Shopping at food cooperatives
Posted by kathryn in Ethics & Sustainablity
In today’s SMH there’s an article on one of my favourite local food stores – Alfalfa House in Enmore. Started 25 years ago, this food cooperative continues to provide minimally packaged, minimally processed, organic wholefoods at a reasonable price.
Much of their stock is purchased in bulk, so you take along your own containers, fill them up and then pay by weight of volume. They sell a wonderful five-grain porridge, gorgeous dried apricots and one of the best olive oils I’ve tasted so far. Alfalfa House also has a small range of organic fruit and veg.
For more information, read the article in the Herald, or take a look at the Alfalfa House website.
28 August, 2007
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I lived in Newtown and surrounds for years as an art student (and beyond) and loved Alfalfa House, much more so even than one of the first Macro Wholefoods stores which was a little further up the road on King Street near the Sydney Uni end. So pleased it’s still going strong!
Agreed, Alfalfa House is a big favourite of ours. It’s still going strong and in recent years they’ve been getting more and more members. As you’ll see from the article they’re actually turning a “profit” and trying to decide what to do with it.
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