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- From: KAKerby AT aol.com
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- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Grower's Association?
- Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 08:46:59 -0500 (EST)
We have several growers' associations out here, one of them
with a lot of success, one with mixed, and one which I wish now I hadn't
bought into (that money would have been better spent elsewhere). Instead
of going into names and details about those groups, I'll say that the quality of
the group's work will largely be a reflection of the quality of the people in
it. If you can include top-notch folks, dedicated to whatever
goals your group has, who also have good track records accomplishing their own
goals in life (in ways you respect), then you've got a lot going for your
group's collective success. But put a bunch of people in a room together
who haven't figured out the basics yet (for either farming or politics or
interpersonal skills), and you'll get pretty much the same thing writ large when
they try to work together. I hope you have a group of the former rather
than the latter.
Kathryn Kerby
frogchorusfarm.com
Snohomish, WA
Ruminations - essays on the farming life at
frogchorusfarm.com/weblog.html
In a message dated 3/9/2011 4:00:23 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
idyllwildfarm AT gmail.com writes:
Deep Root Growers Coop (based in VT, I think), PVGA (Pioneer Valley Growers Coop) (Whately, MA?) and I think that CISA in MA may have some other ideas or spins on growers coop type model (there are a group of growers in the pioneer valley in MA who combine product and sell in Boston area sort of like a CSA). |
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[Market-farming] Grower's Association?,
Leslie Moyer, 03/09/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Grower's Association?, idyllwild farm, 03/09/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Grower's Association?, MAsteveINE, 03/09/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Grower's Association?,
Etienne Goyer, 03/09/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Grower's Association?, Richard Stewart, 03/10/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Grower's Association?, Robin Follette, 03/09/2011
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [Market-farming] Grower's Association?, KAKerby, 03/09/2011
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