Where to Find Us

Mail Checks to:

Iowa Food Cooperative
2402 South Duff
Ames, IA 50010

 

Location, location, location… See all of our locations on one map!

 

We have a retail space at Merle Hay Mall for distribution and meetings:

Iowa Food Cooperative
3800 Merle Hay Road #1261
Des Moines, IA 50310

 

Other distribution sites:

The Village of Ponderosa - 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm on Distribution Day
5950 Village View Drive
West Des Moines, IA 50266

Pick up your orders at the Village of Ponderosa between 5:00PM and 7:00PM
In “Building C”, also known as “The Bike World Building”.

 

First Family Church - 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm on Distribution Day
317 SE Magazine Road
Ankeny, IA 50021-3502

Park in the lot to the west of the church, enter the main door on its west side, turn right and proceed to the SW corner of the large room.

 

Prairie Rivers RC&D - Please email orders@iowafood.coop with approximate pick up times between 4:30 and 5:30 pm on Friday following Thursday distributions.
2402 South Duff
Ames, IA 50010

The RC&D office is located at the DNR Nursery in SE Ames (near Lowes). Go east at the stoplight at Duff and Airport Road, turn into the DNR nursery, and pick up will be in the brown house immediately behind the fire station.


 

  1. February 25, 2012 at 10:54 pm, by Linda Appelgate

    Where do we go this cycle? My invoice says “double door entrance east of the south parking lot” but I think that’s the old site. And the map page only gives a suite number. Help!! Thanks!

    Linda

  2. February 28, 2012 at 12:27 pm, by David Couch

    Linda,
    Thanks for asking, we have updated the Invoice message as follows:

    Pick up your orders at Merle Hay Mall between 4:00PM and 7:00PM
    Enter our space from the south parking lot mall entrance near Younkers (with a Kohls sign above the door). Our location is the first space on the right.
    3800 Merle Hay Road #1261
    Des Moines, IA 50310

  3. April 29, 2012 at 6:17 am, by Rachel Farnham

    Any plans for a distribution site in Fort Dodge? Or any ideas of where I can buy fresh food around here? I have had no luck finding anything in the area…

    Thank you!
    Rachel

  4. April 30, 2012 at 12:01 pm, by Gary Huber

    Thanks for the email, Rachel. We don’t have plans right now to expand to Fort Dodge. Sorry. We do want to grow our distribution area, but we are looking first to put in place a route that goes south to Osceola and then over to Chariton. The reason for that direction is that we have a number of producer members in southern Iowa, and the concept is to pool their orders coming into Des Moines, and then send products back out on their way home for pick up in those communities. The key things we need to look at are costs and potential volumes, and combining trips by producers bringing in products with routes with product going back out will help on the first of these.

    As for ideas for getting fresh foods around there, we do have a producer member down in Boone that you might want to try to hook up with – Wilber’s Northside Market. You can get their contact info off our website.

    Thanks again for the inquiry. Sorry we couldn’t be more helpful.

    Gary Huber
    IFC General Manager