Help Grow Alfalfa House
Alfalfa House is a not-for-profit community food co-op in Enmore, a suburb in Sydney's inner west. It began as a food buyers' group in 1981 when a group of households came to together to bulk buy basic foods so low-income households
could buy good quality food cheaply. Over the following seven years, the group evolved and finally registered as an official cooperative in late 1988. In the early 1990s the co-op moved in with Permaculture Sydney and set up small shop at its current location.
Our shop provides a place where they can purchase products that:
- Have no or minimal packaging
- Are ethically sourced
- Provide organic and or chemical-free wholefoods and fresh produce
- Have an innovative selection of tradional as well as vegan, vegetarian and gluten free items
- Recycles and reuses all delivered packaging
- Composts waste and feeds the permaculture garden
- Generates just one small bin of landfill waste a week
Our shop fittings are worn out and the traffic flow through the shop is quite crowded and less than ideal for customers, staff and volunteers alike.
Photo by Simon Leong
Help grow Alfalfa House by supporting our shop refurbishment, which will create a more efficient internal space and improved street appeal to showcase our products, farmers and food makers, ensuring our growth and enabling further innovation.
New shop window for Alfalfa House
Alfalfa House Architects vision for the inside
Why Alfalfa House must grow
“I know I am getting the tastier and best food for me. I actually spend less when shopping at Alfalfa as I only buy what I need and it has taught me to plan. I want Alfalfa to grow as it is important to me it is that it is there for the future as I believe
in what it stands for. ” - Cate, Croydon. NSW
"Alfalfa House has provided me with the opportunity to vote with my dollars, by allowing me to purchase organic, unpackaged, vegetarian foods, sold in a cooperative, owned by the community. There is almost no single daily shopping choice we can make that
makes a bigger difference in Australia, a country in which 80% of the grocery industry is owned by two mega corporations, than shopping at the co- op!" - Adam, Coogee, NSW
Our Passion
We are passionate about reducing waste to landfill, providing nutritious food, paying fair prices to farmers and producers and supporting the community. Help us continue to do this better by supporting the Grow Alfalfa House campaign.
Your donation of
$10 will get your name on the honour role of supporters.
$50 will get you a small hamper and your name on our honour role.
$100 will get you a lifetime membership with a welcome shopping containers pack and name on our honour role.
$1500 will get you a 25% discount on your shopping for a year. (Ideal for a household. On a shop of $200 a week this is a saving of $2,600 for the year).
See our rewards for other offers.
All donations help get us closer to our goal so please share our message.
Other important ways we require your support is by SPREADING THE WORD about our campaign with your family, friends and social networks.
Please share our links and updates with your family, friends, network and social media: blogs, facebook, twitter, emails:
Website: www.startsomegood.com/growalfalfa
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/alfalfahousefoodcoop
Twitter: https://twitter.com/alfalfahouse
Blog:
http://alfalfahouse.tumblr.com/
Need further information? Please email: [email protected]
