NCFC Book Club
Interested in learning more about the world of Co-Ops? Every month we choose a book which delves into a different aspect of what we do at the Co-Op--from food processing to cooperative models, we're exploring it all!
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Next Book Club meeting is 02/20/26 at 5pm
location TBD
February's Book:
The Secret Life of Groceries: the Dark Heart of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr​
​Combining deep sourcing, immersive reporting, and sharp, often laugh-out-loud prose, author Benjamin Lorr pulls back the curtain on a highly secretive industry. Starting from the top, we learn the secrets of Trader Joe’s success from founder Trader Joe Coulombe himself, and then quickly move down the chain into move hidden places: driving with truckers who describe their job as “sharecropping on wheels”; following entrepreneurs as they struggle to get their product on shelves; breaking into factory farms with activists to examine our system of ethical audits, such as “fair trade” and “free range”; and tracing the paths of trafficked migrants in Myanmar and Thailand to understand life at the bottom of the commodity chain. ​