{"id":4521,"date":"2021-03-20T19:12:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T19:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/superhumantransformation.com\/?p=4521"},"modified":"2021-03-21T12:53:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T12:53:55","slug":"vegas-food-coop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/superhumantransformation.com\/vegas-food-coop\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with the Vegas Food CO-OP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ac-designer-copy\"><span class=\"ac-designer-marked-selection ac-designer-copy\">\u200b<strong><span class=\"ac-designer-copy\">recently I had the chance to sit down and interview the founder of the Vegas Food CO-OP Carolyn Rockwell.<\/span><\/strong> what an amazing story!\u00a0 as we&#8217;ve said many times, <span class=\"ac-designer-copy\">find your own health, find yourself, and in the process\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"ac-designer-copy\">you&#8217;ll probably impact others in ways you can\u2019t predict.\u00a0 \u200b<strong>remember, food is medicine!<\/strong>\u00a0the better quality you eat, the better for the animal, the planet, and YOU.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"ac-designer-copy\"><span class=\"ac-designer-marked-selection ac-designer-copy\"><span class=\"ac-designer-copy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3eEBmQLm4iU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here&#8217;s a thank you message from Carolyn and the Vegas Food CO-OP.<\/a><\/span><br class=\"ac-designer-copy\" \/><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"ac-designer-copy\">\n<h3><span class=\"ac-designer-marked-selection ac-designer-copy\"><br class=\"ac-designer-copy\" \/><span class=\"ac-designer-copy\"><strong>why buy from a CO-OP?<\/strong>\u200b<\/span><br class=\"ac-designer-copy\" \/><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul class=\"ac-designer-copy\">\n<li class=\"ac-designer-copy\">conventional shopping has conventional ease and conventional quality. you don\u2019t know much about the meat or the food.\u00a0<br class=\"ac-designer-copy\" \/><br class=\"ac-designer-copy\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"ac-designer-copy\">purchasing better quality food supports quality producers. it&#8217;s better for the animal, the planet, and YOU.<br class=\"ac-designer-copy\" \/><br class=\"ac-designer-copy\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"ac-designer-copy\">you don\u2019t have to be wealthy to be healthy. purchasing in bulk from something like the Vegas Food CO-OP allows you to take advantage of group pricing without having to purchase a lot.<br class=\"ac-designer-copy\" \/><br class=\"ac-designer-copy\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"ac-designer-copy\"><span class=\"ac-designer-copy\">there&#8217;s no membership fee, and no minimum purchase.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>ordering from the Vegas Food CO-OP:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vegasfoodcoop.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit the Vegas Food CO-OP here.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/FjgPJHPIj5c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here&#8217;s a video on the ordering process.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>if you&#8217;ve never ordered we&#8217;d recommend starting with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vegasfoodcoop.com\/product-page\/30-lb-combo-grass-fed-beef-and-pastured-pork-csa-share-uncured\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">30lb combo beef and pork CSA share.<\/a> you will NOT be disappointed!<span class=\"ac-designer-marked-selection ac-designer-copy\"><br class=\"ac-designer-copy\" \/>the best deal if you can afford it and have space would be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vegasfoodcoop.com\/product-page\/family-package-w-uncured-pork-and-ground-pork-deposit\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the family package!<\/a> LEGIT!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"ac-designer-marked-selection ac-designer-copy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3tSGtUL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">get yourself a quality chest freezer!<\/a> it will last you forever!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ac-designer-marked-selection ac-designer-copy\">sourcing quality meats from other places:<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"ac-designer-marked-selection ac-designer-copy\">you can visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eatwild.com\/products\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EatWild.com<\/a> to search for quality producers in your area. you can also connect with Farmer\u2019s Markets in your area! \u00a0there are usually meat producers that attend, you can strike up a conversation and see where it goes! \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.localharvest.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">find local Farmer\u2019s Markets near you at Local Harvest.<\/a><\/span><span class=\"ac-designer-marked-selection ac-designer-copy\"><br class=\"ac-designer-copy\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/forceofnature.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Force of Nature Meats.<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>I love getting &#8220;Ancestral Blends&#8221; from this place that include ground meats and ground organs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/belcampo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Belcampo.<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>I have not ordered from here, but I&#8217;ve heard nothing but great things!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nosetotail.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nose to Tail.<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>similar to butcher box, but much more focused on animals nose-to-tail.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/grasslandbeef.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Wellness Meats.<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>U.S. Wellness Meats is a great place to purchase anything and all things quality meat. \u00a0a little pricey, but always available. \u00a0I like to get organ meat products here.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/alpine-ranch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alpine Ranch.<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>located in Northern Nevada, Alpine Ranch offers grass-fed beef and pastured Berkshire pork options. \u00a0similar to the Vegas Food Co-op, they make deliveries to cities like Las Vegas. \u00a0average prices are around\u00a0$6.50 \/ pound for ground beef,\u00a0$7.60 \/ pound for packages.<\/p>\n<p>we have many people in our community that use Alpine Ranch. \u00a0I\u2019d suggest using Vegas Food Co-op once, and then using Alpine Ranch to compare.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasgrassfedbeef.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slankers.<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>my friend Colby (owner of The CrossFit Combine) has been ordering from Slanker Grass-Fed Meat for years and loves the quality. \u00a0try them out! \u00a0they average about $8 \/ pound for ground beef, and\u00a0$10 \/ pound for packages.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>what I do?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>I buy local fresh produce from WF. of course you can go to sprouts or trader joes or wherever.<\/li>\n<li>I buy some bulk items from Costco like Kerrygold butter and frozen veggies, sometimes cream.<\/li>\n<li>I buy all my beef and pork from Vegas Food COOP.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"ac-designer-marked-selection ac-designer-copy\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"ac-designer-copy\" href=\"https:\/\/community.superhumantransformation.com\/\" data-ac-default-color=\"1\">join our community<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and get discount codes for places like the Vegas Food CO-OP.\u200b\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n<div class=\"ac-designer-copy\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200brecently I had the chance to sit down and interview the founder of the Vegas Food CO-OP Carolyn Rockwell. what an amazing story!\u00a0 as we&#8217;ve said many times, find your&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,97,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/superhumantransformation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/superhumantransformation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/superhumantransformation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superhumantransformation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superhumantransformation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/superhumantransformation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superhumantransformation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/superhumantransformation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superhumantransformation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superhumantransformation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}