Welcome to the
Fawkner Wholefoods Collective. Simply place your order and collect your produce from the
Fawkner Bowls Club - 2 Creedon St, Fawkner, every 3rd Sunday of the month. You will need to bring your own containers to collect the produce.
Next distro day: Sunday 15 December
Our Collective is run entirely on volunteer power. By buying in bulk we can access wholesale prices on quality, local, pesticide-free produce. Because we have minimal overheads we can sell those products at a great price.
But to keep it working, we need our customers to help. We need two people, once a month, for an hour, to help the committee run the distribution days. One person collects bread from Brunswick East and brings it to Fawkner; one person helps out on site from 11am-12pm to pack up.
If you're ordering this month,
let us know which one of those you can help with.
Pick-up times: You can now collect your order between 9am-11am. We start packing up at 11am, so you need to arrive in time to complete your order before then. If you come later, we'll only be able to fill your order if you can stick around to make the pack-up quicker!
Nimbus Oat Milk Powder: the newest addition to our shop is a delicious plant milk powder that comes with flavour and convenience but without the water!
Small price increase: From November 2024 we've made a very small increase to our prices of 2%. Most of our products are still available at well under their retail cost. Because we buy in bulk we can pass those savings on to you, but our producers - and our Collective - are experiencing increasing costs just like everyone else. This small increase will help us keep the Collective operating for longer.
Coffee: we need to put our coffee order in on the Monday morning before the shop closes. So to guarantee your coffee order PLEASE try to get it in no later than Sunday night! Remember you can order more than once, so you can still order the rest of the items you're after before the shop closes Wednesday at 5pm.
Eggs: Please check when you're ordering eggs whether you're buying ONE dozen (12 eggs) or HALF dozen (6 eggs)
Ordering
You can pre-order more than once in the same order cycle! You can order pantry products at the distro day, whether you've pre-ordered or not. You'll need your Open Food Network login and credit card details to shop using one of our devices, or use your phone if you have that info stored there.
Home Delivery
If you want to order but know you won't be able to collect on the day, select Home Delivery (for Fawkner residents only). As long as you drop containers off to us before the distro day we can deliver your order for a $5 fee. If you select home delivery and don't hear from us before Saturday, send us an email to get the address for dropping off containers
We're a Collective - get involved!
The great thing about shopping with a small Collective like ours is that you can get involved with how we do things and help make it better. We could use people to help with sending emails and other comms; a bit of business planning; ordering products once a month; and sharing ideas and talking to other similar organisations.
Get in touch at fawknerwholefoodscollective@gmail.com to let us know what interests and skills you'd like to share!
2025 dates:
No date in January (but we're running earlier than usual in February!)
Sunday 9 February
Sunday 16 March
Sunday 13 April
Sunday 18 May
Sunday 15 June
Visit our website at www.fawknerwholefoodscollective.com.au for more information about our collection days and producers and to sign up for our monthly newsletter.