Welcome to the Co-op!

We're organizing Salt Lake City's (and Utah's) only consumer-owned cooperative grocery market! We hope you've found this website because you want to get involved, become a Founding Member-Owner, and lend your time and/or skills to the development process.

Salt Lake City's citizens love their Downtown Farmers Market, and it's no wonder. It began in 1992 and in 2009 won third place in the first ever America's Favorite Farmers Markets^TM contest sponsored by the American Farmland Trust. Today there are over 250 vendors offering locally produced food, crafts, and other products. Our appetite for local, fresh and organic food has grown right along with the farmers market. How many times have you wished you could hit the farmers market for a fresh bunch of greens on your own schedule? How many times have you had to miss the market because of other Saturday-morning or Tuesday evening obligations, or--let's face it--because you just didn't want to deal with the crowd? How many times have you bought asparagus or kale or strawberries flown in from Chile, because there weren't any other options?

Our appetite and desire for fresh, local food has outgrown the twice-a-week seasonal market. We need a place to find fresh, local food for our families every day, whether it's a Wednesday in July or one in the middle of December.

The Wasatch Cooperative Market will be that place. Modeled after co-ops in cities like Seattle, WA, Burlington, VT, Ashland, OR, and others, the Wasatch Cooperative Market will be like any other grocery store: big and bright, with convenient hours and everything you need under one roof. But unlike any other grocery store this one is a true product of its community. Its focus is local. It aims to be a conduit for local product from local producers. It is truly locally owned, because each of its Member-Owners is a Utahn who believes we deserve local, fresh, sustainable food whenever available.

To better understand what we're bringing to the Salt Lake Valley check out this video produced by Food Co-op Initiative.

Thank you for taking the time to review the information on this website, and feel free to send your comments and questions to questions@wasatch.coop. Please be aware that if you are a regular visitor to the website, its organization and content may have changed. We are constantly working on updating and improving the website to better serve you and the development effort for our consumer-owned food cooperative.