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Kim Paxton's avatar

I personally reject the use of “failure” because of its connection to old systems I’m trying to shake off. I understand your use of it here, as it’s a well known business concept/approach to evaluating “success” and its attachment to profitability. The amount of rich data and the discoveries you gathered from the first iteration of this endeavor, to create a resilient food system in Central Oregon, is a huge success. My pull toward the dream of a healthy robust thriving food system in CO is powerful and your learnings fuel it. Onward. Outcreate my friend!

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Ruth Moloney's avatar

There's such a survivorship bias in co-operatives. For every great one, there's hundreds you never hear of, for the reasons you explained so well. Its almost the default position for development funders (I'm in Belize), but they just set it up and leave because that's what they did in Peru or Nigeria. Then its a "people problem" when they don't succeed. And as someone who's done those weekly deliveries to restaurants for years, I'd love a solution. The supply chain is a killer. Never stop trying to work it out. It's only people with skin in the game that will.

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