessible affordable raw milk and has been working hard for the last year to provide it. The farm is located in Modesto, and we're excited to offer raw cow, sheep and goat Desi Milk to Co-op shoppers. Desiree is a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner.

Sara Bernal is the Program Manager for the Center for Land-Based Learning's West Sacramento Urban Farm Program, an urban farm business incubator and part of the Center’s California Farm Academy. Sara got into farming after seven years as a social worker working with homeless adults and families. She sees good food as a right, not a privilege and is working to make healthy food more accessible.