Food cooperatives

found: Work cat.: An exploration into the benefits of food cooperatives for local farmers, 2004.

found: LocalHarvest home page, Jan. 21, 2005:Food Co-ops (Food cooperatives are worker or customer owned businesses that provide grocery items of the highest quality and best value to their members. Coops can take the shape of retail stores or buying clubs. All food coops are committed to consumer education, product quality, and member control, and usually support their local communities by selling produce grown locally by family farms.)

found: Community harvest home page, Jan. 21, 2005:Food Network/Food Coops (Food Co-ops. In communities all across the United States, food cooperatives provide grocery items of the highest quality and best value to their members. Whether it be a small buying club, a retail store or a large food warehouse, a food cooperative is owned and controlled by its customers. This common bond of ideals and principles of modern cooperation is traced back to 1844 when a group of 29 weavers pooled their savings and opened the first successful consumer co-op on Toad Lane in Rochdale, England: the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers. Their first food store, open only two evenings a week, sold butter, sugar, flour, and oatmeal. Today, there are over 300 food cooperatives in the U.S.)