Formation Meeting of Illawarra Flame Tree Food Co-op!
Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 01:11PM Organic Food Co-ops are a fantastic way to build community and support organic farmers and local food producers. They’re run collectively, with an emphasis on making sustainably, ethically grown, minimally packaged whole foods available at affordable prices.
Exciting news for the Illawarra is that a small group of wonderful, committed, co-op lovers have been busy trialling orders of bulk organic staple foods, and have organised approval from Fair Trading for an official co-op to be created. Tomorrow, Monday 11th May, is the formation meeting for the ‘Flame Tree Community Food Co-op’, held at Thirroul Neighbourhood Centre, starting at 6pm. All are welcome, and attendees will be given the opportunity to vote on the rules that will govern the co-op, and elect the board of directors, secretary and treasurer who will make ongoing decisions about the running of the co-op.
On the night, you can join up to the co-op - it’s $45 to join, which covers the initial join-up cost of $25, plus the $20 annual fee to be a member, and entitles you to a year of discounted shopping from the date the co-op is open and trading.
If you can’t make it along to the foundation meeting, but would love to get involved with the co-op down the track, or have any questions about the development of the co-op, just e-mail Amanda at flametreecoop@gmail.com
Reader Comments (3)
Do you know if the coop will have a physical store/shop-front? Or will it be a home-delivery kind of thing? Or is it too early to know just yet?
Hi Darren,
The ultimate goal is to have a shop front, but how far in the future that is and what the distribution methods are in the immeditae future are TBA - I imagine the meeting would cover those issues, so we'll see! We've been part of the small group doing the trial orders, and have been going along at a set time to pick up the goods from Thirroul, but now the co-op is expanding that may change.
Cheers,
Ally and Rich
Congratulations on the start of your food co-op. We're a few steps behind you here in Eudlo with our food co-op, so interested to see how yours develops. We're doing it through the Transition Town model.
We have 70 families so far interested in being part of it, a much bigger response than what we expected! People really do want a) good food at a good price and b) to be part of their community.
Cheers,
Sonya
Transition Sunshine Coast