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What can we say? Sometimes we have our pantry staples on hand all the time, and then we take them for granted and forget to add them to the shopping list for the next trip. Does that make any sense? In any case, this is all to say we forgot to announce the winner of the “Best Local Pantry Staple” Award! This has nothing to do with the nominees or the winner and everything to do with host Anastasia...

It’s finally here! You voted, you sampled, you waited, and now we are happy to finally present the winners of the first annual Littleton Food Co-op Member Choice Awards! In celebration of Eat Local Month in August, we asked you to prove your loyalty to your favorite local foods to promote them to Local Food Winners™. Our favorites battled it out for awards like “Best Local Savory Snack,” “Best Loc...

Calling all pickle girlies and fermentation enthusiasts: this episode was made just for you! Host Anastasia is sitting down with Addie Rose Holland of Real Pickles, a fermented vegetable brand out of Greenfield, MA. And let us just say, the link between a lonely cucumber pickle and a thriving local economy is smaller than you may think. This episode talks about the benefits of fermented vegetables...

You may have gotten the mother figure in your life a great gift for Mother’s Day, but did you get her a podcast? This month, in honor of all the wonderful Moms in the world, host Anastasia has invited her own mother Joann to be a guest on the show. It’s not like she’s been asking from the beginning to be on or anything… This episode plays out a little differently than others as the mother-daughter...

Did someone say #minisodeonthemove? No one did, but we did it anyway! For this FBOTD minisode, host Anastasia is taking her fun beverage on a walk so she can talk about sustainable beverages. But she quickly realizes that a fun, unnecessary beverage and sustainability don’t necessarily go hand in hand. So how do we successfully reduce our impact on the Earth while still enjoying the fun beverages...

Surprise! That's Rad produced our first ever "prank episode" this year in honor of April Fool's Day. If you want a guaranteed laugh this is the place to be! Listen to the story of how our intrepid podcast host Anastasia is taken by local organic aliens, and humble cashier Bob has to step up to the plate and host the podcast. There's mad dashing across the store, thought-provoking guest star interv...

Happy Membership Season! What, you’ve never heard of Membership Season? It’s this great time of year between Valentine's Day and Memorial Day we just made up at the Littleton Food Co-op where we celebrate our members and their importance to our cooperative. And there’s no better way to kick it off with this latest episode of That’s Rad. On this episode, host Anastasia sits down with Annie and Beck...

Want to impress your Valentine’s Day date with your wine knowledge? Well then we have the podcast for you! In this episode of That’s Rad, host Anastasia is joined by local Pearl Lake Distributor owner and operator Tom Simpson. The two discuss wine’s role in the upcoming holiday, and go over how to pair a number of offerings with popular Valentine’s Day eats and sweets. So grab your notepad and cor...

Here at the Littleton Food Co-op we consider one of our areas of expertise to be customer service. And our customers agree, too! Customers have told us directly through our surveys that our “staff members are always nice and in a good mood,” and “the staff was very attentive…and anticipated my needs. Service was prompt and efficient.” So why is that? In this episode of That’s Rad, host Anastasia s...

Looking for a last minute holiday gift? Look no further than the Littleton Food Co-op! Our intrepid podcast host Anastasia is back once again with a way to get all of your shopping done while you do your regular grocery shopping, too. To step it up from last year’s gift guide, this year we’re giving you the 2022 That’s Rad Sustainable Gift Guide. There are many ways to think of sustainability when...

It’s another minisode episode! And this time it’s a solo episode! That’s right, it’s just our host Anastasia, her fun beverage choice of the day, and a microphone. On this mini episode, Anastasia covers choices for a signature fall beverage, what to do when facing “drink judgment” from others, and a review of a drink from beverage company Vybes. If you thought that the word “vibes” was out of styl...

October is a big month for the Littleton Food Co-op. So big that we needed two new podcast episodes to fit in everything we wanted to say! On the last episode of That’s Rad (Episode XVI: Equal Exchange), we talked about fair trade and sourcing on a broader, global scale. Now, host Anastasia sits down with Littleton Food Co-op General Manager Ed King to discuss how fair trade and other “specialty s...

