Mountain People's Co-op wants to be your partner in an affordable natural lifestyle. Our focus is on products that you simply can't find anywhere else:
Bulk Foods. Buying from our bulk bins is environmentally responsible (less waste & packaging) and economical, too. We have a huge selection of grains, flours, beans & legumes, nuts & seeds, dried fruits, granolas, herbs & spices, medicinal herbs, baking needs, sprouting seeds, fair trade coffees, herbal & regular teas, oils, honey & maple syrup & other liquid sweeteners, miso, castile soaps, shampoos, laundry & dish detergents, and more. Most of our products are organically grown, and many of our flours are milled nearby in Saxonburg, PA. You will find tremendous savings on our dried herbs & spices and baking needs like yeast!
Local Foods. Part of our commitment to our planet and our local economy is providing you with products that travel a shorter distance from their point of production. We have local eggs, chicken, turkey, bison, and beef - these animals are pasture-raised with no added hormones or antibiotics. We carry artisan goat's milk cheeses from nearby Garrett County, MD as well as less exotic cheeses that come from our local region. We have local tofu, honey, jams & jellies, breads, sauces & condiments, personal care products, tie dyes, and more. We are striving to become your source for local and regional foods.
Hard-To-Find But Easy To Enjoy. Florajen probiotics. GT's Kombucha tea. Barlean's omega-3 supplements. Essential oils. NOW supplements. Xylitol in bulk. Setvia. Gluten-free baking needs. Floradix liquid iron supplements. Ecodiscoveries natural cleaners, including MoldZyme. Fair Trade chocolate, coffee, tea. Detoxify Ready Clean, and more.
We invite you to come down to our store - our friendly staff is happy to help you!
Hours - M - F: 10 AM - 7 PM, Sat: 10 AM - 5 PM, closed on Sunday.
Mountain People's has begun to carry new, locally-raised, natural (no added hormones or antibiotics) chicken, turkey, bison, and beef from Garrett Country Market, located right next door in Garrett County, MD.
Garrett Country Market's animals are humanely raised (go to certifiedhumane.org for more info). Their beef cattle and bison are free-ranging, and each animal has access to at least one acre per animal. They are pasture-raised, and grass makes up over 95% of their diet. They are not "finished" on grain. The chicken and turkey are also pasture raised, free range, and fed a completely vegetarian diet. All processing is done in a USDA-certified facility.
Here are the current prices on the Garrett Country Market products:
Whole chicken (roasters): $2.69/lb
Boneless, skinless chicken breasts: $5.39/lb
Chicken breasts (with bone): $3.45/lb
Ground bison: $7.25/lb
Ground sirloin: $5.25/lb
Ground turkey: $5.99/lb
Smoked turkey breast: $10.45/lb
Smoked, Atlantic, wild salmon: $23.89/lb
Note that prices may vary slightly from week to week based on availability and other factors beyond our control.
You can now place special bulk orders from a catalog of over 60,000 different products: natural foods, supplements, personal care items, and household products.
Special bulk orders from the Co-op can save you money over ordering from Internet stores: you don't pay shipping costs, and if you are a Co-op member, you will receive a 13% discount on your special bulk order.
Our first order will be placed Wednesday morning, 1/21,for delivery on Thursday, 1/22, so please come down to the store to make your special order by close of business on Tuesday (7 PM). Don't want a whole 10-lb bag of goji berries or a case of 12 packages of smoked tofu? Find someone to split it with on the Co-op Bulk Order Sharing Message Board - click here to join!
After the holidays, many of us feel the need to return to a simpler lifestyle that is easier on the pocketbook as well as the body. The foods we eat are an important part of this transition. Mountain People's Co-op's Featured Recipe, Winter Hearth Soup, embodies many of these ideals:
Buy fewer processed foods, and discover the joy and satisfaction of cooking from scratch.
