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A worker owned grocery store in Oakland California. Zella’s Soulful Kitchen is inside. Find us across from the West Oakland BART station.
Our Mission
Building community health and wealth through cooperative business ownership, nutrition education, and increasing access to affordable, locally grown food.
SHORT STORY
A small group of women demanded access to fresh produce and healthy food in the neighborhood. After serveral years of community organizing, nine founding members opened Mandela Foods Cooperative in 2009 with the support of many community members and Mandela MarketPlace.
HERE’S SOMETHING YOU CAN DO TO GO AN EXTRA MILE
Please pay in cash at independently owned businesses like ours. You’d be amazed with how far that little act can go! 🙂
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