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About the
Company
The Clearwater Collective formed in late 2003. We are a small
group of people incorporated as a worker-owned cooperative with
the name Just Local Food Cooperative. Our goals are rooted in
the
cooperative principles, and we wish to provide nutritious,
sustainable food to people in the Chippewa Valley. Our focus is
on local and fairly traded goods, taking care to assure the
producers and workers involved are compensated appropriately,
and the consumers are assured a quality product at fair and
reasonable prices.
The Collective is officially organized as a Cooperative with the
state of Wisconsin, and owned wholly by the working members
Lissa, Jordan, Joe and Aaron. Democratic principles guide
our process, we have not one boss but four. We wish to enrich
ourselves and our community through fair trade practices amongst
ourselves, our suppliers and our customers.
Our members come from varied backgrounds with a wide breadth of
experience. From farming to foodservice, we've done it. A few of
our specific experiences include: management of several
conventional and natural food stores in the Chippewa Valley,
restaurant management, computer tech, health education, child
care, delivery including US postal service and several local
businesses, and the operation of our own small businesses over
the years. Our interests include farming and gardening, playing
with our children, bicycling, community organizing and enjoying
the outdoors. We're confident that our academic and real-life
experiences have provided us with the skills we need to operate
a sustainable, democratic and honest business providing quality
products to our neighbors in the Chippewa Valley.
We are also consumers of the very products we sell. We have been
to the farms and met the families that care for the animals and
soil. We are making personal connections and developing
relationships over time to create a true community of local
commerce.
"Simply put, worker co-ops are business in which the workers are
all equal owners, vote on what the business will do and pay
people based on how much they work; thus, they differ from the
better-known member-owned co-ops. The Minnesota Worker
Cooperative web site defines a collective as any group working
without hierarchy toward a common goal, although workers at
local worker co-ops described their businesses using more
emotional words. Sustain. Family. Neighborhood. Respect.
Democracy."
quoted from here
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