Nonprofit organization Materializing and Activating Radical Social Habitus (MARSH) Cooperative is launching its own storefront grocery beginning this Saturday, July 24. Measuring just over 1,000 square feet and located at 6917 S. Broadway in the Carondelet neighborhood of South City, Marsh Grocery will offer a full range of accessibly priced grocery items, including organic produce. Prepared foods and baked goods produced on site in the worker-owned and -operated kitchen will also be available.
Co-founder Beth Neff was awarded a grant for this project from America’s Healthy Food Financing Intiative in March. The grant will help pay for the infrastructure of the storefront as well as worker compensation. Marsh was one of 20 grantees selected from a nationwide pool of 250 applicants.
Marsh plans to use the grant to support “people who will democratically and collaboratively make decisions, manage the store and make the connections between the food insecurity issues in the neighborhood and what a natural food grocery can be,” Neff said. “We are really excited about the model that this represents as a substitute for the top-down, working labor environment.”
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