Somerville Yogurt

[aurewl.livejournal.com]

Where is the best yogurt on the planet made? Somerville, of course!

The Somerville Yogurt Making Cooperative (based in Davis Square) is looking for new members.  Get a weekly quart of the most thick, creamy, rich and tart yogurt in the world, made from whole or nonfat milk from a local dairy. Membership in the coop costs $2.50 per quart. Members rotate responsibility for weekly yogurt-making in our kitchen located just outside of Davis Sq. in FirstChurch.  No previous yogurt making experience is necessary.

For more information checkout.
https://sites.google.com/site/somervilleyogurtcoop/home

Comments

[purgatori84.livejournal.com]

Do you accept members on a rolling basis? I'd love to join but I'm moving September 1 and I don't want to make a commitment until I'm a bit settled in.

[aurewl.livejournal.com]

You can join any time and the commitment is 6 months. Occasionally we reach capacity and there is a wait list but if you know you want to start say, mid-September, you could sign up now to reserve a spot with that as your start date.

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

I may well be interested in this. Do members have any responsibilities other than the two actual yogurt-making sessions they're expected to work?

[aurewl.livejournal.com]

Since the coop is run by its members there are jobs that need to be done by members outside of yogurt-making to keep things running. So examples are ordering the milk, handling the finances, keeping track of the jars, cleaning out the incubators, stuff like that. However, people only do that stuff if they volunteer. It's not a good situation if none of the members want to do any of it but fortunately we always have enough people willing to put in the extra time for a while to keep things working.

Besides making yogurt there's also the weekly pick-up of yogurt and drop off of your empty yogurt jars to the church. Everyone has labeled mason jars and is responsible for returning them for more yogurt (if an empty jar with your name on it is not there then no yogurt is made for you). But that's not really a big chore if you are already visiting the church to pick up your yogurt anyway.