Take advantage of dried foods; they are less expensive and also use less fossil fuel to transport than their liquid counterparts. For example, the organic vegetarian chicken-style broth used in this recipe is the dried powder from the Co-op's bulk cooking ingredients section; the amount used in this recipe costs only $3.20. The equivalent amount of organic vegetarian chicken-style broth in aseptic packs would cost about $5. Similarly, cooking dried chickpeas in your slow-cooker is much less expensive than buying pre-cooked beans in cans.
Save money by buying in bulk. During tough economic times, it isn't necessary to forgo the luxury of herbs and spices in our daily cooking. Buying herbs from the Co-op's bulk jars allows you to buy only as much as you want, and it's much less expensive than buying herbs and spices in jars. Typically, the cost of one of the Co-op's organic dried herbs or spices will be anywhere from 10% - 50% of what you will pay to buy the equivalent product in bottles in the grocery store!
Everyone appreciates a gift that is delicious, healthful, and produced with good conscience. Mountain People’s Co-op has just what you need for the holidays!
New! We now carry a large variety of herbal products from Green Heron Gardens of Salem, WV: herbal balms, massage oils, toners, teas, culinary herbs, essential oil scented mists, and gift sets.
New! WV-made Appalachian Milk Soap – natural goats milk soaps scented with pure essential oils.
Don’t know what to get – a Co-op Gift Card is a great solution!
Build your own gift box filled with dried fruits & nuts, teas, herbs, coffees, or healthy snacks. Warm up with our holiday tea and spice basket.
Our bulk bins are fully stocked and ready for holiday baking with organic flours, dried fruits, nuts, herbs, and spices. Many are locally produced in Pennsylvania.
We have beautiful holiday cards made by local artists and fresh baked vegan goodies from The Venerable Bean: Ginger Cookies, Carrot Cakes, Granola Bars, Chocolate Chip Muffins & more!
Buy a Fair Trade bag or basket from Ghana…And fill it with a sampling of our organic and fair trade coffees & teas…Pastas from our Pasta Bar - in beautiful holiday packaging…And WV-made jams, jellies, nut butters, salsa from Yoder’s Country Kettle, and new organic conserves from Crofter’s.
Serve one of Firefly Farms’ award-winning cheeses at your next holiday gathering, and bring home the taste of the Maryland countryside.
Under the weather? Come check out our wide selection of medicinal herbs - an economical solution from our bulk jars. We have lots of new herbs! A little too much holiday indulgence? Try Detoxify’s Ready-Cleanse.
Supporting our local businesses this holiday season helps to keep our community strong.
Urban Homesteading Workshop
This Saturday, at 3 PM, come to the Co-op's Urban Homesteading Workshop: Jessi Kalvatis shows us how to live lighter on the earth - without owning 50 acres and a solar-powered straw bale home! Come learn, discuss, share, and sample some of the Co-op's natural snack foods. Register by emailing Jessi at hagdinvincible@yahoo.com - please put "Co-op Class" in the subject line.
New Items This Week
Also - this weekend we have some great new items coming into the Co-op:
Herbal Delights locally made dip mixes - all natural, vegetarian, and wheat-free, in the following flavors: Ddill herb, Italian garden, peppercorn ranch, Santa Fe, spring onion, sweet red pepper, tomato basil, and vegetable gardnen
A variety of new locally-made fruit butters (apple, pear, pumpkin, & cherry) and conserves (apricot, blackberry, black currant, blueberry, & red raspberry)
More new organic pastas for our pasta bar: primavera rotini, artichoke elbows, potato-rice spaghetti, & brown rice lasagne. Also, udon & orzo will be back in stock.
Gluten-free granola (cocoa bliss, cinnamon-raisin, & pumpkin spice) and museli
Locally-made holiday cards (in the store now)
Eden Springs' artesian water
Reed's ginger chews
This weekend's fresh-baked vegan goodies from The Venerable Bean will include cranberry-pecan muffins, ginger cookies, granola bars, and more.
