Isla Vista Food Co-op is a consumer-owned food co-op in Isla Vista, California, listed by National Co+op Grocers (NCG), the national association of retail food co-ops. What began in 1972 as a community-based experiment in radical collaboration through grassroots food sourcing, distribution and sharing, the Isla Vista Food Cooperative has grown into a legitimate force in the local foods movement in Santa Barbara County and beyond. With almost $3,000,000 in annual s.