Celebrate Co-op & Fair Trade Month with Us!!!

Celebrate with us all October & enjoy special promotions, local vendor demos, giveaways & events!

Special promotions!
🧡 Get a digital $25 Bloomingfoods gift card when you sign up for a new membership in October!
🧡 Owner-Members who spend $100+ in one transaction throughout October will receive a digital $20 gift card!
🧡 Owner-Members get 15% OFF their purchase every Tuesday in October!

Events!
🧡 Local Vendor Demos will be hosted at our East & Near West stores throughout October!
🧡 Wilderlove Farm Tour for Owner-Members – Saturday, October 12 (National Farmer's Day!), 3-4:30pm! RSVP required.
🧡 Pie Pumpkin Painting Contest for Owner-Members – Sunday, October 13th, noon to 2pm outside our Near West Store!

Giveaways!
🧡 Co-op & Fair Trade Month Giveaway – accepting entries October 1st-31st!
🧡 Name That Produce Game!

To learn more about Co-op & Fair Trade Month promotions, events, & giveaways throughout October, visit www.bloomingfoods.coop/coop-fair-trade-month or click the button below.

Revolution Bike & Bean

Bloomingfoods is proud to call Revolution Bike & Bean one of our valued community partners! They offer a 15% discount off all in-stock merchandise to Bloomingfoods Owner-Members.

Don and Staci Galligher have owned and operated Revolution since 2008. Don has been racing, coaching, repairing, or selling bikes since the 90's. As both an experienced Bike Fitter and cycling coach, he can help you improve your training and increase your comfort and efficiency on your bike. Don’s favorite bike is the S-Works Specialized Stumpjumper 29 he likes to call Smaug.

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Revolution brews coffee that is locally roasted by Needmore Coffee Roaster and delivered to their store each week. Needmore Coffee is fair trade certified and roasted with electrically heated air rather than gas-fired drum roasters for a pure, clean cup of coffee.

With your in-store purchases you can receive a FREE serving of drip or French press coffee!

Make sure it fits

Revolution understands the importance of a proper fitting and will take a great deal of time in making sure you get the bike that is right for you!

Click to read more about bike fittings.

Revolution carries all types of bikes, including bikes built for the road, mountain, urban, fitness, and children’s bikes. They also have electric and hybrid bikes available.

You can find all of the parts your bikes could possibly need and accessories such as locks, racks, pumps, strollers, and so much more! They also carry special biking clothing, shoes, and helmets in many styles and sizes.

Revolution also has a staff of professionally trained technicians who perform full-service maintenance and repairs from assembly to tune-ups to major overhauls. They are happy to assess your bikes and offer free estimates before any work is done. Minor repairs can be done quickly while you wait in the store (and enjoy their freshly brewed coffee!)

And for those of you who like to do your own tune-ups and repairs, they have an excellent selection of essential tools, lubricants and cleaning products, and quality work stands.

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Stop in to browse their bikes and grab a great cup of coffee.

Revolution is located at 401 E 10th St in Bloomington.

To learn more about Revolution and view their products, visit their website at revolutionbikeandbean.com.

Meet Our New Local Partner - Trailhead Naturals

We are excited to welcome a new local partner to the Bloomingfoods family! Trailhead Naturals is a woman-owned business in Indianapolis making healthy vegan snacks that are 100% plant-based, gluten-free, soy-free, and naturally sweetened.

Each bite is a flavor explosion that is nourishing to your body, mind, and soul. You can feel good about indulging with sprouted nuts seeds, grains, and whole-food sweeteners like dates, raw honey, and maple syrup just the way nature intended it to be.

You can now find these delicious items in both Bloomingfoods stores!

Be sure to try them all, like the Amaranth Protein Balls, Maple Pecan Scones, Lemon Poppyseed Muffins, Chocolate Muffins, Almond Chocolate Biscotti, and Chia Crackers pictured below!

Meet Becker Farms

Bloomingfoods is proud to partner with Becker Farms again this year to provide fresh, healthy, free-range turkeys for your Thanksgiving meals.

Becker Farms is a grass-based diversified livestock farm in east-central Indiana. They specialize in pastured, antibiotic-free, non-GMO fed animals. Their farm is unique in that they raise multiple species in a grass-based rotation and use regenerative farming practices.  

Kyle Becker grew up on a very large farm in Cambridge City, IN where they milked 70 cows, had a feedlot, and raised all of their own replacements. He started out feeding and bedding calves and progressed to AI breeding the herd, fieldwork, and milking. 

In 2006 Kyle was a 4th-year veterinary student at Purdue doing a rotation with Monsanto animal health, working with the field tech services vet using a genetically modified bovine growth hormone. He spent every day on large farms selling the hormone. While on that rotation he was asked to read The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan, whose theory is that you are what you eat. Pollan stated that we “eat by the grace of nature, not industry”. The book was instrumental in shaping his ideals of a modern responsible agricultural enterprise. 

As a Food Animal Veterinarian for Becker Food Animal Health Services, Kyle is always working to help his clients raise their animals in a safe, healthy, and profitable way. He brings that expertise to his own farm to make it the best that it can be, as well.   

Kyle’s wife Emily also attended Purdue University where she received her B.S. in Food Science, then continued on to Indiana University where she attained her Master of Public Health degree. Emily loves working at home on the family farm, helping with the veterinary business, and raising their four adorable children.

The Becker Children
Charlotte, Stella, Griffin, and Wyatt

The children are also very involved on the farm. Due to their natural curiosity and interest in the animals they raise, the children began helping out at an early age.  Some of their first chores have been helping to collect, wash, pack, and label eggs and bottle-feeding calves.  As they have gotten older, they help with a variety of responsibilities every morning and evening such as feeding, watering, and bedding animals; helping sort and load animals; and helping milk the cows.

The children each have their favorite things to do on the farm. Charlotte (9) said that she enjoys learning new responsibilities and earning privileges for a job well done. Stella (7) enjoys animal care most. Griffin (5) currently enjoys taking care of the barn cats. Wyatt (3) is very eager to help build or demo things.  The children also like to join their parents at the local farmers market. 

Kyle says that Bloomingfoods is a great partner for their Thanksgiving turkeys because they need to have like-minded distributors to help them sell their products. Being a small farm, he says they do not have the resources to market and distribute at a level of scale that would allow them to be profitable. 

“We thoroughly enjoy raising our turkeys and being a part of so many wonderful family dinners. Our birds are out foraging fall clover and I truly believe that they are living the best life we can give them. They have shelters in case of bad weather, woods, and trees to go explore, and free choice feed when they are hungry. We also have developed a very easy low-stress method for transporting them to the processing plant and our processor is trained in humane animal handling.” -Kyle Becker 

CLICK HERE to place your Thanksgiving pre-order.

To learn more about Becker Farms, visit their website at beckerfarmsin.com.