Building & Sustaining Food Cooperatives

January 2019

The video : 47min26

On August 25th, 2018, Chicago cooperators gathered together for an unprecedented a series of conversations highlighting recent cooperative developments in food systems, shared housing, city budgeting, land use, and political organizing. While similar efforts in the past have been made to bring alignment between these ideas, rarely have they foregrounded such a diverse range of practitioners from the city.

Panelists: * Sharon Hoyer, General Manager, Dill Pickle Food Co-op *Vanessa Stokes, Co-Founder & Project Lead, Austin Food Co-op *Gregory Berlowitz, Co-Founder & Director of Funding, Chicago Market Moderated by Nancy McClelland, Certified Public Accountant, Nancy McClelland LLC