Welcome to the Co-op
We love Winter!
And we're looking forward to Mud Season!
Hours:
Mon-Fri 8:00-6:00 Sat 9:30-3:00 Sun 10:00-1:00
PRODUCE SPECIALS. Check at the Co-op first for produce! Fresh, beautiful, and organic fruits, veggies and greens arrive every Thursday afternoon. 
Save $$ on bulk produce orders - just get your order to Ellen by the end of the day on Wednesday.
WINE SPECIALS. 15% off rosés during the month of Feb. Mark your calendar for our March 14 wine tasting, featuring rosés, a few whites, and, yes, a chocolate red wine.
AND DON'T FORGET DESSERT. We've got Beth Ann's sticky buns, Eva's cream cheese brownies - and more ambiance than you can shake a bag of marshmallows!
Membership News: Get your membership card dated, and get discounts! Your Adamant Co-op member card qualifies you for sales at other VT coops - but the card MUST show your membership expiration date. Stop into the store to pick up your dated sticker. It will just take a minute, and will save you tons of moola! Cards must be dated by March 1 (or as soon thereafter as is humanly possible.)
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. We still go even though there's no snow!
Bring your snows
hoes or skis and meet at the Co-op.
MARCH WORKSHOPS
March 14 "How to Frame a Photo" with David Lewis
10am upstairs at the Co-op
Do you take what looks like a wonderful photo and then find
yourself disappointed with the result? This workshop focuses on
learning to see through the camera lens to get a good composition, thinking about lighting, practicing noticing the back of the head which takes up most of the photo and other mind boggling goofs. David Lewis, who taught this as his first class in his previous life as a professor, will start out with an introductory lesson and we’ll go from there.....
March 7 "Beyond Egg Cartons" with Lucy Wollaeger
Lucy's been having fun this past year taking all kinds of paper packaging materials from around the house and cutting them up to fashion creatures, especially insects...... If you didn't see her critters from last year, stop by even if can't stay and play
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.
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
11:30 Pizza in Winter. After the workshop, we'll be firing up the community oven. We'll supply the heat and the dough. Bring your favorite toppings and an appetite. Penguin types can munch al fresco, and there will be seating available in the co-op kitchen.
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
Feb 27 Drawing Workshop #3 9:30 Janet's Studio
We're going to work with negative dspace as a way of seeing positive space. there will also be quick review exercises of gesture and contour drawing and then have time for one longer drawing
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.