JLF Closing at 6PM on Labor Day's Eve & Opening at Noon on Labor Day

To enable us to do floor maintenance, Just Local Food will close early on Sunday, September 5th at 6:00 PM. We will re-open on Monday, at 12 Noon to meet all of your Labor Day picnicking needs!

new fair trade organic chocolates

I'm pretty excited about this. Our friends at Equal Exchange, a fellow worker owned cooperative, have launched two new chocolate bars that I'm sure you or someone you know will soon fall in love with.

The first combines three amazing concepts: organic fair trade

chocolate, caramel and sea salt. The crunchiness of the caramel and salt give the bar body, while the creamy chocolate forms a pool of love in your mouth. Seriously. LOVE. Even the salt comes from a cool salt marsh producers co-op in France!

The second new bar embodies the mission of Just Local Food fairly well. Of course not everything we eat is LOCAL. It could be, but it isn't. We do, however, crave the knowledge and wisdom of where our food comes from - that's the heart. And your heart will love this single origin 65% chocolate that comes from farmer cooperatives in Ecuador. Fair trade to your soul.

Sand Creek Sampling Friday!

Sand Creek Brewing Co Sampling

Friday August 27th

4PM-6PM

Drop in and try some of Wisconsin's

best craft beer. Nikki will be pouring

Wild Ride IPA, Hard Lemonade, &

One Planet Ale.

from sandcreekbrewing.com...

Wild Ride India Pale Ale

This classic India Pale Ale is wonderfully

hopped for a strong start, a smooth finish,

and a fine amber color.

Sand Creek Hard Lemonade

Our summer classic! We make our Sand

Creek Hard Lemonade with real fruit juices

and cane sugar to create a sweet, delicious

concoction that we like to think is better

than the rest. Ask your local retail outlet to

order some today!

from ratebeer.com...

One Planet Ale

This is a hearty natural multi-grain ale with

a touch of Wisconsin Honey added for flavor.

Smooth, satisfying, lightly hopped.

Horny Goat Beer Sampling!

Stop down to Just Local Food this weekend for a sample (or two, or three) of the tasty brews from Horny Goat Brewing Co.

The folks from Horny Goat will be pouring samples from 3PM-6PM on Saturday, August 21st.

We currently carry 3 brews from the Horny Goat line-up: Red Vixen Vienna-style Lager, Honey Blonde Lager, & Exposed Belgian-style Saison.

Support craft Brewed beer from Wisconsin!

Harvest the flavors of your own backyard!

 

The Harvest is here! Come in to enjoy extraordinary local produce from our own neighbors!

Melon Mania is here!!! ONLY $.89/# GET YOURS TODAY!

We have 7 varieties of super sweet organic melons from Mahlon Shetler a Certified Grower and Amish Farmer from Taylor, Wisconsin.

Melons include:

Honey Rock-

Super sweet, flavorful salmon colored flesh

Sun Jewel-

Lemon yellow oblong shape, white, crisp when ripe, and wonderfully sweet.

Butterscotch-

Rich and sweet butterscotch-like flavor

Orange Watermelon-

Firm, crisp, sweet, and orange

Crenshaw-

Dense, tender, aromatic salmon-orange flesh is incredibly sweet

Athena-

The sweetest of all cantaloupe-type melon

Canary-

Bright orange flesh which is exceptionally crispy and juicy.

2010 Coffee Crops are HERE!!!

Coffee Lovers!

Have you enjoyed the year's new coffee arrival from our two great suppliers? Farmer to Farmer and Just Coffee are buzzing with excitement as various new crops have arrived to Wisconsin bringing that extra GUSTO to your morning, afternoon (or evening?) routine!

New From Just Coffee are The AIPEP light roast from Pumiri, Bolivia and another great light roast from the Oromia Grower Co-Op in Ethiopia's Yirgacheffe Region. 


Each Bag of Farmer to Farmer Guatemalan and Honduran Coffees are now coming from the amazing farmers we were able to visit this past January. All our Guatemalan Coffee is now coming from Huehuetenango's women's Co-Op! Also, all Honduran coffee is coming from small villages in La Montaña de Comayagua where producers continue to develop a web of eco-tourism and sustainable development. 


www.justcoffee.coop
www.farmertofarmer.org

New Video from our visit to the coffee cooperative and farm in Guatemala click here to watch the video of our trip visiting the coffee cooperative and farmers.
To watch a great video about where our Guatemalan coffee is coming from. The Huehuetenango coffee farmers and their cooperative.
Check out an Eau Claire Leader Telegram article on Farmer to Farmer.
Also Dunn County News article about Farmer to Farmer..

Change in Detour to Just Local Food parking lot

As road construction on the intersection of Farwell and Washington nears completion, the street entrances to Just Local Food have changed.

The Washington Street entrance is now closed and the Farwell entrance is now open.

The Public Works Department has cleared a path from customers approaching from Harding Avenue or Dewey Street can still enter the store by driving to the intersection, making a right onto Farwell Street, and then make a right into the cooperative's parking lot.

Please note that with the exception of the entrance to the Just Local Food parking lot, Farwell Street is closed.

SampleFest August 14

You've already marked your calendars for ChalkFest and SummerFest - just remember to stop by the store on your way to and/or from your downtown destinations!

Just Local Food Cooperative is hosting SampleFest at our downtown grocery store from 10am to 4pm Saturday August 14. This event is organized to encourage more excitement downtown in cooperation with the Downtown Farmers Market, Eau Claire's Summerfest and Volume One Magazine's ChalkFest.

SampleFest is showcasing a variety of farmers and local and regional value added food available seven days a week at Eau Claire's only worker owned and managed grocery store.