In 1972, a small group of people in northeast Iowa formed the Oneota Food Buying Club. They began a series of five-hour round trip drives to Minneapolis, Minn. and Iowa City, Iowa to purchase food in bulk. In 1974, the group officially formed the Oneota Community Food Co-op and moved to its first store front.
Meet our featured co-op:
Grocery.coop
Grocery.coop is NCG's consumer-facing website—a place to find out more about what's in your food, where it comes from, where to find great food, how to prepare it, and a whole lot more!
Why NCG?
NCG helps unify food co-ops in order to optimize operational and marketing resources, strengthen purchasing power, and ultimately offer more value to food co-op shoppers everywhere.