Cooperative
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
Meeting 1st September
Meeting held on the Ist September, even though small in attendance this was a powerful session in examining the proposed rules for the new cooperative society. Minutes of the meeting posted below.
In regards a name for the society it was decided a competition will be held to name the society. The name must include the words “Cooperative Society Limited”. The winner will receive a free harvest bag to the value of $25. The winner will be decided by the signatories of the application to form the cooperative society at the next meeting. The next meeting which will finalise the rules will be held the 14th of September at my apartment at Suite 10/14 Leeds Street. The application will be completed and finalised from this meeting. If any signatory cannot attend this meeting could you email me so we can obtain your approval or remove you from the application.
Next draft of the rules will be posted on the website over the weekend and a link will be provided in the newsletter update monday.
John McKay
3/09/2010
First Draft Rules of the Proposed Cooperative Society
Link to first draft of rules of the Cooperative Society.
TBA COOPERATIVE SOCIETY LTD RULES
Material from Meeting of August 17th
Here is a link to the presentation John McKay made that night
A link to the minutes of the meeting
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.
Frank van Steensel
Food & Soil Quality = Environmental care = Healthy Thinking Businesses and Communities.
EcoDynamics is an agricultural and horticultural enterprise guidance service created by Frank van Steensel to assist producers in their search towards genuine profitable production systems.
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Rain
Frank van Steensel explains the problems that consistent rain has created on the farm.
Broccoli Issues
Why it is about health
Frank talks about health.
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Why industrial farming is bad
Frank talks about the problems with chemical industrial farming.
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Why ecological farming
Frank talks about the term ecological farming.
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Why Organics
Frank talks about organic farming.
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Why from Seedlings
Why Frank and Josje grow from seedlings
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Why a Grower
Frank talks about the reasons behind him becoming a vegetable grower.
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Fred Kirschenmann
The Future of Agriculture – Part Two
The Future of Agriculture – Part One
John McKay
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.
Future of CSA
I am going to start this debate with the three main reasons I believe a CSA is important and would love members to add to this debate positive or negative so we can get a good range of viewpoints. more »
CSA Membership Drive
Over the weekend a CSA member sent me an email on why they could not recommend the CSA in response to my membership drive postings in the newsletters. I think this email brings up valid points and also highlights fundamental issues that need to be addressed.
I have asked the member if I could post their email so I can share this with you all. I have also posted this in the new forum so you can respond or share your own thoughts on this matter there.
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What is a CSA
John talking about what is a CSA.
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A tribute to a friend
A year ago this month a very dear friend of mine succumbed to a massive stroke after surviving a horrendous car accident that robbed him of his good eye and he was a thin membrane depth away from severe brain damage and trauma. Allen Guilford was a leading Cinematographer in the local film industry so losing an eye could have been a severe blow but Allen took it all in his stride. In fact after coming out of a coma after several weeks, the first thing he said was a joke. They asked him if he recognised his wife, Sandra, and he said “she’s always looked like Jayne Mansfield to me”. Like nothing had happened.
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Doctor Strangelove Returns
Two weeks ago I was listening to Kim Hill’s first show back from her holiday and her first guest was a rather amazing woman called Dr Nina Fedoroff.
To listen to the interview
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Dr Fedoroff is the Science and Technology Adviser to U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and Professor of Biology at Penn State University in the US and author of the book, MENDEL IN THE KITCHEN: A Scientist’s View of Genetically Modified Foods. Dr Federoff is a leading proponent of genetically modified food.
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Ramsey Margolis
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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