| Outside | Vendors |
Most of the products available through Brighton Food Co-op come from the many vendors who supply the United Natural Foods (UNF) Warehouse in Indiana. Those products are listed in the UNF catalog, at the UNF website, and in the monthly price list loaded into FoodLink. But BFC also buys from vendors outside UNF. 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
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| 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.
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| Vendor 3 | Almar Orchards | Almar sells organic apples and apple cider on a seasonal basis. Click |
| 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 |
| Vendor 5 | 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.
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| Vendor 6 | Door to Door Organics | Door to Door (DTD) provides a wide variety of produce raised without chemical pesticides or fertilizers. Offerings are organized into 10 different "boxes", i.e. different assortments that vary by size and content. The content of each box changes from week to week through seasonally appropriate adjustments, and fruit-only and veggie-only boxes are available. Click HERE for more information about getting DTD produce 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 co-op member,
Suzanne Radelt. Suzanne can provide maple syrup every month, but she
orders nuts and honey in alternating months.
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| Vendor 8 | Specialty Food Services | This vendor offers a wide variety of meats ranging from the organic to the exotic. Starting with organic free-range chicken products, the offerings include fine quality standard meats like turkey, beef, pork, and lamb. But also offered are such exotics as bison, ostrich, duck, and game meats like venison, pheasant, squab, Cornish game hen, etc.
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| 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 |