So I run a Bountiful Baskets site at Well Rounded Momma. Bountiful Baskets is a volunteer based co-op offering conventional and organic produce at a co-op or wholesale pricing. So far I've been fairly please with my baskets. Some weeks more pleased than others. I highly recommend people get on board! there are sites all over the vegas valley now (still none in henderson proper due to henderson's parks and rec rules about reservations, but we do get close) so there is bound to be one close to you. Here is their info from their site, www.bountifulbaskets.org :
About Bountiful Baskets Co-op
Bountiful Baskets is not a business. It is a group of people who work together for mutual benefit. We are up front and open about how things work.
Bountiful Baskets Food Co-op is constantly growing to reach new areas as volunteers want to have a co-op site close to their home. They train with an existing Volunteer Site Coordinator and request a site to be added. We run at least 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 as volunteers are trained and ready to open them! Please see our locations page for a complete listing of current sites.
This is a Co-op
This is a grass roots, all volunteer, no contracts, no catch co-operative. Without volunteers this co-op wouldn’t happen, so you will need to help as you are able. 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 discounts. Items are then distributed evenly among participants. Some details:
- Use this website to make monetary contributions toward the pools of money used to purchase product(s)
- Contribute the amount required for participation in each pool by the deadline(s) listed (see Contribution Timeline table on the homepage)
- Additional details about products are available at Current Offerings
- 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. We also choose to use local produce first when available, then regional produce (California, Utah, Colorado, Northern Mexico!)
Pickups
Each site has a 20 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!
Items Not Picked Up during the 20 minute pick up window Will Be Donated to a local fire station.
We are unable to hold perishable items. Please arrive on-time!
Contribution Changes
We can not make changes to any finalized contribution. Once you have put your credit card information into the website and clicked “submit” it’s not changeable.
Volunteering
Volunteers should be at co-op at the time listed on the LOCATIONS page
Case End & Volunteer Produce
Case ends 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 case ends) Case ends of like value will be combined and distributed together. For instance, if in the example above there were 32 case end celery bunches then the case ends of celery and case ends of carrots would be combined and people would get either case ends of carrots or case ends of celery.
The methodology will be to treat case ends in such a way that they are distributed as fairly as humanly possible, with volunteers getting 1 large/expensive case end item or 2 small/inexpensive case end items for volunteering. For example someone could get 1 pineapple, or 2 apples. Also, note that if there is a bagged item, then bag should be opened and the items contained should be distributed individually.
Fees
- There is a $1.50 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.
- There is a $3.00 First Time Basket fee for new participants. This need only be applied with the first basket(s) contributed for; it does not apply when selecting a new or different pickup site.
