What is Bread & Roses Food Coop?

Bread & Roses Food Cooperative is a member-worker, owned, operated, and managed nonprofit grocery store located at 915 Railroad Avenue, Tallahassee Fl 32310.

Bread & Roses is organized on the principle of Mutual Aid: collective participation and the equal distribution of responsibilities and benefits. We will be unique in that we will be an organization of the people, for the people and by the people of the Tallahassee Community. Participation in B & R is distributed evenly: each member of the Cooperative agrees to work a few hours each month (approximately 3 hours once every 4 weeks). In turn, the money saved by reducing overhead expenditures through collective effort will drastically lower the cost of groceries (an approximate average savings of 40% on all groceries for all members). Non-members are welcome to shop at Bread & Roses but will not benefit from the reduced Member prices, and will be charged standard retail prices.

Our Goals:

• Enrich the Tallahassee Community.
• Broaden access to quality, healthy and organic foods.
• Minimize our carbon footprint.
• Maintain a vibrant democracy through non-hierarchical, egalitarian decision making processes.
• Full inclusion of any person willing to participate regardless of class, race, gender, age or sexual preference.

Our Core Values:

• Mutual Aid.
• Providing local, organic, and healthy foods.
• Environmental sustainability.
• Transparency and openness.
• Social Justice

Board of Directors

Ryler Calabrese:

28 year old Student Associates Degree from Suffolk County Community College Currently a senior at FSU studying International Affairs with a triple focus in Urban and Regional Planning, Political Science, and History Originally from New York, moved to Tallahassee January of 2006

Heather Griffis:

Undergrad at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), majored in Biometry and Statistics as well as Development Sociology, minor Applied Economics and Management Member of Greenstar Food Coop and involved in local farmers markets in Ithaca Currently an FSU grad student Originally from Chicago

Meagan Ferris:

24 years old Bachelors degree in French & International Affairs, Florida State University Currently working full time Originally from Tallahassee

Ashley Daily:

22 year old B.S. Kent State University Political Science and Sociology Currently a graduate student at Florida State in Department of Sociology Originally from Cleveland, Ohio

Justin Pogge:

28 years old Originally from Tallahassee Graduated from the Natural Gourmet Chef Training Program in 2002

Adam Reid:

25 years old Associate of the Arts degree, Tallahassee Community College Current student in the history program, Florida State University Originally from Tallahassee

Dan Schmahl:

22 years old Current student, Tallahassee Community College Has lived in Tallahassee, Fl and Galveston, Tx Adam Bunn: Current student,Tallahassee Community College Originally from Georgia