Would you like to help your co-op community and get to know other members, all while making your shopping more affordable? Volunteering at the Co-op allows you to do just that. As an organisation Dublin Food Co-op has always relied on our members (and especially our volunteers) to be the backbone of our community. Inspired …
Important updates about opening times and operational info for Co-op members and customers in 2022 from our CB Chair, Maureen O’Donnell.
Are you interested in who takes our café space in Kilmainham? Are you interested in operating from this space? Know someone who might be?
Already an active member of the Co-op, you may have met Marina at one of our MAC meetings or on a farm visit. We wanted to get to know her a little better, and what motivates her to be part of Dublin Food Co-op’s community.
Our Co-op is looking into some big changes and it was therefore a good time to get together to try and lay out our plans for the coming 12 months.
The session was a welcoming chance to brainstorm and bounce ideas off each other to produce a strategy for the CB to use in the work we will engage with over the coming 12 months.
A core purpose of our co-operative It is our mission as a co-operative to provide the most healthy, sustainable and affordable food that we can to our members and wider community. Our biggest challenge is to deliver on the affordable aspect of our mission, when sustainably and ethically produced food simply costs more to produce …
Demetra Herdes and Sanghamitra Mukherjee are UCD students aiming to establish a social enterprise aimed at reusing food waste. Their project’s goal is to process the food waste so that it can be transformed into compost in a very short time scale (2-3 weeks) without attracting rodents or insects. The process is sustainable and eco-friendly. As Dublin …
Farmers and Gardeners Needed! Compost with Chikyu Read More »
Having an open, common space where ideas can be discussed and listened to on a regular basis is something that everyone agrees on. What other better way to strengthen our community and create valuable relationships if not through collaboration and open conversations?
I lived in London for many years, where I was involved in several community food projects including a collectively-run vegetarian & vegan café and a local plant-based community kitchen. London has such a vibrant food scene and is so multicultural and so, when I finally moved back home in 2019, I really wanted to recreate …
Member Spotlight – Mary Byrne, Goodness! Kitchen Read More »
Finding the Co-op community’s voice again At the heart of our Co-op, we find a community that we, over time, all have had a part in creating and developing. Nevertheless, while the community never disappears, we have seen several challenges lately that have made it near impossible to use our trips to the shop as …
Our community reconnecting through the Members’ Affairs Committee Read More »