For the month of July you raised $5,634.24 for Ladies of Charity Summer Lunch Program, our Nourishing Change recipient! This was yet a new high for our Nourishing Change program! Ladies of Charity used this money to bring lunches to children who would otherwise not have lunch when school is out. Ladies of Charity expected to feed 3,000 children this summer and your donations were a significant part of accomplishing that goal. You have now raised more than $100,000 for Nourishing Change since this program began in April 2012. Thank you co-op shoppers for not only maintaining your generosity but continuing to grow it every month!

Three Rivers Market needs hard working, energetic, and committed members willing serve the cooperative on the Board of Directors. Every year new Board members are elected to renew the link between what we do and the broader needs and interest of the community we serve. Directors are elected by members such as yourself for three-year terms. The Board provides strategic leadership, financial accountability, and stewards resources for the long-term end goals (called Ends) of the cooperative. With this in mind we invite you to consider running for the Board election.

As a member of Three Rivers Market you already appreciate the cooperative’s positive impact in our community. Through your service as a Board Director you will further contribute by making decisions on the long-term strategic direction of the Cooperative. We encourage you to take a step towards Board involvement. The first thing … Read More »

We are only halfway through the month and co-op shoppers you have already rounded up $2,658 for Go North Animal Transport Collaborative​! Thank you so much for this incredible generosity! Please continue to round up for the month of May for our Nourishing Change recipient which moves dogs from overcrowded shelters here in East TN and transports them to under-capacity shelters in Minnesota, Ohio, New York, New Jersey, and Maine.

Every year, the TRM Board attends a full day of training sessions provided by CDS Consulting Co-op. One of the primary cooperative principles is cooperation among cooperatives[1], and CDS embodies this principle by helping food co-ops share their best practices with the larger network of cooperative organizations. This year’s session was held a short ways east over the Smoky Mountains in Asheville, NC. Some directors made a weekend of it and took the opportunity to eat at some of Asheville’s many veggie-friendly restaurants! I carpooled with directors Drew, Fiona, and John.

We met up in the TRM parking lot at 7am on Saturday morning. Knoxville was just recovering from a flurry of snow the prior evening and none of us had cars with snow tires or four-wheel drive, so we were a little bit anxious about driving. Fortunately, the road conditions … Read More »