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Most of the products available through Brighton Food Co-op come from the many vendors who supply the United Natural Foods Inc. (UNFI) Warehouse in Indiana. Those products are listed at the UNFI website. But BFC also buys from vendors outside UNFI, many of them local (or at least within the state of Michigan). Those vendors and their products are listed below.

Vendor 1	Zingerman's Bakeshop and Creamery	Zingerman's produces a wonderful crusty bread, hand-made out of quality ingredients with no fat or preservatives. Zingerman's Pastry Kitchen also does all their baking from scratch, preparing their own fruit fillings, roasting the nuts, and making their own butter cremes for their tortes. Eggs are delivered fresh from a local supplier, and milk products come from Guernsey. Zingerman's Creamery makes handmade fresh cheeses that are bringing the dairy industry back 100 years. Made without modern fillers that get in the way of flavor, these cheeses taste of fresh milk and cream the way fresh cheeses did in the 19th century. Look for Zingerman's on the web at http://www.zingermans.com Click for Zingerman products available through BFC.
Vendor 2	Rosewood Cheese	All Rosewood products are rbgh free, but the cheeses are not organic. The raw milk cheeses and some of the pasteurized cheeses are white. Yellow cheeses are colored using carotene, a natural food coloring derived from carrots. Click for Rosewood products available through BFC.
Vendor 3	Almar Orchards	Almar sells organic apples and apple cider on a seasonal basis. Click for Almar Orchards products available through BFC.
Vendor 4	Motave Meadows	Motave sells locally grown organic produce on a seasonal basis. Their specialty is salad greens, which they grow using a unique process that makes for really delectable salads! Click for Motave Meadows products available through BFC.
Vendor 5	TMZ Farm	TMZ is located near Pinckney and supplies locally-raised free-range Buffalo (American Bison) products. Look for this vendor on the web at http://www.tmzfarm.com. Click for TMZ products available through BFC.
Vendor 6	Crosset Produce	Crosset supplies the co-op with a wide variety of produce raised without chemical pesticides or fertilizers. For each distribution, the co-op's produce coordinator, Nicole Brown, puts together a "share" based on seasonal offerings, items on special, and items requested by co-op members. The share typically consists of about a dozen varieties of fruits and vegetables and costs $30-40. Special arrangements can also be made with Nicole for ordering whole cases of certain items. Click for Crosset products available through BFC.
Vendor 7	Nuts, Honey, Syrup	This vendor actually consists of three suppliers but is treated as one vendor because orders to all three are handled by the same coordinator, Diane Brady. Diane can provide maple syrup every month, but she orders nuts and honey in alternating months. Click for these products available through BFC.
Vendor 8	Creswick Farms	This vendor, located near Muskegon, delivers a variety of grass-fed beef and lamb, heritage pork, and free-range chicken products at excellent prices. Look for them on the web at http://www.creswickfarms.com. Click for these products available through BFC.
Vendor 9	Frontier Natural Products Co-op	Frontier has been providing organic and natural products since 1976. They offer organic herbs, coffee, spices, even aromatherapy. Click HERE for more information about getting Frontier products through BFC.
Vendor 10	Higher Grounds Roastery	Higher Grounds provides the coop with a wide variety of wonderful organic coffees at excellent prices. Based in Traverse City, the roastery gets its beans from fair-trade growers in many of the best coffee regions of the world, roasts the beans to perfection, then sends the coffee to us with the fresh-roasted flavor fully preserved. You can find Higher Grounds on the web at http://www.highergroundstrading.com and http://www.javaforjustice.com. Click for Higher Grounds products available through BFC.
Special Vendor	Superior Landscape Supplies	Superior is a local family-owned landscape nursery selling excellent quality bedding plants, annuals and perennials, hanging plants, beautiful pots, and many varieties of vegetables. Brighton Food Co-op deals with Superior only once per year, typically in April, to work out discount vouchers which members can then take to the nursery in May and June to buy the flowers and plants they want. Click for Superior's products available through BFC early in the growing season.
Special Vendor	Sami's Bakery	Sami's is a Florida bakery that makes an especially tasty Millet-and-Flax Bread. BFC's PM Work Coordinator, Gina Barnowsky, is coordinating the orders from Sami's. Click for Sami's price list. For more information about the bakery itself, you can go to their website at www.samisbakery.com.
Special Vendors	Raw Milk	BFC does not handle raw milk because the outright sale of raw milk -- even in the cooperative resale sense -- is illegal in Michigan. However, we heartily endorse the drinking of raw milk and recommend several local suppliers who offer "cow share" programs that do not involve the actual sale of raw milk. For more information about raw milk and the programs we recommend, go to www.brightonfoodcoop.com/rawmilk.htm.