Kombu Wholefoods opened in Bellingen on the Mid North Coast of NSW on 26th September 2004. Opening initially on Hyde Street the store moved in early 2012 to larger premises at the end of Church Street, Bellingen.
Owners Kevin and Lowanna Doye arrived in Bellingen after two years in Sydney. Before that they spent 18 months travelling by bicycle from Oxford, UK to Sydney, Australia, to highlight the impact of air travel on the environment. In the process they wrote numerous articles and won an award for outstanding achievement from the Australian Geographic Society. Kevin and Lowanna now live in Bellingen with their four young children.
Lowanna and Kevin run Kombu as a social enterprise where environmental and social impacts of the business (including the products we sell) is considered equally as important as the usual financial considerations.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us and we will get back to you as quickly as we can.
At Kombu Wholefoods, our mission is the heartbeat of everything we do. It guides our decisions, shapes our community involvement, and inspires us to continually strive for excellence in providing wholesome, sustainable, and ethically sourced products. We believe in the power of healthy living, the importance of supporting local economies, and the necessity of caring for our planet. Our mission statement reflects these core values, and it drives our commitment to fostering a vibrant, connected, and eco-conscious community here in Bellingen.
We aim to bring you the finest quality bulk wholefoods, to delight your taste buds and nourish your body. Where possible we will source regional products because they are fresher, more affordable, support the community and are more sustainable for the environment.
We will strive to provide minimally packaged organic and chemical free products, as we believe eating food free of chemicals and hormones is more beneficial to you, and more sustainable for the earth. We will endeavour to ensure that there is no genetically modified food on our shelves.
A significant percentage of our annual profits will be donated to environmental, social and community projects.
By doing these things we aim to ensure that your health, the health of our social economy and the health of our planet are the foundations of Kombu Wholefoods.
Thank you for shopping with us.
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