October is National Co-op Month and Fair Trade Month, and the latest episode of That’s Rad is here to celebrate both. Host Anastasia is joined for this episode by Danielle Robidoux, Organizer with Equal Exchange and the Citizen-Consumer initiative. Equal Exchange is a pioneer in the modern day fair trade movement, and what you might not know from seeing their bananas, coffee, and chocolate bars is...

Fall has arrived in the That’s Rad podcast-universe! To kick off the season, host Anastasia is joined by Deborah O’Kelly of Golden Girl Granola in Shirley, MA. They talk about how granola is often branded as a “fall food” (like we’re doing right now), but the truth is that a blend of oats, nuts, berries, and seeds can be so much more than that. You may have thought you reached the pinnacle of gran...

It’s the FBOTD Minisode Miniseries debut! What the heck does that mean? You, my friend, are asking the right questions. We decided to take the ideas of Episode 23 of That’s Rad about fun beverages and expand it into a miniseries! These episodes are going to be a little shorter, and maybe a little less scripted and edited. But never fear! We’re not cutting out any of the learning opportunities, per...

Happy Eat Local Month 2022! In honor of this statewide celebration of all things local, host Anastasia brought in the most local-est person she could think of: Sam Brown of Meadowstone Farm (Bethlehem, NH). Aside from being heavily involved in his community, Sam wins the most localest local award because Meadowstone Farm is a mere two mile drive away from the Littleton Food Co-op. Hard to get more...

It’s the episode the girlies have been waiting for– it’s the Fun Beverage of the Day episode! On this episode, host Anastasia and her best friend Emma are introducing you to the most important concept you’re ever going to learn. Listen here to learn about the life-changing habit you’re going to be running to the Littleton Food Co-op to start. The self proclaimed “girlies” talk about what a fun bev...

On this episode, host Anastasia is joined by Oliver Dixon of the Rhode Island based Matunuck Oyster Farm to talk about everything oysters! Oyster farming is basically a year-round process, but oyster consumption increases in the summer by 700% (a completely made up statistic). So there’s no better time to talk about it (also a completely made up statistic–it can and should be talked about during a...

You might not always remember your member number at the Co-op, but Mike Claflin will never forget his. Don’t worry, we didn’t just raffle the number one away while asking everyone else to remember a four or five digit combination. Mike is one of the most recognized and often cited names in the founding of the Co-op, and our host Anastasia had the privilege to sit with him to hear stories from thos...

In celebration of Earth Day and the blooming buds sure to soon hit the North Country, host Anastasia is exploring the connections between food and our environment for this episode of That’s Rad. To do this, she recruited Kris Pieper, Food Access Coordinator for Taproot in Lancaster, NH. Together, Kris and Anastasia discuss how food, the environment, and we who live in it all impact one another. Kr...

On this episode of That’s Rad, host Anastasia sits down with Kelsey McCullough, Registered Dietitian and owner of the 21st Century R.D., to have an honest conversation about how our relationship with food and our bodies is not always as positive as we project it to be on our social media feeds. The truth is many people struggle with being comfortable in their body–and Anastasia and Kelsey dive int...

The beginning of each calendar year is filled with chefs, restaurant owners, food bloggers, and the like trying to predict what will fill our plates for the year. In this episode of That’s Rad, our host Anastasia, along with Masters in Integrated Food Studies candidate Keaton (@food.n.fits), add their own predictions to the pile. They took their mission very seriously, and think listeners will be...

Ring in the new year with the return of That’s Rad, a podcast presented by the Littleton Food Co-op! To start off 2022, host Anastasia is putting on her long white pants and jacket and her most scientific-looking glasses because this episode is all about bees. Bees play a major role in our food systems, and contribute much more than the delicious honey they are known for. To walk us through the im...

Some may call this a holiday gift guide filled to the brim with suggestions on what to get your loved ones this year from the Littleton Food Co-op. Others may call it our host Anastasia’s haircut announcement and a very drawn out “Cast Away” reference, with some gifts mentioned in between. Either way, Episode XV is our gift to you this holiday season! Thank you for sticking with us for another yea...

If you listen to this podcast, you’ve probably stepped inside the Littleton Food Co-op. But have you ever been inside the Park Slope Food Co-op of Brooklyn, New York? Probably not. That’s because you have to be a member to shop at this Brooklyn institution that has been praised and parodied since its inception in 1973. Perhaps its most discussed feature is the member work requirement. Seventy five...