Thank YOU for buying local and helping us grow and support our producers!

We’ll have your products ready for you to come pick up this week. Here are some information on distribution this week:

1. If you are picking up at Franklin Plaza, please check out products available for purchase in our Retail Center. There’s lots of good stuff you can add to your online orders.

NOTE: We will have several of Country View Dairy’s State Fair first place “Best in Show” Greek Vanilla yogurts for sale on-site!

2. If you are picking up in West Des Moines, please stop by the LSI Global Greens Farm Field Day being held across the street at the Valley Community Center from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. Global Greens growers are an important part of our producer base, and this is a chance to see their farm.

3. Specifics on times and locations for all our sites are available with this link and to the left.

NOTE: IF YOU ARRIVE BEFORE THE SCHEDULED START TIME, OUR VOLUNTEERS WON’T BE READY. PLEASE PLAN ACCORDINGLY AND BE PATIENT.

4. Our alternative pick up time will be from 10:30 to noon on Saturday, Aug. 19. If we don’t see you Thursday, we’ll assume you are coming Saturday.

5. We accept EBT cards for payment ONLY AT OUR Franklin Plaza site. If you are an EBT member and are picking up at another location, please send an email to distribution@iowafood.coop so we can arrange for processing your payment

6. It’s a good idea to check to be sure your pick-up site is correct. You can access your invoice by logging in, going to the shopping tab, and click “view in-process invoice”. If it’s not right, send an email to distribution@iowafood.coop.

Last year’s closest distribution fell on 7-28-2016 and sales were $13,943. Thank YOU for buying local and helping us grow and support our Iowa farmers and producers!

We’ll have your products ready for you to come pick up this week. Here are some instructions:

1. If you are picking up at Franklin Plaza, be sure to check out products available for purchase in our Retail Center. There are lots of good stuff you can add to your online orders. We will have blueberries for sale on-site from The Berry Patch!

2. Specifics on times and locations for all our sites are available with this link and to the left.

NOTE: IF YOU ARRIVE BEFORE THE SCHEDULED START TIME, OUR VOLUNTEERS WON’T BE READY. PLEASE PLAN ACCORDINGLY AND BE PATIENT.

3. Our alternative pick up time will be from 10:30 to noon on Saturday, July 22. If we don’t see you Thursday, we’ll assume you are coming Saturday.

4. We accept EBT cards for payment ONLY AT OUR Franklin Plaza site. If you are an EBT member and are picking up at another location, please send an email to distribution@iowafood.coop so we can arrange for processing your payment

5. It’s a good idea to check to be sure your pick-up site is correct. You can access your invoice by logging in, going to the shopping tab, and click “view in-process invoice”. If it’s not right, send an email to distribution@iowafood.coop.

We had 224 members order 2,365 different items this cycle from 72 producers, with these items to be picked up at eight locations or delivered to six homes. Total purchases were right at $13,750.

We are off a week on having a distribution last year at this time, so that total is about $200 less than the average of last year’s week before and week after cycles. We’re okay with the $13,750, but our producers certainly would like it to be higher. We would as well.

Anyway, thanks for helping by ordering. We’ll have your products ready for you to come pick up this week. Here’s some instructions:

1. If you are picking up at Franklin Plaza, be sure to check out products available for purchase in our Retail Center. There are lots of good stuff you can add to your online orders.

2. Specifics on times and locations for all our sites are available with this link and to the left.

NOTE: IF YOU ARRIVE BEFORE THE SCHEDULED START TIME, OUR VOLUNTEERS WON’T BE READY. PLEASE PLAN ACCORDINGLY AND BE PATIENT.

3. Our alternative pick up time will be from 10:30 to noon on Saturday, July 22. If we don’t see you Thursday, we’ll assume you are coming Saturday.

4. We accept EBT cards for payment ONLY AT OUR Franklin Plaza site. If you are an EBT member and are picking up at another location, please send an email to distribution@iowafood.coop so we can arrange for processing your payment

5. It’s a good idea to check to be sure your pick-up site is correct. You can access your invoice by logging in, going to the shopping tab, and click “view in-process invoice”. If it’s not right, send an email to distribution@iowafood.coop.

We had 241 members order 2,665 different items this cycle. Total purchases were about $16,000, which is about 12% more than last year’s same cycle sales.

Nice to see some growth. Thanks for helping by ordering. We’ll have your products ready for you to come pick up this week. Here’s some instructions:

1. If you are picking up at Franklin Plaza, be sure to check out products available for purchase in our Retail Center. There are lots of good stuff you can add to your online orders.

2. Specifics on times and locations for all our sites are available with this link and to the left.

NOTE: IF YOU ARRIVE BEFORE THE SCHEDULED START TIME, OUR VOLUNTEERS WON’T BE READY. PLEASE PLAN ACCORDINGLY AND BE PATIENT.

3. Our alternative pick up time will be from 10:30 to noon on Saturday, July 8. If we don’t see you Thursday, we’ll assume you are coming Saturday.

4. We accept EBT cards for payment ONLY AT OUR Franklin Plaza site. If you are an EBT member and are picking up at another location, please send an email to distribution@iowafood.coop so we can arrange for processing your payment

5. It’s a good idea to check to be sure your pick-up site is correct. You can access your invoice by logging in, going to the shopping tab, and click “view in-process invoice”. If it’s not right, send an email to distribution@iowafood.coop.

We had 208 members order 1,889 different items this cycle. Total purchases were about $11,500, which is right at where we were with last year’s same cycle sales.

Flat sales is not what we want. We’ve had good cycles in the last few months, and we’re trying things like bringing on producers with prepared foods, plus buying and selling asparagus when we had none from our current growers. We’ve also reworked our emails to members include more information, such as recipes that use products from multiple producers.

But the reality is summertime sales tend to be lower than the rest of the year, which happens in part because many IFC members have home gardens, but also because there’s more options to buy local, like farmers’ markets.

Anyway, we’ll have your products ready for you to come pick up this week during our distributions. Here’s some instructions:

1. If you are picking up at Franklin Plaza, be sure to check out products available for purchase in our Retail Center. There are lots of good stuff you can add to your online orders.

2. Specifics on times and locations for all our sites are available with this link and to the left.

NOTE: IF YOU ARRIVE BEFORE THE SCHEDULED START TIME, OUR VOLUNTEERS WON’T BE READY. PLEASE PLAN ACCORDINGLY AND BE PATIENT.

3. Our alternative pick up time will be from 10:30 to noon on Saturday, June 24. If we don’t see you Thursday, we’ll assume you are coming Saturday.

4. We accept EBT cards for payment ONLY AT OUR Franklin Plaza site. If you are an EBT member and are picking up at another location, please send an email to distribution@iowafood.coop so we can arrange for processing your payment

5. It’s a good idea to check to be sure your pick-up site is correct. You can access your invoice by logging in, going to the shopping tab, and click “view in-process invoice”. If it’s not right, send an email to distribution@iowafood.coop.