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  • From: "E C GRANATA" <elainegranata AT msn.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Co-Ops
  • Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:57:02 -0700

Richard:  A couple of thoughts, but they may not work in your area.  Our Farmer's Union has a coop specialist on their staff who advises on the formation of coops.  If you have a FArmer's Union you could check with them.  The Farm Credit System has a Bank for Cooperatives and though they're mainly there to fund coops, they may be a resource for the formation and running of coops.
 
Good luck.
 
Elaine
Denver
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 8:00 AM
Subject: [Market-farming] Co-Ops

First of all, hello!  My name is Richard and I manage Carriage House 
Farm.  I am located just outside Cincinnati, Ohio.  We are currently 
in a transitional state.  We have been, for the last 150 years a 
traditional and single crop farm with non-food related diversity 
(such horse boarding, baling hay, and a small sawyer business) and we 
are currently shifting part of our production and energies over to 
larger scale produce farming.  My goal is to be certified organic in 
the next three to four years and have kept fairly extensive data on 
what I have done to this point.

I have been kicking around the idea of a co-ops.  I have several 
ideas on how I would like to run one (or supply one) if I got 
started, but I was curious if anyone had some general knowledge or 
ideas they would like to share.  I am lucky enough to have a farm 20 
minutes from about 1.5 million people and would like to develop some 
co-op concepts around hi-density living areas, like downtown condos 
and the like.

I have the hauling/delivery ability and the equipment but not the 
organization or the experience with such an operation (even if its a 
more traditional co-op) and I'd like to hear other people's ideas.  
I'd be more than happy to go into detail about what I'd like to do, 
but that might not match reality, so I was hoping to gleam some 
information from some of you before I really opened my mouth.

I guess this could be considered a parallel to the current CSA thread.

Thank you!

Richard Stewart
Carriage House Farm
North Bend, Ohio

An Ohio Century Farm Est. 1848

(513) 967-1106
http://www.carriagehousefarmllc.com
rstewart AT zoomtown.com



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