Wesleyan Local Co-op
The Wesleyan Local Food Cooperative is a student-organized and -run group whose goal is to bring local, sustainably grown, and delicious food to the Wesleyan community. Wesleyan students may use their points to purchase the shares they order; employees can also participate via cash, check, or credit card.
Nine groups make up the cooperative: cheese, bread, meat, produce, tofu, seitan, mushrooms, coffee, and kombucha. The individual co-ops and their products are detailed below.
All students, faculty, and staff are eligible to participate in co-ops. Email questions to Naomi Ellis or Michael Minars.
Participation
Sign-up: Co-ops run each semester, usually for 9 weeks. The Fall 2023 sign-up form is open through Wednesday, September 20 at 11:59 PM. All participants MUST do both of the following:
- Fill out the sign-up form.
- Go to Swipe Night Thursday, September 27th from 5-8 PM at Usdan Daniel Family Commons to register to pay for the shares they have signed up for. All shareholder WesIDs or payment method MUST be present to pay (you can send a representative for your group).
Payment: Participants choose one or more co-ops and pay for each a la carte. Payments accepted include WesCard, credit card, or check (made out to Bon Appétit). Participants can split the shares with up to 6 people and may split the shares evenly or unevenly between participants. For example: Sara pays for 50% of 1 bread share while Clare, Lamonte, and Isaac split the other 50%.
Weekly and biweekly pickups: Some groups have weekly pickups and others have biweekly pickups. Pickups are every Wednesday from 5-7 PM in the Usdan Multipurpose Room (Room B25).
Fall pickup dates will be on Oct 4, 11, and 18; Nov 1, 8, 15, and 29; Dec 6 and 13.
Additional Details
- Bread
$72/27 points per share
1 loaf of bread of your choice per week, 9 pickups per semester
Sourced from Sweet Sage Bakery
Bread options
- Rustica - wheat sourdough
- Roasted Garlic Asiago - wheat sourdough
- Six Herb - organic herbs: parsley, dill, rosemary, marjoram, basil & fennel, wheat sourdough with sesame seeds on top
- Challah - traditional egg bread made with yeast
- French Country - wheat, whole wheat & rye sourdough
- Olive Boule - same as french country but with kalamata olives
- Potato Rosemary - same as french country with organic red potatoes and rosemary
- Multigrain - wheat and whole wheat sourdough with seven grain & seed mix
- Farmhouse - wheat, whole wheat & cracked wheat sourdough
- Whole Grain - wheat, whole wheat, rye & buckwheat sourdough
- Cheese
$123/123 points per share
2-½ lb. blocks of cheese of your choice per pickup, 5 bi-weekly pickups per semester
Sourced from Cato Corner Farm (Colchester, CT)
Cheese options
- Dutch Farmstead
- Womanchego
- Black Ledge Blue
- Vivace Bambino
- Bloomsday
- Vivace
- Aged Bloomsday
- Dairyere
- Hooligan
- Coffee
$77/77 points per share
12 oz. bag of coffee of your choice of roast per pickup, 5 bi-weekly pickups per semester
Sourced from Perkatory (Middletown, CT)
Coffee options
- Light Roast
- Dark Roast
- Espresso beans
- Eggs
$33/33 points per share
6 eggs per week, 9 pickups per semester
- Kombucha
$110/110 points per share
9 weekly pickups per semester
Sourced from 860Kombucha (Mystic, CT)
Shareholders will receive a 32oz Bottle of your choice of select local and seasonal Kombucha Flavors each week. Common flavor options include:
- Berry Breeze – blueberry, mint, lime
- Be Hoppy – hope, pineapple, mango, apple, lemon, lime
- Morning Dew – elderberry, lemon, lime
- Deep Sea – blue spirulina, coconut, pineapple, lime
- Light and Sunny – lemon, ginger, lime
- Meat
$100/100 points per share
Sourced from Cold Spring Farm (Colchester, CT)
Meat options (availability and quantity varies week to week) all packages $9 so if you choose a more expensive option, it will be a smaller quantity and vice versa.
- Ground Beef $8.50/lb.
- Ground Pork Sausage $7.99/lb.
- Pork Chops $6.99/lb.
- Ground Turkey $6.99/lb.
- Chicken Thighs $5.99/lb.
- Bacon $9/lb.
- Mushrooms
$65/65 points per share
½ lb. mix of mushrooms, 5 bi-weekly pickups per semester
Sourced from Seacoast Mushrooms (Mystic, CT)
Common mushroom options
- Button
- Portobello
- Shiitake
- Blue oyster
- Lion's mane
- King trumpet
- Crimini
- Chanterelle
- Maitake
- Produce
$120/120 points per share
5-7 lbs. of produce weekly, 9 pickups per semester
Sourced from Horse Listeners Farm (Ashford, CT) and other northeastern farms
Produce options may include (seasonally dependent)
- Beets
- Turnips
- Squash
- Onions
- Carrots
- Potatoes
- Apples
- Cabbage
- Greens
- Garlic
A typical weekly produce share might include 2-3 bunches of spinach, 3-4 apples, 3-4 turnips, 1 squash, 2-3 carrots, and 1 head of garlic.
- Seitan
$50/50 points per share
1 lb. of seitan, 9 weekly pickups per semester
Sourced from The Bridge (Middletown, CT)
- Tofu
$25/25 points per share
1 lb. of firm tofu weekly, 9 pickups per semester
Sourced from The Bridge (Middletown, CT)