Co-operation and Community
Our intention with this post is to talk about how we hope to build Fresh To Morrow into a local food co-operative through first building good working relationships in the community. Our definition of community is likeminded people in Morrow and the immediately surrounding areas. Ok so likeminded people would be people who wanted to know their neighbors, work together and help each other out, share resources, and generally be helpful to each other. Ideally within this greater community, specifically also the people who loved nature, good food, good music, good art, good fellowship, gardening and plants and liked to keep learning from each other. Before defining food co-operative, we should share some sobering statistics. The average age of the US farmer is 58. Of the food grown in the US that could be eaten, only about 25-30% of that food is actually eaten by people, the rest is wasted in the field, the warehouses, in the store, and then in the refrigerator of the home it was meant