Store Hours
Our online shop is always open, but the store in Glenealy is closed during January 2012, see you in February!
OOOOBY is a resource for helping people eat locally; if you want to sell your produce, as well as craft & other items, no matter how small a quantity, you can do so here.
The focus is on local food and plants. For our winter solstice market, local crafts and gifts are also appropriate.
We have set the cost to vendors so that it is accessible to small producers while also supporting the running costs of the OOOOBY Store.
Online
Most of our sales are online - see the local foods section for what's currently on offer from other local producers, and the main catalogue for everything we sell. Your items would go in the local section, and we would also create a vendor page just for you. Each week, we notify you by Thursday afternoon of your orders; you then bring them into the Store before Saturday 10am to be added to the customers' orders or Food Boxes, or make arrangements to deliver them direct where appropriate. You will receive the value of your sales less 23%.
In-store
Some items that can sit on the shelf (e.g. jams, selected crafts) we can take on a "sale or return" basis. We will keep a record of what you leave & will pay you for whatever sales are made, less 35%.
Market days
The ideal way for producer and consumer to meet is through a market. Our market days will be announced through the newsletter (and through other media). Any local producer is welcome, whether you have just a bag of spuds, a few jars of jam, some craft or a full table of veg.
We set the cost of selling in the market low to make it accessible to as many people as possible, especially those who are just trying out their product in a market for the first time. The cost is 10% of your turnover for the market day, with a minimum of €5 for a table and a maximum of €20. You pay at the end of the day, and it is an honour-based system that we feel spreads the costs as fairly as possible across all the stallholders. An electric hookup is available if required, for a small additional charge. Tables can be shared amongst people, for example an allotment, community garden group, craft group or just a couple of producers who each only have a number amount of items.
Customers want to know about you!
For all producers, we need some information about you and your products, so that customers can learn who is making the product, where they are, your approach to growing food or making your product, what ingredients are used etc. A photo of you involved in production is essential.
Health & Safety, labelling & other beaurocracy
As a volunteer-run non-profit organisation, we don't have the resources or ability to check that every producer is working according to relevent regulations. We have to assume that they are, and our standard producers agreement includes a statement that the producer takes responsibility for their own products, whether they are sold at one of our markets, on our website or in our shop.
There is information available about food businesses in the home from the FSAI, and in future we hope to provide training and approved food production facilities.
