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Sustainability/ Sustainable Vendors
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Meat and Seafood
Tri-City Meats:
Tri-City Meats is a locally owned and operated processor/packager; poultry is from Draper Valley in Mt. Vernon, Wa, pork is from the Portland/Salem area of Oregon and ground beef, roats and rounds are from Eastern Washington, steaks, fajita meat and stroganoff beef are from the Mid-West region.
Fresh and Frozen Produce
Charlie's Produce:
Charlie's is an employee owned local produce distributer that operates out of Seattle. The Corner Store purchases quite a bit of organics from them; they label both organic (OG) and local (NW) on their invoices.
Duck Produce:
Duck Produce is a subsidiary of Pride Packing and operates out of Portland. They offer Food Alliance and local produce.
Milk and Dairy
Danny's Delivery:
Danny's Delivery is a locally owned delivery company servicing the Olympia area. Danny's delivers Steibrs Eggs and Smith Brother's Farm Milk to us daily.
Smith Brother's Farm is a conglomeration of locally owned and run dairies in the Kent Valley. They provide us with hormone free liquid milk, half and half and cottage cheese.
Harbor Wholesale:
Harbor wholesale is a locally owned and operated distribution company located in the Tumwater/Olympia area. They sell a multitude of packaged goods to the Corner Store.
Baked Goods
Bagel Brothers:
Bagel Brothers is locally owned and operated and is located on Cooper Point Rd in Olympia, Wa. They do not use local flour. We count them as local despite this fact due to their local producer status and the fact that local flour is hard to get.
Franz Family Bakeries:
Bread sent to us from Franz comes straight from the bakery in Seattle. France does not use local flour and is family owned and operated and serves the northwest coastal areas.
Grocery Items
UNFI Mountain Peoples:
UNFI stands for United Foods International and the west coast is considered the Mountain People's district. They are a large wholesale food distributer that brings the Corner Store a large variety of packaged items.
Beverages
L&E Bottling:
L&E Bottling is a famiy owned, local bottling company that bottles Pepsi products. The bottles are made in Tumwater and bottled in Tumwater also. However the syrup that makes the Pepsi Cola is from an unknown processing plant and thus this local purchase is not considered local.
Green Mountain Coffee/Tully's:
Coffee is fair trade, organic, shade grown and locally roasted by Tully's in Seattle. Tully's Coffee is now owned by Green Mountain Coffee.
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