Cooperatives And How They Work: Mutual Benefits

Cooperatives have long provided a successful business model to help groups of farmers achieve services, markets, and scale that an individual farm can’t achieve. This day will provide local producers and buyers with some great examples of cooperatives providing a mutual benefit not only for farmers, but for businesses and consumers as well.

Five commercial processing, marketing and distribution cooperatives are coming to Anacortes to share their stories. Come to hear and learn from:
• LINC Foods, Spokane, WA
• North Cascades Meat Producers Cooperative
• Okanogan Producers Marketing Association
• Puget Sound Food Hub
• Snoqualmie Valley Farmers Co-op
• Western Montana Growers Co-op

Five Puget Sound Food Hub customers are coming to share what they like about accessing locally produced products including:
• Bellingham Food Bank
• Bon Appetit Management Company
• Canlis Restaurant
• Community Food Co-op
• PCC Community Markets