Big Table Farm Cooperative today announced its official formation as a producer co-op, a move designed to strengthen local agriculture through farm businesses banding together.
Founded by a group of three women farmers, the co-op aims to offer fresh, seasonal local produce to its Cincinnati area farm subscription members through a democratically run, producer-owned business model, according to a press release.
Farmers Marykate Glenn, Lindsey Melling and Becky Richey have been working together collaboratively for three years under Glenn’s farm business name, Mustard Seed Farm CSA.
“Over 200 families in our farm subscription program already know us and the foundation we’ve built by working together “informally” for several years,” Richey said in the release. “The co-op is a legal structure that recognizes our shared ownership and deepens the benefit of sharing our resources for each farmer.”
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