Flame Tree Community Food Co-op Opening this Saturday!
Monday, February 22, 2010 at 08:58PM 
Food co-ops are a brilliant ways to shop while building community and supporting 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. In our travels around Australia we visited many inspiring food co-ops such as Alfalfa House in Sydney and the Friends of the Earth Co-op in Melbourne.
Exciting news for the Illawarra is that a group of wonderful, committed, co-op lovers have been busy setting up the Flame Tree Community Food Co-op – and the co-op shop is opening this Saturday the 27th Feb! The shop is located at 3/374 Lawrence Hargrave Dr in Thirroul - enter via the white metal gate 50 m east of Ryans Hotel. The co-ops sells a range of bulk and mostly organic foods, including nuts, grains, pulses, spices, teas, bread, dairy, honey, oil, flour and pasta, as well as green cleaning products. They prioritise organic, local and unpackaged food and groceries. The Co-op hopes to link with local growers and producers such as organic farmers, market gardeners and community gardeners to boost the local economy and decrease packaging and food miles.
The co-ops opening hours will be Wednesday 2pm-6pm, Thursday 2pm - 6pm, Friday 2pm-6pm and Saturday 10am-4pm. By becoming a member of the food co-op you can receive a 10% discount – we’re signed up already! If you volunteer at the co-op for 8 hours a month you can receive a permanent 25% discount, or you can get a one-off 25% discount for every 2 hours volunteered. To find out more about this wonderful co-op visit http://www.flametreecoop.org.au. We wish the co-op crew all the best for a brilliant opening day!
Reader Comments (4)
how brilliant! glad to see this kind of initiative in the gong. :) cant wait to check it out later in the year!
Yum! I got the best dried banana there
So did we Cath ... great tasty treats!
HI ... thanks for the huge effort in getting this up and running - I havent called in yet but just looked you up and low and behold a beautifully made web site and info.I am really impressed - I went to the CO op in Bega recently and its a hub for the community - as well as affordable whole food and organics.
Cant wait and if I can help I would love too.
Heather Carey