Shop 4% Friday on January 22nd to Support Viva Farms

On the 4th Friday of every month, you shop and, together, we give! This year Skagit Valley Food Co-op has partnered with Skagit Community Foundation to make 4% Friday twice as nice with Double Donation Days! Skagit Community Foundation will be matching all of our 4% Friday giving for 2021.

Now, when you shop 4% Friday Community Shopping Days, your purchase will have twice the impact: on Friday, January 22nd, we're donating 4% of sales to Viva Farms, and the Skagit Community Foundation will match our total to double the donation!

Viva Farms is a non-profit farm business incubator established in 2009. They empower aspiring and historically-underserved/limited resource farmers by providing bilingual (English/Spanish) training in holistic, regenerative, organic agriculture including access to the essentials needed to run a successful farm: access to land, infrastructure & equipment, capital, and markets. Viva Farms grows and distributes fresh, healthy organic produce to retailers, wholesale, their CSA (including SNAP-EBT), farmers markets, farm to school/food service, and direct to foodbanks - most recently in support of COVID emergency response measures. See VivaFarms.org for more information on programming.

How will your shopping trip help Viva Farms?

In an effort to grow the organization, provide more land to our incubating and Agricultural Park farmers, and increase access & availability of local, organic food, Viva has recently been able to acquire 20 additional acres of Skagit farmland. Funds from 4% Friday will go directly toward the improvement of agriculture infrastructure on this new site to make it "farmer-ready" in the 2021 season.