Annual All-Member meeting Sunday, January 18, 2015

We will have our Annual All-Member meeting of Wooster Natural Foods on Sunday, January 18, 2015, at 2 PM at the store.  Anyone who is a member of this food co-op is welcomed to attend this meeting, but please let us know ahead of time that you are coming, so we can figure out what seating needs we’ll have.

Besides the Council and Staff presenting our annual reports, we are seeking applicants for positions on the Council.

The Council meets on the third Sunday of each month at 2 PM, and we are strictly an advisory group for the staff.  New Council applicants will be voted on at this Annual Meeting, with one vote per member household, among those present at the meeting.

If you are interested in applying for a position on the Council, please email me at susanshie@gmail.com, and I will email you a small form to fill out and return to me. Only those who have filled out these forms can be considered for Council election at the Annual Meeting.

Also please email me, if you plan to come to the All Member Meeting, or have questions about it.

Many thanks, Susan Shie, president of the Council
PS.  If you don't already use our Wooster Natural Foods page on Facebook, check it out now!

Annual All-Member Meeting of Wooster Natural Foods. January 19, 2014

Annual All-Member Meeting of Wooster Natural Foods. January 19, 2014

We will have our Annual All-Member annual meeting of Wooster Natural Foods on Sunday, January 19, at 2 PM at the store. This is the only scheduled meeting of each year, when all regular members of Wooster Natural Foods co-op are invited to attend a Co-op meeting.  Please rsvp to susanshie@gmail.com, if you plan to attend this meeting.

Besides the Council and Staff presenting our annual reports at this meeting, we are seeking new members on the Council.   If you are interested in applying for a position on the Council, please email me at susanshie@gmail.com, and I will email you a small form to fill out and return to me. Only those who have filled out these forms can be considered for Council election at the Annual Meeting.

 The Council regularly meets on the third Sunday of each month at 2 PM, and we are strictly an advisory group for the staff. New Council applicants will be voted on at this Annual Meeting, with one vote per member household, among those present at the meeting.

All members of the Council must be members in good standing of the Co-op and attend monthly meetings on a regular basis.

Many thanks,
Susan Shie
President of the Council

If you want to make comments or have any questions for Wooster Natural Foods, please visit our Facebook page.  Thank you!

Special meeting

We will hold a special meeting on Sunday, June 9, 2013, at 2:30 PM, to vote on an amendment we wish to make to our co-op's by-laws.

The amendment is to officially declare Wooster Natural Foods to be a political free zone.
The amendment reads:

“Wooster Natural Foods is a political free zone. 

Shoppers at our store cannot be confronted with our personal political opinions in any form, for or against candidates or organizations.  Opinions about natural foods and natural healing are, of course, not part of this rule.

The Council will decide what is offensive political content, if this comes into dispute on the staff."

If the amendment receives a 51% or more majority vote, this amendment will be placed under Article Four, Duties of Council Members, in Section 4.01 - Management of Business.

If you are a member in good standing of Wooster Natural Foods co-operative, you can cast one vote per member household,  as with all of our voting procedures.
This meeting will come at the end of our regularly scheduled Council meeting, which itself begins at 2 PM.  Please come at 2:30 for the meeting about this amendment to the by-laws.

Thank you.


If you want to make comments or have any questions for Wooster Natural Foods, please visit our Facebook page.  Thank you!

Annual All-Member Meeting of Wooster Natural Foods. January 20, 2013

We will have our Annual All-Member meeting of Wooster Natural Foods on Sunday, January 20, at 2 PM at the store. Besides the Council and Staff presenting our annual reports, we are seeking applicants for positions on the Council.

 The Council meets on the third Sunday of each month at 2 PM, and we are strictly an advisory group for the staff. New Council applicants will be voted on at this Annual Meeting, with one vote per member household, among those present at the meeting.

 If you are interested in applying for a position on the Council, please email me at susanshie@gmail.com, and I will email you a small form to fill out and return to me. Only those who have filled out these forms can be considered for Council election at the Annual Meeting.

Many thanks,
Susan Shie
President of the Council

If you want to make comments or have any questions for Wooster Natural Foods, please visit our Facebook page.  Thank you!

FRESH, the movie.

Pictured above are free-range chickens at Joel Salatin's Polyface Farm, featured and inspiring in this movie.  (Note that Wooster Natural Foods sells free range eggs from Georgetown Farms in Smithville and from Greenfield Farms Amish cooperative. We also carry Hartzler Dairy's milk and butter, along with a store full of other natural and organic products.)

View the whole 70 minute movie FRESH for free, until March 3, 2012.

A friend sent this link to watch this film and wrote: "This movie, 70 minutes long, is so important to understanding the food industry in our country. It affects our lives, our environment, our health and well-being, our economy, and that of our friends and families. Narrated by Michael Pollan and others changing the nature of farming, it's well worth the time.

Watch it free until Saturday on your computer, in your pajamas, in the middle of the night, alone, with your family....but watch it! Then share with those you love. It's likely to inspire people to move away from the toxic products from agrciltural/chemical "factories", the source of most of our food supply."

IMPORTANT! The producers of this powerful film are allowing a full and FREE preview of FRESH until Saturday, March 3rd.


This movie is not just an exposé of mega farming, but shows in-depth stories of people making a big difference in our country, in getting small, organic farming going in a big way.  Instead of coming away from watching it, feeling hopeless and frustrated, I feel excited and optimistic.


At the end, a man makes the point that each of us votes for the kinds of foods we want, each time we buy food.  And every "vote" for natural and organic foods contributes to the movement back to healthy food for us all. It is our future, and we can do it.


After the free showing is over, you can find all the information about FRESH the movie, here.


See FRESH now!  Thanks!

Welcome to Wooster Natural Foods' first blog entry ever.  This is a very simple first presentation, without even any pictures yet. (Later in the day a picture was added.  Yea!)  We hope to grow this blog into something very useful and informative.

We're a full service natural foods store, specializing in gluten-free products, natural and organic foods, supplements and personal care products.  Our most unique store feature is a huge selection of herbs and spices, many of which are organic, which the customer can weigh out personally.

Although we began our food co-op as Wooster Food Co-op in October, 1971, we are still the very same food co-op, renamed Wooster Natural Foods in 2001.  The store has moved four times since its first location on South Market Street in Wooster, and has been at the current location at 138 East Liberty St, the main street in downtown Wooster, since September, 1999.

Wooster Natural Foods is between the Square and Buckeye St, next to Books in Stock, on the north side of East Liberty.  Look for our green and white striped awning.  Besides our front entrance, we have an entrance to the back part of the Co-op, on the alley in the middle of the block.

Terry Moser has been the Co-op's manager since 1987, and the whole staff has worked there for a long time now.  You'll enjoy the peace of mind of caring, friendly faces, when you shop at Wooster Natural Foods, whether as a member of our Co-op or as a general shopper.

Wooster Natural Foods
138 E Liberty Street
Wooster, Ohio 44691
330-264-9797
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hours: Mon-Fri: 10 - 6. Sat: 10 - 5