Outside Vendors

Most of the products available through Brighton Food Co-op come from the many vendors who supply the United Natural Foods Inc. (UNFI) Warehouse in Indiana. Those products are listed at the UNFI website. But BFC also buys from vendors outside UNFI, many of them local (or at least within the state of Michigan). Those vendors and their products are listed below.

Vendor 1 Zingerman's Bakeshop and Creamery Zingerman's produces a wonderful crusty bread, hand-made out of quality ingredients with no fat or preservatives. Zingerman's Pastry Kitchen also does all their baking from scratch, preparing their own fruit fillings, roasting the nuts, and making their own butter cremes for their tortes. Eggs are delivered fresh from a local supplier, and milk products come from Guernsey. Zingerman's Creamery makes handmade fresh cheeses that are bringing the dairy industry back 100 years. Made without modern fillers that get in the way of flavor, these cheeses taste of fresh milk and cream the way fresh cheeses did in the 19th century. Look for Zingerman's on the web at http://www.zingermans.com
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Vendor 2 Rosewood Cheese All Rosewood products are rbgh free, but the cheeses are not organic. The raw milk cheeses and some of the pasteurized cheeses are white. Yellow cheeses are colored using carotene, a natural food coloring derived from carrots.
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Vendor 3 Almar Orchards Almar sells organic apples and apple cider on a seasonal basis.
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Vendor 4 Motave Meadows Motave sells locally grown organic produce on a seasonal basis. Their specialty is salad greens, which they grow using a unique process that makes for really delectable salads!
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Vendor 5 Sami's Bakery Sami's is a Florida bakery that makes an especially tasty Millet-and-Flax Bread. BFC's Secretary, Gina Barnowsky, coordinates the orders from Sami's.
Click for Sami's price list. For more information about the bakery itself, you can go to their website at www.samisbakery.com.
Vendor 6 B&B Organics B&B supplies the Coop with a wide variety of produce raised without chemical pesticides or fertilizers. For each distribution, the Coop's produce coordinator, Nicole Brown, puts together a "share" based on seasonal offerings, items on special, and items requested by Coop members. The share typically consists of about a dozen varieties of fruits and vegetables and costs $30-40. Special arrangements can also be made with Nicole for ordering whole cases of certain items. You can find B&B on the web at http://www.bborganics.com.

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Vendor 7 Nuts, Honey, Syrup This vendor actually consists of three suppliers but is treated as one vendor because orders to all three are handled by the same coordinator, Diane Brady. Diane can provide maple syrup every month, but she orders nuts and honey in alternating months.
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Vendor 8 Creswick Farms This vendor, located near Muskegon, delivers a variety of grass-fed beef and lamb, heritage pork, and free-range chicken products at excellent prices.
Click for Creswick items available through BFC. Also, look for them on the web at http://www.creswickfarms.com.
Vendor 9 Frontier Natural Products Co-op Frontier has been providing organic and natural products since 1976. They offer organic herbs, coffee, spices, even aromatherapy. Click HERE for more information about getting Frontier products through BFC.
Vendor 10 Higher Grounds Roastery Higher Grounds provides the coop with a wide variety of wonderful organic coffees at excellent prices. Based in Traverse City, the roastery gets its beans from fair-trade growers in many of the best coffee regions of the world, roasts the beans to perfection, then sends the coffee to us with the fresh-roasted flavor fully preserved. You can find Higher Grounds on the web at http://www.highergroundstrading.com and http://www.javaforjustice.com.

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Special Vendors Raw Milk BFC does not handle raw milk because the outright sale of raw milk -- even in the cooperative resale sense -- is illegal in Michigan. However, we heartily endorse the drinking of raw milk and recommend several local suppliers who offer "cow share" programs that do not involve the actual sale of raw milk. For more information about raw milk and the programs we recommend, go to www.brightonfoodcoop.com/rawmilk.htm.