Economic Gardening is a lovely expression of true local investment. So, as the article explains: “Economic gardening programs tend to focus their efforts on nurturing second stage companies: local enterprises already supporting between 10 and 99 employees that have moved beyond the stress of daily survival.”
That concept fits in beautifully with the worker cooperative movement and should be an area that farmers markets put some effort in the next few years-working with their existing vendors and potential ones to build on the ingenuity in products while using cooperative principles to add owners to food and agricultural companies.
Shareable: A Perfect Match: Economic Gardening & Worker Co-ops.
