For over 35 years, Chico Natural Foods Cooperative has been a platform for consumer advocacy, education, community outreach, and support in Butte County. As a cooperative, we seek to support not just the store but our whole community. We promote this by:

• Celebrating community and fellowship
• Partnering with like-minded organizations for educational opportunities
• Sharing the labor, talents, and resources of our membership with each other and with the Co-op
• Marketing locally produced goods and food
• Purchasing from other cooperatives
• Supporting organizations in our community with similar vision
• Committing ourselves to democratic process and promoting an atmosphere where all members' opinions are respected and where members and staff are free to voice dissent
• Providing a democratically organized workplace that fosters and stimulates opportunities for participation, empowerment, and growth in an atmosphere of mutual respect and cooperation
• Building networks to facilitate the sharing of knowledge, resources, and opportunities
• Merging our consumer interests as a member-owned Co-op with a vision for moving toward an ecologically sound, sustainable, more peaceful world based on respect for human rights and social justice