Federation of Southern Cooperatives
Non-profit organization · Linwood Heights
2769 Church St, East Point, GA 30344
Highlights
Sells gift wrap and bags, provides helpful information
Sells gift wrap and bags, provides helpful information
"A regional cooperative network that organized large-scale purchases of produce from Black smallholders and routed thousands of fresh food boxes to often-overlooked churches, nonprofits, and community groups across the rural South. During the program it bought more than half a million pounds from dozens of Black farmers at fair-market prices, created jobs, mobilized volunteers, and deliberately targeted communities that traditional aid systems miss. After the USDA declined to renew its contract, those distribution channels and reliable markets for member farmers collapsed, leaving growers with surplus crops and many families without access to fresh produce; the organization has since tried to sustain a reduced version of the effort using private funds while arguing the model should be expanded as a disaster- and social-assistance tool." - Gosia Wozniacka
"A nonprofit cooperative association of Black farmers, landowners, and cooperatives primarily serving the Southern states, focused on cooperative development, land retention, and mutual support among Black agricultural producers." - Civil Eats
"A Southern cooperative and land-assistance organization that provides technical support to Black farmers and other smallholders, documents decades of discriminatory USDA practices and dispossession, and promotes pooled resources and cooperative strategies as practical, grassroots responses to structural inequities and the current crisis." - Siena Chrisman
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