In September of 2009, a group of local residents came together to pool our time and resources to provide our families with better access to locally raised and produced foods. We organized a biweekly ordering, pick up, and distribution system to collect local goods and get them to member families, and we opened up membership to any interested family. The Doylestown Food Club grew very quickly, and it soon became clear that because of the natural limitations and volunteer requirements of the club model we were following as well as the constraints of our borrowed space, we would not be able to serve all the families interested in participating. As a result, the club closed its membership and began to maintain a waiting list, and a few of our coordinators began exploring the possibility of founding an actual brick and mortar cooperatively owned store in Doylestown. This store would be owned and governed by its members, and its primary mission would be to provide centralized and convenient access...
Over a hundred of your friends and neighbors have joined together to help us open our co-op. Will you be next? Sign up now, and your membership will bring us one family closer to opening our doors. Let’s make 2012, the International Year of the Co-op, Doylestown’s own year of the Co-op! Read More