$15 for $50 worth!! The power of bulk buying.
Bountiful Baskets Food Co-op is a group buy using the power of bulk purchasing to get great prices on produce and other goods from wholesalers. This group operates in the southwest states and was recently expanded to include Las Vegas. Produce is delivered twice monthly and the reception was so great, you can expect new locations next time around and the option for an organic basket for $10 more. What a fantastic new food option for us all in southern Nevada!
I attended the very first Bountiful Baskets Event this morning and it was amazing. There were many volunteers, dozens of boxes of fresh, colorful produce and within minutes it was all sorted out into hundreds of beautiful and for only $15, extremely bountiful baskets. There were freebies for the volunteers and lots of friendly faces, even at 8 am on Saturday morning.
This is how it works:
You place your order on the Bountiful Baskets Food Co-op website and select your location.
You pay and print out your reciept.
The next Saturday morning the goods are delivered 6 am, volunteers arrive by 7 am and sort the produce into individual baskets before 8 am when the people who ordered arrive to pick up thier baskets.
Simple and a great way to get out chat and meet people in this little-big town of ours.
There were about 50 people at any given time chatting while waiting for fantastic fresh produce.
This was so popular there will definitely be an organic option in the future.
Check your local resources and chances are there are co-ops and group buying clubs near you waiting to save you a penny or two.
Thanks for the info! I can’t wait to check it out. Have you been to any of the farmer’s markets in town? I grew up here & have yet to venture to one.
Yes, there are quite a few and some are worth going to. The new one on Dean Martin and Eldorado (Molto Farmers Market) Thursday 11-1 is fantastic. Mostly Nevada local, lots of organic and huge variety. The Summerlin market at Bruce Trent Park and the Downtown Henderson are fairly large but they both have more crafters than food.
woah – I see myself in those pictures at the Bountiful Baskets pickup!
I love Bountiful Baskets and am so glad it came to Nevada.
I found your blog while doing some searching to see if anybody had anything to say (good or bad) about another food co-op that is starting. http://www.lasvegasfoodcoop.com/
It’s more expensive than BB, but it’s closer to my house and the pickup window extends into later in the day, so I might give it a try.
Besides seeing myself in the pictures I’m also excited to see a blog by somebody else interested in food co-ops and the such here in LV. We are somewhat new to the area (been here a year now) and have found this town to be pretty lacking in the healthy living lifestyle. I know they are around, but it seems like they are few and far!
I have seen this one. It doesn’t look as good with all the processed food they are selling and no organic option, as of yet.
Keep in touch. I have plans for a real food co-op here in town, a storefront food co-op, and we will need volunteer labor to get it started.
Theorganicsister.com is a friend of mine and although she recenltly left Las Vegas, all her blog archives are on sustainability and gardening in this big city. Check it out.
Hi, I am the director of the Las Vegas Food Co-op you were just mentioning. Its great what you’re doing. However, if you look at what we’re trying to do you’ll see that we have a completely different mission than you do. We are actually a non-profit, Verve Foundation, who started the co-op because people here in Vegas are starving when they can’t get food stamps. So, we work with 2 distributors to get fresh meats and produce. It’s not processed. Although, if you’re vegan, you don’t care about the meat. Things such as cereal and nutrigrain bars are for moms who are busy and want to give a nice snack to their kids but don’t want to pay grocery store prices for it. If a parent wants their kid to have corn dog, that’s there perogative. We just want to provide affordability in this economy. Personally, I eat organic. But those that struggle can’t afford it, even at a discount. We’re doing what we can to help.
P.S. We also provide pre-ordering so you can get exactly how much you need. The amount you want to order is unlimited with our suppliers.
Thanks for the information.
Would love bountiful baskets to come to Winnemucca, Nevad. How do I get it started there?
Generally the process starts with you attending 3 bountiful baskets and mentoring to learn what the coordinator does before opening the new site. The website links to a facebook page where you can contact the organizers of BB and I also emailed the local contact person with your email address. Hopefully she will contact you soon. Anyone can start up a new location by volunteering three BB in a row
Wow, I must join this event! Thanks for the info!
I am hired each year to come to Vegas and prepare food during the World Series of Poker. I have been finding low quality and very very high prices on Organic produce. Where are you? How often can I pick up food. Is there any delivery options? I am so happy to see what you are doing. May you be blessed 100 times for your efforts.
Sassy
Check out the farmers markets. There are two new ones worth checking out. Thursday from 11-1 on Dean Martin Dr south of Warm Springs is the indoor Molto Vegas Market.
Sunday mornings On Silverado Ranch Blvd near Spencer.
localharvest.com lists several more and nearby farms. click on vegas to zoom in on the map rather than search.
bountiful baskets is a weekly group buy. you can get in on the website bountifulbaskets.org and pick up ata location near you. I do not organize this event.
http://starpas.azcc.gov/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=wsbroker1/names-detail.p?name-id=15466984&type=CORPORATION
Bountiful Baskets Inc. Not a business. Not making any money from any of this.
Same address as Kodiak Fresh Produce, who delivers all the produce for Bountiful Baskets in the Phoenix area.
Same Statutory Agent as the lawyer who represents Kodiak Fresh Produce.
Sally.. used to be a child birth educator. Used to be a doula. Was studying to become a midwife.
Lives in a rather large house in Gilbert. Drives a Mazda 6. Stays at home and doesn’t have a job anymore, except running Bountiful Baskets. I wonder where the money comes from? Something in the basket is not fresh. I wonder how long this post will stay up?
Thanks Disenchanted for the info. It was exactly what I was looking for. The ladies need to come clean. They don’t respond to emails, they don’t have voice mail on their phone, and they haven’t reimbursed me my money. Their produce they supply is less than stellar. I find better at Sprouts. It may cost more, but I know Sprouts is above board and I can pick my own. Looks like a call into the corp com is in order.
Come clean? The closest you will get to them coming clean is them claiming that they were paid consultants for Kodiak Fresh Produce. But how do you trust someone who lied about something like this for four years? I mean, they went on camera talking about how they felt bad about taking a free basket of produce.
They take money every time a new member ‘joins’ for ‘baskets’. How much does the cheapest plastic basket you can buy actually cost?
They take money every time someone uses a credit card. With 100,000 people buying produce from them every month or more.. how much does that add up to, even after they pay their monthly credit card fees.
Plus a handy percentage of every produce order they get from Kodiak Fresh Produce.
You can’t come clean about something that dirty.
Can you tell me are there any farmer markets, or Co-ops in NW area? Near Decatur and Ann.
If you check LocalHarvest.com and click to zoom in on the map, it will show all the markets in town and lots of nearby farms.
The closest to you may be in Summerlin at Bruce Trent Park Wednesday afternoons.
Is Bountiful Baskets Food Co-op still in Las Vegas? I look in their website but coulnd’t find any information. Thanks
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I believe so. The website has changed, but there are more locations through the valley than ever.
There are only certain times you can order and if they are sold out already Las Vegas is not an option. I think Tuesday morning is when the baskets go live and within a few hours that morning they sell out.
Nothing right now.
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