The Cooler
LCG Co-op Blog
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Let’s Generate Food & Income for LCG
Read more: Let’s Generate Food & Income for LCGThe top level of our Co-op, our board of directors, is run by volunteers. It is our foundational belief that cooperative economics can lift communities out of poverty. As we advance our goals to build a community owned grocery, we are faced with the question, “How do we value the work?” We are finding that there are both legal and practical limitations to free work for…
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Recap of July 18 Owners Meeting
Read more: Recap of July 18 Owners MeetingSixteen owners attended the July 18, 2026 Owners Gathering and Meeting. We began by enjoying delicious food from Caked Up Ent Catering of Louisville. Board member Judy S opened the business meeting by inviting veteran owners to talk about LCG co-op organizing and what has worked in the past. Owners shared the following positive experiences…
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Let’s Start Selling as Louisville Community Grocery
Read more: Let’s Start Selling as Louisville Community GroceryLCG owners agree that we want to begin engaging in the business of selling fresh, high quality food and other products in a cooperative manner that is responsive to community needs, and support the regional food economy (one of our core purposes). We want to start now, while we are still working on opening our…
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New Projects Brewing
Read more: New Projects BrewingAt our March 19th owners’ meeting, a small group of Louisville Community Grocery (LCG) owners volunteered to explore ways that LCG could start selling groceries before we build a store. One way is a “buying club,” which has a small space for receiving, storing, and distributing food butnot an actual storefront. For example, a buying club…
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Special Projects kicking off: Impact Economics and Teamwork
Read more: Special Projects kicking off: Impact Economics and TeamworkAt our last owners meal and meeting we asked members what kind of LCG special projects they would be willing to invest their time into. A couple of workgroups formed discussing a community impact type event and a co-op owned buyers club. Some of the topics discussed within the community impact group were Community Gardening…
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LCG Tech Update
Read more: LCG Tech UpdateLCG tech projects are going pretty well. We have been making regular updates to our “Cooler Blog”. This site is built on the WordPress platform, which was chosen because it is open source and user friendly. The co-op needs volunteers to help with posting articles to our blog. Ideally tech savvy volunteers who are willing…
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Why has it taken so long to open the Louisville Community Grocery?
Read more: Why has it taken so long to open the Louisville Community Grocery?Our co-founders began meeting in the Portland neighborhood in the fall of2015 and founded LACE in 2017. Organizing meetings moved aroundneighborhoods as they wanted to connect with residents who had beenaffected by recently closed grocery stores (from 2016 to 2018, five storesclosed within the Watterson/city core), then landed in Russell for a while. Weincorporated the…
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Owners Meal & Meeting 2/19/2026
Read more: Owners Meal & Meeting 2/19/2026Quick recap The meeting was well attended and focused on discussing the future of Louisville Community Grocery (LCG), a cooperative grocery initiative, following the dissolution of its partnership with LACE. MK Lindsey presented case studies of successful food co-ops across the country, highlighting different business models and operational approaches. The group explored four potential paths…
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Where will the grocery store be located?
Read more: Where will the grocery store be located?February 17, 2026 As a reminder, the Finzer site that LACE was gifted on our behalf is now in the possession of REBOUND who will gift the property to the Smoketown Community Land Trust (SCLT). We have spent the last year exploring a partnership with the SCLT and a few months ago learned the SCLT…
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What is an LCA?
Read more: What is an LCA?Why is Louisville Community Grocery set up as an LCA? An LCA is a Limited Cooperative Association. This is a specific legal structure that combines features of a traditional corporation and a cooperative. For this particular community-owned business, it defines the following operational and ownership rules: