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Scott’s Soup and Salad Garden!
Enjoy this guest post from Scott Koepke, our shaggy-grey-bearded New Pi Soilmates organic garden educator: One of the fun designs I’m using with school garden clubs this summer is something I’m calling...
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Dirty Face Creek Farm’s Newest Generation
Six-and-a-half-year old Sophie Stutsman (at right), the farm’s eighth generation, has beautiful curly red hair, a delightful exuberance, and can’t wait to show us around her farm ten miles from Iowa...
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Introducing New Pi’s First Private Label Beer, The Hoppelganger! + Madhouse...
Stronger Together: Farmer + Brewer + Co-op A special brew exclusively for New Pi: The Hoppelganger! Mason, Orville, and the folks at Timber Ridge are coming together to brew an EXTRA LOCAL local craft...
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New Pi Eliminates Plastic Bags!
We are pleased to announce we have eliminated handled plastic bags at our checkouts! The change, made in August of 2015, is to reduce our environmental impact on the earth. Plastic is the number one...
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Fall in Love with the Smell, the Lather, and the Cause! Pacha Soaps
We were thrilled to receive a beautiful and delightfully-scented Pacha soap line from our neighbors in Nebraska this last week at all three New Pi locations. For every bar of Pacha Soap purchased, a...
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Apple Fans – CELEBRATE!
Timeless Prairie’s Apples will achieve full sugar levels and arrive at New Pi within the next week! Enjoy this post by New Pi’s Customer Service Coordinator Genie Maybanks: Local apple season is upon...
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Welcoming New Farmers into the New Pi Fold: Organic Bluebird Farm
A brown hens scampers through the fence, trailed by Brenna, Rogan, Mae (7), and Bo (10) when we pull into Bluebird Farm outside Lisbon, Iowa, on a beautiful late summer morning. They wave hello, nab...
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Eat Local Week – Pot Roast
I’ll be honest. I’ve never followed a pot roast recipe. This one is based on a roast my grandmother would make. I make pot roast twice a year, and when I do, I always call my mom and we talk it...
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New Pi Cedar Rapids Designated a Blue Zones Destination!
We are pleased to announce our New Pi Cedar Rapids store has been designated a Cedar Rapids Blue Zones Project Restaurant! The Blue Zones project began as a National Geographic expedition to find the...
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Rootstock! with Backpocket
We’re excited to announce our second private label cooperative beer, Rootstock, in New Pi stores now! Rootstock is a Belgian field ale brewed by Backpocket in Coralville with local organic carrots...
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We’re Proud Our Holiday Foods are Free of Weird Ingredients
What’s inside those holiday staples? We’re always reading labels, so we thought we’d share some ingredient comparisons with you. Here are just a few key differences: Pumpkin Pie: Your Co-op cooks with...
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Table to Table: The Right Thing to Do!
Enjoy this guest post by Theresa Carbrey, New Pi Education & Outreach Coordinator (and long-time team-member): New Pioneer was founded in the early ’70s because we were hungry for real food: full...
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A Community Behind our Delicious Food
Who’s perfected our gooey cinnamon rolls? And who’s cooking up our special holiday feasts? (Hint: They don’t come out of thin air… and not off a factory assembly line.) Let us introduce you to just a...
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Something’s Brewing in Kalona: Introducing the Transporter!
WALK IN THE DOORS AT KALONA BREWING COMPANY just down the road in Kalona, Iowa, for an Iowa immersion. “This building was built in 1940 for an Allis Chalmers tractor dealership,” co-owner and head...
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New Pi means good, clean, and affordable food!
Dear Fellow Co-op Shoppers, I think we can all agree that eating organic, whole foods is good for us – better than factory-processed, genetically modified, or chemically-treated foods. Many of us have...
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5 Daily Practices to Give You a Good Clean Start to 2016
Your skin is your largest organ, and 60% or more of what you put on your body is absorbed into your body. We stock our shelves at the Co-op with the belief that body products ought to be as safe and...
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Fresh Iowa Sweet Corn & Apples – In January!
Enjoy this guest post from the good folks at Iowa Choice Harvest, where they pick and freeze Iowa produce at its peak to bring us summer flavor in the dead of winter! Co-op owner Jan Huber picks out...
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Our Food Trend Predictions for 2016
Every year Baum + Whiteman, a prestigious international restaurant consulting firm, launches their top food predictions. They amuse me, and are often dead-on. But, really, spotting these trends is...
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Your Healthy Year Ahead: Tips & Tricks in Setting the Table for Pregnancy
Whether it’s on your list of this year’s resolutions or not, consider planning for pregnancy before the stork comes knocking: “A lot of people don’t realize that the preconception year matters,”...
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Beat Cabin Fever by Potluck!
Iowa’s winter is long and can seem bleak – if we don’t go out of our way to make sure get-togethers happen to warm up together. Make it a potluck and New Pi’s here to make it an easy-on-you potluck –...
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