Our Motto
Live Locally – Local food, Local culture, Local choice

Our Mission
“The Medford Food Co-op strives to offer a variety of high-quality products and services with emphasis on natural, organic and locally produced food. We foster diverse and sustainable community while upholding the seven cooperative principles”

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Dear Medford Food Co-op Owners:

Our Co-op has been presented with a new site opportunity. At the Annual Meeting January 13 the Co-op’s member owners voted their unanimous approval of the Board of Directors presentation. On January 14 the Medford Mail Tribune reported to the public that the site was Quality Market, an existing business located adjacent to over 40% of our membership on Jackson St., at the East end of the Central business community.

This location is the exact size we’ve been looking for, about 9,000 Sq. Ft., just a little smaller than Ashland’s Food Co-op. It has existing trained employees who are willing to continue and has equipment for our use.

The final terms of a lease agreement are now being worked out. The present owners and our Board are in general agreement and we’ll have the option to buy the building at the end of the lease period. The current owners are open to a smooth transition for a June Co-op opening. However, the lease commencement would be contingent on us generating the funds necessary to open the store. That’s where you come in. We need existing owners and others to buy shares in the Co-op (They’re $100 apiece) and we need those of you who are able to do so to make us a loan of $5,000. If we had 65 people who loaned us that amount we’d open for business. If each of our over 1300 existing owner member’s bought three more shares we could open the doors for business. This challenge is doable!

We want to discuss this opportunity with you further. You can call Board member John Miele at 664-5761 or me at 779-7292 or you can just click on the link to the loan and share subscription forms on this page. You could also become a Founding Sponsor with a $1,000 pledge and have your name engraved in our Co-op as an originator who stepped-up and made it happen. The funds we raise are required for purchasing our organic and natural foods inventory and the monies required to cover the expenses of the transition. The only variable required to open Medford’s Food Co-op is raising the necessary money. Building renovations, equipment and purchase of expensive equipment, hiring and training of employees would not be necessary.

Please help make this happen. Together we can make this happen.

JIM SIMS
President, Medford Food Co-op