Cooperatives are taking shape and growing in all parts of the food system. And yet, their founders are swimming upstream in an environment shaped by hierarchical business models. For this reason, ...
Who: Open to the public with pre-registration, expecting about 50-75 people, including leaders, program managers, government agency staff members, farmers, advocates, university students, and ...
The first vote was the easy one. At last month’s official meeting of the Cultivate Community Food Co-op Steering Committee in Benicia, 16 of its members were learning how to act like a cooperative. Up ...
BISMARCK, N.D. — Bisman Community Food Co-op is liquidating its inventory and will permanently close once that is completed. The cooperative said on its website that it is insolvent. The mission of ...
Five Pillars Butchery, an immigrant-owned halal butcher in Unity, and other small livestock producers are looking to establish a halal-certified meat cooperative with the help of a nonprofit ...
An organization that is working to make access to local and organic food more affordable is closer to its goal, after learning that a hedge fund manager and philanthropist who lives in North Haven ...
In April 2020, a group of Chenango County residents, spearheaded by MiBy Kim, began meeting weekly to consider the start-up of a food cooperative — a membership-based distribution outlet. Kim took her ...
The Cooperative Development Institute, which bolsters the state's rural economy by helping develop cooperative businesses, has been awarded three grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to ...
DENVER (CBS4) - The Westwood Food Cooperative is not scheduled to open until 2016, but right now residents can buy memberships that will eventually give them access to fresh fruits and vegetables. The ...