The Front Porch Grocery Co-Op

06/08/2026

💚 New or existing owner-members—let’s get active by getting connected and staying connected through productive engagement!

Join The Front Porch Owners Group to:

🌱 Stay up to date on co-op news and progress
🌱 Connect with fellow owner-members and supporters
🌱 Share ideas, ask questions, and join the conversation
🌱 Actively connect to support and follow through with ideas

The Front Porch Grocery Co-Op will grow through neighbors working together. Stay connected, stay engaged, and help bring fresh food and local ownership back home.

💬 Join the Front Porch Owner-Member Facebook Group today!

06/07/2026

Join us as we expand our cooperative knowledge!

A continuation of the powerful conversations sparked by the tech-focused FCI Live sessions, this summer series brings co-op leaders, technologists and practitioners together to explore how co-ops can navigate the rapid tech change while staying grounded in cooperative identity, democratic values and community impact.

The 1st session, Tech, Ethics & Cooperative Values, will be online, Wednesday, June 24 at 1 pm Eastern.

Register for FREE: https://crm.fci.coop/civicrm/event/info?id=328

Presented by Digico Global, Nova Works Corp and Food Co-op Initiative

06/07/2026

Warren County Schools is proud to partner with the Warren County Memorial Library to provide FREE Summer Meals for children and teens 18 and under this summer! 🍎🧃

Beginning June 15 through July 30, families can enjoy a nutritious breakfast and lunch at no cost while participating in the library's Summer Reading Program. It's the perfect opportunity for children to fuel their bodies and minds all summer long!

📅 Program Dates: June 15 – July 30
🚫 No meals served: June 29 – July 3
🌞 Breakfast: 9:30–10:30 a.m.
🥪 Lunch: 12:00–2:00 p.m.
📍 Warren County Memorial Library, 119 South Front Street, Warrenton, NC

Whether you're checking out books, attending Summer Reading Program activities, or spending time at the library, be sure to stop by and enjoy a healthy meal.

We are grateful to the Warren County Memorial Library for partnering with us to support our children's health, learning, and well-being throughout the summer.

Together, we're helping students stay nourished, engaged, and ready for a successful school year ahead.

06/06/2026

06/06/2026

What a day! 💚
Our First Official Founders Meeting was a tremendous success!
Neighbors, families, farmers, business owners, and community supporters came together to learn, connect, ask questions, and explore what it means to build something that belongs to all of us.
The energy in the room was inspiring. The conversations were meaningful. The vision is growing.
Thank you to everyone who attended, shared ideas, volunteered, and invested your time in helping shape the future of The Front Porch Grocery Co-Op.
This was more than a meeting. It was proof that our community believes in bringing fresh food, local ownership, and stronger connections back home.
The journey is just beginning, and we're excited about what's next.
Together, we're building something special. One member. One conversation. One step at a time.

06/06/2026

This idea seem interesting to you? Don’t just take our word for it!

*FREE resources and tools* for the rural food communities you serve!

FCI and Start.coop are hosting a Free Virtual Workshop on Tuesday June 16th, focused on community feasibility for rural food co-ops.

Register today: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/xHCfXSO_SoylVuLSR0Ey7Q

Join our free online 1 hour workshop on Tuesday June 16th at 1pm ET, for rural food co-op founders and organizers! We will explore the fundamental aspects of feasibility of food co-ops, including a deep dive into rural community feasibility.

You’ll come away with a clear understanding and practical skills to conduct community interviews.

This session is from Food Co-op Initiative and hosted by Start.coop, facilitated by FCI's Chris Dilley, Director of Startup Support.

This work is supported by the Rural Cooperative Development Grant program from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the authors and should not be construed to represent any official USDA or U.S. Government determination or policy. This project is in partnership with the Cooperative Development Foundation.

06/05/2026

TOMORROW'S THE DAY!

The Front Porch Grocery Co-Op's First Official Founders Meeting is finally here!

Meet the visionaries. Hear the vision. Learn what's next. Discover how you can become part of bringing fresh, affordable groceries and other resourceful interests to our community.

📅 June 6, 2026⏰ 11 AM – 1 PM📍 307 E. Macon St., Warrenton, NC

Tomorrow starts the conversation. It takes community and accountability to build the future.

06/04/2026

05/27/2026

Want to know more about this process?

A growing trend in startup food co-op organizing in historically redlined, predominantly Black communities is the startup effort being initiated/seeded by locally trusted nonprofit organizations that invest significant capacity to help the community grow the co-op.

This model has been used at startup food co-ops like as well as others, and is now being utilized by Three Sisters Market, a startup food co-op effort in Charlotte, NC.

West Blvd Neighborhood Coaltion , the Three Sisters Market board, and their development support team at .roots put together an *incredible* session about the unique challenges and benefits of a nonprofit and a newly organized food co-op working together to grow the co-op and open a store - it's a *must watch* for any community considering such a parthership!

You can find the *free* video on Food Co-op Initiative's YouTube page in our "FCI Live 2026" playlist, or directly at this link:

https://youtu.be/sbh5mExkuI4?si=e5mif-PvYCGsIn6R