We just located a source of fresh, local, free-roaming Thanksgiving turkeys. These are not certified organic, but they are free-roaming and are fed natural grains without hormones or antibiotics. They are from White Oak Ridge Farm, a small family-run farm outside of Phillipi, WV. Their poultry is state inspected, certified disease-free, and processed in a state-inspected facility. Please see their web site at http://www.whiteoakridgefarm.com/ for information on how they raise their turkeys.
Whole turkeys are fresh, not frozen, and they range in size from 8 lb - 35 lb. The cost for these turkeys will be $3.00/lb.
Also available from White Oak Ridge Farm are fully-cooked, ready to heat-and-eat smoked turkeys, in apple-smoked and cherry-smoked varieties. The cost for these turkeys is 3.75/lb.
To order your turkey, please call the Co-op at 291-6131 by Thursday, Nov. 20, at 6 PM. Quantities are limited and available on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Join us! Wednesday, October 29, 6:30 - 8:30 PM, at the Monongalia Arts Center (MAC), 107 High St. At this meeting, the board of directors will present a financial report on the Co-op. We will also have a potluck dinner. If you can, please help decrease waste by bringing your own reusable plates and utensils. See you there!
WV-made Conquering Lion Hot Sauce is on the shelves right now, and this Saturday morning, we'll have Knudsen spritzers, Edensoy soymilk, and organic vanilla and almond extracts. New products include unsweetened Almond Breeze almond milk, Good Karma rice milk, hazelnuts, stevia packets, xylitol packets, organic blue agave nectar, and Bragg's liquid aminos in bulk. Local sweet and hot peppers, pumpkins, and garlic are still available. See below for a complete listing.
At Mountain People's Co-op, regular deliveries are being made, with items being stocked on Thursday mornings and Saturday mornings. Because we are regularly able to replenish the items that have sold out, our weekly emailing will be listing only the new products that we carrying in the store and the items that we are bringing back after a hiatus. We won't be filling your e-space with everything that is in each week's deliveries – just assume that if you have come to count on it being at the Co-op, we will have it, barring unforeseen circumstances such as the supplier being sold out.
Returning items in stock now: Conquering Lion Hot Sauce: made in WV - Mango and Hickory flavors
New and Returning Items - to be stocked Saturday morning:
Knudsen spritzers: tangerine, orange-passionfruit, mango, lemon-lime, cranberry, boysenberry
Almond Breeze unsweetened almond milk, in original, vanilla, and chocolate flavors, 32 oz. aseptic packs
Edensoy soy milk - many varieties:
8-oz aseptic packs in vanilla light, carob, and chocolate
32-oz aseptic packs in original enriched, original light, original unsweetened, vanilla enriched, vanilla light, and vanilla unsweetened
Good Karma rice milk in original, vanilla, and chocolate, 32 oz aseptic packs
Hazelnuts
Xylitol packets
Stevia packets
Organic vanilla and almond extracts
Organic blue agave nectar, 11.75 oz.
Braggs liquid aminos in bulk
Mountain People's Co-op would like to thank The Friends of Old Time Music for putting on the Family Square Dance benefit this Sunday.
Thank you to everyone who came and made our event a big success - we raised over $750 for our Co-op and had a great time!
Special thanks go to Cindy O'Brien and Bettina Dennis for organizing the benefit, Keith McManus and Friends for providing the music, and Taylor Runner for being the caller.
A big thanks to the businesses who donated to our silent auction: Acupuncture 2 Heal, Adventure's Edge, Atlas Chiropractic, Black Bear Burritos, The Bookshelf, Friends of Decker's Creek, A Little Behind Cloth Diaper Service, Our Studio, Pinocchio's Toys & Books, Round Right Farm, and Serenity Massage, and to the individuals who donated items: Linda Blake, the Dennis family, the Johnston-Holtzer family, the O'Brien-Harris family, and the Woodfork-Van Dyke family.
We'd also like to thank the Habitat for Humanity ReStore for allowing us to borrow their coolers for the event.
