Wednesday 1 October 2008

Tottenham Food Coop


A non-profit food market based on volunteer labour and sustainable food:-* organic dry goods like beans, rice, couscous, flour and dried fruit at wholesale prices* a place to buy and sell fruit and veg from your garden or allotment* good value fresh organic fruit and veg from farm suppliers close to London (cut those food miles !)* fair trade organic tea supplied by Indian farmers through a non-profit importer called 'Just Change'* fair trade organic Palestinian olive oil from the Zaytoun coop
Come to the Tottenham Food Coop’s next sales day on Saturday 1st Novemeber, 12 noon till 3pm at Broadwater Farm Community Centre, Adams Road, N.17.
Please bring your own bags. Our policy is to minimise packing materials.
Can I sell too ?
Yes please! Let’s have those home grown apples, courgettes, tomatoes, pumpkins, home made jam, cakes, pickles. You can sell for charities or make a bit of money.
Contact details below.
How to get there
The Community Centre is at the end of Adams Road, next to Lordship Recreation Ground. Enter the park from Lordship Lane; follow path along the left (east) side of the park and turn left towards the estate; the centre is the first building. W4 or 123 bus from Tottenham High Road, Bruce Grove or Wood Green/Turnpike Lane. W4 goes along the edge of the Broadwater Farm estate. From west Haringey, take W3 or 144 along Lordship Lane.
Who’s running the coop ?Tottenham Food Coop is a Back to Earth Project in partnership with Sustainable Haringey and Broadwater Farm Community CentreA few volunteers (connected to ‘Sustainable Haringey’) started it off in July. We need more people to help with sales and ordering.
Could you sometimes give an hour or two especially on a Saturday, to make sure we keep going and expand to weekly sales?Get involved in the coop and help develop its plans
Food coop contactsE-mail http://uk.mc866.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=tottenhamfoodcoop@yahoo.co.uk. Information about the coop will regularly be put on the internet as things develop at the Sustainable Haringey web site - google Sustainable Haringey if you don't already know it (then click ‘food’ under ‘working groups’ on left of page, then ‘Tottenham Food Coop’).Phone: Anne Gray on 07791 904375 (but not Oct 3 to 16) or Shelly Fennell 0208 444 4500

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