What is the Dublin Food Co-op?

Dublin Food Co-op was set up to provide organic food and other products to its owner-members. We were established in 1983 by a group of friends who found buying in bulk made financial sense.

We run a weekly food market on Saturdays, where stalls provide fresh local and artisan produce, mainly organic, and other products for sustainable living. The Co-op sells its own wide range of organic dry foods and other processed organic products.

Dublin Food Co-op is an alternative to commercial profit-oriented business. Surplus funds are used to benefit the members Co-op and to reduce prices.

Our aims

• To provide wholesome, nutritious food and ecologically acceptable products and services to its members, who will be the ultimate consumers (end-consumer), in accordance with the following principles: deal in organically grown food which is Irish-produced where possible
• discriminate in favor of ecologically acceptable products and not to deal in meat or meat products
• promote the rational use of the earth's resources and in particular to promote the use of ecologically acceptable packaging
• discriminate positively in favor of countries which uphold basic human rights, when importing wholefoods
• supply wholefoods to its members at the wholesale or supplier cost plus the minimum margin necessary to cover the Society's operating expenses and the need for financial reserves
• aim to make shopping a convivial, community experience
promote co-operation and co-operatives
• promote consumer food co-operatives as an important means of building a locally integrated organic food economy
• encourage the use of the Irish language in social and economic relationships and to promote Irish culture where possible

Membership

To join the Co-op fill in your details on a form available at the reception area and pay the appropriate subscription. Members who join the Help Rota get a discount. These members contribute 2 hours work running the Co-op about every 7 weeks. Members who are not on the Help Rota pay the prices shown on the Co-op's list