Brown Owl Organics

organic grocery store — Glenholme · Rotorua

About Brown Owl Organics

Brown Owl Organics is a community-run organic shop at 195 Ranolf Street in Glenholme, Rotorua, and it began as a co-operative around 2010. It is a social enterprise with a mission to make organic food affordable and nutritious for Rotorua. The shop moved into its current site in 2020, and it has been owned and run by a local couple since 2024. Community volunteers still help run the shop.

The shop sells organically certified foods and sustainable living products. It supports local and New Zealand growers and makers as far as it can, and it sells affordably priced dry goods, using bulk buying where that is practical. The website says the shop still follows the purpose it had as a food club and society: to support the local organic food economy, to connect local buyers with local producers, and to widen access to organic food.