"I talk to farmers all over the Midwest. We have wonderful connections with other farmers and what I’m hearing is that their contracts with Whole Foods, their relationships with CSA, their CSA numbers are declining and the only constant and steady business that they have is with their co-ops. These are co-ops in Minnesota and Wisconsin and all over the place and I feel like the future of local food falls in the hands of the co-ops to be able to continue to keep this going because of the transparency and honesty and the commitment that co-ops show towards their farmers verses these big box stores. So it’s super important that we continue to support our co-ops because they might be the only option that we have moving forward for real local food."
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