Welcome to the Co-op
We love Winter!
Hours:
Mon-Fri 8:00-6:00 Sat 9:30-3:00 Sun 10:00-1:00
GREAT SPECIALS. Check at the Co-op first for your everyday and party foods! We have specialty cheese and wine, lots of member specials, Beth Ann's sticky buns, Eva's cream cheese brownies - and more ambiance than you can shake a cheese puff at.
Winter Workshops. Our talented community members teach everything from baking a perfect pie crust to making papier mâché hats. And - in response to member requests - there are outdoor workshops, too! Read workshop details on the Calendar page.
Saturdays, 9:30 am.
Bring your 
snowshoes or skis and meet at the Co-op to pack the trails in the Town Forest. A great way to share the packing and if you don’t know the trails already, to learn how wonderful they are.
Sunday, January 31
Winter Workshop Series: " Swing your Opposites- How to make a double action card"
10-noon upstairs at the Co-op, with Ellen Bresler. Templates, materials and tools provided but bring any images or papers you'd especially like to add or work with. Any age welcome but adults are advised to bring a child to help you. Valentine's day is coming!
FEBRUARY WORKSHOPS (complete details on the Calendar page)
Saturday Feb 6 "Conversation with Tony Klein" 11am
East Montpelier representative Tony Klein will come to the Coop and chat with constituents. Learn how to track issues that are most important to you, and how to weigh in on what you care about most.
Sunday Feb 7 9:30 am
Drawing Workshop # 2 Drawing with ink. Our focus in this workshop is to loosen up and look.
Saturday February 13 - 10 am
Black Fly Festival meeting. Whatever your skill, ability, interest, there is a place for you! Come help plan this year's extravaganza.
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Think Mardi Gras -Think Valentine’s Day - Think Black Fly Festival.
You need a Fancy Hat - a Wild Mask out of Papier Mache and other recycled
Sunday February 21 10 am
"Simple books with Suzanne Winston"
Make soft-cover stab-binding books. Not too hard,
Feb 22-26- School Vacation Week. 10am- 3pm
Janet's Studio open to anyone wanting to work on projects started in other workshops. If you didn't start anything but want to, Janet will be available to help.
Good food fuels creativity in this interactive workshop led by new Coop member Cathy Wisloski. Dust off your quiche and kugal recipes and join us!
Saturday morning snowshoe -Town Forest photo by Erika Mitchel
COMMUNITY OVEN. The clay oven behind the Co-op has been a true community project, shepherded by Gail England, built by energetic strainers, stompers, mudders, with Kathleen, Janet, Ruby and Phoebe's beautiful decorations, a door worthy of a Medieval hearth by Robbie Porter, a shelter and counter by Eric - plus help from many, many others. Bravo everyone!
Pizza lovers huddled under Eric's magnificent shelter to inaugurate the Co-op's beautiful new village oven. It was a hard job, but someone needed to sample that mountain of pizza, including the finale, inspired by Ellis - a dessert extravaganza of chocolate and marshmallows.
Watch for signs announcing regular oven firing days, when anyone is welcome to come and bake. Or bring your own wood and fire up the oven yourself!
ANNUAL MEETING. A tremendous thanks to everyone who attended the Annual Adamant Co-op and Village Meeting. It was great fun, a wonderful opportunity to get to know each other better, and, of course, splendidly catered. The bulk of the meeting was spent in small group discussion about how to nurture and expand the best aspects of community in Adamant. Some actions steps have already begun.
Photo by Gary Ann Lewis
Who We Are
The Adamant Co-op doesn't fit neatly into any category. Since its founding in 1939 it has served the surrounding area as grocery store, post office, art studio and home of the infamous Black Fly Festival. The Co-op is the hub of a vibrant community, joining us together as we stop for conversation while picking up our mail, volunteer in staffing the store, leave notes for each other in the community box, pick up a gallon of milk, or indulge in a quick chocolate fix. Surrounded by waterfalls and ponds, and next to the Adamant Music School and QuarryWorks Theatre, the Co-op is a wonderful destination for a meandering bike ride or drive.
The Co-op sells basic groceries and an eclectic combination of foods to suit the varied tastes of the neighborhood: an impressive selection of wines, one of the best selections of chocolates west of Switzerland, fresh baked cakes and pastries, (if you're lucky you'll find Beth Ann's sweet rolls, known to sustain life for weeks, or Eva's fudge brownies, before they fly out the door), scrumptious take out meals, and a wide array of local products such as syrup and honey, home made pickles, prize winning eggs from farms down the road, jams, and local seasonal produce. You'll find a request clipboard hanging from a wooden supporting beam--if we don't have it, just ask.
Janet Macleod's studio is above the store and she is always glad to show visitors around.
In summer our screen porch is a wonderful place to sit and watch the local goings on, check email with our free WiFi, or attend one of our Friday Night Cookout & Music evenings. Sodom Pond, across the road, (yes Sodom, the village was once so named, inspired by the disreputable goings on at the old quarry) is home for a rich bird, beaver and turtle population.