5.16 Stronger Together - Co-ops beat Capitalism
From bringing family back to help at the family farm, to pooling skills in a small community to make ends meet - we are stronger together. But doing things together, as equals - that's a skill that has slipped out of the centre of our everyday lives. How - and why - to bring the together back into our everyday economies, with a focus on how food comes into it.
With a blow by blow of a recent bout Co-Op vs. Capitalism - and why the Co-Op won!
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Referencing:
Hilldale's Hot Lunches - the song I wrote to celebrate the 30th anniversary of our first service in our church
Sustainability Solutions Group - the co-op that made it through 2025's challenges that brought down single-owner and investor-owned competitors
Stats Can's 2026 census on Agriculture
CBC article summarizing the census's significance
Off-farm income in Canada indicates our farms are financially fragile / unprofitable
Young Agrarians name cost-of-land as top barrier to new farmers
