The Brattleboro Food Co-op, your downtown Natural Foods Market, and Deli. Providing Southern Vermont with healthy food choices for 40 years!

Our Ends Policies

Ends policies are governance policies, reflecting shareholder values and formulated by the Co-op’s Board of Directors. Ends policies state the purposes of the Brattleboro Food Co-op: What we are trying to accomplish, for whom, at what cost.

The Brattleboro Food Co-op Ends Policies:

• Reasonably priced food and products with an emphasis on healthy, locally grown, organic, and fairly traded goods;
• A welcoming community marketplace;
• A workplace community where cooperative values are modeled;
• A regenerative business that has a net positive environmental impact;
• A sustainable local economy;
• Relevant information about food and related products, the environment, and the Cooperative Values and Principles;
• Reasonable access to participation in the cooperative.