| About Bountiful Baskets Co-op
A Co-op is a group of people who work together for mutual benefit. We are up front and open about how things work. Our policies are as follows:
Bountiful Baskets Food Co-op serves the Phoenix Metro Area, and will soon serve the Yuma area. We run every two weeks at each site. We are completely volunteer-run and make no profit. We have the following distribution sites and look forward to adding other distribution sites soon!
East Valley
- 48th Street & E Elliot (Western Star Park)
- 101 & Guadalupe (Carriage Lane Park)
- Alma School & Ocotillo (A Home Site)
- Casa Grande
- Coolidge (San Carlos Park)
- Cooper & Riggs (Chander's La Paloma Park)
- Crismon & Broadway (Mesa's Skyline Park)
- Lindsay & Guadalupe (Gilbert's Freestone Park)
- Greenfield & McKellips (Mesa's Gene Autry Park)
- Gilbert & McKellips (Mesa's Chaparral Park)
- Higley & Chandler Heights (Seville)
- Horne & Southern (Mesa's Sherwood Park)
- Hunt Hwy & Copper Mine Road (Copper Basin)
- Hunt Hwy & Gary (San Tan Heights)
- Hunt Hwy & Johnson Ranch (Johnson Ranch)
- Ironwood & Ocotillo (Pecan Creek)
- Lindsay & Ray (Lindsay Ranch)
- Pima Butte Elementary (Maricopa)
- Power & Queen Creek Roads (Power Ranch)
- Power & Ryan (Cortina)
- Ray & I-10 (Phoenix's Mountain Vista Park)
- Recker & Ray (The Gardens Park)
- Stagestop Marketplace (Maricopa)
- Val Vista & Williamsfield (Ashland Ranch Park)
West Valley
- I17 & 7th St. (Warehouse Site)
- 35th Avenue & Cactus (Cactus Park)
- 107th & Williams
- Anthem West (Anthem West Park)
- Bell & Cave Creek (Grovers Park)
- Bullard & Tierra Buena (Surprise Community Park)
- Circle City (Wittmann)
- Cottonwood
- Lichfield & Peoria (Surprise)
- New River
This is a Co-op
This is a grass roots, all volunteer, no contracts, no catch co-operative. Therefore, you are expected to help. If you have limitations due to physical ability, childcare arrangements, etc., we understand. However, without volunteers this co-op wouldn't happen. There are many opportunities to participate!
Reasons to Participate
- This is a great deal and you are helping others get a great deal, too. With the conventional produce offering, you get approximately $50 worth of grocery store-quality produce.
- This co-op encourages a healthier lifestyle.
- You meet great people!
How the Co-op works
As a group, we purchase items at deep discount or wholesale prices. Items are then distributed evenly among participants. Some details:
- Use this website to make monetary contributions toward the pools used to purchase product(s)
- Contribute the amount required for each item desired by the deadline(s) listed (see Contribution Timeline table on the homepage)
- Additional details specific to the item(s) purchased are sent via email
- For produce baskets, we purchase from a warehouse that supplies produce to many local restaurants and grocery stores. This is the same produce you would get from a restaurant or store.
Basket contents
We get a variety of high-quality seasonal produce.  We balance variety with seasonality in order to get the most appealing and cost-effective basket possible.
Other Offerings
For natural beef, we purchase grass fed and finished cows from a local ranchers and get excellent quality beef for a fraction of comparable store price. For dry goods, we purchase from wholesalers on the West Coast. These same wholesalers supply many natural food markets in the Phoenix area and around the country.
Items Not Picked Up Will Be Donated
As a COURTESY, abandoned produce and/or perishables items (bread, fruit by the case, etc.) generally are at the Site Manager's home until twelve NOON the same Saturday and then donated. Until noon, items will be left unattended on the front porch. If produce baskets and/or items are stolen from in front of a home we are NOT LIABLE. Also, the produce quality does suffer greatly sitting on a front porch, especially during summertime. After the noon hour, absolutely all remaining produce/perishable items will be donated to a local fire house.
Abandoned cheese will be donated immediately after the Site pickup time.
Non-perishable items will be available at the following two co-ops. If non-perishable items are not picked up within two co-op cycles, they will be donated to a local fire house.
Pickups
Each site has a 15 minute pickup window. Please see the "Pickup Times" table on the homepage for site pickup times. Bring a container to take your produce home in! Laundry baskets, coolers, grocery bags, and boxes work great. Perishable items that are not picked up are donated!
Site Changes
Due to our size, we can no longer accomodate site changes of "other offers." Please plan on picking up your offerings (baskets, grains, dry goods, etc.) at the site where it was ordered.
Volunteering
Volunteers should be at co-op one (1) hour before distribution. Volunteers will receive 1 or 2 extra produce items for helping.
"Extra" produce
"Extras" are are those items that will not distribute to the whole co-op one more time (if there are 40 bags of carrots in a case and only 36 baskets, 4 bags of carrots would be "extra.") Extras of like value will be combined and distributed together. For instance, if in the example above there were 32 extra celery bunches then the extra celery and extra carrots would be combined and people would get either extra carrots or extra celery.
If extras don't combine well, they will be left for volunteers to take. Once volunteers have taken them, then other co-op participants make take the rest. The methodology will be to spread the benefit to as many co-op participants as possible to keep things fair, with volunteers getting 1 or 2 additional items for volunteering.
Delivery Fee
There is a $1.50 Delivery Fee for each separate transaction. This fee applies to all transactions, even those made within the same co-op cycle. Please note: we are unable to add items to a processed transaction.
Returns
There are no returns. This is a co-op. We group together monetary contributions, purchase in the largest available package, and break it down to individual shares. There is no way for us to return 1/12th of 15 cases of vegetables, etc. Your money has been spent as we were directed to spend it and we can not return it.
Weights & Measures
The co-op is volunteer-run and many items are divided up by volunteers. The best effort is made to ensure accuracy, however weights and measures are not guaranteed accurate.
Open Containers
Many products are distributed in non-factory sealed containers. |