Buyers Group

Mike set up the group as a way for people like us to afford to buy whole foods. He  went to meet with some of the people involved with the Dublin food co-op and orginally conceived of Meitheal becoming a co-op. From time to time, individuals and families have been willing to contribute energy and practical help and in exchange have had their orders subsidized further.

However, for now this has been hard to sustain. Further advice from one of the orginiators of the Dublin Food Co-op was to remain small as they were in the begining and simply pool orders. Mike set up the Meitheal website as an on-line shop in order to faciliate doing this. People can place an order on-line at any stage of the month and Mike sends out notification of when an order has gone in (once a month when it is big enough) and all orders are sorted and collected from our house in Wicklow Town.

Meitheal has also tried to offer an outlet for local people wishing to sell to each other in the group but so far this has had limited sucess. The idea of time dollars/LETS type scheme is also a future possiblity.

For now have a look at what is available and try it out.