The Feasibility of Farmer-Led Cooperatives for Southwest Florida Farm to School Procurement

This document is AE555, one of a series of the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date March 2021. Revised February 2024. Visit the EDIS website at https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu for the currently supported version of this publication.

Jonathan Adam Watson, assistant professor, agricultural economics and postharvest, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering; Danielle D. Treadwell, associate professor, Horticultural Sciences Department; Catherine Campbell, assistant professor, community food systems, Ph.D., Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, UF/IFAS Mid-Florida Research and Education Center; and Ray Bucklin, professor emeritus, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering; UF/IFAS Extension, Gainesville, FL 32611.