How to Find & Join a Food Buying Club (or Start One of Your Own)
Monday, August 4, 2014 at 08:49AM
Nathalie Ryan

Part 3 of 3 on Food Buying Clubs

Today I'm going to show you how to find, join or start a food buying club. So let's get started.

How do you find a food buying club or others who are interested in starting or joining one?

When you find other people who are interested in creating or being part of a food buying club, what should you do next?

First and foremost, hold a meeting that all interested people can attend. At this first meeting:

Get lots of help!

Don't try to shoulder all the responsibility yourself. If it's really going to happen that way, you may as well just sell memberships and let the others in the club simply place their orders, pay the money for their order, and pick up their individual order when it's ready to be brought home. If that's what you want, that's okay. But if you want lots of help, then don't be afraid to ask for and expect it.

I hope this post--and the other two posts on food buying clubs--has been helpful to you. I've only scratched the surface here on Whole Food Sourcing, so for more information about food buying clubs, check out the following links:

Start a Buying Club
Co-op Directory Service
United Buying Clubs.com
Annie's Buying Club
Crown O' Maine Organic Co-operative
Ontario Natural Food Co-op

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