The Southwest Washington Food Hub is a grower-owned cooperative that provides product distribution, marketing, and administrative services to its members. The Food Hub improves producer access to markets through aggregated sales, one-stop online shopping, delivery options in participating counties, and single-point of payment across multiple farms and value-added products.
The membership fee to join the SW WA Food Hub is $100, and annual dues are $200.
The Southwest Washington Food Hub is a farmer-owned cooperative that provides product distribution, marketing, and administrative services to its members. The Food Hub improves producer access to markets through aggregated sales, one-stop online shopping, delivery options in participating counties, and single point of payment across multiple farms and value-added products.
SW WA Food Hub participants determine their own pricing – the price you enter in the web based sales platform is what you are paid. One of the goals of the Food Hub is to educate buyers about the true cost of food production
Producer-members may and are encouraged to sell value-added products through the Food Hub (>51% of product must be grown on the farm). SW WA Food Hub participation is available to non-member (food processor) vendors as well, and incentives are in development to encourage use of local product in processed goods. Non-member vendors are required to pay an annual membership fee but are not able to own common stock or vote.