Sugar Beet Food Co-Op

About

Open to all! Daily 7am-9pm. We are a full-service, community-owned grocery store in Oak Park committed to local, organic & sustainable products.

Story

Our Mission: Sugar Beet Food Co-op strives to provide high quality, locally sourced food produced in ecologically sound ways. Anyone can shop and everyone can join. Sugar Beet Food Co-op serves as a neighborhood gathering place for sharing and learning, which in turn supports our regional food shed.

The vision of Sugar Beet Food Co-op is to nurture our diverse community through the practice of cooperative economics and through educational programming honoring a more sustainable relationship between the foods we eat and the world we live in.

Our Values:

Economy: Grow our community owned business whose success stimulates cooperative activity.

Localism: Ensure our community has access to a marketplace with healthy, safe, and local goods that have a positive environmental and social impact.

Wellness: Provide our community with direct access to solutions that contribute to heath and wellness.

Education: Create opportunities for our diverse community to learn about cooperative economics and the interconnectivity between healthful foods, environmental stewardship, and social responsibility.

Community: Nurture ecologically regenerative and socially just community development efforts that reach beyond our community and our generation.

Model Workplace: Develop a model workplace that demonstrates a professional culture of mutual support and open communication, based on the balance of personal and organizational needs.