LAEV Food Coop

LAEV Food Co-op Wiki Page

This is the official web presence of the forming LAEV food co-op. Please look here for information, resources, meetings, and web sign-up for work-shifts.

About Us

The LAEV food co-op, also known as the Food Lobby, is an emerging food cooperative and food buyers club located in Koreatown at the Los Angeles Ecovillage, near 1st st and Vermont Ave, at 117 Bimini Pl. Our current structure is fairly simple: We buy fresh produce in bulk from local organic farms (much of our produce is organically raised but not certified organic). Once a week on Sundays the food is delivered to the LAEV, and a few of our members (we rotate) get together to distribute the produce into individual boxes. The boxes are then made available for pickup anytime after 4 PM on Sunday. We have no pay-for-membership members; all our members are asked to work one 1.5 to 2 hour shift once a month. More Food Coop Specifics

Want to Join?

If you’ve checked out the info on this page, are ready to join in the veggie fun and need some help getting started, please email Ann at <albatros@tentacle.net> or call 323-632-8916.

Bulk Buy Info

We are working with the NELA food co-op to buy in bulk from Azure Standard. Our next order will be in February or March. Everyone who participates will be required to contribute by completing a task. We will post info about how to sign up for the order on the grocery bulk buy page. To see what we got last time check out previous orders.

Work Shifts

One definition of a Cooperative is one in which each member contributes equally to make the work get done. To be a part of this co-op, and to allow us to operate with such little overhead costs, each member needs to work one 1.5 - 2 hour shift every 4 weeks in which they buy into the co-op for any amount.

To view a list of various workshifts available, check out Workshift List. There are now several workshifts available if you can’t work on Sunday afternoons.

If you are coordinating a Sunday Shift, look at the Food Coop Coordinator Instructions.

Communications

Our primary mode of communication will be digital. We have connected an LAEV public computer for those who need web access, both for this project and others. Along with this web site, we have a mailing list to which members should subscribe. Request to join the google group "LAEV-food-coop" at google groups for more info.

Meetings

We’re meeting every month or so these days. The next meeting will be Sunday August 10th in the courtyard or 201 at 4pm at LAEV. Here is the current Food Coop Meeting Agenda; you can also find notes from previous meetings. Please feel free to add any agenda items, signed with your name.

Resources

• LAEV Food Coop Recipes: people have started sharing recipes that use the produce we get collectively. Add your suggestions for cooking things or check out what others are doing with them.

Feedback

Please leave use comments, suggestions, requests to donate time, space, or money, etc on the Food Coop Comments Page, or post to the listserv.