About the Co-op Food Stores
One of many consumer cooperatives started during the years of the Great Depression, the Hanover Consumer Co-op is now among the oldest and most successful in the United States.
The Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society operates the Co-op Food Stores, Co-op Community Food Market, Co-op Service Center, and Commissary Kitchen. These businesses are operated for the benefit of our members and community. During more than 70 years of operation, the products and services offered by the Co-op have changed in response to the changing needs of our members.
Want to learn more? The pages below are a great place to start:
- Global Ends statement
- Joining the Co-op
- The benefits of membership and what you support by being a Co-op member
- Our bylaws, board of directors, and minutes of our board meetings
- Our history
- Mission
- Special services in some of our departments
- Background on what it means to be a cooperative
- Details and tours of all of our stores and locations
- Articles
- Annual Report (2590K)
- How to email us
- Let us know if you’ve moved
Familiar With the Co-op's Communications Department?
If you have ever seen a Co-op sign or display, then you’ve seen the work of Art Director Katie Cahill. Katie and the Co-op Communications Department is responsible for promoting the cooperative difference showcased by the quality work our employees do each day. Didn’t think you’d find an Art Director at a food cooperative? Who can blame you! Sure, we have all the food departments you have come to expect in a food co-op. But there are a wide variety of other departments that help run our cooperative too — with people who are consumer-education and information experts, accountants, writers, graphic artists, computer nerds, MBAs, and environmental-sustainability gurus, just to name a few.
Killdeer Farm
Spinach from Liz and Jake Guest’s Killdeer Farm is often one of the the first Upper Valley-grown vegetables to arrive at the Co-op in the spring—and it keeps on coming, fresh and tender, into November. The Guests’ skill and passion for farming stems from the back-to-the-land movement of the 1970s. They sell certified-organic arugula, varieties of red and green lettuce, cilantro, carrots, and potatoes to the Co-op as part of their diversified farm operation.
