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Onchenda Open Global Food Co-op

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Commenced:	01/09/2013
Submitted:	16/10/2014
Last updated:	07/10/2015
Location:	TW
Website:	http://www.onchenda.com
Climate zone:	Wet Tropical

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Utah Proof of Concept

Project: Onchenda Open Global Food Co-op

Posted by Harrison Quigley about 9 years ago

Onchenda Open Global Food Co-op rcently incorporated as a Benefit Corporation (social enterprise) in Utah, where we will be conducting our proof of concept pilot in Logan. We have taken on another Permie as a partner, Joshua Choate, who owns a two-story commercial building in Logan containing an organic food restaurant, medicinal herbs shop, yogo studio, meeting rooms, a refrigerated storage room, and a data center. We are in the process of evaluating e-commerce/m-commerce platforms that are multi-vendor and multi-lingual on which local Grower Members can open their own virtual stores in our online farmer's market.

Once we have the platform properly configured, we will recruit local farmer's market and CSA farmers, market gardeners, and value-added food producers to open their free virtual stores, as well as Mentors to help those that want to start their own market gardens or transition from mono-crop chemical farming to organic polyculture farming.

Upon successful completion of our Logan, Utah pilot, we will establish local Utah food webs in Salt Lake City, Cedar City, and St. George. We are also in the process of opening branch offices in Taiwan and Chile in preparation for our public launch in order to establish a beachhead into the Mandarin- and Spanish-speaking markets, respectively. Once these latter food webs are operational, we have contacts on the ground in Mexico, China, Vietnam and Philippines who want to bring Onchenda's model into their markets.

If you would like to be a Grower or Mentor for your area, please register (it's free) under "How it Works" at http://www.onchenda.com.

Harrison Quigley

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