Building Community Wellness in Moab, Utah
Moonflower Community Cooperative serves as a hub for the exchange of ideas and fosters community health and prosperity through a culture of inclusion and collaboration.
Our programs are built on a vision of nurturing healthy minds, bodies, and spirits in harmony with nature. Our investment in the community helps us to achieve our mission and support our vision.
Learn About Our Community Resources
We cultivate community collaboration through regular programming and accessible resources
Free Community Education
Every month, Moonflower hosts free community classes facilitated by local experts and practitioners. Our instructors teach classes on herbalism, emotional health, permaculture, sustainable living, composting, healthy cooking, fermentation, and much more! We provide fair compensation to our instructors and provide local, organic ingredients for our cooking classes. Interested in teaching a class? Contact us at outreach@moonflower.coop.
Holistic Healthcare Practitioners Guide
Our Holistic Healthcare Practitioners Guide connects local practitioners to the broader Moab community and supports their practices by providing them with opportunities to teach free community classes at the co-op. Practitioners specialize in acupuncture, Chinese medicine, herbalism, bodywork, mental health counseling, and more! To be included in the next edition of the Guide (updated semi-annually), please fill out this form.
Partner with Moonflower Co-op
Learn how Moonflower Co-op can support your organization
5% Days
Every second Tuesday of the month, Moonflower donates 5% of the day’s proceeds to a local non-profit organization with a like-minded mission benefiting our community.
In-Kind Donations
Moonflower donates thousands of dollars every year to support local organizations which align with our mission and vision. Donations can include gift certificates, raffle prizes, in-kind donations, event sponsorships, and more.
Round Up at the Register Program
For a two-week period, once each quarter, we offer the opportunity for owners and customers to “round up” their purchases to the next whole dollar, to raise funds for a local non-profit’s project or special purchase.
Seeds to Start Grant Program
This program funds high-impact community projects focused on expanding community food security, promoting environmental justice, and/or directly benefitting underrepresented communities in need.
Moab ArtWalk
Moonflower Co-op participates in the Moab ArtWalk on first Fridays each quarter. During the ArtWalk event, the featured artist is present in the store, and the co-op offers light refreshments.
Local Art Shows in the Datura Deli
Moonflower Co-op is looking for more local artists to feature in our Datura Deli community space beginning October 2024. If you are interested in displaying your art, please email outreach@moonflower.coop.
Current Artist on Display
April 2024: Andy Savarese
I’ve been painting southern Utah since arriving on the Navajo Reservation to work at Monument Valley Hospital in the winter of ’94. While there I made many friends among the Navajo who would invite me along on expeditions to very remote and seldom seen areas. This fed my love and appreciation for southeastern Utah, its people, and its unspoiled beauty. After the hospital in Monument Valley closed I lived in Bluff for half a decade before moving to Moab.
I’ve read and studied the writings of John Carlson, Harold Speed, Virgil Elliott, and many, many, other oil painting authorities and teachers. Though I’ve studied the principles and techniques, which oil painters should study, understand and employ so as to ever hope to create a thing worthy of your attention, mastery continues to elude me. Somehow in the process of putting paint to canvas I inevitably forget all the tenets of composition, color theory, principles of visual reality, techniques of the Old Masters and on and on. It seems I am innately programmed by some quirk of genetic happenstance to stubbornly revert to what it is I do and you witness here.
My artistic idols are John Singer Sargent, Andres Zorn, Josh Elliott, Glenn Dean, Antonio Savarese, and others whom I would not even dare to mention in a bio about myself. My inspiration is everything I see and experience and have seen and experienced for more than half a century. Further inspiration is drawn
from my wife and 3 artist children, whom I continue to learn from, and who endure endless volumes of linseed oil, the noxious smell of turpentine and the use of our dining room table for various framing and other artistic misadventures.