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Only Good Things

Welcome to Castro Valley’s Woman Owned, Independently Operated,
and Certified Green Natural Grocer

We are Castro Valley’s area premier source for organic, local, and seasonal produce; extensive lines of natural & specialty foods, clean supplements, personal care, eco-friendly home goods, and more.

We’re anchoring the community-minded food & market hall, the Castro Valley Marketplace in the old Daughtrey’s building downtown.

We hope to see you soon.

Beyond Just Groceries

We don’t see ourselves as just a market. We see ourselves as a movement, too.

We know what you buy, where you shop, what you value, how you live, and how you spend your dollars has a massive impact on our communities. We never forget that we here to be a business you can feel good doing business with.

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Our Standards

You want to be confident that you’re getting only the cleanest foods and goods from good companies and producers. We get that.

For over 20 years, we have developed strict standards and guidelines for our goods. It’s as much about what we won’t carry as what we will.

We thought about it all so you can shop with peace of mind.

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What We Believe

We have a vision for a better world, and how to use our platform to change it. There are guideposts that we believe in to help us get there.

Every decision we make as a business and member of the community is shaped by our core values.

We wrote a manifesto about it.

This is what we stand for

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Here For You

Our store is ideally situated to be accessible to large portions of the East Bay.

So when you want to shop a locally owned, independently operated, and certified green natural grocery, we’re the store for you.

We’re easy to get to, and totally worth it.

Above Standard Standards

We screen all ingredients so you don’t have to.

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You can shop knowing you will NOT find any of the following in our products :

  • No chemically processed foods
  • No synthetic ingredients, fillers, sweeteners or additives
  • No hydrogenated oil (no trans fats)
  • No non-organic refined white sugar
  • No products containing monosodium
  • No chemical food coloring
  • No chemical preservatives

That means, at a minimum, all of our products will be at least all-natural. It’s our preference and we primarily sell only certified organic goods. We strive to keep the food fresh, locally produced, Non-GMO certified and minimally processed when possible.

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Follow @castrovalleynaturalgrocery on Instagram for store news, events, helpful tips, exceptional products & brands, and a bit of fun.

Have something you want us to see? Tag us with #castrovalleynaturalgrocery and/or #onlygoodthings and share it!

We dig our past, and we dig our brighter futures.

For decades, independent natural food stores have been at the forefront of providing healthy alternatives for our communities and the planet as a whole.

While many of the original, sometimes alternative, values have gotten more mainstream, how do we as an independent retailer, continue to advance and broaden our missions?

In 2020, our national retailers association, INFRA, commissioned a film from Story Gorge to share our story. This film that takes a look out our leaders, our philosophies, and our evolving values from how we hire, to dealing with food waste, saving the bees, and advancing representation on our shelves, and in our stores.

The doc, “I Hire Punks,” was a James Beard media award nominee.

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meet the family

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we dig our families, our neighbors, our village, our crew.

Castro Valley Natural Grocery isn’t our first rodeo.

We’re one part of the East Bay Natural Grocers, Inc. family of businesses.

We started as Alameda Natural Grocery in the Alameda Marketplace and with a few expansions and contractions we now consist of two grocery stores with a whole lot going on in each.

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We like to align ourselves with groups and organizations that support independent business, fight our climate crisis, and make the world a healthier and happier place.

Castro Valley Natural Grocery & Natural Food Retailers
Castro Valley Natural Grocery is a Certified Green Business
Climate Collaborative and Castro Valley Natural Grocery
Castro Valley Natural Grocery and non-GMO Project

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