Riverwest Food Co-op is proud to announce that we will soon have our very own blend of coffee beans roasted by the Just Coffee Cooperative in Madison, WI. This will be a part of Just Coffee’s Co-op to Co-op campaign, or ‘C2C’, as they like to call it. Once we do have our own coffee blend, the entire productivity line for the coffee will be all from cooperatives, from the growers all the way into your hand.

At the celebratory block party on Saturday, August 8^th, we will be able to vote on which coffee we love the most, and also which label art we love the most. So, with that being said, we need your help…well, your artwork to be exact. We’ll have cool prizes for the first place and two runner-up entries. The best prize: your artwork could be chosen to be on the coffee bags that you will soon be able to purchase at the Riverwest Co-op.

Guidelines for the art:
A drawing, painting or graphic art.
Choose any theme you like - - either coffee, Riverwest, cooperatives, or anything at all really, just be creative!
10″x12″ or 5″x6″ (if chosen, it will be shrunk to fit on the label)

The deadline for artwork submissions will be Wednesday, July 15th. For a couple of weeks all submissions will be up for public viewing for an initial ballot. The top choices will then be voted on at the block party. All entries may be submitted in print to the Riverwest Co-op.

We will keep you posted on updates about the block party in the next few weeks. There will also be more information about the party up at the Riverwest Co-op, so look out for that too. Thanks and we hope you can help!

For more info on Just Coffee, check out there website:
http://justcoffee.coop

 June 15th, 2009 by Peyton