Since its founding in 1937 as a cooperative food market, the CO-OP has evolved to offer area residents a convenient shopping destination for high quality and fresh produce, meats, seafood, specialty and grocery products. The CO-OP’s mission of promoting healthy, delicious foods, and its focus on educational and event programming has made it a commercial and social hub for surrounding Delaware County communities.
Share your expertise in the service of securing the future of a community cornerstone – the Swarthmore Co-op. Consider serving as a Co-op Board member! The Swarthmore Co-op is now…
A non-profit farmer’s Coop and CSA with over 100 member farms, LFFC strives to bring the best quality goods and produce to market in alignment with their values concerning environmental…
Hello, eco-conscious friends of Swarthmore! We’re excited to introduce you to a groundbreaking initiative that’s not only going to help Mother Earth breathe a sigh of relief but also make…
Founded in 1989 when three managers at a New England food Coop envisioned an alternative trade between people and farmers that was based on fairness, transparency, democracy, and cooperation. They…
History Frontier Food Co-Op began as a two-person operation in 1976 in a river-side cabin in Eastern Iowa and has since grown into a cooperative 40,000 members strong that provides…
History Four Seasons Produce, founded in 1976, is a family-owned company with a history of bringing fresh produce to market for generations. Founder David Hollinger shared his father’s passion of…
History Beginning as a small family business owned by Sicilian immigrants more than a hundred years ago, it opened its first seafood shop (Ippolitto’s) in Philadelphia in 1945. Samuels and…
Severino has been making quality local pasta for over 50 years and is still family owned. In 1971, the original founders of Severino, Joseph and Anna Maria, learned pasta making…