More Town Hall Meetings
May 30th at the Doylestown Library and June 20th at the Warrington Township Building. Learn more...
Featured Producer
Chris Darrah originally started foraging mushrooms over 20 years ago. Through Mainly Mushrooms, he now provides wild-foraged and other locally-grown mushrooms to more than 15 restaurants in the Bucks County area and to frequenters of the Doylestown Farmers market. His foraging knowledge was passed to him from an aging antiques dealer and forager who shared [...]
Become a Member
Top Five Reasons to Join the Doylestown Food Co-op 1. You want convenient access to locally produced, fresh food. 2. You want to see farming and open space preserved in Bucks County. 3. You want a say in what products your store offers and how it is run. 4. You want your food dollars [...]
How to Get Involved
There are so many ways to get involved to help make our store a reality. You can become a member! You can fill out our survey. You can also join us in our efforts by contributing your time and talents to one of our exciting and fun committees, or just help out with an event [...]
Who we are & Where we’re going
We are your friends and neighbors. We care about local agriculture and our community. We want to see the continued growth of a thriving food culture here in Doylestown. We began in September of 2009 when a group of local residents formed a Food Club 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. With such strong community interest we very quickly outgrew this model and 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 to locally raised and produced foods. We’ve come a long way since January 2010, when we first dived into completing the myriad details of cooperative business set-up. We launched...
Co-op Membership News
Local Live!
The Doylestown Food Co-op threw a party at Puck on April 1st – and everybody came! The 1st Local Live event was a coming together of co-op members, friends, family, and area residents to celebrate local music and local food while raising funds for the establishment of a food co-op in Doylestown. And what a celebration it was. The range of music was incredible, as the participating musicians offered styles to suit all tastes. Faith & Practice kicked it off with a great set of folk,...
Member Benefits!
In fulfilling our core value of working together within our community, our ‘eco-system’ as we like to call it, the co-op aims to build lasting interdependent relationships and generously give back to our community (read more in our Mission and Values). As with any other eco-system, our community provides resources that the co-op needs to grow. An increasing number of like-minded businesses have agreed to offer support for the Doylestown Food Co-op and its members either in the form...
How To Get Involved
There are so many ways to get involved to help make our store a reality. You can become a member! You can fill out our survey. You can also join us in our efforts by contributing your time and talents to one of our exciting and fun committees, or just help out with an event or two. “Talk up” your co-op. Donate money, so many opportunities. To become a member and help us come one step closer to securing our location, visit our Member Application page. To make a generous monetary...
Become a Member Today!
Have you noticed the growing number of people with an interest in nourishing themselves, their families, and their communities with healthful foods which have traveled the shortest distance possible? Well, you are not alone. Join us NOW to help make the dream a reality. We need local families who share our vision to become members in order to secure a location and open our doors. By joining now, you become an owner and founder of this legacy. Our store • Our products • Our community Why? To...