Farmer-centric organic middlemen pioneer sustainable, bio-regional and fair-trade commerce

What do you get when you have “a bunch of social activists who are running a business,” and that business is about distributing regionally grown organic food in sustainable ways as directly as possible to retailers?

You get the Organic Grown Company, and a handful of other dogged entrepreneurs across the country. They are putting the wheels onto a farmers-up distribution system that truly honors how food is grown, where it comes from and the economically durable links it takes to make it work year-round.

They are building the logistical foundation of a food system that stands for getting more complex and resilient rather than consolidating, even as they augment their products with fairly traded offerings of what is seasonal or best grown elsewhere. Full story: Edible Portland