Editor’s note: This is Neighborhood Explorer, a series in which culture correspondent James Salazar highlights the people and places that make their pockets of San Francisco unique.

In this entry, he stops by the Outer Sunset. Read his first and second dispatches from the neighborhood, and follow the entire series here.

Employees at Other Avenues, San Francisco’s oldest grocery cooperative, share a collective love for food, as well as a deep appreciation for the longstanding business and the community it serves.

Established in 1974 before officially opening its doors on Judah Street on Jan. 1, 1975 , the Outer Sunset business has sold organic, sustainable and fairly traded products from farmers, grocery co-ops and vendors throughout the state for decades.

Eighteen full-time wo

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