History

2009

OUR FIRST TEN YEARS!

Vegetable share program started in Orange Innovation Center parking lot. First share distribution (pictured) was Aug 12, 2009. Left to right, Amy Borezo, Mary Hakkinen, Nina Wellen, Julie Davis, Zita Rasid

2010 Fruit shares added
2011 North Quabbin Community Co-operative formerly incorporated. First Annual Meeting (pictured) was held at OIC. Volunteer-run store opened inside OIC.
2013 NQCC shared CISA "Local Hero" award with other western Mass. food co-ops
2014 Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust purchased the former Workers Credit Union at 12 North Main St in Orange. Storefront opened in fall as Quabbin Harvest.

2017 Quabbin Harvest was top enroller in the state's new Healthy Incentives Program. Kitchen opened for prepared food.
2018 Kitchen rebranded as Nalini's Kitchen.
2019 Tenth anniversary celebration, including installation of Susan Marshall's "Reaching for the Sky" mural.

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