Simply Good Food is simple, good food distributed to the people of Wellington from the farms of local certified organic growers.

* is a new distribution model that brings the farm gate to the city * is a direct grower-customer supply chain that links customers and growers via the internet * is affordable

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2nd Draft Rules of the Proposed Cooperative Society

TBA COOPERATIVE SOCIETY LTD RULES

A second cut at the rules for the proposed Cooperative Society. Mainly clarifications and consistency changes. I have taken out all reference to preference shares at this stage as  I believe this is pre-emptive and the board can create any class of shares under Rule 41. So I have left this to the board to determine on what conditions any preference shares will apply and what privileges they will contain.

John McKay

Update from the Farm

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First Draft Rules of the Proposed Cooperative Society

Link to first draft of rules of the Cooperative Society.
TBA COOPERATIVE SOCIETY LTD RULES

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Volunteers Needed!

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It’s a shoe in!

Well, the much talked about cooperative is going to happen, with people queuing to sign the industrial and provident society registration form at Tuesday night’s meeting. Excellent.

The discussion at this meeting brought this story to mind, from Simon Sinek’s blog Re:Focus:

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Sharing the Risk

This post is about setting down the framework under which we collectively can form a cooperative society to run the CSA under member ownership.

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The CSA – A New Future

As participants in Simply Good Food, we have a great opportunity at this time to implement a true Community Supported Agriculture scheme. After a year of hard-earned experience, we have a clear understanding of what a CSA truly means.

The aim is to sustain agriculture by making it financially viable for growers to supply the CSA, with strong connections and interaction with consumers.

What follows is some discussion on the nature of Community Supported Agriculture, Simply Good Food’s present structure, and how it might evolve over the next few months into the member-led organisation that is a true CSA.

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The Food

All the fresh produce is grown using ecologically supportive practices, including certified organics. Simply Good Food aims to balance offering its members a good variety of fresh, healthy foods with the principle of minimising ‘food miles.’

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