Practical Tools & Advice When Starting a Co-op with Kelly Maynard of UW Co-op Development

The No-Till Growers Podcast Network

Kelly Maynard is a cooperative development specialist at the university of Wisconsin center for cooperative development and we're going to get into some practical advice and tools you can use when thinking about going into cooperative farming, yourself, or yourselves, as it were. This is the second coop development person, or forth depending on how you define that role, I’ve had on this season to, if nothing else, drive the point home that there are people out there who’s life work it is support the development of your “working together” ideas. Not only do you not have to farm alone, you don’t have to build cooperative systems alone.

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